Mandriva's Rocky Rebirth
Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed Jul 21 23:16:05 BST 2010
Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:42:06 +0200
> Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 21/07/2010 01:00, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:53:12 +0800
>>> Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Fred A. Miller wrote:
>>>>> Mandriva's Rocky Rebirth
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Paris-based Mandriva had been hovering on the brink of bankruptcy
>>>>> for some time. This apparent return to health was enabled only by
>>>>> a combination of drastic restructuring and cost-cutting at
>>>>> Mandriva (read: staff cuts), as well as an "ambitious industrial
>>>>> plan with the aim of relaunching the company."
>>>> Oh, they have come to the same crossroads again? I wonder if they
>>>> will get a new name for the distro too. Mandrake, Mandriva, ???
>>> Perhaps it's time for Mandrunken.
>> So far, it's more like Mandrama. :)
>>
>> Gilles.
>>
> Or it could be that we are seeing Mandrowning.
>
What I am really sad to see was the what could have been Corel Linux OS.
They had a gui smb/cifs browser long before any other distro.
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