Happy 10th birthday, Mandriva Linux
Yes, today - July 23rd, 2008 - is the tenth anniversary of the release of Linux-Mandrake 5.1, the very first public release of what is now Mandriva Linux. It was versioned 5.1 as it was a fork of Red Hat 5.1 (it was more or less RH 5.1 with KDE 1.0 added).
Here is the original announcement in English, and here is the original thread, in French, from the fr.comp.os.linux usenet group. History will record that the very first comment on Linux-Mandrake was someone complaining that something wasn’t packaged (xemacs) - so some thing never change…:)
I did look for a usenet thread in English, but couldn’t find one. Looks like the French one is all there was.
(We celebrated the anniversary of Mandriva itself earlier in the year - in May - but today is the birthday of Mandriva Linux, the distribution).
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Congratulations!
Big thx 2 Gael Duval 4 great distribution!
July 24th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Congratulations Mandriva!
July 24th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Happy Birthday, Mandriva!
July 24th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Happy Birthday, Mandriva Linux!
Well done and i’ll expect see Mandriva for years!
July 24th, 2008 at 10:01 am
[...] Y es que lo que ahora nos parece tan normal… Más información: The Official Mandriva Blog [...]
July 27th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Happy birthday Mandriva Linux
July 28th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Happy birthday Mandriva Linux,
may you grow to be 100…
July 30th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Is there a download of mandrake 5.1 available anywhere?
August 4th, 2008 at 4:17 am
I remember when this came out, now I feel old….
August 7th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
In dog years, it’s like… 70 !
No Mandra** mentioned anywhere, well done.