We would like to inform that a proposal to acquire Mandriva has been submitted by an external entity. As required in such a situation, the major shareholders have been asked to determine their position. As per today, Mandriva has not received every determination in written form and will, in consequence, wait until January, 23rd to decide on the future of the company.
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I really hope that everything go well, and that we will have Mandriva (as distribution and company) for so long.
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I hope you all get this mess straightened out. I need my annual power pack version.
I hope it goes well also. I like Mandriva… Especially now that I got it to work fairly well. LOL. I’m hoping to get more updates.
I paid for a two year subscription a month ago. I’d hate to see that money go to waste.
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I’m definitely keeping my fingers crossed that things go well.
I’ve found that of all the Linux distributions, Mandriva has been the most stable and reliable. The system isn’t as “messed about with” as other distributions and very easy and quick to install and keep running. (Urpmi is a system administrator’s boon.) I would hate to have to move to another system such as CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu (*ick*) or SuSE (*gibber*).
The one thing that Mandriva generally does is not follow the herd and try too much to be whiz-bang to the detrement of functionality. (OK, there *HAVE* been a couple of releases which have been too flakey to use.) The unfortunate move to systemd has made me stick to 2010.x for the time being, however.
I found an easy way to get 2011 working a bit better for server/headless operations, just do “urpmi sysvinit”
/me thinks the optimal solution would be if the “external entity” would be Townarea Ltd. They have shown their interest in Linux and in Mandriva, the cooperation between Townarea, RosaLabs and Mandriva has been good so far.
Good Luck to Mandriva and to us all!
That’s why I’m sooo glad there’s Mageia here. Keeps up the chance to continue using my favourite tools at home..
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I really like this distribution. Mandriva is the best OS that I’ve ever worked. Brasilian community is very good and we deserve to keep Mandriva alive. I hope the russians don’t leave our distro die.
keeping an eye on this unpredictable situation from China.
i like this ditro very much while using it eight years ago.
mandriva is an excellent product and i have no idea about how this happened.
do nothing but just waiting… :-{
luck to mandriva! vive long mandriva!
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Loosing Mandriva, would be loosing myself, partially.
Best of luck!!!!! And please keep C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-N-G!!!!!
Mandrake 9.1 was my first distro, the one who made me meet and fall in love with Linux. I hope it goes well also! Bonne chance! In bocca al lupo!
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it is too sad to see how one of the best and most innovative distros out there has come to it’s bitter end. the end started actually when they destroyed the mandriva community, losing it’s best developers and so on. mageia will probably gain mandriva’s last new users, because mandriva 2011 was a complete disaster and no one could relate to it. it is probably time for mandriva to say good bye for good! it has no place now in the linux world, sadly.
I love mandriva and hope it will continue a life. I’ve try another linux distro and for me mandriva is the best untill now.
I’ll pray GOD will keeep and help this company to be a blessing for this generation
GBU all
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All the best for the best! When loosing you we all will be loosers. Become a Lotus, get out of the mud. Best of luck.
Hope it all goes well would hate to lose Mandriva, and am I the only one who really likes 2011.
Nope. Mandriva 2011 was indeed great. The best showing of KDE4 of any distro last year. Fast and stable on my system, anyway.
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Hoping there is good news. If you check distrowatch, Mandriva and its offshoots mageia and pclinuxos have more total hits per day than fedora.
I hope this will turn for the best and that the company and The Best distro will survive this temptation. My fingers too are crossed for you!!!
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I’m hoping for a quick and long lasting solution. Mandriva is my favorite distro and I’ve weaned lots of people off Windows with it. I love the 2011 version and it seems a shame for things to stop here when there’s so much potential.
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Estamos torcendo que a empresa não morra, inúmeros usuários e fans no Brazil estão tristes com a possível notícia de fim da Mandriva.
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I would be sad to see Mandriva go (I’ve been with Mandriva/Mandrake since v6.0 !…), although, after the ***catastrophic*** 2011.0 release (stupid/”dumbified” installer with no advanced options, no Gnome !!!), I guess it’s time for me to move to another distro.
I just downloaded your paid version two days ago, I hope one day to register the other copy, as bought two licences, even though you acknowledged, there is no reply of substance about the other licence I cannot register, as you refuse all attempts to do so. I used one version of yours off-line years ago and loved it. I like this one too, very much, even more and it is far better than the paid SUSE 11, far easier and less problems.
If you cannot get Eric Cantonna in as your President, or do not want to, then send him back over here, as we need a proper politician and someone that looks as though he could handle the idiots at Westminster. Please \take us back over as we have missed you all since the Norman’s when there was control. Silly politics aside, I do hope you will survive, as my sister saw your operating system and all the classical goodies on there within the free music – We are pensioners. The Clementine comes through good on this and a few other programmes too.
Keep hold we need your European vision instead of Microsofts’s gimmicks.
Hi there,
please contact store@mandriva.com for help with registration issues.
KR
I hope Mandriva finds a way to keep going. I’ve followed the company’s travails over many years, yet still find these events unsettling.
Good luck Mandriva.. Many of us continue to wish us wish you the best.
This is cool!
I have used Mandriva since version 6, still have the boxed set on the shelf. I have been through many ups and downs on the company side, but the distro was always strong and stable (because of the dedicated developers), was built in a way I could use it for anything. The COMPLETE set of choices, KDE, GNOME, LXDE, XFCE, server tools, the tool set period, dedication to stable and clean, the polish of the distro in every DE environment, the fact that i could use any DE and have the same stable clean polished desktop, and the excellent community supporters. I use mandriva from regular home desktops, to full blown production servers, scaled down on mini wireless computers for temp and vibration monitoring, web serving, content filtering, video production, on my computer, on my moms computer, on my daughters computer, ect, ect… This is why I have stayed with Mandriva so long. I have tried many distros over the years and always came back to Mandriva. But much of that has been lost over the last couple of years. The focus has changed, the developers that have for so many years made this a great distro have left, the integrated expected polish and predictability is gone, some of the best community support is gone (Adam Williamson). Instead of making a complete stable usable for anything desktop, the focus is on pretty, and new, and dropping the important things that make Mandriva so good. The situation of the business side along with the lost focus and support, Mandriva as a stable production system can no longer be an option. I have hung on the idea of Mandriva for a long time, but now there is no reason NOT to distro hop and find a new stable versatile OS to build projects, server, systems with. I have switched to Mageia in the mean time. Same original ideas that made Mandriva a clear choice for me, but without the uncertainty the business side Mandriva has. At least Mageia has a clear, well spoken outline of there core values, and also has many of the original developers and supporters that have made Mandriva/Mageia what it is today. Best of luck to everyone in this situation. I do hope Mandriva pulls through again, Mandriva was and is the original Easy To Use Out Of The Box Distro, and the Linux world would be less without it. And cheers to the Mageia team for keeping your core values and taking on such a huge task. My 2 cents….
Tus palabras, me representan plenamente. Y también ha sido mi experiencia.
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Your words, I fully representative. And my experience has also been
Uso mandriva desde su version … 8 de la cual compre una caja
con manuales y todo. Después de eso siempre he estado suscrito a la versión de descarga (actualmente tengo vigente una suscripcion hasta el 2013). Lamento lo ocurrido. Durante estos mas de 10 años para mi ha representado una fuente de aprendisaje y motivacion para continuar en el opensource, pues he tenido la combinación perfecta entre facilidad/amigabilidad, control, ademas de permitir siempre saber que ocurre ahí. Me considero aun un usuario avanzado y lo que he avanzado es gracias a Mandriva … Larga vida a mandriva … mis mejores deseos de continuidad para todos
Its crazy that shareholder brinkmanship could hold things back. I have found my commercial mandrivas excellent, number one choice, and I’ve used all of the major linux distros … I know a fair number of people who are holding back on product purchases and subscriptions until this resolves, that can’t be helping revenues, shareholders are shooting themselves in the foot!
Our representative are so busy voting laws like HADOPI or SOPA opposing the course of history and technological evolution that they don’t even see or care that imminent catastrophy. The cost for the french government to save Mandriva would be inexistant compared to what it means to let it disappear.
If Mandriva disappears, we will just have no more capacity to produce an Operating System in France. Of course one could argue that we are but just allied of the USA and that we should just use american products but recent history has proven that friendliness comes with relevance and independance.
A dependant friend is no more a friend and even if mandriva was a derivative of red hat it maintained a pool of competence insuring a capability to continue operation. Among all strategical investment this one seems so ridiculous in facial value and decisive in capacity that it is difficult to understand the choice to let that company go bankrupt. I hope to understand one day what led to such situation, in hope, of course, that it is not just out of mere lack of understanding.
Por que los russos crearon un “fork” semejante a Mandriva 2011 llamado “ROSA / POCA”, que posee software propietario ?
Hello Mandriva team,
any info?
My best whishes for the Mandriva team and the whole enterprise as well.
Please continue, many peoples use Mandriva, to learn about Linux, to study and to work, so your work is well appreciated.
Thanks for all you have done all these years, I am following you since Mandrake.
May the force be with you Mandriva
i been devoted follower of Mandriva since was was Mandrake Soft we should not Freak up a bout new Changes lest hope for the best of the Mandriva team and they decisions Toke by dead line !
Mandriva is a very demanding distro in its featrures it provides. The product impressed me at first sight wenn I have acqiunted wilth it and its install process. I would not intend to resignate in a more modest like Ubunto or others Linux distros.
I believe Mandriva should remain as is and not be taken over, simply because the new owner may or will apply their strategy someday in the future, if not immediate ! This is standard !
Mandriva has been the best product of all that has worked out of the box (except once), and can also be manually fixed.
Boot remains to my standard, flexible and with ability to modify as the way i did to my unix systems way back in the 90′s.
I have tried other systems, but they did not have those flexibility or lack the window level controls, speed and flexibility that is found in Mandriva. I have tried Ubuntu/Kubuntu (boot is complicated)/Fedora(now a days its quite improved)/Red Hat/PCQuest/CentOS/PC Linux/etc…
Hope all happens for the good of Mandriva and its community. Change is an inevitable process, and trust it keeps MDV the way it was in future also !
May the F=MA be with you