Mandriva Up For Sale

The French company that creates and sells the Mandriva Linux distribution is up for sale. The news about Mandriva SA originally surfaced on a French Mandriva portal, and was confirmed by one of the potential buyers. Mandriva the distribution is a merger of the former MandrakeLinux and Conectiva distros. Mandriva the company is no stranger to hard times, having sought bankruptcy protection in the past.

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Why pay when you can bittorrent it for free?

I love and use mandriva

[Anonymous Coward]

So I tried to put in a bid, but I can't get my printer to work with my maching

Re:Wow

[courteaudotbiz]

Yeah asshole. If you'd RTFA you would understand that Man-Drive-A is selling sexual products for men that run Linux.

I think you didn't read the right article... it was on the OTHER tab of your browser, the one where there was no porn and where you posted this piece of anthology.

Re:Wow

[Enderandrew]

There is no porn on Slashdot? Man, am I in the wrong place!

And In Other News...

[hyades1]

Womanyellingslowdownasshole is expected to join Mandriva on the auction block later this month. The two systems will run on the same machine, but never happily.

Another nail in Linux's coffin

[Anonymous Coward]

This is it! This is the beginning of the closed source revolution. Today it's one distro, tomorrow the rest of Linux will collapse.

Re:I love and use mandriva

[hduff]

So I tried to put in a bid, but I can't get my printer to work with my maching

Then uninstall Ubuntu and use something that works.