Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva 196
An anonymous reader writes "With a press release Mandrakesoft has announced the acquisition of Conectiva. 'Mandrakesoft, the number one European Linux company, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Conectiva, the number one Linux company in Brazil and Latin America. This acquisition is expected to increase significantly Mandrakesoft's size and R&D capabilities.'"
Big day for Mandrakesoft (Score:3, Informative)
Come on editors, READ YOUR OWN DAMN SITE.
How to rack up the karma! (Score:0, Informative)
Cool! (Score:2, Informative)
Apart from the botched 9.2 upgrade debacle, they have a distro that I can use for a Linux home network [baheyeldin.com] without spending too much time on it. I have four machines running Linux at home, and don't want to spend a lot of time on each configuring it.
They are also familiar and friendly enough for my kids to use it as their only desktop. They get to play their MP3, use FireFox or Konqueror, use Open Office for homework,
Moreover, it is also perfectly good as a server for LAMP, Samba,
Go Mandrake!
Re:Even funnier (Score:2, Informative)
Oh yeah? Try this one: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=147 [slashdot.org]
Hope be with ye,
Cyan