Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia

Anssi55 writes "As most of the Mandriva employees working on the Linux distribution were laid off due to the liquidation of Edge-IT (a subsidiary of Mandriva SA) and trust in the company has diminished, the development community (including the core developers) has decided to fork the project. The new Linux distribution, named Mageia, will be managed by a not-for-profit organization that will be set up in the coming days. There are already many people that have decided to follow the fork, but the people behind it are still welcoming any help offered in the various tasks related to establishing the new distribution."

Re:fuck

[Buzzo]

What the fork?

Sure. More the merrier

[abhishekupadhya]

The world could use one more distro.

Re:Don't do it... join forces to Ubuntu.

[Bigbutt]

Hell, I'm still using Mandrake. It's my firewall but still, I haven't had any problems.

[John]

Re:And, the names get worse

[haruchai]

Also, that other Mandrake fork, PCLinuxOS is just as a bad a name - why didn't Bill Reynolds call it Texstar Linux? Calling a distro PCLinuxOS is like naming your dog BarkingMammal.

good

[onefriedrice]

Phew. I was beginning to think there might not be enough Linux distributions.

My eyes!

[MachDelta]

Goddamn, I skimmed the headline in my RSS feed and saw "Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mangina."
I really need to cut back on the caffeine. :\

Re:And, the names get worse

[TheSkepticCanuck]

Sit, BarkingCanineMammal, sit. Good dog.

Re:My eyes!

[Joe Tie.]

The only operating system endorsed by old greg.