Later on, the remaining developers teamed up with community members and formed OpenMandriva, a continuation of Mandriva. ==History== The first release of Mandrake was based on Red Hat Linux (version 5.1) and K Desktop Environment 1 in July 1998.
From version 8.1 to 9.2 the distribution name was reversed and called Mandrake Linux. In February 2004, MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate.
Similarly, MandrakeMove (a Live CD version) became Mandrakemove. In April 2005, Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian-based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking (Brazil) and Spanish-speaking Latin America.
CNET called the user experience of Mandrake Linux 8.0 the most polished available at that time. Duval became the co-founder of Mandrakesoft, but was laid off from the company in 2006 along with many other employees. ===Name changes=== From its inception until the release of version 8.0, Mandrake named its flagship distribution Linux-Mandrake.
Mandriva Linux 2008 does not include a Discovery edition, having added optional novice-friendly features to the Powerpack edition. In releases prior to Mandriva Linux 2007, Discovery was a 'traditional' distribution built on the DrakX installer.
In Mandriva Linux 2007 and 2007 Spring, Discovery is a hybrid "Live DVD" which can be booted without installation or installed to hard disk in the traditional manner. Discovery was a DVD rather than a CD, allowing all languages to be provided on one disc.
Mandriva Linux Free was phased in 2011 in favor of a single edition approach with Mandriva Desktop 2011. ===Mandriva Linux One=== Mandriva Linux One was a free to download hybrid distribution, being both a Live CD and an installer (with an installation wizard that includes disk partitioning tools). Several Mandriva Linux One versions were provided for each Mandriva Linux release preceding Mandriva 2008.
The One images consist of a subset of packages from the 'main', 'contrib' and 'non-free' sections of the master tree, with the documentation files stripped from the packages to save space. Mandriva Linux One 2008 has a smaller range of versions.
It consisted of a subset of packages from the 'main', 'contrib', 'non-free' and 'restricted' sections of the master tree. In Mandriva Linux 2008, the Discovery and Powerpack+ editions were merged into Powerpack, which became Mandriva's only commercial offering.
Mandriva Linux 2008 does not include a Discovery edition, having added optional novice-friendly features to the Powerpack edition. In releases prior to Mandriva Linux 2007, Discovery was a 'traditional' distribution built on the DrakX installer.
It consisted of a subset of packages from the 'main', 'contrib', 'non-free' and 'restricted' sections of the master tree. Mandriva 2008 no longer includes a Powerpack+ edition; instead, the Powerpack edition includes all the available packages. ==Derivatives== Derivatives are distributions that are based on Mandriva Linux, some by Mandriva itself, others by independent projects.
Server products received full updates for at least five years after their release. The last release of Mandriva Linux was in August 2011.
They are written using GTK+ and Perl, and most of them can run in both graphical and text mode using the ncurses interface. ===Desktops=== Mandriva Linux 2011 was released only with KDE Plasma Desktop, whereas other desktop environments were available but not officially supported.
Mandriva Linux Free was phased in 2011 in favor of a single edition approach with Mandriva Desktop 2011. ===Mandriva Linux One=== Mandriva Linux One was a free to download hybrid distribution, being both a Live CD and an installer (with an installation wizard that includes disk partitioning tools). Several Mandriva Linux One versions were provided for each Mandriva Linux release preceding Mandriva 2008.
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