arctic Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 More news on the future of Mandriva: Last Friday the newspaper Vedomosti reported that a Russian firm, NGI, has purchased a controlling interest in Mandriva. The Quintura blog published a short English language summary of the article today. NGI had previously purchased a 5% stake in Mandriva in July for an undisclosed sum as part of the €3 million financial rescue of the company according to the Vedomosti article. NGI and Ceychas Fund are investing an additional €2 million to acquire controlling interest, including purchasing shares currently held by two other investors. More... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 In Russia, Mandriva has plans to extremely extend R&D and setup up to 15 people for testing & QAandA community manager will be hired by Mandriva to help the community to implement these plans.Where's Adam? quotes from: The Official Mandriva Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 In a safe harbor, where people wear red fedoras. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 You just made me laugh and choke on my beer... now I'll have to clean my keyboard. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted October 14, 2010 Report Share Posted October 14, 2010 When I noticed a recent update for Wireshark in 2010.0 I wondered who is updating the rpm packages. Are updates now being done by official Mandriva people working for the Russian firm NGI, or by former Mandriva employees working as volunteers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 When I noticed a recent update for Wireshark in 2010.0 I wondered who is updating the rpm packages. Are updates now being done by official Mandriva people working for the Russian firm NGI, or by former Mandriva employees working as volunteers? Check the last changelog entry of the package, it says who did the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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