devries Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Mandriva announces acquisition of main Lycoris assets, new move on the desktop. link We live in interesting times. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Dunno what you guys think, but i consider this a bad thing. I think this might mean, mandrake will become a more pay to get more features distro, but then again i'm probably wrong and i often am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 I think it's a good thing, because lycoris is attractive. I don't think mandriva is going to buy out another linux maker just to change pay structures. This is about technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 woah, that,s some news :) well It's probably a good thing :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willisoften Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Mandriva announces acquisition of main Lycoris assets, new move on the desktop. link We live in interesting times. :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We do - "Manlycodriva Linux" just rolls off the tounge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 I'm gonna buy mandrivorisusers.org and just in case GenManRedSlacktoodrivaHatUsers.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 mandrivorisusers Ooo...sounds like a viral disease... Hard to say just what will happen now, but I have a positive feeling about this. Mandriva has to grow to survive against the Big Guys. And there is sure to be more consolidation in LinuxLand. And badly needed, too. Nothing wrong with having plentyof choices, but having soooo many distros just makes Linux seem more complicated than it is to n00bs. RedHat, Suse and some others are going off in the wrong direction - very heavily patched kernels, XML config files, etc., etc. It's not good, and while Mandriva is less guilty, they have a bit of the same kinda stuff going on, particularly with kernels. Hopefully, as they grow they will stay reasonably true to 'true' Linux, as they have so far, at least for the most part. Linux needs to standardize, settle on one package format, (I say .rpm wins in the end, and it won't even be close) standard file locations, etc. 'Til it does, n00bs will continue to be highly confused (as I was) and Linux will be too difficult for companies, even those who would like to get really serious about writing and selling commercial Linux software, to deal with. A conversation I had with a developer at Symantec made that clear. We can have all the distros we want, but they gotta standardize package installation. For sure, I'm gonna stay with 10.1 for quite a while, 'til all this combining of distros shakes out quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 I think this is a good thing. If it improves on the Discovery Edition (1 CD install ) it would be a good way for newbies to try Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Hard to say just what will happen now, but I have a positive feeling about this. Mandriva has to grow to survive against the Big Guys. And there is sure to be more consolidation in LinuxLand. And badly needed, too. Nothing wrong with having plentyof choices, but having soooo many distros just makes Linux seem more complicated than it is to n00bs. RedHat, Suse and some others are going off in the wrong direction - very heavily patched kernels, XML config files, etc., etc. It's not good, and while Mandriva is less guilty, they have a bit of the same kinda stuff going on, particularly with kernels. Hopefully, as they grow they will stay reasonably true to 'true' Linux, as they have so far, at least for the most part. Linux needs to standardize, settle on one package format, (I say .rpm wins in the end, and it won't even be close) standard file locations, etc. 'Til it does, n00bs will continue to be highly confused (as I was) and Linux will be too difficult for companies, even those who would like to get really serious about writing and selling commercial Linux software, to deal with. A conversation I had with a developer at Symantec made that clear. We can have all the distros we want, but they gotta standardize package installation. For sure, I'm gonna stay with 10.1 for quite a while, 'til all this combining of distros shakes out quite a bit. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't have the working knowledge or experience, an awful lot of this sounds absolutely right. ceptin I'm gonna stay pretty current with Mandriva - club release - Kristi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 i think it will increase the quality and innovativeness of mandriva products even further. and this will make linux even more interesting for for newcomers. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 I think this news is just MandrivLY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Havin_it Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 In this article: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/73897/french-l...es-lycoris.html It says this is MDV's third acquisition in the last year. Is this correct? If so pardon my ignorance, but what was the third? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 In the article near the bottom it says: Mandriva - formerly known as Mandrake - has been on something of a buying spree of late. It bought French Linux support company Edge IT in July of last year, followed by a stock acquisition of South American Linux vendor Conectiva (hence the name change) in February, and now Lycoris. So, I would assume the third is Lycoris :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Mandrake > Mandriva > Mandricoris? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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