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RIP Mandrake/Mandriva. This distro was the first to give the Linux world automatic hardware detection and module loading. This distro was also the first to pro

RIP Mandrake/Mandriva. This distro was the first to give the Linux world automatic hardware detection and module loading. This distro was also the first to provide RPM a viable alternative to `apt-get` with `urpmi`. What we take for granted today were once engineering marvels for Linux newbies everywhere.

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0x4a42 11y ago
The company Mandriva SA may be closing today but they stopped developping the Mandriva Linux distro in 2012. It is since called OpenMandriva and is managed by a non profit organization. So there's no reason for the Linux distro to die with its once eponym mother company. See https://www.openmandriva.org/ https://www.openmandriva.org/
raverbashing 11y ago
On the subject of apt-get/urpmi I'm really disappointed how it seems RH adopted the worse of all options: yum. Today it is not so bad, but it was awful, in the beginnings of Fedora.
- mgkimsal 11y ago
  One of the things I liked most about urpmi was that it would deal with package names that were close enough if there was no obvious conflict. > urpmi packagea even if the package was actually PackageA or packageA
- DrJokepu 11y ago
  Yum is actually being replaced by dnf, which is a heavily modified fork of yum and it's supposedly much better.
  - amyjess 11y ago
    What's even better is that dnf uses ZYpp's solver. IIRC, it was created as a compromise between people who wanted Fedora to move entirely to ZYpp and people who wanted to maintain compatibility with yum's APIs.
    - LeonidasXIV 11y ago
      > What's even better is that dnf uses ZYpp's solver. What is sad though, is that it does not output CUDF, which would allow using other solvers.
  - rdc12 11y ago
    I am never going to be able to look at that and not read it as "Did not finish"...
twothamendment 11y ago
Mandrake was my second distro. I started with Red Hat, but when I got a new video card Mandrake supported it and RH didn't. I only had dial up so I bought a CD and waited for it to come in the mail. Those were the days.

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0x4a42 11y ago

The company Mandriva SA may be closing today but they stopped developping the Mandriva Linux distro in 2012. It is since called OpenMandriva and is managed by a non profit organization. So there's no reason for the Linux distro to die with its once eponym mother company. See https://www.openmandriva.org/ https://www.openmandriva.org/

raverbashing 11y ago

On the subject of apt-get/urpmi I'm really disappointed how it seems RH adopted the worse of all options: yum. Today it is not so bad, but it was awful, in the beginnings of Fedora.

mgkimsal 11y ago
One of the things I liked most about urpmi was that it would deal with package names that were close enough if there was no obvious conflict. > urpmi packagea even if the package was actually PackageA or packageA
DrJokepu 11y ago
Yum is actually being replaced by dnf, which is a heavily modified fork of yum and it's supposedly much better.
- amyjess 11y ago
  What's even better is that dnf uses ZYpp's solver. IIRC, it was created as a compromise between people who wanted Fedora to move entirely to ZYpp and people who wanted to maintain compatibility with yum's APIs.
  - LeonidasXIV 11y ago
    > What's even better is that dnf uses ZYpp's solver. What is sad though, is that it does not output CUDF, which would allow using other solvers.
- rdc12 11y ago
  I am never going to be able to look at that and not read it as "Did not finish"...

twothamendment 11y ago

Mandrake was my second distro. I started with Red Hat, but when I got a new video card Mandrake supported it and RH didn't. I only had dial up so I bought a CD and waited for it to come in the mail. Those were the days.