Thomas the Tank Engine Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 In a "sad" event for people who love Linux, French tech company Mandriva is being liquidated, according to a notice posted by the company. Although Mandriva generated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
300z Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 That's sad. Mandriva was one of the first linux distros that I tried way back when I first discovered linux and I liked it a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMYW Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 It took them 17 years to figure out they're never going to be successful? PeterTHX and President Devil 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 mandriva hasn't been relevant for years, not really a surprise.at least redhat dropped out of the desktop race and focused their business almost exclusively on servers. But the old linux pioneers aren't keeping up with times and it shows and results in this. President Devil 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beyond Godlike Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 mandriva hasn't been relevant for years, not really a surprise.at least redhat dropped out of the desktop race and focused their business almost exclusively on servers. But the old linux pioneers aren't keeping up with times and it shows and results in this. Linux as a desktop for regular users isnt adequate anyways, and for those it is...Ubuntu and Mint are way better. Mandriva just didnt have a customer base anymore, the free space is taken by strong Debian based distros and the paid is redhat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 That's a real shame. Mandrake (what Mandriva was in it's early days) was what first got me using Linux back in the 2.4 Kernel days. I did a review on a new version of Mandrake using the then-new 2.6 Kernel and KDE 3.2 on another website run by a good friend of mine (who is a member of Neowin!) ... good times. Wow. It's been 11 years since then. Makes me feel old. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torolol Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Linux like its ancestor Unix are better suited for server realm, and I certainly prefer them on servers than windows server. But for desktop I would prefer windows over linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grinch Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Linux like its ancestor Unix are better suited for server realm, and I certainly prefer them on servers than windows server. But for desktop I would prefer windows over linux. I'm the same but lately I've found myself enjoying the usage of Ubuntu/Elementary OS (aside from foo-barring Ubuntu by mistake...). Without support for all my games (ESO, Skyrim, Fallout, etc) natively though I can't see myself ever switching full-time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rk_b0mb Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Sad. The writing was on the wall for a long time tho. I'm personally happy with my OS X/ Ubuntu combo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rk_b0mb Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Linux like its ancestor Unix are better suited for server realm, and I certainly prefer them on servers than windows server. But for desktop I would prefer windows over linux. That's understandable. I hate to say it due to the bias of this website, but sadly, Windows Server is a running joke. That's coming from someone who manages them everyday for a living. Sikh 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman273 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Dammit! Didn't anyone tell them this was the year of Linux? President Devil 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatingFatMan Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Dammit! Didn't anyone tell them this was the year of Linux? That joke has gotten so lame that it's taken an arrow to the knee! President Devil and Sikh 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneNutter MVC Posted May 27, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 27, 2015 That's a real shame. Mandrake (what Mandriva was in it's early days) was what first got me using Linux back in the 2.4 Kernel days. I did a review on a new version of Mandrake using the then-new 2.6 Kernel and KDE 3.2 on another website run by a good friend of mine (who is a member of Neowin!) ... good times. Wow. It's been 11 years since then. Makes me feel old. *sigh* I remember Mandrake too, I do believe it was the first Linux distro i ever tried in 2003-2004. I remember at the time been very impressed I could run an entire OS off a CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Mandrake was alright back in the day, when it switched to mandriva though it just reaked of a pretty bad RHEL desktop pricing structure, I'm surprised they made any money. There's plenty of distros so I doubt anyone will really notice a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Back in 2004 I had a Mandrake desktop at the University. Since then they moved on to Ubuntu and (nowaways) Fedora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Mandrake (pre Mandriva) was the first linux based OS I used. I remember it didn't support my network or sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
President Devil Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 The year of linux! Amiright?...I'll show myself out. Never was a fan of the Mandrake or Mandriva distros so I can't say I'm surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted May 27, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 27, 2015 Surprised that they have lasted this long since they haven't been relevant for years. The problem really was that they never made a solid push into the server market and the market for Linux on Desktops hasn't really went too far. In addition, the Desktop market itself has been under extreme pressure from Mobile. The Desktop has gotten so squeezed that I'm still convinced MS might strongly consider open sourcing Windows and going deeper in their push in services which requires a platform agnostic focus from them. If the Desktop market is increasingly hard to monetize for Microsoft it would definitely be near impossible for someone like Mandriva. That's understandable. I hate to say it due to the bias of this website, but sadly, Windows Server is a running joke. That's coming from someone who manages them everyday for a living. Agreed. I got started with Windows Server and it is still a joke. It has gotten better now that MS is finally running servers on a mass scale, but it still has a while to go. I do my best to not deploy Windows Servers unless there are no other options. f0rk_b0mb 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotoxic Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 the market for Linux on Desktops hasn't really went too far. If someone with a couple of million to spare invested in some UX/UI designers and got the hardware manufacturers to sort drivers out i think it could become a rival to windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obry Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I didn't even know they were around anymore. Haven't heard their name in years. They used to make a pretty good distro back in the day. One of the first I tried (Mandrake at the time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeusProto Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Bad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted May 27, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 27, 2015 If someone with a couple of million to spare invested in some UX/UI designers and got the hardware manufacturers to sort drivers out i think it could become a rival to windows. Agreed, but the problem is getting an ROI on those investments while not completely alienating the Linux core crowd so much that they shun the distro and its changes... At this rate, I'm convinced an Open Source Windows will be the savior for the Desktop. Microsoft can free themselves from the costs of maintaining Windows while focusing on the platform agnostic services platform and allowing Windows to become as nimble as it needs to be to spread into the real growth markets (like IoT and other embedded systems). I see Windows moving to a sort of SUSE/Red Hat model. Where you have an "Open Source" OS community "distro" and an official MS variant aimed at the business market offering the support and stability that businesses like. So, at this point it wouldn't be a good investment. The Desktop revolution is already on a steam train rushing in and there is no stopping it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatingFatMan Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 If someone with a couple of million to spare invested in some UX/UI designers and got the hardware manufacturers to sort drivers out i think it could become a rival to windows. Never going to happen. The hardware manufacturers just don't see any profit in creating drivers for Linux, that's why most are OS projects. The userbase is just too small to show on their radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 That's sad. Mandriva was one of the first linux distros that I tried way back when I first discovered linux and I liked it a lot. I went to Mandriva (originally Mandrake) from RedHat Linux (where I started) due to better hardware support (rather surprising, since Mandrake then, and Mandriva today, stuck with the same RPM format as RHL). Mandriva is one of the two distributions that were the "children" of Mandrake (the other is Mageia, which those orphaned by Mandriva may want to consider). Still, that nasty split into Mandriva and Mageia damaged Mandriva more than Mageia - especially since Mandriva wound up with most of the debt carried over from Mandrake. 300z 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Red King Subscriber² Posted May 27, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted May 27, 2015 Never heard of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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