Stories about: Conectiva

Gael Duval, the co-founder of Mandriva -- formerly known as MandrakeSoft -- has said he is planning to sue his former employer for wrongful dismissal.

I used Mandrake Linux for years before switching to Fedora Core and then to Ubuntu Linux last spring - around the same time Mandrake, which is based in France, bought a Brazilian Linux distributor called Conectiva and renamed itself Mandriva.

Unable to stay away from his favourite flavour of Llinux, Matthew Newton checks out Ubuntu 5.10 - the breezy badger.

Mandriva, now the third-largest Linux distributor behind Red Hat and Novell, is pushing to move from its consumer and small-business market niches into the realm of enterprise IT.

I'm writing this column on my trusty IBM Thinkpad, which has been running the newly released Gnome 2.12 for about a week now. This is thanks to Ubuntu Linux, which has gotten so much praise in my recent reports, a colleague suggested I should change the name of this column to "Ubuntu Agent." Ahem.

Several Linux vendors have confirmed they are participating in a project to turn Debian into a serious force in the enterprise.

French Linux distributor Mandrakesoft has changed its name to Mandriva.

France's Mandrakesoft plans to acquire Brazil's largest Linux vendor, Conectiva, both companies said in a joint statement yesterday. The two companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Mandrakesoft will purchase the company in exchange for US$2.36 million in stock.

France's Mandrakesoft plans to acquire Brazil's largest Linux vendor, Conectiva.

Keeping your Linux system up to date with the latest security fixes and software updates can be a real pain. But it doesn't have to be.

Red Hat and IBM will jointly help software vendors certify their applications for Linux in a partnership announced Thursday.