• boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    Can someone ELI5 what OpenMandriva is?

    In what place does it stand in contrast to Fedora, OpenSUS, and all the Enterprise Linux forks?

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      3 months ago

      Mandriva was a Linux distribution that went out of business years ago. OpenMandriva is one of the projects that rose from its ashes with some of the same personnel and code base. It is an independent (not a fork) and community run distribution that, I think, does quite a lot with very limited resources.

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        3 months ago

        And Mandriva itself was an attempted resurrection of the old Mandrake distribution (which was sorta the Ubuntu of its day). Really hoping OpenMandriva manages to make a go of it considering the ringer those folks have been through.