Unfortunately, today May 27, the French company Mandriva essentially tereyein its activities, according to an announcement published on the website societe.com .
For those of you who do not know, Mandriva it was a French company that was responsible for the operating system system Mandriva Linux, which came from the union of the two distributions Mandrake Linux and Conectiva Linux, the former being based on Red Hat Linux.
Despite the fact that Mandriva, which had over 16 years of activity and employed 10 with 19 employees, had 553.000 EUR 2013 revenue, it seems that it was not enough to continue operating 2015.
Of course it was not a thunderbolt in the sky. It is well known that the French company that gave us Mandriva Linux had economic problems in recent years, as the non-profit Mageia Foundation that provides the operating system Linux Mageia, a fork of Mandriva Linux.
Jean-Manuel Croset, managing director of Mandriva, updated the information posted on the societe.com website with a note stating that the company is already in liquidation.
We thank Mandriva for her contribution to the software world.
However, it is good to know that the Mandriva Linux operating system now lives in two other pretty good distributions, OpenMandriva and Mageia, which are trying to promote Mandriva to the new generation of Linux users.
