What about the names?

Ephracis · 07-10-2005, 02:08 PM

I am a bit confused about the names here. I know that Mandrakesoft and Conectiva merged into "Mandriva" but what is that new name? Is it the name of the company or the name of the distro? I wondered because I AFAIK the latest distro is called "Mandrakelinux 10.1". Will the distros have the Mandriva name or is it just the company behind the distros?

XavierP · 07-10-2005, 02:11 PM

http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en-us/ - the website
http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3 - the first download paghttp://www.mandriva.com/company/contact/address - the postal addresses, note that the office name is Mandriva

You could, really, have found this out pretty easily.

Ephracis · 07-10-2005, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by XavierP
http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en-us/ - the website
http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3 - the first download paghttp://www.mandriva.com/company/contact/address - the postal addresses, note that the office name is Mandriva

You could, really, have found this out pretty easily.

Well I could, and actually I did. I downloaded the iso from their site so I have visited it. But when I downloaded the newest (at least to my knowledge) it said Mandrakelinux and I wondered if the name of the distro, too, would change to Mandriva.

XavierP · 07-10-2005, 02:31 PM

The latest is Mandriva 2005 LE (Limited Edition) - it's the one that comes between Mandrake 10.x and Mandriva 1.x (or whatever their numbering system will be). AFAIK, it's mostly bug fixes. But I'm sure a Mandriva user will correct me on that.

reddazz · 07-11-2005, 01:58 AM

Mandriva 2005LE is what was supposed to be Mandrake 10.2, so you will find a lot of references to Mandrake instead of Mandriva in the documentation and software packages. I think the next release will be 2006 and not Mandriva 1.x because they will be releasing less frequently and each release will be tagged with a year of release and maybe a minor version number where several releases occur in the same year.