Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux (a fusion of the French distribution Mandrake Linux and the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution developed by Mandriva S.A.

Mandriva Linux
Mandriva Linux 2011
DeveloperMandriva
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelOpen source (with exceptions)
Initial release23 July 1998 (1998-07-23)
Latest release2011.0  / 28 August 2011 (28 August 2011)
Latest preview2011 rc2  / 27 July 2011 (27 July 2011)
Available inMultilingual
Update methodLong-term support
Package managerurpmi (command-line frontend)
rpmdrake (GTK frontend)
.rpm (package format)
Platformsamd64, i686, i586, i486, i386, sparc64, ppc64, MIPS, arm, ia64, Xbox
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
UserlandGNU
Default
user interface
KDE Plasma Desktop (official)
LicenseVarious free software licenses, plus proprietary binary blobs.
Official websiteArchived 23 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine

Each release lifetime was 18 months for base updates (Linux, system software, etc.) and 12 months for desktop updates (window managers, desktop environments, web browsers, etc.). Server products received full updates for at least five years after their release.

The last release of Mandriva Linux was in August 2011. Most developers who were laid off went to Mageia. Later on, the remaining developers teamed up with community members and formed OpenMandriva, a continuation of Mandriva.

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