Mandriva Linux Turned Over To The Community

I remember using Mandriva (or Mandrake as it was known then) back in the day.<p>It was always the most attractive Linux, and in some ways the easiest to use. But god was it slow, it used to ship cutting edge KDE and run a ton of services by default, and I always used to find fixing problems much easier with debian or other distros.

direct link to mandriva blog post -- <a href="http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-return-to-the-community/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-r...</a>

Mandrake (7.2) was my first love. I was in my early teens, and had just gotten the I Love You virus, and so I went to K-Mart to find this Linux thing I had read online to fix it. Who knew, K-Mart actually had a little corner room full of software, and there was a Linux which could run on my 90Mhz, 160MB, 2.1GB computer.<p>I'm glad to see it is open to the community, although I can't help but wonder what this will do to Mageia.

I have fond memories of Mandrake, because that's the distribution that made me discover linux. But Ubuntu ate their lunch a long time ago. Not sure what went wrong for them, except that Ubuntu has much more traction.

The question now is what will be the response of the leaders of the community fork Mageia? <a href="http://www.mageia.org/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mageia.org/en/</a>

I always liked Mandrake's user friendliness and Live CD, but I feel like Ubuntu is pretty much the standard these days. It is tough to compete with that.