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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It turn into mandriva when mandrake bought conectiva amid a legal battle for the name with a comic books company, owners of the character Mandrake.

The last version was launched in 2011, and the company closed in 2015. Their most prominent derivatives were Open Mandriva, Mageia, PC Linux, and Rosalinux.

Mageia was founded with most of the developers from mandriva (or so Wikipedia says)