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Mandriva Linux is a free operating system based on Linux that was designed to be user-friendly and easy to install for personal computers. It matters because it provided an accessible alternative to other operating systems, making Linux more approachable for everyday computer users who weren't necessarily technical experts.
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Key facts
- Developer
- Mandriva
- Os family
- Linux ( Unix-like )
- Working state
- Discontinued
- Source model
- Open source (with exceptions)
- Initial release
- 23 July 1998 ; 27 years ago ( 1998-07-23 )
- Latest release
- 2011.0 / 28 August 2011 ; 14 years ago ( 28 August 2011 )
- Latest preview
- 2011 rc2 / 27 July 2011 ; 14 years ago ( 27 July 2011 )
- Available in
- Multilingual
- Update method
- Long-term support
- Package manager
- urpmi ( command-line frontend), rpmdrake ( GTK frontend), .rpm (package format)
- Supported platforms
- amd64 , i686 , i586 , i486 , i386 , sparc64 , ppc64 , MIPS , arm , ia64 , Xbox
- Kernel type
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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.
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.