Mandrakesoft Announces Name Change! [LWN.net]

Mandrakesoft Announces Name Change!

Posted Apr 7, 2005 14:39 UTC (Thu) by koriordan (guest, #3490)
Parent article: Mandrakesoft announces name change

A little late for April Fool's day isn't it?

I don't care for the new name at all. I guess it sounds better in a French context.

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Mandrakesoft Announces Name Change!

Posted Apr 7, 2005 15:02 UTC (Thu) by maxmtl2002 (guest, #3990) [Link] (2 responses)

Being a french canadian, I am not sure of the new pronunciation either. They should have produced a .wav/.au file like Linus about Linux... (see kernel.org)

I especially like the About:

About Mandriva

Mandriva, formerly known as Mandriva,

:-)

Mandrakesoft Announces Name Change!

Posted Apr 7, 2005 15:13 UTC (Thu) by headsman (guest, #17057) [Link]

Being also a french canadian, I'm also not sure of that. As for the name change, I hope this will not result in negativ results down the road.

Mandrakesoft Announces Name Change!

Posted Apr 8, 2005 9:35 UTC (Fri) by sitaram (guest, #5959) [Link]

...and I like the email address at the bottom :-)

Mandrakesoft Announces Name Change!

Posted Apr 7, 2005 16:28 UTC (Thu) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]

As a native French, I'm not too thrilled with the new name.
It sounds a bit weird.