So far, we've seen Fedora 9, Fedora 10 and openSUSE 11.0. Fedora from Red Hat and openSUSE 11.0 from Novell, both with unique features and cool enhancements from their previous versions. I hope, you would have enjoyed 'Hilarious Moments - OS Wars' episodes too. Why I even bothered to spend time on that, you will know as you keep up with the episodes. I promise, no computing machines were harmed in the making of OS Wars. After some of those 'un-technical' aspects that you had to read, let me now take something IT geeks love. Today, we will be looking at the star, Mandriva Linux. The latest version of Mandriva would be 'Mandriva Linux 2008 1. Spring' and I call it shortly the Madriva Spring version.
Something new in Mandriva Linux is that now you can flip and shuffle your dialog boxes. Other than that, the graphics remain similar to the previous distros we've looked at. Let me now go about my history lesson as usual.
Mandriva Linux was created by Mandriva S.A formerly known as Mandrakesoft. Mandrakesoft was founded in 1998 in Paris. Mandriva Linux was first created by Gaël Duval in July 1998 based on the Linux release by Red Hat. Gaël Duval was also the co-founder of Mandrakesoft.
Did You Know? :
A mandrake is some kind of a plant that is believed to be used for magical rituals and witchcraft in the past. This plant was even mentioned in Shakepere's Romeo and Juliet - "Shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth." . If memory strikes you, this plant has been mentioned in the famous story book of a young wizard, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone also. Cool huh? The fact that this plant shrieks when its roots are pulled out of the Earth puzzles me.
Some say Madriva was inspired by a famous comic in the 1930s called 'Mandrake the Magician'. No wonder the logo is a star or rather a spark.
Now, back to talking sense.
Mandriva Spring comes with the usual KDE and Gnome desktops, plus also includes other desktops, anmely the Xfce and twm.
Xfce is a free software desktop environment for UNIX-supported platforms and aims to provide a simple and fast desktop environment which is also graphically/visually appealing. For more information on this desktop environment, you can go to http://www.xfce.org/.
On the other hand, twm is a standard tab window manager for the X Window System, created by Tom LaStrange. It was first released in 1987.
With very little technical aspects and more entertainemnt matter, I leave you here to enjoy the glimpse at Madriva. In the next entry, gear up for the techno talk. Till then...well you know what to do - Stay tuned!
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