The death of a Linux distro.

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http://www.zdnet.com/article/french-firm-behind-mandriva-linux-goes-out-of-business/

The French software firm behind the once-popular Linux distribution Mandriva has shut its doors.

A noticed posted by the company states that it is under liquidation after having been in operation for 16 years.

The company, which is listed as having between 10 and 19 employees, pulled in €553,600 in 2013 - apparently not enough to keep the operation afloat.

In the mid-2000s Mandriva Linux was one of the top 10 Linux distributions, but today it hovers around 80th position, behind OpenMandriva and Mageia, a fork of Mandriva created following a partnership between Mandriva and Russia's ROSA Software.
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Mandriva was once the standard bearer for innovation in the Linux world, but it had grown stagnant in recent years. There are forks of the project available (Mageia, PC Linux & OpenMandriva) to carry on the legacy, so it isn't completely gone.
 
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