History
The first release was based on Red Hat Linux (version 5.1) and K Desktop Environment 1 in July 1998. It has since moved away from Red Hat's distribution and has become a completely separate distribution in its own right. Mandriva now includes a number of original tools, mostly to ease system configuration. Mandriva Linux the brainchild of Gaël Duval, who wanted to focus on ease of use for new users. Duval became the co-founder of Mandrakesoft, but was laid off from the company in 2006 along with many other employees. Later Duval announced to NewsForge that he was going to bring suit against Mandriva for "abusive layoff". On May 8, 2010, Mandriva announced that due to financial distress, the company was up for sale.
On September 18, 2010, due to financial uncertainty and the layoff by Edge-IT, a Mandriva subsidiary employing many of the corporate staff working on the Mandriva distribution, a fork of Mandriva named Mageia was announced.
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