Mandriva Linux began as Mandrake Linux, created by the French developer Gael Duval, who combined the Red Hat distribution with the KDE desktop to make Linux easier for beginners. It was among the first distributions aimed at ordinary desktop users, with a friendly graphical installer, and it gained a large following in the early 2000s. The company behind it was renamed Mandriva after a merger with the Brazilian company Conectiva, and the distribution took the same name. It later suffered from financial trouble and internal disputes, and the company went bankrupt in 2015. The community continued the work in forks, including Mageia and OpenMandriva.
Before and after
- 25 June 1998Aarhus Convention
- 27 June 1998Construction of Kuala Lumpur International Airport
- 6 July 1998Construction of Hong Kong International Airport
- 17 July 1998Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- 23 July 1998Creation of Mandriva Linux
- from 2 August 1998 to 30 June 2003Second Congo War
- from 4 August 1998 to 30 August 1998Operation Kitona
- from 17 August 1998 to 15 November 19981998 Russian financial crisis
- 19 August 1998Release of Rotten Tomatoes
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