Mandriva Acquires Lycoris

AlexChao

Mandriva has announced the acquisition of the Lycoris Desktop/LX distribution: "Mandriva the publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux distribution, today announced an agreement to purchase several assets from Lycoris, a major North American Linux distribution for home users. As part of this agreement, Lycoris' founder and CEO Joseph Cheek is joining Mandriva to develop a new and advanced Linux desktop product. Since its inception in the year 2000, Lycoris has established a solid reputation for developing easy to use and friendly operating systems targetted to the consumer market." Read the full press release for more details. On a related note, DesktopLinux has published a brief interview with Joseph Cheek, the founder and CEO of Lycoris.

http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2556

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT6895874832.html

ShiyuTang

Mandriva 终于有望变得很漂亮了。

SystemMan

在distrowatch看到了。恭喜啊

SystemMan

2005年6月15日 - Mandriva 与 Lycoris：桌面新气象 - Mandriva 今天宣布收购 Lycoris 的部分资产，后者是北美一家专注于家用 Linux 解决方案的厂商。收购完成后，Lycoris 的创始人兼首席执行官 Joseph Cheek 将加入 Mandriva，以期共同开发更适合家用的全新 Linux 桌面产品。