when was the name changed?

[Brando569]

nevermind, delete this...

[Lord Illidan]

Mandrake bought Conectiva, another Linux distro, and so changed the name to Mandriva to reflect the change on April 7 05.

here is more info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva

[Brando569]

damn you beat me to it, im just about to read it now on their site

[Perfect Storm]

Aye, I remember that. There was a little dispute if it was a good Idea to change the name. But it seems that people got use to the new name :)

[darkmatter]

But it seems that people got use to the new name :)

They always do.

As long as a product continues to evolve, I really don't give a rat's <insert descriptive language here> what it's called.

[Perfect Storm]

Same here, but some people don't I have noticed.