Ulteo: Latin for 'Yet another Ubuntu based distro'
Yogi Berra once said, it's like "deja vu all over again". And that's the feeling I got using the new Linux distribution Ulteo.
As I mentioned, Ulteo is a distribution based on the Ubuntu code base. What makes its name stand out a bit more (as opposed to say, Linux Mint) is that it was started by Gael Duval, erstwhile chef des opérations of the French Linux developer MandrakeSoft, makers of Mandrake (now Mandriva) Linux. Duval is also the second member of the Ransom Love Club. This club consists of Linux distribution founders fired by their own company. Like Mr. Love, Monsieur Duval may well be better off not being with his former employer, although that's not quite so apparent as is with the case of Ransom Love, whose company went on to become SCO. Duval apparently considered his firing a serious faux pas and is suing Mandriva. Though not nearly as infamous in the Linux community as SCO, Mandriva's trajectory has not been particularly smooth either. Mandrake was, at one time, the most important distribution of its day as it was the first really (and truly) user friendly Linux version out there. Had MandrakeSoft continued to improve upon what it was shipping around 2001, I don't think I'd ever have written my last op-ed piece But alas, Mandrake and success were not meant to be together. It seems MandrakeSoft got a touch of the dot.com fever and did what many companies of its day were doing. It had an IPO on the French stock exchange and then subsequently hired a brain-dead management team who went on to squander all their capital. MandrakeSoft then declared bankruptcy, rebounded a bit, tried to reinvent itself by acquiring two other distributions and changing its name, but eventually it took the long and winding road into irrelevancy where it peacefully (unlike SCO) resides now.
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