Hearst contended that MandrakeSoft infringed upon King Features' trademarked character Mandrake the Magician.
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Mandriva Linux is the brainchild of Gaël Duval, who wanted to focus on ease of use for new users.
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Mandriva, S.A. is the developer and maintainer of a Linux distribution called Mandriva Linux, as well as various enterprise software products.
Thanks to third-party efforts, it is also available from the default repositories of a number of Linux distributions, including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch and Ubuntu.