Why I never liked Mandrake Linux / Mankdrake
Linux has took its name from an 1930s comics Mandrake the
Magician
I never liked
Mandrake Linux, since day 1 I saw it.
Historically Mandrake Linux was one of the best Linux distributions
available for free download in the "Linux scene" some 10 to 12
years ago.
Mandrake was simple gui oriented and trendy. It also one the Linux
distribution with the most simplified installer program and
generally a lot of GUI software for easy configuration and use by
the end user.
Though it's outside nice look, still for me it was like an
"intuition" that Mandrake is not so good as it appeared.
Now many years later I found by chance that
Mandrake has
been sued to change their Operating System name with another, due
to a law suit requit by the copyright holders of
Mandrake The
Magician comics. "Mandrake the Magician" used to be a very
popular before the Second World war in the 1930's.
It obviously not a co-incidence that the Mandrake names was after
this comics and not the
mandrake herb plants available in
Europe, Africa and Asia. This is clear in Mandrake Linux distro
earlier mascot, you see below:
Later on they changed Mandrake's logo to loose the connection with
Mandrake The Magician and used another new crafted
logo:
Its quite stunning nowdays magician obsession, has so heavily
infiltrated our lives that even something like a Free Softwre Linux
distribution might have some kind of reference to magician and
occult stuff (I saw this from the position of being Christian)
...
Later due to the name copyright infringement Mandrake Linux was
renamed first to Mandragora Linux.
Instead of putting some nice name non related to occultism or magic
stuff the French commercian company behind Mandrake rename it to
another non-Christian name
Mandragora.
Interestingly the newer name
Mandragora as one can read in
wikipedia means:
Mandragora (demon), in occultism
Well apparently, someone from the head developers of this Linux
distribution has a severe obsession with magic and occultism.
Later MandrakeSoft (The French Company behind Mandrake Linux)
renamed finally the distribution to Mandriva under the influence of
the merger of Mandrake with the Brazillian company
Connectiva this put also an over to the legal dispute
copyright infringement dispute with Hearst Corporation (owning the
rights of Mandrake the Magician).
Having in mind all fact on current Mandriva "dark names history", I
think it is better we Christians avoid it ...