Gaël Duval

Gaël Duval (* 1973 in France ) is a co-founder and former board member of the French software company Mandriva .

biography

Duval studied network technologies at the University of Caen . During his student days he became acquainted with the Linux operating system . His preferred distribution, Red Hat , did not contain the then freshly created KDE desktop, as Red Hat was waiting for the first stable version of GNOME . Therefore Duval adapted Red Hat Linux 5.1 and provided it with KDE 1.0. He named this distribution, which was created in July 1998, Linux Mandrake 5.1 . Initially the version numbers of Linux Mandrake were still the same as those of the corresponding Red Hat version, but Mandrake became more and more different from Red Hat and finally Duval and his friend Jacques Le Marois founded the company Mandrakesoft SA in Paris - Mandriva since 2005. Duval has not worked for Mandriva since March 2006. He has committed himself to a new project - Ulteo - which offers an online desktop that is still in the beta phase and since December 2007 has made it possible for the first time to use OpenOffice.org (via Java ) in the browser.

In December 2017, Gaël Duval presented his latest project eelo (Google-free Android system).

Web links

Duval's blog

Individual evidence

↑ eelo: Google-free Android version in planning. Retrieved June 17, 2018 (German).

personal data
SURNAME	Duval, Gaël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French entrepreneur, co-founder of the French Linux company Mandriva
DATE OF BIRTH	1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	France

[1] eelo: Google-free Android version in planning. Retrieved June 17, 2018 (German).