Turbo Linux and France Mandriva, announcing basic system joint development project

Turbo Linux and French Mandriva 2008 January 16th, announced the new project "Manbo-Labs (mambo laboratory) which" develops the basic system of Linux distribution jointly. Sharing the development resource and technology of the basic system which becomes the core, you aim for the reduction of incidence of development.

On the basis of strategic partnership, it tackles the development of the Linux basic system which can be used commonly with both products. The engineer both focusing on cooperating with the community, the schedule which it advances, in April release it does. You say that it can release with GPL, can adopt also other RPM distribution.

We have assumed that both corporations can lighten the burden of development with joint ownership conversion, can stress to alliance strengthening and the like of compatibility improvement and ISV/IHV of the hardware. In addition, because compound eye point of view is reflected with the cooperation development by the engineer of other companies other culture, you say that you can expect also the quality improvement of the basic system itself.

Both corporations starting the cooperation of labor with Manbo-Labs project in 2007 October. As a first result of Linux basic system development, Linux kernel and library (glibc), compiler (gcc) and such as package management system (rpm) the base element of development tool release is done. <>