Gaël Duval, born 1973, is a graduate of the Caen University in France, where he studied networks and documentary applications. In July 1998, he created Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux), a GNU/Linux distribution originally based on Red Hat Linux and KDE. He is also a co-founder of MandrakeSoft (now merged in Mandriva) with Jacques Le Marois & Frédéric Bastok. Wikipedia
Gal Duval, the founder of the popular MandrakeLinux (later MandrivaLinux) project, was fired from Mandriva last spring in an effort to cut costs. www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/282/
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