Sad to hear that Mandriva has finally shut up shop…   I remember some years ago (1998?) trying one of the original Mandrake distros – which was derived at that time from Red Hat..     Mandrake (France) later merged with Conectiva (Brazil) to become Mandriva..     As they were still using the RPM format for packaging, I was able to use their version if the X86/ARM GCC cross-compilers for several years, on my Fedora installation..

At least Mageia (a fork of Mandrake) still survives..

Robert Gadsdon.   May 29, 2015.