Conectiva is a company founded in August 28, 1995, that was the pioneer in the distribution of Linux and Open Source in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America. Besides the customized Linux distribution for the Latin American market, Conectiva develops a series of products and additional services directed to the attendance of the market demand that seeks to adopt Open Source Tools; including books, manuals, additional software like Linux Tools and embedded systems, OEM programs, applications port, training kits and the "Revista do Linux" (Linux magazine). In addition, the company provides consulting services, training and technical support in all Latin America through its own service centers and certified partners. August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Brazilian Portuguese is a form of the Portuguese language used mostly in Brazil. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

Conectiva is a private company, located in Curitiba, Paraná in Brazil. Curitiba seen from above Curitiba is a city in Brazil, the capital of the state of Paraná. In 2001 it had a population of some 1,600,000 people. ... Other meanings: Paraná, Argentina, Paraná River Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the southern part of the country, bordering Paraguay and Argentina. ...

Conectiva also provides development, customization and professional services on a worldwide basis through its team of open source software engineers. Conectiva's development team has expertise in, amongst others, the following areas: Linux kernel development, high availability, device drivers, XFree86, network protocols, firewalling, clustering, performance analysis and optimisation, filesystems and resource management. Information about Conectiva's open source projects is available at http://conectiva.com/ The Linux mascot Tux created by Larry Ewing Linux kernel is a free unix-like operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and subsequently improved with the assistance of developers around the world. ... A device driver, often called a driver for short, is a computer program that enables another program (typically, an operating system) to interact with a hardware device. ... XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System. ... In networking, a communications protocol or network protocol is the specification of a set of rules for a particular type of communication. ... In computing, a firewall is a piece of hardware and/or software which functions in a networked environment to prevent some communications forbidden by the security policy, analogous to the function of firewalls in building construction. ... See: In astrophysics and astrometry: star cluster, galaxy cluster In molecular physics and solid state physics: A collaboration of (mostly equal) atoms, halfway between molecules and crystals; see cluster (physics) In music: tone cluster In statistics: cluster sampling or cluster analysis metall cluster In economics: Porters cluster Techno cluster... In mathematics, optimization is the discipline which is concerned with finding the maxima and minima of functions, possibly subject to constraints. ... See Filing system for this term as it is used in libraries and offices In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ... This article is confusing for some readers, and needs to be edited for clarity. ...

On 24 January 2005 it was announced that Mandrakesoft was acquiring Conectiva by 1.79 million euros (2.3 million U.S. dollars at the time). On 7 April 2005 Mandrakesoft announced the decision to change name of the parent company to Mandriva and their distribution name to Mandriva Linux, although the Brazilian operation would not change its name from Conectiva immediately. January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Mandrakesoft is a French software company, and creator of Mandrakelinux. ... The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Mandriva (formerly Mandrakesoft) is a French software company, and creator of Mandriva Linux. ... Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrakelinux or Mandrake Linux, and a merger with Conectiva) is a GNU/Linux distribution created by Mandriva (formerly Mandrakesoft). ...

Releases

• Conectiva Red Hat Linux Parolin 1.0 - October/1997
• Conectiva Red Hat Linux Marumbi 2.0 - May/1998
• Conectiva Linux Guarani 3.0 - December/1998
• Conectiva Linux Server (Intel) 1.0 - April/1999
• Conectiva Linux Server (Compaq Alpha) - May/1999
• Conectiva Linux 4.0 - July/1999
• Conectiva Linux 4.2 Server - October/1999
• Conectiva Linux 5.0 - February/2000
• Conectiva Linux 5.1 Server - June/2000
• Conectiva Linux 6.0 Desktop - November/2000
• Conectiva Linux 6.0 Server - November/2000
• Conectiva Linux 7.0 Desktop - July/2001
• Conectiva Linux 7.0 Server - July/2001
• Conectiva Linux 8.0 Desktop - April/2002
• Conectiva Linux 8.0 Server - April/2002
• Conectiva Linux Enterprise Edition (UL) - November/2002
• Conectiva Linux 9 Professional - April/2003
• Conectiva Linux 9 Standard - April/2003
• Conectiva Linux 10 Desktop - July/2004
• Conectiva Linux 10 Professional - July/2004

Conectiva Linux Live CD

• Conectiva Linux Live CD 0.5 - August 11, 2004
• Conectiva Linux Live CD 0.7 Beta 2 - September 10, 2004

FTP Mirrors: August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• ftp://ftp.conectiva.com/
• ftp://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub/conectiva/
• ftp://ftp.polinux.upv.es/linux/distributions/conectiva/
• ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/Conectiva/