Gaël Duval

Gaël Duval

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Gaël Duval
Gaël Duval in 2016
Born Gaël Duval
1973 (age 50–51)
Caen, Normandy, France
Nationality French
Years active from 1998 to now
Known for creator of Mandrake Linux, which became Mandriva Linux (discontinued), and co-founder of MandrakeSoft, which became Mandriva (discontinued).
Website www.indidea.org/gael/blog/

Gaël Duval (born 1973) is a French entrepreneur. In July 1998, he created Mandrake Linux (which became Mandriva Linux, now discontinued), a Linux distribution originally based on Red Hat Linux and KDE. He was also a co-founder of MandrakeSoft (which merged in Mandriva, now discontinued) with Jacques Le Marois and Frédéric Bastok.

Gaël Duval was responsible for communication in the Mandriva management team until he was laid off by the company in March 2006, in a round of cost-cutting. Duval suspected part of the reason for his dismissal was disagreement with management over the company’s future strategy, resulting in a lawsuit against the company.

As of 2006, Duval is chairman and Chief Technology Officer at Ulteo. The company is bought by AZNetwork group in 2015.

In 2016, he co-founded NFactory.io, an incubator-accelerator of «startups».

In November 2017, Gael Duval created the /e/ mobile operating system, which is a privacy-oriented fork of the Android-based LineageOS accompanied with a set of online services. In 2018, Duval founded the E Foundation, which maintains /e/, and ECORP SAS, a privately held corporation, which operates their online sales and services sites.

Education

Duval is a graduate of the University of Caen Normandy in France, where he studied networks and documentary applications.

References

  1. ^ Moody, Glyn (2002-01-01). Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution. Basic Books. ISBN 0738206709.
  2. ^ «Le Parcours de Jacques Le Marois (MandrakeSoft) sur JDN Chat». 2021-11-22. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  3. ^ Cheung, Humphrey (2006-03-16). «Mandriva Linux fires its founder». TGDaily. Archived from the original on 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  4. ^ La page perso de Gaël Duval, créateur de Mandrake Linux/Mandriva Linux, co-fondateur de Mandrakesoft/Mandriva — FAQ Mandriva Archived 2007-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Interview of François Bancilhon, CEO of Mandriva Archived 2007-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Ulteo brings OpenOffice to Web browser | Tech news blog — CNET News.com
  7. ^ «Etablissement ULTEO à ALENCON (61000) sur SOCIETE.COM (42388006100035)». www.societe.com. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  8. ^ « La Normandie est une belle carte à jouer »
  9. ^ Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ is the symbol for “my data is MY data” — Gaël Duval (news, mandrake, /e/ my data is my data…)
  10. ^ Byfield, Bruce (March 2018). «You Say Goodbye, and I Say eelo». Linux Magazine. No. 208. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  11. ^ David, Nash (5 January 2018). «eelo: In conversation with Gaël Duval, creator of the Google-less Android project». BGR India. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  12. ^ «Expérience – Un été sans Google (ou presque…) #2 : les applications». www.lesnumeriques.com (in French). 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  13. ^ «eFoundation — /e/». Archived from the original on 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  14. ^ Announcing «e Foundation» for eelo — Gaël Duval (news, mandrake, /e/ my data is my data…)
  15. ^ «ECORP solutions». ecorp.solutions. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
  16. ^ «ECORP S.A.S (CAEN) Chiffre d’affaires, résultat, bilans sur SOCIETE.COM — 840996516». www.societe.com. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
  17. ^ «75 Notable Alumni of the University of Caen Normandy». EduRank.org — Discover university rankings by location. 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2023-08-21.

External links

  • Official website
  • Interview with Gael Duval, Sep 24, 2006
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