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.La page perso de Gaël Duval, créateur de Mandrake Linux/Mandriva Linux, co-fondateur de Mandrakesoft/Mandriva - FAQ Mandriva Interview of François Bancilhon, CEO of Mandriva
, Duval is chairman and Chief Technology Officer at Ulteo.Ulteo brings OpenOffice to Web browser | Tech news blog - CNET News.com The company was bought by AZNetwork group in 2015.
In 2016, he co-founded NFactory.io, an incubator-accelerator of "startups".« La Normandie est une belle carte à jouer »
In November 2017, Gael Duval created the /e/ mobile operating system,Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ is the symbol for “my data is MY data” — Gaël Duval (news, mandrake, /e/ my data is my data...) 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/,Announcing «e Foundation» for eelo — Gaël Duval (news, mandrake, /e/ my data is my data…) and ECORP SAS (now Murena), 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
External links Official website Interview with Gael Duval, Sep 24, 2006