Conectiva S/A is the company that produces the Conectiva Linux distribution.
This is the leader distribution in Latin America (acording to various sources), and is mostly used by Portuguese and Spanish speaking users (although it has full English Support).
Conectiva S/A is one of the members of
UnitedLinux.
You can find their main homepage at
http://www.conectiva.com, although the english part is mostly about
UnitedLinux.
The main
ftp site can be found at
ftp://ftp.conectiva.com/ (server located at
Canada).
A download page is also avaliable, but in Portuguese only, at
http://www.conectiva.com.br/download/
Conectiva comes with the
apt package utility, which provides on-line upgrades and package instalation. Notice should be placed that Conectiva is a
RPM based distribution.
One interesting thing to notice is that Marcelo Tossati, the current head maintainer of the
stable Linux kernel works for Conectiva. Other
kernel hackers that work there: ACME and Rik van Riel.
Reviews and additional off-site information:
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/conectiva70 - The Duke of Url about Conectiva Linux 7.0 (Courtesy of web.archive.org)
- http://www.distrowatch.com/conectiva.php - Conectiva Linux on DistroWatch (software information, versions, releases etc)
Conectiva S/A has ABN AMRO BANK as it's major share holder. Other owners are LatinTech and the original 6 founders. The exact ownership share of each part is unknown, although it's interesting to notice that ABN aquired extras shares (and so became the major share holder) in May/June 2002 (exact date unknown).
Conectiva HQ is located in
Curitiba,
PR,
Brazil. Phone: +55-41-360-2600
Note: Conectiva was the first Linux distrubution (as well as sponsor) of the
apt-rpm port of the
Debian apt-get package management suit for
RPM.