Original: The code was officially forked from Mandrake 9.2 into an independent project in 2003 . After three years of continuous development , the developers took advantage of further development in ( the renamed ) Mandriva , and forked the code again late in 2006 for PCLinuxOS 2007 .
Simplified: The code was officially forked into an independent project in 2003 , but after three years of contiguous development , the devs took advantage of further development in ( the renamed ) Mandriva , and forked the code again for PCLinuxOS 2007 .