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Mandrake for Alpha & UltraSPARC

Posted by Hemos on from the rolling-out-the-distros dept.

Soko writes "Linux-Mandrake has joined SUSE, Red Hat and Caldera in porting their distribution to Alpha and SPARC architectures. The announcement was originally found on freshmeat and talks about getting help from Alpha Processors Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. MandrakeSoft has ported its latest popular version of the Linux operating system, Linux-Mandrake 7.0, to the above processors. "

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  1. Who's Behind Mandrake? by Effugas · · Score: 4

    That's what I want to know: We know about all these stars at Redhat, and VA, and from everywhere else...

    But who, I ask, is behind the smoothly polished quality of Mandrake?

    The creator of BeroLinux joined the Mandrake project a long time ago, this much I remember. BeroLinux was not only a one man distribution but the first out of the gate with Kernel 2.2 up and running. Mandrake has alot of the feel of some one guiding force trying to catch all the loose ends--and it shows.

    Yes, Mandrake 7.0 has areas of weakness that show up more than in any other Mandrake Linux distribution. Growing pains happen, and Mandrake's actually striking out with its own code this time around--and it's impressive code at that. Are Lothar and DiskDrake being ported to Alpha and Sparc as well?

    You know, one of these days I'm just going to put up a clock "Days till Redhat acquires Mandrake"...

    Yours Truly,

    Dan Kaminsky
    DoxPara Research
    http://www.doxpara.com

  2. Not Just Redhat by Ryandav · · Score: 4

    Mandrake is no longer just Redhat with pentium optimisations. If you bother to go look at their website
    or at the spinoff site mandrakeuser.org (a good start page for many a newbie), you detect all the signs of
    something that is more than Redhat.

    Cooker is the CVS version that gets devel work. They have several ambitious projects like Lothar,
    DrakConf, DiskDrake, and more, all independant of anything really from RH, and in my opinion,
    nicer too. The system really has a different feel top to bottom, one that I appreciate more for a desktop system.
    I'm not aware of any security level presets in RH, and there are no "preferred ftp access" type areas as per RH
    (a way to charge for updates, hello?).

    A system can be made into anything you want, distro comparison can only be based upon presets and defaults,
    and the harder to quantify "feel" of the set. This is my favorite dist of linux for home and personal use.
    It also has a very good response rate on the newbie and expert mailing lists, high Signal-to-Noise ratio.

    --
    Check my Go-related blog for beginners: DGD