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Mandrake Linux Gamer Edition

Posted by michael on from the emulate-this dept.

JWhiton writes: "According to Blue's News, Mandrake and TransGaming are going to ship a new distribution of Mandrake Linux specificially aimed at gamers. It comes with The Sims and TransGaming's WineX for compatibility with Windows games. Apparently it's going to ship on November 9th."

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  1. This is why... by kikta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...Mandrake is important to gaining a foothold on the desktop and with the average user. Are they the most stable distro? No. Even though I love Mandrake, I won't even try to pretend otherwise on that issue. However, do they have a shit-hot installation routine, lots of pre-loaded goodies, excellent configuration tools, and a strong focus on giving the end user what they want/need? Hell yes.

    I always hear Mandrake derided by a signifigant portion of the /. crowd, but for what faults it may have as a distro, it is also the missing link. RedHat will take servers, SuSE the scientific/engineering community, Debian the ubergeeks, and who on the desktop? That's right, Mandrake. This will help to increase the foothold they have already started. (Hopefully!)

    1. Re:This is why... by Andrewkov · · Score: 5, Funny
      RedHat will take servers, SuSE the scientific/engineering community, Debian the ubergeeks,

      I'm not an "ubergeek", I just like decent package management!!

  2. Surely some mistake by Derwen · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...Mandrake ... aimed at gamers .. released on November 9

    I tried out Mandrake a couple of years ago and it already shipped with BSDgames and several versions of Tetris.

    Sheesh. What more could anyone possibly want?

    - Derwen

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