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Mandrake Asks for Support

Posted by michael on from the give-till-it-hurts dept.

Many people wrote in with this news: "Mandrake Linux today reports having a short-term money crunch. They call for users to become members to help float them through the short-term viability issue. Membership dues are the preferred method over budget/project cuts."

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  1. I've joined by miracle69 · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are currently 2,000 Mandrake Club members. If they can get 8,000 more, they're fine.

    There are multiple subscription options, all with the same priveledges. It's 5 bucks a month for the cheapest option (which I had to choose currently because of my financial situation).

    It's totally worth it to me. 8.2 is showing how mature Mandrake can make a desktop distro, and I'm impressed with not only their attention to detail, but their attention to security, as well as decreasing the learning curve. They warn you during install about what packages may be insecure and what might be seen by the world. They packaged the Bastille firewall into the distro. And their draktools now have an option to display what the GUI tools are doing to which log files.

    And to top it all off, 8.2 has had 4 betas and now 1 Release Candidate (which has some critical bugs, so expect a second RC). 60 bucks? Deal of the century. I run it on every machine I own, and install a copy on any Doze Machine that I build for friends.

    Surely there are 8,000 more people here on /. that use LM enough to fork over 60 bucks.

    --
    Linux - Because Mommy taught me to Share.
  2. Alternative to Subscription by Laven · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you aren't comfortable with the $60 yearly subscription (or you can't spare $60 right now) please consider one-time donations at this page:
    http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/

    You can even choose an individual open source project that you want your financial contribution will go toward development. Choices include KDE, Gnome, Kernel, PowerPC port, Sparc port, Alpha port among many others.

  3. Re:I hope the Mandrake employees by kafka.fr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just for your information, MandrakeSoft has already
    laid off employees (around 10, I was one of them),
    and asked (on a *volontary* basis) others to accept
    salary cuts (being less paid for some time).

    So it seems they can't do more this way. There were already to much to do.