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Mandrake Clarifies its Future

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the isn't-that-geoffs-distro? dept.

fabiolrs writes "Mandrake Linux has an article in response to the message they sent on march 11th. They claim that because of user help they are "cash-flow positive"! That is great news since Linux community is now sure it will continue using one of the nicest distros available!"

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  1. Re:Whoo Hoo by Anonymous+Cowrad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You win the coveted "most inane/pointless/redundant post of the day" award.

    "This is good news"

    Really? Thanks for the info!

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  2. who cares? by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I think mandrake sucks. they throw to much crap (and I mean that in terms of matureity of software)into their distro, and thier URPMI utility sucks. the best thing they provided for the comunity was the autodetection installer. other than that, their drake tools are almost a waist of time and the Drake icons are fugly.

    Debian is much better IMHO at all of these points, and thier woody installer is easy for some one who has used Linux for about 6 months. 3.1 will have a new installer that autodetects and after that, I think debian will take eat up mandrakes market, good thing Suse has moved towards servers.

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