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Mandrake News

Posted by michael on from the putting-along dept.

DCowern writes "Mandrake yesterday released their FY2001-2002 earnings and I'm glad to say it's looking real good for them. They've cut operating costs by 42% and increased revenues by 31%. They're still not quite in the black yet but they're expecting to break even month-to-month beginning in February. The full report is here. In other news, Mandrake announced two new programs yesterday. The first is Multi Network Firewall, which looks like an extremely nice package for running small to medium-sized networks. The second program, and my favorite, is their "OS refugee" offer."

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  1. Record breaking bandwidth.. by PFAK · · Score: 5, Funny

    bankrupts MandrakeSoft after slashdot, a OSDN news site posts a link to MandrakeSoft causing excessive bandwidth usage and financial loss.

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    Free means no restrictions, ironic the FSF's GPL forces restrictions, isn't it? What's your definition of free?
  2. OS Refugees.... by tgrotvedt · · Score: 5, Funny

    After my brief stint recently with a friend's laptop running Win ME (no memory management just like 98), I think I'd prefer the term "asylum seeker".

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    What makes a man want to be a mouse? (Python's Flying Circus)
  3. Cost by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 4, Funny


    Who would pay $30 for Linux when you can download Windows XP for free?

    1. Re:Cost by npietraniec · · Score: 2, Funny

      A better question might be "who would want to run XP for free when you could run linux for 30 bucks?" Not me, but flame away.

      Wait, what am I talking about, I run linux for free...

  4. Re:OS Refugee Offer by mrscorpio · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gentoo, right? ;)

    Chris

  5. IN CAPITALIST AMERICA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    THE OS FORCES YOU TO UPGRADE.

  6. Thankfully not mature by A+non+moose+cow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pulled my Mandrake from my shelf and it started wailing such a shrill scream that I almost passed out. The mature distro surely would have killed me.

    </potter>

  7. Re:Given up on Mandrake by reaper20 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Me too, their 8.x series was embarrassing. To quote someone off of IRC:

    MDK's QA Process:

    Guy #1: "Is this the latest version of the software? I mean the very latest?"

    Guy #2: "Yeah, except this one package, it had some bug I think, so we just created the package from CVS and we think it might be fixed there."

    Guy #1: "Ok, burn the gold CD!"

  8. Re:IN LIBERAL AUSTRALIA by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 3, Funny

    STFU you damned racist. Attitudes like that get us bombed.

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  9. A thread in a nutshell by gleffler · · Score: 2, Funny

    Me: Mandrake sucks, Debian rules!
    /.er: Retort about difficulty of installation
    Me: Counter-retort about lack of 'free'ness of $DISTRIBUTION
    /.er: Counter-counter-retort still about difficulty of installation
    /.er 2: "One distribution to rule them all" comment
    /.er 3: "Beowulf Cluster" comment
    Troll: "You get what you pay for" comment
    /.er 4: "Linux will never be on the desktop" manifesto (at least 100K)
    {several replies about why Linux WILL TOO be on the desktop, several replies about why Linux isn't ready, and at least 4 people advocating throwing away X}

    Yeah, I can now create threads in my head. Who needs to actually *READ* the threads, you can just make them up yourself!