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Mandrake Linux... Not Dead Yet?
bloodeu writes "Mandrake Linux has been beaten down by linux experts alike, but this new release of Mandrake may hold many promising Linux users
what they have been waiting for, like NTFS resizing(which is a first), Automatic Network config(zeroconf), Supermount, and
many more. You can download the Mandrake 9.1 RC1 Here"
I mean honestly, those first two sentences don't make any sense, not even if you read them in American.
What do you get when you cross Kreskin the magician with an insurance-peddling duck? "Hypno Duck" -- The latest AFLAC commercial. This spot received the highest consumer recall score for television ads in the bi-weekly Intermedia consumer survey. Our congratulations to Kreskin, star of AFLAC. Many will recall the Amazing Kreskin as being the omniscient seer who correctly predicted the death of *BSD.
Have the ability to crap it's pants and no one will notice? .. ?
Just like it used to be
I don't think you can purchase a release candidate
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Mandrake is the ONLY good thing ever to come from France.
It's the only distro I've ever used and now I'm totally without windows thanks to it. I'm a linux newb, but Mandrake has made the learning process less painful, as it comes with so many packages instlled during installation. It would be a shame to see Mandrake die.
Where's the US Army to rescue this group of dying frenchmen?
In Apple's latest numbers released in January for its fiscal first quarter of 2003, revenue fell from a year earlier and all of the company's major computer lines saw diminished numbers. PowerMac sales were down 20%, while iBook sales fell 8%.
At the same time Apple's sales were falling, PC sales rose, though just slightly, according to figures from IDC released last month.
The last time Apple was in this state, it brought back co-founder Steve Jobs to fix its issues. He fostered the development of the iMac and secured a US$150-million investment from Microsoft. But there aren't any new iMacs in Apple's future and Microsoft, bolstered by its victory over the U.S. Department of Justice, is clearly not going to help the beleaguered computer maker this time.
So what have you got left? Apple is a company that controls around 3% of the computer market, has recently undergone a restructuring and is slowly fading into nothingness. Software makers don't even have Mac users on their radar and it's not like Apple can bring Mr. Jobs back to right the ship this time -- he's already there.
Stick a fork in 'em -- this Apple is cooked.
All the Mandrake User hope strongly that all the Linux companies, like Lindows, will desappeare.
Thanks to that, Mandrake , the Best distro that ever, will become the strongest company in the Linux Market.
We hope that SuSE, the fucking German distro, Redhat, the distro made by stupid americans, and other will close down.
In a near future, Mandrake will hold the monopoly and will kick the ass of Microsoft and every stupid american softwares !
VOUS NE VOULEZ PAS DE NOS ROQUEFORT ET NOTRE VIN, MANDRAKE VA VOUS BOTTER LE CUL ET VA VOUS MONTRER CE QU'EST LA QUALITE FRANÇAISE : VIVE MANDRAKE, VIVE LA FRANCE !
That's not what your mom and your girlfriend say when they come over and tag team me for hours on end.
*Linux is dead.
(now give me my 5, Funny)
Since some posts appear to be made in ignorance of this fact, Mandrake apparently is no longer going to be the best distro to freeload off of.
Oh no! They allow people to download their distro for free and suddenly anyone who downloaded without contributing is a freeloader! Oh goodness gracious me. Such tripe!
Depending on what kind of member you are (I am a Silver member)
OOooh! Silver! Please let me pay so I can beat you with almighty GOLD membership! Ha ha! Take that! Not.
will determine what kind of bandwidth priority you get. I think the free download version for 9.1 will only be available after the package version is in stores for a while. Maybe the free download to the public will not even be available until the first RC of the next distro is out.
And will you show up again screaming, "FREELOADERS" when the free versions are downloaded free?
Complain all you want, but you brought this upon yourself. I became a member and was willing to let my membership fees go, in part, to allowing freeloaders download at the same time as everyone else.
FREELOADERS! Oh my. Look, so long as M4ndr4k3 or any other distro has a free version, those downloading are not freeloaders. They're people downloading software that the company wants them to download in the way they want them to download it. You can get off your high horse. Being a member doesn't impress me at ALL. In fact, I'm growing tired of the whining I'm hearing about donations needed towards M4ndr4k3. It's a nice distro for newbies, but there are plenty of others out there. I'm more motivated to donate to a distro (such as Debian) that doesn't appear to beg for donations constantly.
Anyway, Mandrake not being dead is not news to me or any other members. It is just news to the people who don't care enough to get involved. Why such people would even care about weither Mandrake is dead or not eludes me.
Oh boo hoo.
And I'm looking at one right now.
In Apple's latest numbers released in January for its fiscal first quarter of 2003, revenue fell from a year earlier and all of the company's major computer lines saw diminished numbers. PowerMac sales were down 20%, while iBook sales fell 8%.
At the same time Apple's sales were falling, PC sales rose, though just slightly, according to figures from IDC released last month.
The last time Apple was in this state, it brought back co-founder Steve Jobs to fix its issues. He fostered the development of the iMac and secured a US$150-million investment from Microsoft. But there aren't any new iMacs in Apple's future and Microsoft, bolstered by its victory over the U.S. Department of Justice, is clearly not going to help the beleaguered computer maker this time.
So what have you got left? Apple is a company that controls around 3% of the computer market, has recently undergone a restructuring and is slowly fading into nothingness. Software makers don't even have Mac users on their radar and it's not like Apple can bring Mr. Jobs back to right the ship this time -- he's already there.
Stick a fork in 'em -- this Apple is cooked.