MandrakeSoft's Status Update

joestar writes "MandrakeSoft today posted an update letter from its CEO about the company's health. Among other things, it's interesting to learn that the company seems to be on the good track to go out of the "chapter-11 protection" before the end of the year, that it's taking part to several publicly-funded research projects, and that Mandrake 9.1 is having a good success. They also thank for the warm support they received from the community. Worth a read for all Mandrake fans, like myself. Viva la Mandrake!"

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A Mandrake and Gentoo experience

[Gherald]

Several weeks ago I downloaded 3 cds of Mandrake 9.1 and tried installing to my Asus A7N8X system. Them pre-compiled kernels simply would not load. Mandrake may have an easy installation process, but it sure doesn't seem to work on cutting edge hardware.

I was about to give up and settle for my XP Corp bootleg that M$ published years ago but happens to install to my A7N8X just fine. But then I discovered Slashdot and heard about Gentoo. I downloaded that small stage1 tarball and set to work bootstrapping / emerge system / compileing kernel, and so on, and was up and running by the end of that day. Great stuff, I tell ya. And much more fun than all that Mandrake GUI-ness.

Did you learn your lesson?

[HanzoSan]

Maybe if you made more intelligent posts, your karma wouldnt be so low. Try to make an insightful post Mr.Troll