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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!"
mandrake, imho is the best desktop linux there is. installation is easy, and it's much more user friendly than the more advanced linux distributions out there.
long live mandrake!
Posting mandrake accolades on Slashdot is great, get the word out. More importantly, invest in a great company providing a quality product. Perhaps this will help them out of trouble! Interestingly, there is a rumor that this downturn is because of the US & pro-Us policy geeks not spending their money in France.
Kill the White Man
So the only way to see how many members are in the Mandrake Club is to actually join?
Yeah right, people arent going to join unless they can see how many members have joined before them, they dont want to feel like they are wasting their money.
15,000 however is alot of members, I think if Mandrake can double that number they'd be fine. What mandrake needs is to keep a stat on their website which in realtime tells exactly how many members they have. Its important for people to know if they are helping a business which is dying, or if they are helping a business which is thriving.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
> You bought shares in a company that tries to sell something you can get for free?
:-}
Evian, Vittel and Perrier are doing quite well actually. Thank you for your great comment
I have bought Mandrake , not because i had to but because i chose to. Even thought we all accept that Free Software mainly refers to freedom of speach , we always use the "free as in beer" part. .. i have paid a truckload of money for MS and thought it reasonable in the past. Now that i found something that i actually enjoy, will i let it die?
I bought Mandrake because i believe i should support a company that contributes to Linux.
I could have copied or downloaded it, but i thought that if everyone did that then there would be no Mandrake (and indeed they were close). Can anyone guess how the Linux world would be without the Large Distros? No. Linux would not disappear but much less people would make the step of trying it and less people would use it as a platform , consequently less people would write software for it.
So buying you Linux is not a curse. You don't have to. But when possible, support your vendor.
I mean
Slashdot Sig. version 0.1alpha. Use at your own risk.
"The lesson to be learned is not to take the comments on slashdot too literally." --Vinnie Falco, BearShare
Ideal target if you want to burst the Linux bubble. Sue Mandrake and kill off a Linux vendor. Would be big news and I'm sure Microsoft would love that.
Hmm, I'd better be quiet as you don't know who's reading this.
They all have good and bad points. It is annoying to install a distro and be missing something that was nicely set up in another. 9.1 has the best combination I have seen. Mandrake seems to be the best mix of not too easy and not too hard. Everything works the way I want it too. There is a wonderful community site Mandrakeusers.org, that is friendly and a great source of info. Texstar provides excellent add-ons through urpmi. If I want eye candy or some helpful command line program (like unrar), it is simple for me to get.
I don't find Mandrake 9.1 makes things too easy for me. I don't feel babied, but I do feel sometimes I save time. I hope the company does well. I find it to be a great distro, and I have tried a lot of them.
Thanks, Rich
and power, California!
You mean like when they increased the amount of regulation on power generation and distribution, but mistakingly called it "deregulation?" The political structure of the industry shifted a bit, but it certainly wasn't deregulated.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
So you're the one who buys boxed "broadband kits" at Best Buy. Did you buy your AOL cd, too?
See, here's what you don't understand about the Mandrake business model. Your use of the term "freeloaders" suggests that you subscribe to the theory that a specific cost is associated with someone using a copy of a software package. The reality (for both free and proprietary software) is that there are no incremental costs associated with the use of software. Mandrake doesn't mind its software spreading far and wide because all that will do is build community mindshare and serve as natural advertising. For each additional person who uses Mandrake, their costs do not increase, and the possibility increases that people will enter into a business relationship with Mandrake based on good faith. (by joining the club)
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
.deb, low-level package tool dpkg, and high-level package tool apt. .rpm, low-level package tool rpm, and high-level package tool up2date (or apt, which is available for RH and various other rpm based distros). .rpm, low-level package tool rpm, and high-level package tool urpmi.
In Debian, you have the file format
In Red Hat, you have the file format
In Mandrake, you have the file format
Do not compare apt with rpm. Saying "apt is better than rpm" is like saying "2 meters is more than 2 minutes". It doesn't make sense.
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Hello, my name is Robert Lerner, and I pronounce Lernux as "99% cpu"
Join the Club! It's 60 dollars that go 100% and directly to Mandrake. When you're buying the box, only sth. like 50% will go to Mandrake.
MandrakeClub is wonderful. You can vote for your preferred packages and the ones with the most votes get packaged by Mandrake. You'll get a lot of discounts for books, commercial software, etc. Silver members can download StarOffice for free. That alone is worth half of the yearly price.
It's really worth it AND you support Mandrake's future! (I don't find that the boy offers any real value.)
MandrakeClub Homepage.
Bye egghat.
-- "As a human being I claim the right to be widely inconsistent", John Peel
Mandrake is much more polished for the desktop than redhat. MDK has urpmi, basically apt-get for rpm, a seriously useful tool. The other drake (gui/console) tools are great too. Mandrake may have started as a branched version of RH, but it's definitely taking the lead now. Release 9.1 has proved to be very solid. I run it both at home and the office.
Redhat tends to lag far behind with their releases. You can thank RH for changing standard locations of files too. They are starting to suffer from all the incumbencies of a large corporate.
Having said that they are both basically the same, and you can add Susi to the list. The main thing these distro are based on is RPM and how they group their files into packages. Both target the desktop and server markets. RH has been very successful in establishing its name in the corporate world.
My main concern is that I am starting to hear "Redhat" mentioned more than "Linux", and sometimes interchangeably. it's all about perception. Business is starting to think that Redhat is the only choice !
Of course! After all, bandwidth and servers are FREE!
Well, when you consider that most mirror sites host the sfw for free, you are correct. I also host the software on my gnutella node, and I'm not billing Mandrake for the gigs of traffic I donate. It's another side effect of that whole "free software community" that you don't seem to understand.