Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version

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Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version

Posted by michael on Friday September 12, 2003 @02:42AM from the maybe-microsoft-will-advertise dept.

thedarb writes "Mandrake has decided to sell ads to be seen during installation, web browsing and in screen savers. This all comes in their upcoming 9.2 release. Seven G's and you could put your face in their installer." Update: 09/12 18:07 GMT by M : Mandrake has a page about the ads.

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Moral compass? by mao+che+minh · 2003-09-12 02:42 · Score: 5, Funny

The real question is: will Mandrake accept all advertisement requests? I hope not - I hope Mandrake excercies a certain degree of moral judgement in their decision making.
I would hate to have to relive those all of those "You can enlarge your penis!!" moments, or once again be haunted by "Britney XXX HOT and young CAUGHT J-Lo action action!!".
Now, that's not to say that I would be apprehensive towards "Jenna" advertisements. Those always bring a smile to my face.
1. Re:Moral compass? by ultrabot · 2003-09-12 02:45 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  or once again be haunted by "Britney XXX HOT and young CAUGHT J-Lo action action!!".
  
  If they include free samples, I'm not complaining. How often do you get to watch pr0n legitimately at work, anyway?
  
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2. Re:Moral compass? by 7759-60784-1-E · 2003-09-12 02:46 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  > I would hate to have to relive those all of those "You can enlarge your penis!!" moments, or once again be haunted by "Britney XXX HOT and young CAUGHT J-Lo action action!!".
  
  Fortunately, none of those will be accepted. This'll leave room for the REALLY good stuff, like offers from Nigerians that'll make us millionaires!
3. Re:Moral compass? by JohnTheFisherman · 2003-09-12 02:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  That pretty much leaves only one advertiser that might want to target Linux users. ;)
  
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4. Re:Moral compass? by xanadu-xtroot.com · 2003-09-12 03:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  How often do you get to watch pr0n legitimately at work, anyway?
  
  I guess that would depend on if your name is something like Ron Jeremy or not...
  
  :-)
  
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5. Re:Moral compass? by smatt-man · 2003-09-12 03:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Or worse... Microsoft, where do you want to go today?
  
  Or, I'm sure SCO has 7 large... Have you paid SCO $699 to run this?
  
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6. Re:Moral compass? by iceburn · 2003-09-12 03:23 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  How often do you get to watch pr0n legitimately at work, anyway?
  My guess would be once.
  
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7. Re:Moral compass? by tmark · 2003-09-12 03:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I would hate to have to relive those all of those "You can enlarge your penis!!" moments
  
  Why not ? Talk about targeted marketing at its zenith...
8. Re:Moral compass? by Thing+1 · 2003-09-12 04:30 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  How often do you get to watch pr0n legitimately at work, anyway?
  
  Back in the day (mid-90s) there was no animated internet porn; we had to make do with still images. I worked at a software company and we were developing a compression technique for sending images from a server to a client.
  To make sure that the images came across correctly, we tested it with what we termed the "nipple pallette."
  Ah, the 90s...
  
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9. Re:Moral compass? by garvon · 2003-09-12 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  All of the time.I am sysadmin / programmer
  for an internet porn company. Used to joke that it was the only job where you would be reading a news site then quick popup a porn site when the boss was comming to look like you are working.
10. Re:Moral compass? by rot26 · 2003-09-12 04:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I used to work for a company that make kiosks. We had a potential client flying in for a demo one day, and I had set up some sample pages/ads/images for them. Before they arrived, some of the accounting type women from upstairs happened by my area and noticed on the demo system what Kurt Vonnegut referred to as "wide open beaver". Cackling gleefully they ran off to tell everybody who would listen how offended they were, and that I could kiss my ass goodbye. Unfortunately for them, the potential client was a chain of "gentlemen's clubs" in Las Vegas, and my demo was considered not only appropriate, but very well done. Ha. Eplilogue: I was the ultimately the last employee to be laid off, which I guess these days is about as close to success as you can usually expect.
  
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This is do-able... by grub · 2003-09-12 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny

"Seven G's and you could put your face in their installer."

Collectively I'm sure we could scrape together $7K to have the goatse.cx guy in all his glory on this..

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1. Re:This is do-able... by TrekkieGod · 2003-09-12 02:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Collectively I'm sure we could scrape together $7K to have the goatse.cx guy in all his glory on this..
  Ok, that's it! I'm going back to Windows.
  
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Linux sucks by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-12 02:48 · Score: 3, Funny

So now I can watch ads while never being able to get my sound card to work.
Oblig SCO comment by dcocos · 2003-09-12 02:59 · Score: 5, Funny

I wonder if SCO will buy an ad to remind people to send in their $699
Re:This is do-able...Akkk! Thrrrp! by hplasm · 2003-09-12 03:02 · Score: 3, Funny

The phrases "This is do-able" and "..the goatse.cx guy in all his glory.." sit uneasily together in my mind...

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Re:How difficult is removal by nitehawk214 · 2003-09-12 03:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Makes me wonder how difficult it would be to remove all the adware for a Linux expert ??
I believe the answer you are looking for is "priceless".

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Obligatory MS comment by Andrewkov · 2003-09-12 03:08 · Score: 3, Funny

I can just imagine the Microsoft sponsored splash screen on the Mandrake installer: "Welcome to Mandrake Linux installer! Your life would be much easier if you were currently installing Windows XP Professional!"
Reminds me of Howrad Stern. by spineboy · 2003-09-12 03:11 · Score: 3, Funny

He wanted to get enough money to buy the box seat right in back of home plate, and fill it with all sorts of freaks, transvestites, dwarfs, Beetlejuice, and hideously ugly people. That way you would see these people everytime they showed a guy at bat. I still laugh everytime I think of it.

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1. Re:Reminds me of Howrad Stern. by drooling-dog · 2003-09-12 06:16 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Oh... So I guess I'd better stop braaging about that invitation I got...
Re:This is do-able...Akkk! Thrrrp! by Mr.Sharpy · 2003-09-12 04:41 · Score: 4, Funny

The phrases "This is do-able" and "..the goatse.cx guy in all his glory.." sit uneasily together in my mind...

I would imagine that the goatse.cx guy sits uneasily anywhere.
Location, location, location by mdavids · 2003-09-12 09:28 · Score: 3, Funny

Meanwhile, Debian will be announcing that it will be charging $5 a pop for advertising in it's installer.

The price difference is only fair; a Mandrake user will see the ads a couple of times a year, while a Debian user will only see the ads once during the lifetime of the machine.

Stay tuned for the announcement when or if the new Debian installer is ready.