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uninet writes "MandrakeSoft, the French GNU/Linux distributor who filed for bankruptcy protection one year ago last week, announced today that its first fiscal quarter of 2004 resulted in a positive operating result of 280,000. The company also announced Beta 1 of Mandrake Linux 10.0 today." Additionally, tkittel writes that "Mandrake has just announced on their club pages that they will release an updated version of their 9.2 ISO's (but just for club members). This is due to popular request after the numerous updates after the initial release." OSDN's own Robin Miller had a chance to talk with MandrakeSoft's CEO and learn more about the company's future plans.
Well, maybe if they'd upgrade from the 2.2 kernel people would take them seriously.
The survival of Linux Mandrake is due to the efforts of the mandrake club subscribers. I suggest every user subscribe to the club. Those who don't are cheap bastards who have no honor or respect for hard work.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
Actually mod me jackass for not reading the article or looking at the specs for 10.0. Blah. I'll just flame myself before anyone else does.
RTFA (and anything related to it)
Can someone let me know.
Ballpoint club would be much better. Unless someone was thinking in terms of gay brothels ;)
Loss of radio contact cannot be attributed to this by fluke accident as was the case back in 1997. Oh no, it's a bona fide "tiny computerised brain" screw-up. The latest in a long history of failures, the Linux operating system has flushed half of a US$820 million project out of the crapper hole on the side of the space shuttle. It seems that somebody came up with the bright idea of running the Mars rover on an Apple Macintosh "Supercomputer" controlled by Linux.
Oh, I suppose that that extra license fee for an actual quality operating system would have broken that $410M dollar budget. There's no way they could have afforded an embedded operating system that isn't cheap communist software. They could have gone with QNX RTOS, VxWorks or any number of other quality and time-tested real-time operating systems for the Mars rover, from a reputable company. But NOOOOO, they went with bullshit free-as-in-fix-everything-yourself Linux. Some long-haired balding fat Linux zealot, sucking up oodles of tax money with his blob-like presence in the NASA "engineering corps", with a certain penchant for cheap software, came up with the brilliant idea of running embedded Linux on an Apple Macintosh of all things. Of all the idiotic things that have happened under the current administration, this by far makes me most ashamed.
Now with 20% less r00t vulnerabilities!
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.