MandrakeSoft Roundup

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.

Comments

Who will be first?

[Broken_Windows]

Will they rush it on 10.0 to be the first major 2.6 kernel based distro? If they do it could really hurt them if problems arrise with the release.

Being a big user of mandrake linux

[HappyCitizen]

I think its great that they're making money. Hopefully, its not just from donations. If they are making a profit, I'll be happy to know they are solidly (hopefully) in business. I just love there distro(mainly the installer) As far as 10.0 goes, I'll try it out. I must agree, this seems a bad time though with the 2.6 kernel just and and a new KDE out too, I bet it will be buggy. I mean really, Mandrake was starting to loose its buggy stereotype. Putting in new software (which probably has more bugs), seems the perfect way to get the reputation back again... Good luck to them and I hope they succeed anyway.

Re:Support periods...

[LibrePensador]

Thanks for clarifying this.