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Mandrake Linux Development Process Changes

Posted by simoniker on from the still-potent-mandragora dept.

joestar writes "Just found at MandrakeLinux.com: 'MandrakeSoft today announced a major evolution in the way that future Mandrake Linux distributions will be engineered and released. The purpose of this new development process is to provide the highest level of new features, as well as maximizing the quality of new products.' In short: for each release, there will be a 'Community' release, equivalent to a common Mandrake release, with all latest features. Several months later an 'Official' release - based on the 'Community' - will be available. Both of them will be released publicly and supported. The new process will start with the upcoming Mandrake 10.0."

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  1. Re:Wait a minute? by RazzleFrog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently you can link to an article but not read it. They are filing under the French equivalent of Chapter 11 - Reorg. During the process the company MUST continue to do business because they still have to pay debtors. Otherwise they would have filed the equivalent of Chapter 7 - liquidation.

  2. It's not the same at all by joestar · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) Both Mandrake Linux Community and Mandrake Linux Official versions will be publicly released and supported.

    2) Fedora is in fact the same as the Mandrake Cooker project, which started... 5 years ago.

    So I'm afraid that *Mandrake* is innovating with this new scheme. Red Hat is just leaving its users alone...