MandrakeMove 2 And Mandrakesoft Profit Reports

Mad_Rain writes "Two new developments in the Mandrake Linux camp: For the beta-testers and live-cd crowd, MandrakeMove 2 (which is based on Mandrake 10) is undergoing beta testing. 2.6 Kernel anyone? Financially, Mandrake seems to be improving, as they cite a report from EuroLand Finance about how they compete with Red Hat or SUSE, at least in the marketplace (as opposed to on the desktop)."

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MandrakeMove

[Lane.exe]

I like this live CD better than Gentoo or Knoppix because of it's ability to store config files and such on keychain USB drives. That's really helpful, so I don't have to download Firefox on every computer I boot up on.

Re:Are you saying my Slackware floppy isn't live?

[Anonymous Coward]

Floppies? Who uses them anymore?

My floppy drive broke about two years ago, and I don't even miss it. (Yes, and that would mean my PC is obsolete too.)

You forgot:

[Anonymous Coward]

*BSD is revived from the grave
Natalie Portman blows CowboyNeal
RMS takes a bath
ESR discovers heterosexuality
Linux kernel hackers moves out of their parent's basements
CmdrTaco, instead of taking it from behind from Kathleen, actually gets to use his own willie for once

I don't usually do this

[Anonymous Coward]

As a long time Slashdot poster I've spent many hours contributing my time and thoughts to Slashdot. Over 500 posts over the years, almost all modded up.

Lately my posts have been getting modded down almost immediately when I post them, but eventually they get modded back up. I really really didn't care too much about it because my karma was way into the triple digits when Slashdot decided to keep karma points secret. I figured the fact that all my posts were still garnering more positive moderation than negative moderation was good enough.

Not so. It turns out that my static IP address keeps getting banned for getting modded offtopic (even when I'm not offtopic) and despite the fact that the posts still end up moderated positively overall.

Have any other posters with good karma, and a good posting track record been having this problem? It's like a fucking slap in the face that after all the effort I've put into making this website what it is today. If you're experiencing the same issues recently, please protest by posting about it, even if it's offtopic.

I understand the need for Slashdot to keep the crapflooders under control, but banning IP addresses of serious contributors for someone elses crappy moderation is taking things too far.

PS: You'll want to use an anonymous proxy server. The ban seemed to go permanent for me when I expressed disagreement with the new IP ban system as a side note in an otherwise ontopic comment.

Re:I don't usually do this

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks to whoever modded this up. I know it's offtopic, but something needs to be said about it. Keep in mind though that the Slashdot editors will often take away your moderation priveledges for moderating up posts that are critical of them. ($rtbl is not just some troll myth as I've found out.)

Re:I don't usually do this

[Anonymous Coward]

I think maybe you should post a journal entry instead. Put a link to it in your .sig, or better yet, post it manually at the end of any comments. I can't speak for everyone, but hijacking a article comment thread over what's technically a personal problem sounds like trolling or sour grapes to me. Maybe you won't garner as much support, but you'll get more respect.

Re:I don't usually do this

[Anonymous Coward]

The problem is that I've already been banned from posting. I'm using lynx on a shell account somewhere just to be able to post this. And yes, it does sound like sour grapes. But my hope was that enough other people might complain and Slashdot would lessen their restrictions.

And, you'll notice that my original post has been modded up several times, so obviously I'm not the only person that this is affecting.

Re:I don't usually do this

[Anonymous Coward]

email Malda and be extraordinarily courteous. ;)

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