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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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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.
IAALS.
...as they cite a report from EuroLand
:-)
Hey...Isn't that the place that Disney was trying to offload recently?
And better yet...why would I trust them for Financial advice ?
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I've been waiting for a new Mandrake Move to show off to those who haven't converted to Linux yet. I've found that a lot of people have been amazed by demonstrations of Mandrake Move. (particularly Tux racer - but thats another story!)
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Slashdotters get laid
and Mandrake makes a profit
Mandrake 10 spinoff which is Red Hat spinoff... I'm getting dizzy, Bob.
As I see it, it wouldn't be so bad if UML live CD would come out on the market with some corporate endorcement. How about take AOL's aggressive marketing strategy and start shipping live CD's to every people around the world? Would it decrease the value of Linux? image? PR Nightmare?
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
Hurry,Hurry,Hurry,invest more money in Mandrake,to protect,your previous investment.
So they can file bankruptcy,or just dissapear into the woodwork.
The link in the parent wasn't too clear on what MandrakeMove actually was, so here is a different link about it that describes what it is a little better (the original link is to the download page).
I was in the park the other day wondering why frisbees get bigger and bigger the closer they get - and then it hit me.
*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 have been trying to download Mandrake 10.0 for everyone, and it keeps dying at 98%. Yeah I could join the club, but it would cost three weeks of gas just to get the basic package. I am glad that they are making money because thats really what linux is about.
Jeoin
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I like the flashy presentation, the "ooh look over here!" aspect, and how they seamlessly tied the financial forecasts in with the real data, but I'm not sure I would take that analysis as a reason to invest. Most of it consisted of "Mandrake is losing less money than Novell, that's gotta count for something". That and the strong growth forecasted, while their debt ratio continues to climb.
Consider that the employees work for free, how could a business NOT generate HUGE profits? Oh, right, when you give your product AWAY !!! (Sam Kenison style)
So is Mandrake making more money now? Damn, now I'll have to hate them irrationally like RedHat. Gotta fit in here... :p
or just forgotten?
about MandrakeMove is the fact that it can automatically store your personal data on a USB keychain. Not that SuSE Live, Knoppix, etc. cannot, but MdkMove makes it so damned easy to make a *truly* portable personal desktop system.
Kudos, Mandrake, for another great product.
bash: rtfm: command not found
I hope they are showing a profit!
I joined their mandrake club to download the iso's and give them a little support. They charged my credit card $6600.00 for a standard membership. They did not answer their phones. I had to dispute the charges through my credit card company. In their defense they did reverse the charges a few days later. But boy was I worried for a few days!
Mandrake _was_ based on Redhat many many moons ago.
It's been an independant development for several years.
Please send all UCE to scally@devolution.com so I can f
It's called marketing. Pretty standard practice really. Honestly, if you're looking for advice for investment, it's generally not a good idea to look at the company's own financial analysis presentation.
HAHA i Download your 10.0 Linux For Free! stick it to the man!!!
Maybe if they improved their website they could actually make some money?
/.ed) but you have to click the button that
I could not find answers to simple questions with a reasonable amount of effort.
Q) What is Mandrake move vs. mandrake 10? I actually had to come back to slashdot to find a link with the answer to this one. It is a
standalone live CD-ROM version of linux.
Q) How much does it cost? I actually had to click on the order link, fill in my state and country,
and sort through a bunch of irrelevent products and I still didn't get an answer. I know how much it costs with a keychain USB flash memory ($70-$330) but I don't know how much it is by itself. Price needs to be listed before you hit the shopping cart.
Q) Free downloads? Well, if you click on downloads it looks like you could probably
download it for free (if the ftp server wasn't
says something to the effect of "I am already a member of the mandrake club or I plan to join real soon now". So you either need to join the club (about $70/year) or promise to join the club before you can download. I don't have the slightest intention of joining their club unless I find the software useful and shouldn't be required to state otherwise. Plus it reminds me of those sleazy subscription cards for magazines: "Yes! I want to subscibe to the worlds greatest basketweaving magazine! Send me one year (12 exciting issues) of basketweaving today for just $17.97. I'll save 62% plus I'll receive the basketweaving 101 book FREE!"
Way to go you gpl hippies. I'll bet you hate Mandrake, er, uh, I mean da Man er, da Mandrake for bein all corporate and shnizzle.
What's negative equity? How do you end up with that? I thought equity was always positive??
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If you find this post offensive, don't read it! THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING! I am what I am because of how apes behave.
For the record, I never had a problem downloading Mandrake ISOs pre bittorrent. And no more than usual downloading individual files for the full CD. And no problems using BitTorrnet. And there's nowhere near 50% of windows users paying for Mandrake. And the urpmi update sources are awesome, with a little help from the PLF.
You can always download JUST the new kernel from any mirror. You are full of crap. Maybe you only have enough disk space for 98% of the ISO??
I am very impressed with Mandrake 10 Official. I will not engage in the my distro is better than yours game. Use whatever you want. No distribution is perfect. Do realize that your judgment might be clouded by which distribution you learned linux on.
:)
All I have to say is that Mandrake makes a very secure server and a very easy to use desktop and they do so with a GNU smile on their face.
I will make however a few historical comments:
*Have you tried rpmdrake and used it to create Raid Arrays or LVM volumes? Look up how many years they have had such a tool and compare it to other distributions.
*Research which distro first used CUPs and made it easy to use multi-function devices in Linux?
*Research which distribution has a zeroconf/Rendevous in it for a while
*Have you tried their server wizards, which they have had for years?
*Research urpmi when you get a chance. It is a good as Debian's apt, which is the installer by which all other ought to be measured. And even though apt-for-rpm is now available, it isn't as good as either of the above, not to mention that these have yet to be formally embraced in an officially shipping product by either Novell or Red Hat.
If you can afford to send Mandrake a few bucks, do so.We need more companies like Mandrake around. If anything, it will keep both Red Hat and Suse honest.
Ps: Oh.oh.. That Stallmanite reference will drive all of the anti-RMS cloud out of the closet
Pragmatism as an ideology is not particularly pragmatic in the long term. Keep it in mind when you dismiss Free Software
Should be changed to Persondrake to be politically correct.
Granted, my test is disk-related... I use both Knoppix and MM to run badblocks on drives before I install their final OS. But, on the same hardware, Mandrake Move will run 'badblocks -svw /dev/hda' to completion (4 write/read passes with different patterns) in less time than the first pass in Knoppix 3.3 or 3.4. That's a significant time savings when you're checking 8 250GB drives for a RAID array!