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Mandrakesoft: 10.1 Official, Good Financial News

Posted by timothy on from the go-go-go dept.

joestar writes "Lots of good news from the publishers of Mandrakelinux. Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official for x86-64 was released today. Yesterday's financial release announced their best year so far (turnover up 33%). ZDNet UK has an article. The company also recently announced that it had been granted a research grant for mobility R&D. All in all it looks like Mandrakesoft is back on track and doing great. Good luck guys!"

18 comments

  1. Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's the best news I've heard about Mandrake in a long time. Congrats to them!

  2. Its the plush toys by rubee · · Score: 1

    http://store.mandrakesoft.com/product_info.php?pro ducts_id=114&osCsid=c4be63d81209f5c1b11ae41163676d 43 those things are selling like hotcakes. On a more serious note I think its wonderful that I may finally be able to convince the IT dep at my place to ditch redhat enterprise.

    1. Re:Its the plush toys by M1FCJ · · Score: 1

      I was having some discussion with some people on Suse-Oracle mailing list today and Novell/Oracle won't support anything but SuSE SLES 8 and 9, Redhat EL 2 and 3. You can imagine what will your IT dep will say. If there are using RHEL, there might be a valid reason (like Oracle being an asshole).

  3. It would be great by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to have Mandrake for Sparc32 at a version higher then 7.0. Especially since they are up to 10.1 :|

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    1. Re:It would be great by M1FCJ · · Score: 1
      ah... sparc32... FreeBSD support is dead. SuSE support is dead. Redhat Support is dead. Gentoo... Compiling Gentoo on a 2 way SMP (50MHz) machine with 92MB would be madness, last time I tried the boot CD wouldn't. Debian? Works fine but I lost my system twice during an apt upgrade, I have the potato CDs for sparc32, it got in such a mess after an unwanted reboot, I didn't try it again.

      What do I do with my Sparc32? Suse 7. It works fine, the only thing that run are xeyes, xterm, X itself. Rest is done on one of my Linux boxes.

      Lack of support on sparc32 is so annoying.

    2. Re:It would be great by RWerp · · Score: 1

      ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/1.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/RP MS/
      ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/sparc/PLD/RP MS/
      http://www.pld-linux.org/ (web page not working at the moment as they have some problems, but distro is very active).

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  4. Why choose Mandrake? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I've used RedHat and Mandrake before in the past, a few years back now. What does Mandrake have to offer as a distro that others lack, or that they're doing better?

    I've heard many good things of SuSE as of late; Debian is known for being rock solid; Gentoo for up-and-coming zealots (read: documentation).

    The only thing that stuck out to me when I tried Mandrake in the past was that it used RPM. So, what's Mandrake have to offer?

    1. Re:Why choose Mandrake? by Ian_Bailey · · Score: 3, Informative

      From mandrakelinux.com:

      MandrakelinuxTM is a friendly Linux Operating System which specializes in ease-of-use for both servers and the home/office. It is freely available in many languages throughout the world.

      There's more info on their concept page, but they're basic pitch is Linux for Newbies and switchers from Windows/Macs. I'd say they're going after the end-user market like Linspire, but they're also going after business/government businesses that don't want to spend a lot on "retraining" their users for Linux.

    2. Re:Why choose Mandrake? by Pooh22 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think mandrake is not "Linux for Newbies" persee, it's quite easy to install, but it does more than that. Their ideals are in some ways quite debian-like pro-GPL and openness, but rpm based. Their urpmi package installer is the only one that comes close to debian's apt system.

      But while easy to use and install, it's still very suitable for experts, more so than for example Suse, who expect you to use only graphical tools (Yast) to configure stuff.

      The main problem with mandrake is lack of focus and lack of manpower to achieve their ideals more quickly.

    3. Re:Why choose Mandrake? by belmolis · · Score: 1

      I agree. It's a mistake to think of Mandrake as just for newbies. I've used Unix since 1982, GNU/Linux since 1995, and I've been using Mandrake for several years. I've found it easy to install with good hardware detection and configuration and a good selection of software. In lots of little ways, I prefer it to Red Hat.

    4. Re:Why choose Mandrake? by lachlan76 · · Score: 1

      Their urpmi package installer is the only one that comes close to debian's apt system

      Never used apt, but is it really that much better than portage?

  5. Brainwashed by KDE by megaversal · · Score: 3, Funny
    Has anyone else been brainwashed by KDE to the point where I saw:
    Deferred revenues, which mainly consist of Club subscriptions and unfinished support contracts, amounted to 766 KEuros at fiscal year end.
    ...and immediately assumed KDE had started their own currency system?
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    1. Re:Brainwashed by KDE by R.D.Olivaw · · Score: 1

      Nope but I may have once assumed that Gnome released a new memory measurment system

  6. not unless portage sucks by poptones · · Score: 1

    This was posted early in the day and still less than two dozen comments? I think that says a lot about the state of mandrake.

    I used mandrake a very long time. But I got sick of the difficulty in upgrading, the long time delays, the lack of decent support. Mandrake is very easy to install, but I have always found it a pain in the ass to upgrade or even install anything that's not included on the CDs. The urpmi installer is an improvement on rpm, but that ain't saying much since rpm sucks so bad.

    The main thing I always disliked about mandrake was the segregation of distributions. It's a decent enough system, but the community around it seems almost fanatical about the money. The websites are a goddamn confusing mess and just getting a basic question answered requires you to fill out all sorts of crap and then pay them money even to the "volunteer specialists" that list themselves on the site. (The irony is the website is so bad I personally found it not worth the effort even when I had my credit card in hand and was ready to send them 30 bucks for an answer to a support question.)

    Even in the newsgroups anyone who mentions the idea of (ohmygosh!) running "the good version" of mandrake without tithing them draws a barrage of insults. Quite frankly, I find the overall tone of the project way more offensive than even that of some of the more overtly commercial efforts like Lindows (er, "Linspire") and Suse, both of which have much friendlier support communities. (Must be a French thing!)

    I've been using ubuntu now for a while, and I ain't looking back. It's a very nice distribution and the software installer is fantastic. But more importantly, it has some fantastic people in the support community and the project espouses a wonderfully idealistic concept of "free."