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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!"

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  1. 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 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.