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Mandrakesoft: 10.1 Official, Good Financial News
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!"
OMGZ, frist post@!11oneone
It is official -- CNN confirms: Arafat is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Palestinian community when IDC confirmed that Arafat platelet count has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of normal count. Coming on the heels of a recent CNN survey which plainly states that Arafat has lost more brain cells, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Arafat is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Fatakh comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a doctor to predict Arafat's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Arafat faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Arafat because Arafat is dying. Things are looking very bad for Arafat. As many of us are already aware, Arafat continues to lose his breath. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeArafat is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeArafat developers Ahmed Yassin and Muhamad Barguti only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeArafat is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenArafat leader Qorei states that there are 7000 users of OpenArafat. How many users of NetArafat are there? Let's see. The number of OpenArafat versus NetArafat posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetArafat users. Arafat/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetArafat posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Arafat/OS. A recent article put FreeArafat at about 80 percent of the Arafat market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeArafat users. This is consistent with the number of FreeArafat Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the West Bank, abysmal sales and so on, FreeArafat went out of business and was taken over by ArafatI who sell another troubled regime. Now ArafatI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Arafat has steadily declined in market share. Arafat is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Arafat is to survive at all it will be among carcass dilettante dabblers. Arafat continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Arafat is dead.
Fact: Arafat is dying
PS: First post!!!1
That's the best news I've heard about Mandrake in a long time. Congrats to them!
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.
It would be nice to have Mandrake for Sparc32 at a version higher then 7.0. Especially since they are up to 10.1 :|
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
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?
Sig!
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."