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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!"
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.
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.
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