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Mandrakelinux Releases New Corporate Line

Posted by timothy on from the more-than-hanging-on dept.

joestar writes "Mandrakelinux' line of products has just been updated with two new products which are dedicated to the corporate world: Mandrakelinux Corporate Server and Mandrakelinux Corporate Desktop for x86 and x86-64 architectures. According to Mandrakesoft, these products focus on reliability and security, and will be maintained for five years. In my opinion, this release really says much about new Mandrakesoft's strategy and business. Press release here."

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  1. Re:more mandrake by SunFan · · Score: 3, Insightful


    As long as you are happy with MySQL/PostgreSQL, Apache, and PHP/Perl/Python/Tomcat, for example, Gentoo and Debian are very good, but these "corporate" distros are for capturing Oracle customers, BEA customers, etc.

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    -- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
  2. Too many Mandrakes. by LazyBoy · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I've been a Mandrake user for several years, but they're getting too tricky for my taste. How many Mandrake lines are there now, some of which differ in download and purchase form?

    Today I discovered that my 3-CD 10.1 Official didn't have flex, bison, or rsh-server packages. They're on the 4th CD, which you can't download for free.

    Yes, there were many ways to solve this problem. But I consider these standard elements that should be on the CDs. My next upgrade will probably be to a different distro.

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    If Chaos Theory has taught us anything, it's that we must kill all the butterflies.

    1. Re:Too many Mandrakes. by dchamp · · Score: 4, Informative

      Everything on CD4 should be on the "urpmi" sources. Just add your sources from http://www.urpmi.org and install away.
      This is like someone saying they don't like Debian because there's not XYZ package on the CD. But there's tons of stuff available via apt.