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Gaël Duval on Mandrake, GNU/Linux in 2005

Posted by timothy on from the look-out-it's-manbat dept.

uninet writes "To catch up on what's new since our last full interview, Mandrakesoft co-founder Gaël Duval recently agreed to talk with me about where the company is heading and other interesting IT current events, such as the Linux Core Consortium and Apple's Mac mini. You can read the new interview on OFB.biz."

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  1. Re:FP? by loddington · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most people dont have the distro news turned on by default. You would suprised how much of slashdot you miss using the standard slashdot filters.

    As for Firefox and thunderbird you can get them from mandrakeclub.

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  2. Re:What does Mandrake do that RedHat doesn't? by rmm4pi8 · · Score: 2, Informative

    1) The config tools are better than Redhat's--nice for new users.

    2) Equal support for KDE and Gnome.

    3) [And this is the real winner] the urpmi tools for automated package management. The repositories are newer than debian-stable without being bleeding edge, and for packages not included (rare given the size of the repositories!) you can use it to stuff in rpm's you've found on your own, and still check and download their dependencies manually. Works pretty well flawlessly, and it's this command line program, not the pretty stuff, keeping me on Mandrake.

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