Well... this is only *your* claim. I guess that if you unplug power supply in any power plant, it stops to produce electricity quite quickly. The real question is: is there more energy produced than electricity consumed or not.
Hi - I just wanted to tell you that there is a guy - Jean-Louis Naudin - who performed many cold fusion experiments recently, using different setups, with different kinds of electrods.
It seems that he is successful in getting more power produced than power eaten (around 200%).
You'll like all his experiments (full description, RealPlayer videos and full results are publicly available) at: http://jlnlabs.imars.com/cfr/index.htm
If there are real physicists here, please comment his results, it can be interesting.
Jean-Louis is also the guy who successfully replicated the Lifter (electrostatic propulsion).
Besides its installer, there are two things that, in my opinion, make Mandrake a great distro compared to Red Hat:
1) its calpability to install/uninstall software easily with the urpmi tools, from multiple sources - for instance, just type (or use the rpmdrake app): urpmi the_app_I_need and urpmi will automatically search for the other packages needed for this app (dependencies) and install them if you accept. The power of this tool is that if you added a FTP source (or multiple FTP sources) in addition to your DVD source for insta,ce, it will look for the missing libs/missing apps in all these sources. This is very convenient.
2) the Mandrake Club applications sources (60,000 packages!) which can be added to the URPMI sources. It provides many many many apps, including most common commercial software (FlashPlayer...). Just select an app in the list (or use the search utility), click on install and it downloads and installs the app. This is powerful actually.
Additionnally, using the "PLF" (plf.zarb.org) source of apps (unofficial) just provides direct download and install access to all codecs needed to play all videos formats (AVI, MOV...) under Xine and other video-players for instance... Maybe not very legal, but convenient for the least.
InfoWorld recently compared Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, and Turbolinux for a use inside a corporate environment. The result was that the 4 all products were excellent, but the Mandrake Prosuite 9.1 ranked first with the best overall note. Additionnally the ProSuite is by far the less expensive product (around $200). You'll find this 3-page article at InfoWorld. And the Mandrake 9.1 ProSuite is available for purchase directly from MandrakeSoft at MandrakeStore (Mandrake Club Members usually get rebates on most Mandrake products).
> Even Mandrake doesn't have an install base that compares.
Everything but the truth!!! SuSE has a very small installed base indeed for a simple reason: their product is proprietary-locked. So it's installed only in corporate environments, while you see RH, Mandrake and Debian everywhere.
Just have a look at http://www.linuxcounter.org or http://www.distrowatch.com to learn about Suse real installed base.
For your information, the Yopy machines are distributed in Europe by "TuXMedia" which I can really recommend, smart and efficient people. They also do Linux development/hack for the Yopy. Here is the URL: http://www.tuxmedia.com/ .
Despite the fact that Linux is apparently not ready yet for "mum" (certainly because of a lack of third-party applications), it really seems there is a growing momentum for Linux on the desktop in the field of corporate environements. My guess is that StarOffice/OpenOffice.org are responsible for that, and also that Mandrake 9.1, with its great desktop environment, offers most things that corporations need for their daily tasks. This includes OpenOffice.org and Mozilla for instance.
You might be interested in knowing that Mandrake is not Linux on the desktop. It's "Linux simplified". They release server products, now clustering solutions, security appliances, with the goal to make these tools easy to setup, easy to administer. This is not only on the desktop, it's also on the command line (did you try urpmi for instance?). As a result, Mandrake's project is really accurate in my opinion.
If you look at the big repository of "Mandrake business cases", you can see that the typical use of Mandrake is *not* on the desktop.
> Why dont you post the article here so we can actually read it.
It wouldn't be very smart because Linux Weekly News is a excellent website which was near death one year ago, and they need your financial contribution.
Linux Weekly News just released (today) an interesting interview with Gaël Duval, the creator of Mandrake Linux. He covers topics such as the Mandrake Club business model, Linux on the desktop and the SCO lawsuit, and others. It's on: http://lwn.net/Articles/38405/
I though that "popular" meant a lot of people are using it. And I don't know *anyone* (including family, real friends, and hundred linux friends over the net) using Ximiam tools. (sorry, it's just that I have a big Karma, so I thought it was an amusing idea to have it decreased a bit by saying something true:-) )
Your comment makes me think nobody should trust any statement in comments unless checking the information!
The Galileo project has been really launched now. It's a project funded by different partners (*including* ESA) : European Commision, ESA, European Investment Bank and other smaller partners to come. The goal of Galileo is double : 1) get rid of our current dependency towards the american military GPS system for strategic reasons and because there are reliability issues with the GPS (in particular for civil planes) 2) offer a better system (better precision in localization), primarily for civil usage (but not only) and make money from that.
Galileo's price is 3.2 billions Euros which is roughly the price for building 150 kilometers of semi-urban motorway.
Remember: one of the CUPS main developpers is employed by MandrakeSoft and Mandrake Linux has been the first Linux distribution to provide CUPS by default. That could explain the good CUPS support in Mandrake 9.1.
> KDE is probably the worst wm/de to use in Mandrake...
This is only your opinion, and I don't share it at all.
I've been running Mandrake 9.1 under KDE for weeks and I really *enjoy* it very much. It's beautiful, clean, fast, efficient - and for the first time since I started to use Linux in 1994, I was surprised to see myself not having a xterm/konsole opened all the time on my desktop! I'm using the kde file manager for many things, I'm clicking in menues to launch my apps and look at the process activities and... it's just great.
If you like KDE, try Mandrake 9.1, you'll like it.
The Mandrake Download Edition provides only Free Software applications, and all Mandrakesoft developments are released under the GPL. Anyway, buyers of Mandrake packs and club subscribers can access many non-Free Software applications such as Opera for instance.
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Do you know how electricity is produced from a thermal or nuclear powerplant? heat->vapor->electricity (through a turbine).
Well... this is only *your* claim. I guess that if you unplug power supply in any power plant, it stops to produce electricity quite quickly. The real question is: is there more energy produced than electricity consumed or not.
Hi - I just wanted to tell you that there is a guy - Jean-Louis Naudin - who performed many cold fusion experiments recently, using different setups, with different kinds of electrods.
It seems that he is successful in getting more power produced than power eaten (around 200%).
You'll like all his experiments (full description, RealPlayer videos and full results are publicly available) at:
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/cfr/index.htm
If there are real physicists here, please comment his results, it can be interesting.
Jean-Louis is also the guy who successfully replicated the Lifter (electrostatic propulsion).
When piracy will be impossible under Windows, guess which OS will replace it?
Besides its installer, there are two things that, in my opinion, make Mandrake a great distro compared to Red Hat:
1) its calpability to install/uninstall software easily with the urpmi tools, from multiple sources - for instance, just type (or use the rpmdrake app): urpmi the_app_I_need and urpmi will automatically search for the other packages needed for this app (dependencies) and install them if you accept. The power of this tool is that if you added a FTP source (or multiple FTP sources) in addition to your DVD source for insta,ce, it will look for the missing libs/missing apps in all these sources. This is very convenient.
2) the Mandrake Club applications sources (60,000 packages!) which can be added to the URPMI sources. It provides many many many apps, including most common commercial software (FlashPlayer...). Just select an app in the list (or use the search utility), click on install and it downloads and installs the app. This is powerful actually.
Additionnally, using the "PLF" (plf.zarb.org) source of apps (unofficial) just provides direct download and install access to all codecs needed to play all videos formats (AVI, MOV...) under Xine and other video-players for instance... Maybe not very legal, but convenient for the least.
InfoWorld recently compared Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, and Turbolinux for a use inside a corporate environment. The result was that the 4 all products were excellent, but the Mandrake Prosuite 9.1 ranked first with the best overall note. Additionnally the ProSuite is by far the less expensive product (around $200). You'll find this 3-page article at InfoWorld. And the Mandrake 9.1 ProSuite is available for purchase directly from MandrakeSoft at MandrakeStore (Mandrake Club Members usually get rebates on most Mandrake products).
Maybe you should try Mandrake 9.1.
> Does anyone actually run SuSE Linux outside of Europe?
You can say outside of "Germany". Suse is really a German thing that tries to expand to territories MandrakeSoft catched the latest 5 years.
> Even Mandrake doesn't have an install base that compares.
Everything but the truth!!! SuSE has a very small installed base indeed for a simple reason: their product is proprietary-locked. So it's installed only in corporate environments, while you see RH, Mandrake and Debian everywhere.
Just have a look at http://www.linuxcounter.org or http://www.distrowatch.com to learn about Suse real installed base.
And please stop to spread false informations.
> You also have apparently not used SuSE much, nor
> read all the articles about how popular it really > is. It's the Red Hat of Europe,
Really? well... we don't live in the same Europe because SuSE is nothing in the UK, nothing in France, nothing in Spain. While Mandrake is.
Sorry but Europe is not only Germany.
have been in Cooker (RC?) for a while.
For your information, the Yopy machines are distributed in Europe by "TuXMedia" which I can really recommend, smart and efficient people. They also do Linux development/hack for the Yopy. Here is the URL: http://www.tuxmedia.com/ .
It seems that these products are mostly targetted to small & medium businesses, so it's likely that most units will be sold by value-added resellers.
Despite the fact that Linux is apparently not ready yet for "mum" (certainly because of a lack of third-party applications), it really seems there is a growing momentum for Linux on the desktop in the field of corporate environements. My guess is that StarOffice/OpenOffice.org are responsible for that, and also that Mandrake 9.1, with its great desktop environment, offers most things that corporations need for their daily tasks. This includes OpenOffice.org and Mozilla for instance.
You might be interested in knowing that Mandrake is not Linux on the desktop. It's "Linux simplified". They release server products, now clustering solutions, security appliances, with the goal to make these tools easy to setup, easy to administer. This is not only on the desktop, it's also on the command line (did you try urpmi for instance?). As a result, Mandrake's project is really accurate in my opinion.
If you look at the big repository of "Mandrake business cases", you can see that the typical use of Mandrake is *not* on the desktop.
> You bought shares in a company that tries to sell something you can get for free?
:-}
Evian, Vittel and Perrier are doing quite well actually. Thank you for your great comment
> Why dont you post the article here so we can actually read it.
It wouldn't be very smart because Linux Weekly News is a excellent website which was near death one year ago, and they need your financial contribution.
The figures are available at MandrakeClub.com:e rs_List
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Memb
The page states: "We have 15883 registered users so far."
Linux Weekly News just released (today) an interesting interview with Gaël Duval, the creator of Mandrake Linux. He covers topics such as the Mandrake Club business model, Linux on the desktop and the SCO lawsuit, and others. It's on: http://lwn.net/Articles/38405/
I though that "popular" meant a lot of people are using it. And I don't know *anyone* (including family, real friends, and hundred linux friends over the net) using Ximiam tools. (sorry, it's just that I have a big Karma, so I thought it was an amusing idea to have it decreased a bit by saying something true :-) )
Your comment makes me think nobody should trust any statement in comments unless checking the information!
l ileo/index.htm
The Galileo project has been really launched now. It's a project funded by different partners (*including* ESA) : European Commision, ESA, European Investment Bank and other smaller partners to come. The goal of Galileo is double : 1) get rid of our current dependency towards the american military GPS system for strategic reasons and because there are reliability issues with the GPS (in particular for civil planes) 2) offer a better system (better precision in localization), primarily for civil usage (but not only) and make money from that.
Galileo's price is 3.2 billions Euros which is roughly the price for building 150 kilometers of semi-urban motorway.
All these informations were taken from the official Galileo website at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/ga
Remember: one of the CUPS main developpers is employed by MandrakeSoft and Mandrake Linux has been the first Linux distribution to provide CUPS by default. That could explain the good CUPS support in Mandrake 9.1.
> KDE is probably the worst wm/de to use in Mandrake...
This is only your opinion, and I don't share it at all.
I've been running Mandrake 9.1 under KDE for weeks and I really *enjoy* it very much. It's beautiful, clean, fast, efficient - and for the first time since I started to use Linux in 1994, I was surprised to see myself not having a xterm/konsole opened all the time on my desktop! I'm using the kde file manager for many things, I'm clicking in menues to launch my apps and look at the process activities and... it's just great.
If you like KDE, try Mandrake 9.1, you'll like it.
> oh, how I love apt-get
Under Mandrake, urpmi is you friend.
The Mandrake Download Edition provides only Free Software applications, and all Mandrakesoft developments are released under the GPL. Anyway, buyers of Mandrake packs and club subscribers can access many non-Free Software applications such as Opera for instance.