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Mandrake Linux PowerPack Edition 9.1 review
Reviews Mandrake 9.1 offers several configuration screens to choose from, including KDE's and GNOME's standard dialogues and another one specific to Mandrake. Mandrake 9.1 runs all of its desktop environments atop XFree86 4.3.0, the most recent version...
[April 22, 2003, 13:56]
Mandrake shines up new software
News Some of the most significant tweaks to Mandrake Linux 9.0 are improvements to the desktop experience. Besides the dominant KDE 3.0.3 and Gnome 2.0.1, Mandrake 9 includes WindowMaker 0.8, Enlightenment 0.16.5 and BlackBox 0.62.
[September 26, 2002, 14:42]
Mandrake Linux desktop goes mobile
News MandrakeSoft has released a version of its Mandrake Linux 9.2 operating system distribution that allows users to boot a personalised desktop from a single CD. Mandrake's product is compatible with most Intel and AMD processors, and requires 128MB...
[December 3, 2003, 11:15]
Mandrake defends user club
News MandrakeSoft has defended its drive to sign up members to the "Mandrake Club", saying that new kinds of software demand new business models. Mandrake Club is aimed at more advanced Linux users who have no need of the CDs and manuals included in the...
[April 5, 2002, 15:32]
Mandrake Linux files for bankruptcy
News MandrakeSoft, the financially strapped creator of the Mandrake version of Linux, said on Wednesday it has filed for the French equivalent of bankruptcy protection from creditors. MandrakeSoft last month issued a plea asking customers to boost the...
[January 16, 2003, 11:42]
Mandrake Linux download policy angers club members
News Days after MandrakeSoft launched a controversial "club" to boost its bottom line, the Linux distributor has angered many in its user community by changing the rules of the Mandrake Club programme. MandrakeSoft finalised version 8.2 of Mandrake...
[March 22, 2002, 13:39]
Mandrake Linux: Join our club
News Mandrake, a French company that sells Linux, is encouraging users to join for-fee clubs to provide enough money to keep the company in business. The Mandrake Linux distribution's short-term future is in jeopardy due to a simple factor: money," the...
[March 12, 2002, 12:10]
Mandrake Linux 9.2 'kills' some CD-ROM drives
News The company said that CD-ROM drives based on hardware from South Korean electronics manufacturer LG become inoperable when used with Mandrake Linux 9.2. MandrakeSoft has released a new Linux kernel, version 2.4.22-21mdk, which fixes the problem...
[October 29, 2003, 13:35]
Mandrake Linux 9.2 'kills' some CD-ROM drives
Talkback This is not an embaressment to Mandrake this is LGs fault and all the egg should be all over their face. Mandrake may have nearly gone bankrupt but is it any wonder when M$ has a monopoly grip on the OS market.
[October 29, 2003, 19:54]
Mandrake Drak tools made easy
News A standard Mandrake install includes drakxtools-newt, which offers a good portion of the underlying code needed to create the dual interface. The Mandrake installer uses this same toolset to offer both a GUI and text-based installer.
[October 17, 2002, 11:49]
Mac hardware gets Mandrake Linux upgrade
News MandrakeSoft has released the second beta-test version of Mandrake Linux 8.2 for the PowerPC platform, the first update of Mandrake for Macintosh hardware since version 8.0 in August 2001. The release on Wednesday follows on from the first beta...
[March 28, 2002, 14:01]
Mandrake delays latest Linux
News Mandrake Linux 8.1 is available as a download, but the first CDs of the product were supposed to ship "by the end of September", the company said. Linux seller MandrakeSoft has had to delay shipment of its newest version of Linux because of...
[October 12, 2001, 11:36]
Mandrake takes UnitedLinux to task
News MandrakeSoft, maker of one of the more popular versions of Linux, says it will not join a new initiative combining several of its competitors' products, on the grounds that the move would damage Mandrake's own offering -- and that its competitors...
[July 3, 2002, 13:50]
Mandrake Linux desktop goes mobile
Talkback Mandrake, it's your turn to bat.whatcha got? As a complete newbie to Linux I've been amazed at the plethora (say what? of distros whether they be source or live. I've got a box of burned iso's that's growing by the day, the latest of which is...
[December 5, 2003, 4:07]
Mandrake Linux 9.2 'kills' some CD-ROM drives
Talkback But Mandrake do get latest stuff out first (e.g.devfs) but sometimes this can be too early a jump from their "Cooker" to a released version (and this is from a Mandrake Club Silver Member). I'll still like Mandrake because they do this but it can...
[October 30, 2003, 11:47]
HP to support Mandrake Linux on the desktop
News The agreement, announced on Tuesday ahead of the LinuxWorld Expo, will see HP build and promote Mandrake Linux-based desktop PCs for European and North American businesses. Mandrake Linux will be certified on all of HP's business PCs, and will be...
[January 30, 2002, 17:04]
Linux maker Mandrake: We need cash
News Linux seller MandrakeSoft issued a plea for cash Friday, encouraging people to buy products, MandrakeClub memberships or company stock. The company, based in Paris but drawing much of its revenue from North America, needs $4m (about £2.6m) to pay...
[December 23, 2002, 8:41]
Mandrakesoft gets a new name
Talkback For the life of me , I cannot understand the merits this dispute, Mandrake the Magician can hardly be confused with Mandrake Linux. One would imagine that it might be Mandrake's image as a magician that could be protected.
[April 11, 2005, 14:54]
Mandrakesoft rocked by executive loss
News Mandrakesoft, which produces the popular Mandrake Linux distribution, confirmed this morning that chief executive Henri Poole and other management officials have left the company. Mandrake's public relations firm would confirm only that there had...
[May 23, 2001, 15:20]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback These comments might hold true for Red Hat Linux, but they are certainly untrue for several other distributions (most notably Mandrake 9.2). Mandrake (among other distributions) seems aimed squarely at the desktop segment, and in my experience they...
[November 5, 2003, 5:40]
