Author: JT Smith
Gold Edition now available; Mandrake Linux for IBM eServer xSeries;
Upcoming LinuxWorld Expos in New York & Paris; MandrakeClub Membership
Announcement; Mandrake in the News; Business Case of the Week;
Spotlight on Evolution 1.0; Software Updates; Headlines from
MandrakeForum.”Top Story
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MandrakeSoft celebrates three-year anniversary.
Mandrake Linux was created in 1998 with the goal of making Linux easier
to use for everyone. At that time, Linux was known as a powerful
operating system that required strong technical expertise; MandrakeSoft
saw this as an ideal opportunity to integrate the best graphical
desktop environments and contribute its own graphical configuration
utilities which quickly set the standard in ease-of-use and
functionality.
Thanks to loyal customers and a great community of supporters and
contributors, in only three years MandrakeSoft has dramatically grown
from zero market share to become one of the most widely used Linux
distributions in the world — even gaining market share over
traditional OS vendors. A recent press release shows impressive
statistics from both the US and Europe:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/business/1509
A special thanks to everyone who supported us in these first three
years; we plan on having many more happy and interesting times in the
future!
Product News
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Mandrake Linux 8.1 ProSuite Gold Edition is now available.
MandrakeSoft’s newest product is designed to satisfy the requirements
of even the most demanding enterprises.
The 8.1 ProSuite Gold Edition features 13 CDs including:
* Two Installation CDs with the latest security updates
* Two Installation CDs for Intel’s Itanium Processor IA64
* Two special Server CDs
* One DVD
* Two comprehensive manuals
* Subscription for two Update CDs containing security and update fixes.
* Extended Server Support which covers installation and configuration
of the operating system and key services (Apache, Postfix, Samba, FTP
and SSH) for one complete year.
Anyone requiring fast and reliable servers will find everything they
need in the Mandrake Linux 8.1 ProSuite Gold Edition. This package is
available only at MandrakeStore for $1900 US, including taxes and
shipping.
http://www.mandrakestore.com/
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MandrakeSoft Ships Linux for IBM eServer xSeries.
MandrakeSoft has successfully tested Mandrake Linux 8.1 on IBM xSeries
servers at IBM’s Solution Partnership Centre in Essone, near Paris.
Mandrake Linux 8.1 currently supports eServer xSeries models x300,
x330, x340, x370, x200 and x220 and the Netfinity 6000R, Netfinity
4500R and Netfinity 5100. Testing is also currently underway on IBM’s
64-bit Itanium based server the eServer x380.
For more information, please see the press release:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/partnerships/1510&lg=en
Upcoming Events
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LinuxWorld Conference & Expo — New York City and Paris.
The LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is a perfect opportunity to
evaluate, learn, network, discover, explore and experience Linux/Open
Source products and services first hand. Conferences will be held in
New York City (Jacob Javits Center) and Paris (CNIT РParis La D̩fense)
from January 29-February 1, 2002; and the Exposition is January 30
through February 1, 2002. MandrakeSoft will be participating in both
events, so please come by and meet us!
Receive a FREE Exhibit Pass to the New York Expo by registering on-line
at www.linuxworldexpo.com before January 14th with the priority code
“LWGEN” (no quotes). The Exhibit Pass is valid Jan. 30 – Feb. 1 and
includes:
* Three days of exhibits
* Keynotes
* Feature Presentation
* Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings
For details, please consult:
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
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Receive a FREE Exhibit Pass to the Paris LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
by registering online at http://www.linuxexpoparis.com.
Jacques LeMarois, CEO of MandrakeSoft, will be conducting a keynote
session at the Paris show. For details, please see
http://www.linuxexpoparis.com.
MandrakeClub
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MandrakeSoft is happy to announce that last week the MandrakeClub
signed up its 1000th member: Mark Button from Wigan, GB. We’re off to a
great start; we look forward to announcing the 10000th member.
If you haven’t yet joined MandrakeClub, now is the perfect opportunity
because Denis Havlik is back from the holidays and he’s ready to get
things rocking!
http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/
Mandrake in the News
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The “Linux is Freedom Endeavor” (L.I.F.E.) rates Mandrake as the best
Linux distribution for new users:
“When stacked up against the rest, Mandrake took the prize hands down.
We found its ease of install (both OS and packages), level of support
and packages to be much more closely geared to new users and home users
than any of the others that we evaluated.”
http://www.freelink.cx/mandrake2.html
Business Case of the Week
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School district uses Mandrake Linux to manage student printers.
Tom Loscheider, an IT consultant for several school districts in
Northern Minnesota, solves print problems and saves taxpayers thousands
of dollars by deploying Mandrake with Webmin and CUPS:
“We put Mandrake 8.0 on an abandoned Pentium 166 box, installed
Netatalk to give the Macintoshes access to Linux printers and SAMBA for
Windows clients, configured the CUPS printing system and we were in
business. It took about an hour and a half from booting the install CD
to printing from the first client. The Mandrake machine, using Webmin
and the CUPS software can be managed over the network with any web
browser. Deleting qued documents, taking a printer offline, etc, are
all done over the network. Easy stuff.”
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=167
For many more examples of Mandrake in the workplace, please see:
http://www.MandrakeBizcases.com
Spotlight on Evolution 1.0
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Great news that should help the progress of Linux in corporate
environments: In early December, Ximian, Inc. announced the
availability of Evolution 1.0. Evolution is an email and personal
information manager that features a calendar, address book, and task
list built under the GNOME desktop environment.
Evolution 1.0 provides:
* Powerful Email Handling:
* Flexible Calendaring and Collaboration
* Integrated Information management
* An additional “Pilot” package that provides built-in synchronization
for keeping data up-to-date with Palm handheld devices.
The following packages, located in Cooker mirrors, work in Mandrake 8.1:
* evolution-1.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
(dependencies: GConf-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm,
gtkhtml-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm, libcapplet1-1.5.11-1mdk.i586.rpm,
libdb3.3-3.3.11-5mdk.i586.rpm, libgal18-0.18.1-1mdk.i586.rpm,
libGConf1-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm, libgtkhtml20-1.0.0-2mdk.i586.rpm)
* evolution-pilot-1.0-2mdk.i586.rpm — optional
(dependency: libgnome-pilot1-0.1.64-3mdk.i586.rpm)
http://www.mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3
Learn more about Evolution (with some nice screenshots):
http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/
Software Updates
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Security-related software updates have been released for:
wu-ftpd — updated package for IA64
apache — updated package for IA64
View the entire list at:
Top Stories from MandrakeForum
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Tom introduces his software “Pick of the Month”:
“Krusader is a no nonsense file manager of the old and veritable Norton
Commander school, complete with archiving support, FTP,
and then some.”
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1530?=en
Getting Rid Of Windows For Linux.
This is the type of story that we love to hear: A user requests
information on how to remove the Windows partition of a dual-boot
system so that the entire disk can be dedicated to Linux.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1526?=en
Read these and other stories at:
http://www.MandrakeForum.com/
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