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Posted by timothy on Sunday March 17, 2002 @02:43AM from the nation-of-i830m-chipsets-awaits dept.

Anthony Boyd writes: "At pclinuxonline.com, they are running an uncomfirmed story that Mandrake 8.2 will be released on March 18th. And of course, SuSE Linux 8.0 is going to be released in mid-April. Features for SuSE appear to include KDE 3.0 and a whole lot of games. Features for Mandrake appear to be a super small install and, well, stability. Sounds great to me."

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Re:My feelings about MandrakeSoft (Score:-1, Funny)

by Commienst ( 102745 ) writes: on Sunday March 17, 2002 @03:06AM (#3176122) Homepage

Never before have so many words meant so little.

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Re:How about PPC? (Score:1, Funny)

by YourMissionForToday ( 556292 ) writes: <yourmissionfortodayNO@SPAMYAHOO.com> on Sunday March 17, 2002 @03:50AM (#3176173) Homepage Journal

I can confirm there is a UNIX-like operating system for your architecture that has no "showstopper bugs," a coherent GUI, and support from major commercial software developers.
Unlike Mandrake and Suse, the vendor who provides this software is in excellent financial health, and its main focus is your architecture. Here's a link to more information [apple.com].

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Re:Fast and Easy... (Score:3, Funny)

by krogoth ( 134320 ) writes: <slashdot.garandnet@net> on Sunday March 17, 2002 @04:47AM (#3176247) Homepage

Wrong. Mandrake making an easier installer won't save Linux (but then that's only because it's not in trouble in the first place). It doesn't need to compete with Microsoft; it only needs to attract enough developers to continue advancing, and I see no sign that Microsoft, or even the 10 biggest commercial distributions disapearing (I doubt anything could destroy Debian, any more than anything could destroy Linux) would prevent that.

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Re:Fast and Easy... (Score:3, Funny)

by extrasolar ( 28341 ) writes: on Sunday March 17, 2002 @05:29AM (#3176292) Homepage Journal

If linux is ever going to survive in its current form, it needs to be a viable competitor with Microsoft.

You almost sound serious about that statement. Mandrake Inc may not survive but they've given power of the software to you and anyone else who uses it by distributing and writing Free Software*. The Operating System is Free. It has no choice but to survive.

* My regards to the former users of BeOS, may he rest in peace

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