Mandrake News

DCowern writes "Mandrake yesterday released their FY2001-2002 earnings and I'm glad to say it's looking real good for them. They've cut operating costs by 42% and increased revenues by 31%. They're still not quite in the black yet but they're expecting to break even month-to-month beginning in February. The full report is here. In other news, Mandrake announced two new programs yesterday. The first is Multi Network Firewall, which looks like an extremely nice package for running small to medium-sized networks. The second program, and my favorite, is their "OS refugee" offer."

Record breaking bandwidth..

[PFAK]

bankrupts MandrakeSoft after slashdot, a OSDN news site posts a link to MandrakeSoft causing excessive bandwidth usage and financial loss.

OS Refugees....

[tgrotvedt]

After my brief stint recently with a friend's laptop running Win ME (no memory management just like 98), I think I'd prefer the term "asylum seeker".

Cost

[Trusty Penfold]

Who would pay $30 for Linux when you can download Windows XP for free?

Re:OS Refugee Offer

[mrscorpio]

Gentoo, right? ;)

Chris

IN CAPITALIST AMERICA

[Anonymous Coward]

THE OS FORCES YOU TO UPGRADE.

Thankfully not mature

[A non moose cow]

Pulled my Mandrake from my shelf and it started wailing such a shrill scream that I almost passed out. The mature distro surely would have killed me.

</potter>

Just like my 401k

[missing000]

looks better on paper, still looses 6% this year

Re:Cost

[npietraniec]

A better question might be "who would want to run XP for free when you could run linux for 30 bucks?" Not me, but flame away.

Wait, what am I talking about, I run linux for free...

Re:Given up on Mandrake

[reaper20]

Me too, their 8.x series was embarrassing. To quote someone off of IRC:

MDK's QA Process:

Guy #1: "Is this the latest version of the software? I mean the very latest?"

Guy #2: "Yeah, except this one package, it had some bug I think, so we just created the package from CVS and we think it might be fixed there."

Guy #1: "Ok, burn the gold CD!"

Re:IN LIBERAL AUSTRALIA

[ShieldW0lf]

STFU you damned racist. Attitudes like that get us bombed.

A thread in a nutshell

[gleffler]

Me: Mandrake sucks, Debian rules!
/.er: Retort about difficulty of installation
Me: Counter-retort about lack of 'free'ness of $DISTRIBUTION
/.er: Counter-counter-retort still about difficulty of installation
/.er 2: "One distribution to rule them all" comment
/.er 3: "Beowulf Cluster" comment
Troll: "You get what you pay for" comment
/.er 4: "Linux will never be on the desktop" manifesto (at least 100K)
{several replies about why Linux WILL TOO be on the desktop, several replies about why Linux isn't ready, and at least 4 people advocating throwing away X}

Yeah, I can now create threads in my head. Who needs to actually *READ* the threads, you can just make them up yourself!

os/2 warp on floppies?

[Anonymous Coward]

so, if I scan all of my os/2 warp floppies and mail them... uh... 13 ounces of photocopy I can get mandrake 9.0 for $12.50US? Thats only about $3.13US for shipping for me, not including: envelope, photocopy paper, toner, electricity and the gerbils running in the wheel that make the copier squeeeeeek. "9.0 MandrakeLinux Standard Edition" on the mandrake website costs $30US and comes with 3 cds and a book. With my 13 ounces of photocopied os/2 warp disks I can get the mandrake 9.0 one-CD set for only $12.50 - $3.13 shipping ($9.37). A savings of negative $0.63 per cd!

in all seriousness, this is a really cool offer. mandrake is a great distro for people who just want stuff to work ootb so they can see whats up with the whole linux thing. And really, it's way cheaper than a copy of Windows 2000 Professional (not the upgrade, mind you, which requires 98 or 95 - you DID PURCHASE 98 or 95, right?) for just $319 US (wtf?!). Or XP for $199 for the full version. Eww.