Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris Archive

After the installation and configuration articles, Tips4Free offers a full review of Mandrake 10.

DistroWatch reports on a quick note to say that the recently released Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community is now available for free download from the official Mandrake mirrors.

Mandrake Community 10.0 was released today. The public ISOs aren't available for download yet, but club members can download it, or you can pre-order the DVD.

The idea behind Mandrake Move is simple, you have a bootable CD with Mandrake Move on and a USB flash drive to store your data then you can use any PC at your disposal to do your work. Its a nice idea but as I found out it doesn't always work how you expected. Read More.

"At the time of this writing, Lycoris Desktop/LX is my primary operating system. As you’ll immediately discover, I’m quite fond of Desktop/LX and the manner in which Lycoris operates as well as continually proving their commitment to their users. After being a Linux user since 1994 and a Unix Administrator from 1993 to 1998, I’ve found a complete platform that anyone can use with ease and freedom." Read the review at DesktopOS.

Lycoris Desktop/LX Update 3, released last September, is a Linux distro aimed primarily at home user desktops. Lycoris has been widely heralded for its user-friendliness. If newbies can handle some manual configuration, they may be happy with it, but it won't satisfy more experienced users, says Linux.com.

The Torrent files are out now for Mandrake Linux 10 RC1, while MandrakeSoft announced that they are reverting back to XFree86 4.3 because of the recent licensing change for XFree86 4.4.

Cooker is a test distro and Mandrake has come up with the idea of using testzilla to formalize hardware testing. What it does is register your hardware configuration with mandrake's bugzilla. Read the full review of Mandrake Linux 10b2 at GUILinux.

One contributing factor to Mandrake's minimal presence in the enterprise is its unusual business model. After legions of Linux salespeople have educated corporate buyers into the open-source methodology -- buying low-cost software, but expecting to pay for services -- Mandrake persists in taking the opposite approach. Read the article at Enterprise-Linux-IT.

Mandrake has applied to come out of the French equivalent of bankruptcy protection: 'declaration de cessation des paiements'. Some of the new features of Mandrake 10 that MandrakeSoft will be pinning their hopes on to make succeeding quarters more profitable. "There will be many new features in Mandrake 10.0, but it's a bit early to say more. There will be new improvements on the ergonomy side, the integration of a groupware solution, and of course the inclusion of Linux 2.6.x kernel as default which provides better performance."

MandrakeSoft today announced a major evolution in the way that future Mandrake Linux distributions will be engineered and released. The purpose of this new development process is to provide the highest level of new features, as well as maximizing the quality of new products. This new release road map will be effective for the upcoming Mandrake Linux 10.0. Read the rest at mandrakelinux.com.

LinuxDevices.com reports that Lycoris is going to release a version of its desktop Linux operating system (OS) designed specifically for handheld devices in Q2, 2004. The OS, dubbed Desktop/LX Pocket PC Edition (DL-PPC), which will initially support ARM-based PDAs such as the Sharp Zaurus and HP iPaq.

During an inteview with NewsForge at LinuxWorld, MandrakeSoft CEO Francois Bancilhon said the company is releasing financial results today that show a profit. "Now, he said, "we can move to the next step, which is to grow it." In the meantime, Mandrake Linux 10-beta1 was released today.

I want to start off by saying that MandrakeMove is an incredible distribution and I am going to focus on some rather particular points in this review. My hope is to make the community aware of some of the outstanding issues with running MandrakeMove and not to discredit the countless hours Mandrake employees spent on making such a polished product. We all want Linux to succeed and that can only be accomplished by continuing to test, report and ask why or why not? The lifecycle of linux is like an organism, it has to keep breathing to stay alive.