Mandrakesoft revenues increase [LWN.net]

Mandrakesoft revenues increase

Posted Nov 10, 2004 7:06 UTC (Wed) by stock (subscriber, #5849)
Parent article: Mandrakesoft revenues increase

indeed i just renewed my annual EUR 120,= silverstar mandrakeclub
membership. And what a year it has been. The Torrent downloads from
mandrakelinux.com literally come out of my nose :)
For EUR 120,= thats a bargain. Mandrake 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1
(i586 and AMD64) is what i downloaded here. Not bad.

Why i choose Mandrake ? "Ahh you must be a lame ex-windows clicxor"
No i selected Mandrake because they are one of the few Linux distro
builders out there, who have a consistent and rock-solid development
engine inside their distros. Any source tarball , SRPM or whatever
produces clean binary RPMS, like it has always been this way, and only
seems natural and logical. Having tried several other distros , i know
now that such a rocksolid development engine, never comes naturally.

Mandrake gaining a good income? They have earned it.

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Mandrakesoft revenues increase

Posted Nov 11, 2004 12:43 UTC (Thu) by cyrille.honore (subscriber, #4667) [Link]

You surely received the message from Mandrakesoft announcing the 10.1 version for amd64 will not be available neither for everybody nor for members of MandrakeClub (but only through MandrakeStore). Are you still so enthusiast ?

Mandrakesoft revenues increase

Posted Nov 11, 2004 14:30 UTC (Thu) by stock (subscriber, #5849) [Link]

For now.

Times are rough so it seems. I agree that 10.1 amd64 should be for
download, at least in a stripped down edition. And I also agree that
publishing a boxed only set, without a BETA test period for something
like a 10.1 amd64 Community release is also not a wise decision.
Despite that I ordered this box today, and remember they are not asking
EUR 750,=, a.k.a. RedHat prices, for this, but EUR 119,=. Being a silver
club member gives me 25% off on this.

Recently i installed mandrake 10.1 i586 here on a Compaq Proliant ML370
with SmartArray 5302-128 controller, with a 2.40GHz P4 Xeon
Hyperthreading CPU. Installed and configured the Mandrake apache based
Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.31 (Mandrakelinux/7mdk) DAV/1.0.3
PHP/4.3.8

The machine now runs www.export.nl, a dozen other related websites and
several email services. This thing is rock-solid.

So....