Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

[Posted September 12, 2003 by corbet]

MandrakeSoft has put up a page describing a new set of advertising options to be made available in the Mandrake Linux 9.2 release. You, too, can see your logo on a Mandrake screen saver, install screen, or default web page. It is an interesting approach, and, if it helps MandrakeSoft gain and keep its financial footing, it could even be a good thing. For additional clarification see this page.

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MS or SCO

Posted Sep 12, 2003 18:12 UTC (Fri) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

I can just see Microsoft or SCO putting in an ad. Sure, Mandrake would very likely reject it, but it's still a funny thought. ~,^ And then, I *have* seen MS ads in several very-much Linux oriented publications...

Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

Posted Sep 12, 2003 18:47 UTC (Fri) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

Adware sucks! I can't see how they could stoop any lower in order to stay in business.

Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

Posted Sep 12, 2003 19:26 UTC (Fri) by pglennon (guest, #649) [Link]

How is it adware? it sounds like it's easily replaceable, which is nothing like adware. Redhat's browsers default to redhat sites or information, so the only difference is it points somewhere else.

It's only adware if you can't shut it off...

Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

Posted Sep 12, 2003 19:58 UTC (Fri) by csigler (subscriber, #1224) [Link]

I dunno, have you used the "free" (as in monetarily) version of Opera? It works well and I don't even notice the "ad" part of the "adware" myself. But maybe that's just me....

<mini-rant>
BTW, as much as I love Mozilla, I'm tired of it crashing on some gosh awful constructed-exclusively-for-IE web page and taking down a half hour's worth of "search research." I mainly use Moz, but I've only had Opera crash on me *once*. And when it came back up it took over right where it left off. Do I simply not know how to get Moz to do that, or does Moz just plain not do it?
</mini-rant>

Clemmitt

Mozilla

Posted Sep 12, 2003 20:49 UTC (Fri) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link]

Slightly off-topic, but anyway, you've obviously been very unlucky. I am using Mozilla 1.4 and it has virtually never crashed on me. I can't remember the last time. The only (few) sites I can't view are those that explicitly detect and block real browsers - one of my pet hates. FWIW, Marks & Spencer is the most idiotic offender: they allow Netscape 6.1+ but block Mozilla, evidently because they don't know it exists.

Anyway, Konqueror crashes lots on me, but Mozilla never does. Unfortunately, if it does crash, I don't think there's a pick-up where you left off feature....

Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

Posted Sep 13, 2003 9:16 UTC (Sat) by jeroen (subscriber, #12372) [Link]

I'm using galeon 1.2 which uses gecko to render pages. I think it crashed only 3 or 4 times as long as I used it. It has this pick-up-where-you-were function.

Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

Posted Sep 13, 2003 14:39 UTC (Sat) by zonker (subscriber, #7867) [Link]

I can't see how they could stoop any lower in order to stay in business.

Obviously, you haven't been following the news. Ever heard of SCO?

Go see what Mandrake is doing. It's not intrusive, it's not "stooping." It's finding a way to continue to provide a damn fine distro. The sad thing is that the folks at Mandrake have to look for this kind of revenue because there are a lot of users who just download the distro and don't support them in any way -- not with money, nor code.

Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

Posted Sep 18, 2003 20:53 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

SCO? Bah. Ever heard of Verisign?

(fresh from a day of BIND recompilation and staring at mail logs to be sure the thing's actually working right after bad reports on the bind9-users list... still seething...)

Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

Posted Sep 12, 2003 20:45 UTC (Fri) by Algol (guest, #2681) [Link]

Some clarifications

http://www1.mandrakelinux.com/en/mdkads.php3

Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

Posted Sep 13, 2003 23:43 UTC (Sat) by thomas (guest, #2718) [Link]

A good way to make some money and stay in business as long as it can be turned
off, and in Linux you usually can.
Tom

Update and minor correction

Posted Sep 14, 2003 14:33 UTC (Sun) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

They've specifically stated that there will be no ads in the screensaver.

The "ads", save for one in the install sequence, consist of as-shipped bookmarks
(easily removabe), and possibly a default home page (easily changed). They will be
theme appropriate for open source Linux. In fact, there was one sponsored
bookmark in 9.1, which I imagine quite a number of Linux folks actually appreciate,
a link to O'Reilly's reference book site. They say they received no complaints on
that, and as I said, promise new ones will be likewise appropriate.

(Typing this on Mandrake 9.2 Cooker, as updated from the mirrors yesterday.)

Also note that the installer already shows ads...

Posted Sep 16, 2003 10:39 UTC (Tue) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

...but nobody even noticed, because they're ads for Mandrake themselves.