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MandrakeSoft Product Lifetime Schedule Announced

By Staff Staff | Feb 09, 2003 at 12:10 AM

With the forthcoming release of Mandrake Linux 9.1, we are forced to consider the product lifetime of existing products. Because every update released by MandrakeSoft involves extensive testing and QA, we feel that we are better able to provide support for, and deliver timely support of, our products by discontinuing support for “legacy” distributions.

Linux upsets UNIX home

By Staff Staff | Feb 08, 2003 at 9:58 PM

Linux clusters born in the world of academia are sprouting legs and appear ready to march right into the enterprise, despite the growing pains facing the emerging technology.

SuSE Linux 8.1 Takes Our Challenge

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 07, 2003 at 4:18 PM

SuSE Linux 8.0 earned positive marks from us last summer for its strong feature set and low occurrence of bugs; will SuSE Linux 8.1 be able to keep up with its older sibling and win the Penguin Shootout? Find out all of that and more below.

Desktop Linux Event Continues to Lose Support

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 30, 2003 at 2:41 PM

Lycoris, the producers of the popular Desktop/LX GNU/Linux distribution announced today that they were withdrawing from the first annual Desktop Linux Summit, of which they were scheduled to take part. The move echoes those made by Hewlett-Packard and DesktopLinux.com earlier this month.

UPDATE (2003/01/30 16:25 EST): LinuxToday has published an open letter to Lindows.com from the Linux Show. A link has been added below.

Free seminar 1/28: The Role of Product Marketing in an Open Source World

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 26, 2003 at 2:00 PM

Scott Allen wrote in to let us know about an interesting sounding web cast that he will be presenting on Tuesday. Details follow below.

Knee-Jerk Reactions in A Penguin World

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 25, 2003 at 11:49 PM

In our on-going GNU/Linux review series, we have received much criticism from loyal users of the various distributions we have covered. Timothy R. Butler notes that many of the issued raised by those who commented on the series were cases of knee-jerk reaction and ponders how such reactions impact the community at large and its appearance to outsiders.

Red Hat Slips off a Curve

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 22, 2003 at 6:55 PM

In the third part of our Penguin Shootout series, Timothy R. Butler considers the latest distribution from the best-known name in the sector - Red Hat. With its much hyped and attacked BlueCurve interface and various other improvements, will 8 be the Shadowman's ticket to victory in our challenge? Read on to find out.

Linux Makes Mainstream Moves

By Staff Staff | Jan 20, 2003 at 9:49 PM

Information Week is reporting that GNU/Linux is heading for even more mainstream adoption in 2003. “Linux already is mainstream at Cendant Corp. The real-estate, travel-services, and hospitality holding company has 7,000 hotels, and there's nothing more mission critical than efficiently managing check-ins, departures, payments, and reservations. About 60% of the hotels use a property-management system from Hotel Software Systems Ltd. that runs on a Linux distribution from SCO Group, even though Cendant offers Windows-based property-management software.”

Desktop Dreams in the Wake of MandrakeSoft's Bankruptcy

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 15, 2003 at 11:14 PM
Linux's dreams for the desktop died today with Mandrake's bankruptcy filling. Yes, it was a worthy cause, and we fought hard, but now it is time to admit it -- it is over. No more. Finished. Done. Kaput. GNU/Linux's true place is on the server, and its time for everyone to recognize that. Is everyone with me?

MandrakeSoft Files for Bankruptcy Protection

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 15, 2003 at 12:48 PM
MandrakeSoft, the developer of the popular Mandrake Linux distribution, declared bankruptcy in France today. The filling, which the company says is "similar to the U.S. Chapter 11-Reorganization," is hoped to help the company escape the financial issues that have plagued the company over the past few years.

Editor's Note: Several people have suggested that this article gives the impression that MandrakeSoft has gone out of business. This is definitely not the case. The company is hoping to use these proceedings to escape various debts so that it can continue operations.
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