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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 05:11:46 -0700
From: Caroline Carmagnol <caroline@alizepr.com>
To: caroline@alizepr.com
Subject: Linux-Mandrake PowerPack 6.1 Available

Daniel Morales           Caroline Carmagnol
MandrakeSoft           Alizé Public Relations
626.797.7337           650.323.1607
daniel@mandrakesoft.com        caroline@alizepr.com

MandrakeSoft Announces Immediate Availability of Linux-Mandrake 6.1
PowerPack


 Pasadena, California -- October 8, 1999 -- MandrakeSoft™
(www.linux-mandrake.com), the publisher of the powerful and
user-friendly Linux-Mandrake™ operating system, today announced
Linux-Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack, the latest release of its award-winning
solution, for immediate availability and purchase.  Version 6.1 has been
available online since the beginning of September for testing and
review.  Version 6.1 PowerPack offers many new enhancements and results
in making Linux distribution easier to use, faster, and better.

“We are the first Linux vendor to integrate the latest versions of XFree
and KDE for additional language support and a more intuitive graphical
interface environment, and we will continue to increase our competitive
edge as we aggressively expand with innovative and broader
integration,”  said Daniel Morales, CEO, MandrakeSoft.  “Linux-Mandrake
PowerPack 6.1 offers unprecedented level of performance, ease of use to
his users while maintaining the flexibility of the Linux-Mandrake system
for users interested in more configuration.”

Linux-Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack Major Benefits
? Easy-to-install Linux system and user-friendly Linux environment while
maintaining flexibility of installation and configuration to address
both the needs of novices and experts
? Support of many KDE and Gnome applications.
? Robust architecture and fast Linux server with many features for
Internet servers
? Very attractive distribution in a well known Linux environment (Red
Hat Linux)

Linux-Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack feature Enhancements and Add-Ons
? Update of most packages to their latest stable version
? Integration of:
? KDE Latest version (1.1.2) with MandrakeSoft customization
? XFree latest version (3.3.5) with support for new encodings (Armenian,
Ukrainian Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Georgian...)
? Mandrake customized Apache 1.3.9
? MySQL 3.20 (GPL) and 3.22
? Many additional KDE and Gnome applications including fdevelop, klilo,
xmms…
? Enlightenment 0.16 development version 5 with Window grouping, full
pager support, and preliminary KDE compliance.
? XFCE 3.0.2 is part of the distribution
? Optimization of X-TT/Free Type server
? More complete and improved internationalization (Japanese TT fonts,
more man-pages, more ispell dictionaries…
? Easier access to Dos/Windows ™ partitions
? Enhanced documentation
? All current bug/security fixed

Pricing and Availability
Linux-Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack is immediately available at $55 via mail
order and through local resellers.  All MandrakeSoft products are
completely open source.  The boxed PowerPack version includes six CDRoms
with user manuals and supports many commercial applications.

About Linux-Mandrake
Linux-Mandrake is an easy-to-use Linux operating system that is
appropriate for home or office use.  Linux-Mandrake secured two awards
at LinuxWorld Expo in August 99 for Best Product of the Year and Best
Linux Distribution/Server, and was a finalist for the Linux
Distribution/Client Award.  PC Data ranked Linux-Mandrake first Linux
sales in July with twice the amount of sales of Red Hat.

About MandrakeSoft
Founded on the Internet in 1998, MandrakeSoft publishes the
user-friendly and popular open-source Linux Mandrake operating system is
a very attractive Linux distribution that is compatible with the Red Hat
Linux Distribution.  MandrakeSoft is headquartered in both France and
the US, with offices in Germany.  Through its strategic partnership with
MacMillan, Linux-Mandrake maintains thousands of contributors around the
world.  MandrakeSoft is the originator of several other innovative Open
Source cooperative projects that focus on ease-of-use, including Lothar,
an automatic hardware configuration, which allows users to install and
use Linux directly on top of a Windows directory, the DiskDrake
hard-drive partitioning tool, and Panoramix, a new graphical interface.
More recently, MandrakeSoft initiatives include the Linuxi18n.org
project for globalization of Linux.  For more information on
Linux-Mandrake and additional products, please visit us at
http://www.linux-mandrake.com

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