Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:36:59 +0200 From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ga=EBl?= Duval" <duval@criuc.unicaen.fr> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: News from the ``Linux-Mandrake'' distribution. [FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE] [LINUX-MANDRAKE official logo : http://www.linux-center.org/mandrake/images/chapeau.gif] ************************************************************** LINUX-MANDRAKE NEWS August, 31 1998 http://www.linux-center.org/mandrake/ ************************************************************** OVERVIEW: -------- Linux-Mandrake is a new Linux distribution whose first version ``Linux-Mandrake 5.1 Venice'' was released on July, 27 1998. See the announcement on: http://http://www.linux-center.org/mandrake/contenu/fnews.html The main characteristic in Linux-Mandrake is the integration of the KDE desktop-manager (http://www.kde.org) to a well known Linux distribution: Red Hat Linux 5.1 GPL (http://www.redhat.com). KDE 1.0 is the default graphical desktop under Linux-Mandrake. Other modifications have been made to allow a coherent integration of KDE in the Red Hat environment. For example, you can mount and umount your drives (floppy and cdrom) by a single click on your pre-configured desktop and this, even as a normal user (non privilegied). Furthermore, in KDE you get the language which has been selected during the installation of Linux-Mandrake (i.e. if you install Linux-Mandrake in german language, you'll get KDE automatically configured in german language). The main goal of Linux-Mandrake is to provide a standard Linux environment (RH 5.1) ready to work just after the installation. This means, without to download and configure KDE 1.0. This is time-gain for the experimented user and facility for the beginner. THANKS: ------ The first version of Linux-Mandrake was only available on a few FTP servers, for tests. You have been many users to download it and to test it, thanx for that ! NEW IN LINUX-MANDRAKE : --------------------- - new RedHat updates have been integrated - more recent versions for a few packages (Netscape 4.06, KDE 1.0-4) - XEmacs 20.4 has been included - a few security modifications after user-feedback AVAILABILITY: ------------ o FTP (won't be updated with the new version of Mandrake until one week) : ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandrake/mandrake-5.1-i386/ (Sweden) ftp://ftp.geo.net/pub/mandrake/ (USA, west coast) ftp://ftp.icenet.com.au/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandrake/ (Australia) o CD in `GPL' version : EUROPE: "NoL" http://store.nol.fr/order-int.html USA: "Belly Entertainment" http://www.bright.net/~belly/ "VirtualNet" http://www.virtualmobility.com/home.html (en version ``Guru Linux'') PROJECTS: -------- From the beginning of the Mandrake project, we have planned to work on a Debian version of Linux-Mandrake. Thanx to VirtualNet Inc. (http://www.virtualmobility.com/home.html) who have donated some harware to the Mandrake project, this will certainly be possible ! CALL FOR EVERYTHING :-) ------------------- If you wish to participate to the Mandrake project, if you wish to distribute a CD version of Mandrake, if you can open us a FTP server account (400 Mo), if you wish to write a review of Linux-Mandrake in your pulication, if you wish to cooperate, or if you only wish to make some suggestions, please write to duval@criuc.unicaen.fr :-) Gael. -- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Gael DUVAL - Reseaux & Applications documentaires // / LINUX, LINUX, LINUX /// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////