Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:21:58 +0200
From: Jacques Le Marois <lemarois@mandrakesoft.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: MANDRAKESOFT ANNOUNCES DISKDRAKE

 MANDRAKESOFT ANNOUNCES DISKDRAKE:

 "A Hard-Drive partioner for Linux, under opensource license"
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 MandrakeSoft - publisher of the popular "Linux-Mandrake" distribution -
announces DiskDrake, a complete hard-drive partioner available for Linux now
(beta version) and for Windows soon. DiskDrake is published under the terms
of the General Public License (GNU).

 Recently, a new need for hard-drive partioners has been felt with the
growing success of Linux: people often want to install Linux on their PC
without having to remove Windows. So, in order to free some place for Linux
they usually need to resize their disk partitions, which is still a delicate
operation, only permitted by some hard-to-use text based programs like "fips"
or other proprietary software.

We, at MandrakeSoft, have choosen to release our own full-featured graphical
partioner freely (under the terms of the General Public License). DiskDrake
currently runs under Linux. A Windows port is envisaged.

The first released version of DiskDrake is beta software, but it should
improve rapidly with the contribution of the free-software community.

DiskDrake will of course be integrated in the next version of Linux-Mandrake.

DiskDrake can be discovered and downloaded from:

        http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake/

All developpers with sufficient knowledge in Linux, as well as in Windows
programming can join the project. Debug it and add some new great features in
it!