Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:45:54 +0100
From: Gael Duval <gduval@mandrakesoft.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Announce: MandrakeSoft names Jean-Loup Gailly as CTO.

MandrakeSoft is very proud to announce the arrival of Jean-Loup Gailly
who was named as Chief Technical Officer. Jean-Loup has been a long
time contributor of free software. He is the author of the compression
utility Gzip and co-author of the compression library Zlib. 

In the past, Jean-Loup Gailly has also been a member of the team who
specified the Ada programming language designed for highly reliable
software systems. 

Jean-Loup will be responsible for the production of the Linux-Mandrake
distribution and will manage the dozens of MandrakeSoft programmers
and the hundreds of contributors who work on Mandrake.

"We are very honored that Jean-Loup accepted to join us in our project
of making Linux available for the masses", said Jacques Le Marois,
President of MandrakeSoft.

"It's a pleasure to be employed by a company that is so devoted to
open-source and has a very high potential on the Linux market in the
coming years", said Jean-Loup Gailly.

About Linux-Mandrake 

Linux-Mandrake is an easy-to-use Linux operating system. This version
of Linux for the desktop is ideal for home and office use, while still
maintaining Linux's well deserved reputation for server oriented
applications. 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. LinuxMall, the largest online reseller of
Linux products, reports that Linux Mandrake was its best selling
product in July 1999. 

About MandrakeSoft 

Founded on the Internet in 1998, MandrakeSoft publishes the
user-friendly and popular open-source Linux Mandrake operating system
that is compatible with the leading 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. 

For more information on Linux-Mandrake and additional products, please
visit us at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com 

Contact: mandrake@linux-mandrake.com