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From: Phil Lavigna <phil@mandrakesoft.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter - Issue #41
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 19:58:51 -0700
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M A N D R A K E L I N U X
C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
Issue #41 Thursday, 2 May 2002
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Welcome to the Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter -- dedicated to
keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandrake-related news & info.
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This Week's Summary: New and Improved MandrakeStore; MandrakeClub
Activities; Business Case of the Week; New PPC pages; Financial Corner;
Spotlight on the Mandrake Corporate Club; Software Updates; Headlines
from MandrakeForum.
MandrakeStore
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Grand re-opening of MandrakeStore.
Everyone is invited to stop by and visit the new and improved
"MandrakeStoreV2" which has just been put into production. We've been
working hard to make the new MandrakeStore more attractive, better
organized, easier to navigate, and the shopping cart system has been
improved. Stop by and see for yourself -- even better, order some
Mandrake products and goodies!
http://new.mandrakestore.com/
MandrakeClub
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The winners of the Mandrake CD holders have been posted.
Thanks to many comments and suggestions, the new MandrakeStore website
looks better than ever. The names of the people who won the CD holders
by helping critique the website is now online. See if your name was
selected!
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=25
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97 applications for Mandrake 8.2 are available for download from
MandrakeClub.com. The most popular applications are:
1: Codeweavers Wine - (1587 downloads)
2: Macromedia Flash Player - (1458 downloads)
3: Real Player - (1440 downloads)
4: Crossover Plugin - (1195 downloads)
5: Acroread - (1008 downloads)
Not yet a Mandrake Club member? To learn more, please visit:
http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/
Business Case of the Week
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100% Linux-solution at Kieser.net.
Kieser.net is a Linux-only web design, programming and hosting company.
They specialize in customers who need database integration or server
side processing with their web site as opposed to simple static pages.
Kieser.net has standardized on Mandrake Linux across their entire
server range as well as the office environment.
Brad Kieser adds: "All our development is based on Mandrake Linux. This
forms the most important part of our company's income and is directly
customer facing. As a bedrock of our company, Mandrake Linux must be
doing something right as we have not lost a single customer to date and
the past 3 customer satisfaction surveys have revealed a 100%
satisfaction rate!"
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=292
Every "bizcase" counts; please share your story by submitting it to
MandrakeBizcases.com
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/submit.php
Website Updates
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Mandrake Linux 8.2 PPC was announced on April 23rd. To learn more about
this latest release, the Mandrake website has several new pages:
Consult a list of Frequently Asked Questions (with answers):
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3
View the complete installation process:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/Install/
Enjoy some desktop screenshots of 8.2 PPC:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FeaturesII/pages/
Orders for Mandrake 8.2 PPC are now shipping from MandrakeStore:
http://new.mandrakestore.com/
Financial Corner
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MandrakeSoft Reports Strong Increase in Revenues for Second Quarter.
After a mostly stable first quarter compared to last year, MandrakeSoft
has seen a significant rise in sales in the second quarter of the
2001-2002 fiscal year with an increase in revenue of 155% to 0.97
million euros.
Read the full report:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/newsletter/sn020425
Spotlight on the Mandrake Corporate Club
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Similar in spirit to the Mandrake Users Club, MandrakeSoft also offers
the Mandrake Linux Corporate Club for companies and businesses that use
Mandrake products. As seen at MandrakeBizCases.com, many companies use
Mandrake Linux every day in a business environment to save money and
gain a competitive edge that can't be matched by alternative products.
All businesses that use Mandrake Linux are invited to join the Mandrake
Corporate Club.
The Club's membership fee reflects only a fraction of the money that is
saved by using Linux, but dues are an important source of revenue which
allow MandrakeSoft developers to continually improve the distribution.
At the higher Corporate membership levels, MandrakeSoft developers will
even work to improve a requested key feature such as Linux on the
Desktop, Clustering technology, the Advanced Extranet Server, or
others. Corporate Club members also benefit from a wide range of
exclusive privileges. Recently we've added several new attractive
benefits to make it easier than ever to convince companies to subscribe.
To learn more about the Mandrake Linux Corporate Club, please see:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/corpo.php3
Software Updates
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Security-related software updates have been released for:
imlib -- fixes image viewing vulnerabilities
sudo -- fixes heap corruption vulnerability
various -- additional 8.2 errata packages now available
View the complete list at:
http://www.mandrakesecure.net
Headlines from MandrakeForum
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Installing 8.2 on a 16MB RAM laptop.
Readers post some interesting tips and suggestions for using Mandrake
on older, under-powered PCs.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2100
MandrakeClub Newsletter (6).
Learn about the latest Club activities.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2097
Linux for an ISP?
Hantik2x asks "I am planning to use Linux as our server for our ISP. Is
this possible considering the security and stability needed?"
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2093
Mandrake-Linux in small computer retail shops?
A reader posts several suggestions on how to get computer retailers
interested in Mandrake Linux. In response to an idea about creating a
FAQ for small OEM partners, Deno asks: "OK, let's try to make a draft
for this FAQ - folks, what kind of questions should be answered there?"
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2092
Read these and other stories at MandrakeForum
http://www.MandrakeForum.com/
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