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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 23:56:21 -0400
From: Rudy Stefanov <rstefanov@home.com>
Reply-To: mariner@linux-mandrake.com
To: mariner@linux-mandrake.com
Subject: Re: Linux-Mandrake 6.0 (Venus) available
Great news! Congratulations to all the team!!! And thank you guys for the
good Linux system you are doing, I love it.
"See you" soon in the mailing list for the next release :^)
Rudy
----- Original Message -----
From: Gael Duval <gael@linux-mandrake.com>
To: <mariner@linux-mandrake.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 7:35 PM
Subject: Linux-Mandrake 6.0 (Venus) available
> Thank you guys for your bug-reports!
> --
>
>
> L I N U X M A N D R A K E
>
> "The User-Friendly Linux Distribution"
>
>
>
> A N N O U N C E S:
>
>
> Linux-Mandrake 6.0 (Venus) released.
>
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
>
> May, 27 1999
>
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
> We are very pleased to announce that Linux-Mandrake 6.0 (Venus) is
> released. This is the latest release of our user-friendly and
> flexible desktop Linux-based operating system. It is currently
> available for download via FTP, in both traditional and iso9660 image
> formats. The latter can be burned directly onto a CDROM.
>
>
> o Introduction
> ------------
>
> Thanks to our growing team and the recent merge with BeroLinux, this
> new release of Mandrake is an important step in our way to make Linux
> distributions better, faster and easier-to-use.
>
> Here are the new features...
>
> o Mandrake 6.0 features
> ---------------------
>
> Core system
> -----------
>
> - Linux-Kernel: 2.2.9
> - XFree86: 3.3.3.1
> - Glibc: 2.1.1
> - RPM: 3.0.1
> - Bash: 2.03
> - KDE: 1.1.1 [with Mandrake customization]
> - Gnome: built from 1.0.4->1.0.9 versions
> - Windowmaker: 0.52
> - AfterStep: 1.7.90
> - all packages have been recompiled with CPU optimizations for
> pentium-class (intel, amd, cyrix, winship...) and higher processors:
> makes your system 5-30% faster!
> - Ultra-DMA IDE hard-drives speed optimization
>
>
> Improvements and add-ons
> ------------------------
>
>
> - installation procedure in many languages (several boot images, 21
> languages)
> - creation of a non-privileged user when installing
> - X test while installation, permitting to boot directly into X when
> it's finished
> - improved hardware support (ISDN, CD-Writers, PC-Speaker driver,
> Windows(tm) keys)
> - CD-ROM and Floppy-disks can be mounted by non privileged users,
> just by typing "mount /mnt/cdrom" or clicking on the CD-ROM icon
> - multiple graphical interfaces choice: KDE, Gnome, AfterStep,
> WindowMaker, IceWM with session choice in KDM/GDM
> - scalable fonts support in all X applications and for printing (with
> ready-to-use True Type(tm) fonts provided)
> - KDE and Gnome languages follows installation language
> - many KDE themes available
> - Mandrake KDE customization, with preconfigured desktop
> - easy printing under KDE by dragging and dropping documents onto the
> printer icon
> - Power-saving management control under KDE
> - laptop control under KDE
> - better accents (and special characters management under X and
> console
> - better locale man-pages management and displaying, following the
> $LANG environment variable
> - easy automatic distribution update system from the graphical
> desktop
> - saving diskspace (bzip2'ed man pages, ext2compr support in
> kernel-source)
> - SVGALib support for all VESA 2.0 compliant VGA cards
> - many bug/security fixes
>
>
> Applications
> ------------
>
>
> - many supplementary KDE apps and Gnome apps like ktop, kvirc,
> knetmon, kpackage, , klyx, gaddr, gtkzip...
> - Office extensions (Killustrator, Gnumeric, Maxwell, Check Book
> Balancer, sane-1.0.1...)
> - BeroFTPD (with easy configuration from kBeroFTPD), BeroList
> - Netscape 4.6 with optimized keyboards-shortcuts and flash(tm)
> plugin
> - Gimp 1.0.4
> - Apache 1.3.6 with PHP integrated
> - Wine 990518
> - XEmacs 20.4
> - Postfix [sendmail installed by default]
>
>
> o Compatibility
> -------------
>
>
> Linux-Mandrake is 99% compatible with Red Hat(tm) Linux 6.0. This
> means that you can install any RPM package made for Red Hat 6.0 in
> Linux-Mandrake.
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> What is Linux-Mandrake exactly?
> ------------------------------
>
> Linux-Mandrake is inspired by Red Hat Linux, with many improvements
> and pre-configured applications which make it easier to use for the
> beginners.
>
>
> Main goals of this new distribution:
> -----------------------------------
>
> - we wish to provide a working and easy-to-install Linux distribution
> for people who do not want to spend too much time on installation and
> configuration of their Linux system, while still being configurable
> for experts. Just install Mandrake and USE IT!
>
> - we wish to provide a very attractive, easy-to-use, Linux System for
> both newbies to computers and people who are already experts.
>
> - we wish to provide a rock-stable and fast Linux server system with
> many features for Internet servers
>
> - we wish to provide a very attractive distribution in a well-known
> linux environment (Red Hat Linux)
>
> Previous versions:
> -----------------
>
> - Mandrake 5.1 (Venice)
> - Mandrake 5.2 (Leeloo)
> - Mandrake 5.3 (Festen)
>
> Current version:
> ---------------
>
> - Mandrake 6.0 (Venus)
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> PRESS COMMENTS
> --------------
>
> `PC-Expert' (french ZD-Net publication): Mandrake: "currently the
> best distribution"!!
>
> `PC-Magazin' (Germany - issue April99): "Mandrake earns a big point
> for their intelligent configuration of KDE."
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
>
>
> ----------------END-------------------------------
>
>
>
> --
> < Gael DUVAL - gael@linux-mandrake.com >
> < Mandrake 6.0beta on http://www.linux-mandrake.com>
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