Days after MandrakeSoft launched a controversial "club" to boost its bottom line, the Linux distributor has angered many in its user community by changing the rules of the Mandrake Club program.

The software extends the company's long-standing focus on desktop users--a position that other Linux distributors, including Red Hat, have also begun to adopt. The software is ready immediately for ...

MandrakeSoft, the financially strapped creator of the Mandrake version of Linux, says its financial liabilities prompted it to seek the French equivalent of bankruptcy protection. Stephen Shankland ...

MandrakeSoft releases a new version of its Linux software that embraces some technology that rival Red Hat still keeps at arm's length. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Will my current Quake 2 CD work with Mandrake or will I need to buy a different version? What about Q3? <P>Is there a place somebody can refer me to that has really good documentation on Linux ...

Google’s Android operating system may be open source, but most of the phones and other devices that ship with Android also include a bunch of closed source apps and services including the Google Play ...

The latest versions of Red Hat Linux and Mandrake Linux are now available, as well as an updated version of Sun Solaris 8. In an announcement Monday, Red Hat Inc. unveiled Red Hat Linux 7.2 and Red ...

Here’s today’s quiz: You have just installed Mandrake Linux on your desktop systems when you hear the news: “MandrakeSoft is going through the French equivalent ...

Seen on Blues News:<P>TransGaming and MandrakeSoft send along an announcement of the upcoming release of "Mandrake Linux Gamer Edition" which will be shipping on November 9, 2001. Included in the ...

MandrakeSoft announced at this week’s Linux World Expo that it has released a version of Mandrake Linux designed to work on Macs. The final release of Mandrake Linux PPC 8.0 is now ready. The new ...

MandrakeSoft has released Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC processors. Codenamed “Bamboo,” this release adds all the features found in Mandrake Linux 9.1 available for other processors, including Apache ...