KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

What's new:


- New "noaudio" boot option, prevents sound from being probed - SCSI controllers are now probed in knoppix-autoconfig, if no "noscsi" option is present. - OpenOffic ... more

Linux-Mandrake is a friendly Linux Operating System which specializes in ease-of-use for both the home/office and servers. It is freely available in many languages throughout the world. Linux Mandrake is a complete pre-configured graphical Linux operating system. It's easy to install, easy to use and stable. Inside Linux-Mandrake, the graphical interfaces KDE, Gnome, AfterStep, Window Maker, IceWM etc. are fully integrated inside a very modern distribution, fully compatible with Red Hat applications (RPM packages). You don't have to spend hours to get all those graphical interfaces to work: once Linux-Mandrake is installed, everything works. Download : ... more

In what looks like a continued push to soften the initial impact for ex Windows users Knoppix 3.2 is a new GNU/Linux distribution that boots, runs completely from cd. It runs a complete linux distribution based on Debian, of recent linux software and desktop enviroments, with programs such as OpenOffice.org, Abiword, The Gimp, Konqueror, Mozilla, and hundreds more quality open source programs, compressed from 1.7GB to fit on a 700MB CD.Changes over the CeBIT Edition:

samba, mozilla update


icewm, larswm update kismet update evolution, fontconfig update gnomemeeting downgrade (gnome2 is broken) gnome-pilot ... more

Linux-Mandrake is a friendly Linux Operating System which specializes in ease-of-use for both the home/office and servers. It is freely available in many languages throughout the world. Linux Mandrake is a complete pre-configured graphical Linux operating system. It's easy to install, easy to use and stable. Inside Linux-Mandrake, the graphical interfaces KDE, Gnome, AfterStep, Window Maker, IceWM etc. are fully integrated inside a very modern distribution, fully compatible with Red Hat applications (RPM packages). You don't have to spend hours to get all those graphical interfaces to work: once Linux-Mandrake is installed, everything works.
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Mandrake 9.1 RC1 has been making the rounds to the mirrors as of around 10:30am CST today... not far from release. A developer on the Cooker list says that 9.1 has been given the feature freeze status and that March 7th is the cutoff date for new releases of packages to make it into 9.1 final.
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After many release canidates and a lot of testing. KDE 3.1 has finally gone final. KDE 3.1 comes in two forms. The first is a binary (if one is available for your OS). A binary is a precompiled package to install on your machine. The second method of installing it is to compile the source yourself. Right now there are binaries available for ASPLinux, Connectiva, Debain, SuSE, Slackware, and a few other OSes. There are many updates and new features in this version. KDE has not officially announced its release so you are hearing it here first. I will update you with a full list of changes as soon as KDE makes them available.
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Linux vendor SuSE has released software that enables Linux desktop users to run Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Office programs. The company's Linux Office Desktop 8.1 can run such applications as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and also includes StarOffice 6.0, a Linux alternative to Microsoft Office. "We find that people who have worked in Excel for years have built up a certain amount of macros" and do not want to lose them, SuSE vice president Joseph Eckert told NewsFactor. He added that Desktop 8.1 allows users to run Microsoft Office applications with "the stability and security of a Linux platform."



According to SuSE, even users with no technical experience can install Desktop 8.1 ... more

CNET.news.com post : MandrakeSoft, the financially strapped creator of the Mandrake version of Linux, said Wednesday it filed for the French equivalent of bankruptcy protection from creditors.



One of the best Linux OS has run out of money. I guess Mandrake 9 is the last Mandrake release you will get to use.
In a statement on the company's Web site, the Paris-based company said its financial liabilities prompted it to file for "declaration de cessation des paiements," the French equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The move allows the company to take court-overseen actions such as renegotiating its debt while continuing its operations. View: ... more

Linux-Mandrake is a friendly Linux Operating System which specializes in ease-of-use for both the home/office and servers. It is freely available in many languages throughout the world. Linux Mandrake is a complete pre-configured graphical Linux operating system. It's easy to install, easy to use and stable. Inside Linux-Mandrake, the graphical interfaces KDE, Gnome, AfterStep, Window Maker, IceWM etc. are fully integrated inside a very modern distribution, fully compatible with Red Hat applications (RPM packages). You don't have to spend hours to get all those graphical interfaces to work: once Linux-Mandrake is installed, everything works. ... more

The Mandrake 9.1 Beta is now being mirrored and will soon be available for testing. This first beta includes Linux 2.4.21pre2, XFree 4.3Beta plus a port of the installation procedure and several Mandrake applications to Gtk2.0. The final desktop look is not available in this release. Additionally, this first Beta of Mandrake Linux 9.1 has been downsized to only one CD. We will use the RPM-voting system as a way to determine which applications must be included in the distribution, which can be safely removed, and what packages should be handled on a priority basis. With your input we can optimize our resources to produce a better distribution. Who knows the needs of the community better than ... more