The new product is the first to go through Paris, France-based Mandrake’s new development process, which includes more input from the community at large. Mandrakelinux 10 Community is aimed at Linux users wanting the latest features and will be followed by a more stable Official version in May.
This in turn will be followed by a new desktop product aimed at corporate users, as well as a new version of the company’s Corporate Server product, which will be released later in the year.
Available now to Mandrake Club members the Community version is the first Mandrake product to be based on the new 2.6 Linux kernel, increasing the number of unique users and groups from 65,000 to over four billion with one billion concurrent processes on a single system for server deployments.
On the server side Mandrakelinux 10 Community also features Samba 3.0, MySQL 4.0.18, PostgreSQL 7.4.1, and Apache 2.0, as well as Native Posix Threads Library and support for Microsoft Corp’s Logical Disk Manager.
On the desktop side, Mandrakelinux 10 Community features a choice of the KDE 3.2 and Gnome 2.4 desktop environments, as well as Mandrake’s own Mandrakegalaxy 2 desktop 2, as well as the OpenOffice.org 1.1 office productivity application suite.
Mandrake is now back on a surer footing after reaching profitability in the first quarter and reaching an agreement to emerge from the French equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
