Product Profile: Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community
The fact that Mandrake 10.0 is coded with Linux kernel 2.6 means the number of unique users it can handle has increased from 65,000 to over 4 billion, with 1 billion concurrent processes on a single system. It also means it is more secure. In short, it is better equipped than the previous Mandrake distro to take a lead role in the data center. No one can claim that Linux vendor Mandrake is not true to the spirit of open source.
Historically, Linux has been developed by cooperative community effort. Dozens -- and sometimes thousands -- of developers work together to build a given Linux distribution. The emphasis is on openness, in contrast to the proprietary software model's closed-door approach.
In keeping with this spirit of "Let's roll up our sleeves and work together," Mandrake's latest distribution is available for public download before its official release. The company's newest distribution is dubbed "Mandrake 10.0 Community" because "it's for the Linux community," Mandrake CEO Francois Bancilhon told NewsFactor.
"The community uses it for one or two months, which means that any new bugs are going to reach our QA process and, so, will be fixed," he said. "About two months later, we have a much stronger and solid version, and that's called 'official.' And from that, we're going to extract the product that we sell to the market."
