PRNewswire: Linux-Mandrake 6.0 Is Now Available | Linux Today

PRNewswire: Linux-Mandrake 6.0 Is Now Available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 8, 1999

“… this new version of Mandrake is an important step to making
Linux distributions better, faster, and easier to use.
Linux-Mandrake 6.0 is a Red Hat-like distribution, but with many
improvements and pre-configured applications that make it ideal for
beginners. Nobody wants to spend too much time on installation and
configuration of their Linux system, that’s why Linux-Mandrake 6.0
was developed. It provides a very attractive and user-friendly
Linux system for both beginners and experts.”

“Linux-Mandrake 6.0 is currently available for download, and
soon in GPL CDs and Mandrake PowerPack Edition (around US$50/50
Euros)…”

“… five CD-ROMs: the Linux-Mandrake 6.0 distribution and its
complete source-code, more than 1800 contributive applications and
their source-code, and more than 35 commercial (or demonstration)
applications from which StarOffice 5.1 the complete office-suite
for Linux, Corel Wordperfect 8.0 the wordprocessor, IBM Lotus
E-Suite DevPack 1.5, games such as Hopkins FBI and Quake…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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