Greg Meyer posted this helpful info to the Mandrake Expert List:

A couple of days ago, Warly, The Mandrake release captain, posted to the Cooker Mailing List that the structure of the mirrors will be chaning soon to accomodate the finalization of the Mandrake 10.0 release and the continued development that will be going on in the stable community branch. Here is his original post:

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The KDE Germany Team was exhibiting the KDE team's achievements at the world's largest computer trade show CeBIT in Hannover, Germany from 18.03 - 24.03. Hosted at the booth of Linup-Front, the team presented KDE 3.2 as well as a recent developer snapshot of KDE PIM on an Athlon64 system. Most people asked to see the KDE/Qt integration for OpenOffice.org and GTK as well as Kontact. They were impressed to learn how fast KDE is implementing the promise to become the "Integrative Desktop Environment" that lets you use a wide variety of popular applications while still maintaining consistency in look and -to some extent- even feel. Another focus of interest was KIOSK, which is now even easier to handle thanks to Kiosk Tool. Read on for the full story about KDE at CeBIT 2004.

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"...users will find the SL-6000 can easily support enterprise applications and databases, making it practical to not only collect data remotely but to also view critical information locked into back-end corporate servers. For fast wireless access to corporate data, the Zaurus SL-6000 has built-in 802.11b network capability. It includes extensive protected flash memory, a built-in, sliding QWERTY keyboard and is readily expandable with both Compact Flash(TM) and SD expansion slots. The SL-6000 also has an optional expansion jacket, with additional battery and CF slot giving customers the flexibility to tailor the device to a company's specific needs."

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Altadena, CA; Paris, France; March 30th, 2004 - The Commerce Court today accepted Mandrakesoft's exit plan from 'redressement judiciaire' (Chapter 11 like protection). The plan was approved as proposed by the company and its court appointed administrator.

The plan provides for the payment of creditors, without recapitalization as a precondition, over a period of nine years. The turnaround was largely made possible by improvements in the company's financial results -- Mandrakesoft recently recorded its first profitable quarter since 1999. This signals the return to normal operations for Mandrakesoft after a 14 month observation period.

From Open:

It's been more than a week since we last posted. For good reason. The lights have been burning at all indecent hours at openBench Labs to bring you an arboretum of facts and observations as you plow your way through storage networking to figure out what designs cost least in money and trauma. In the first of a series of reviews we pose the question: Is it time for SMBs to move to a SAN fabric? Read what openBench Labs discovers as we examine 2GB SAN infrastructure using nStor storage system and storage management software, and products from Brocade and Emulex.

I've posted some screenshots of Mandrake 10.0 Community. Screenshots include the new Mandrake Control Center, KDE 3.2 Control Center, Konqueror and Kontact - an app that wraps KMail, KNode, Korganizer and some other apps into one interface.

You can view the screenshots here

MozillaQuest Magazine's (mozillaquest.com) has some very nice and comprehensive coverage of GIMP 2.0. In addition to the GIMP 2.0 source code release story, MozillaQuest Magazine has a recent overview and three tutorials based on GIMP 1.3, which is the development version of GIMP 2.0 and therefore is a very good preview of GIMP 2.0. Altogether, lots of nice screen shots of GIMP 2.0.

Release notes

- Features based on Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community for IA32.
- Improved Serial ATA support, including Promise, Silicon Image and VIA chipsets.
- Experimental support for 32-bit GL acceleration for XFree86 supported cards.

Read more here

Looking for a Linux compatible camera for less that $100? MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: The photographic quality of the Microtek Take-It S1/D1 is impressive for an under $100 digital camera. In addition to taking digital photographs, you can use the S1/D1 to make video clips and record sound -- or use it as a Web cam. Moreover, you can upload your S1 digital photographs, video clips, and sound clips to your PC or show and play them on your TV.

All in all, at its $99 list price the Microtek Take-It S1 Digital Camera is a very good bang for the bucks. Moreover, other than the Web cam function, the S1 works with all three major consumer/desktop operating systems, Linux, Apple Mac, and MS Windows.

From the Cooker AMD64 Mailing List:

Current technotes available at this beta time. If you know/need others please do not hesitate to tell me so. Comments welcome. Thanks.

Mandrake Linux/AMD64 10.0 Release Notes
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The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 2004 MandrakeSoft S.A. and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source package for distribution terms. The distribution terms of the tools copyrighted by MandrakeSoft and Red Hat Software are as noted in the file COPYING. Mandrake and its logo are trademarks of MandrakeSoft S.A. Red Hat, RPM and glint are trademarks of Red Hat Software, Inc.
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1. Hardware

- Serial ATA support

Promise & VIA Serial ATA are supported through the libata based kernel drivers. Only software RAID configurations are supported so far. There is also experimental support for Silicom Image SATA controllers.

Note that only the following chipsets have been tested: Promise PDC20376, VIA 8237.