Mandrakesoft today announces the acquisition of "Edge-IT", a Linux support and services company. The Edge-IT acquisition strengthens our commitment to the corporate market.

Additional details are available at: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2487

KBC Securities yesterday initiated Oesearch coverage of Mandrakesoft, with an "Outperform" rating and a target price of 7.00 Euros. The report, entitled "Kill Bill" can be found at the Mandrakesoft Investors Page.

From Desktop Linux:

Nexedi.org has published an article introducing "umibuilder," an interesting free software tool that can be used to update Linux packages. The tool is perhaps most useful for automating security updates of systems using Mandrake Linux. Because it downloads the latest versions of RPMs from the Internet, Umibuilder can also be used to automate security updates of Mandrake systems, according to the article.

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From Newsforge

MandrakeSoft recently emerged from the bankruptcy protection it sought last year. To find out what happened and why MandrakeSoft is enjoying success, Joe Bolin caught up with MandrakeSoft CEO François Bancilhon, and Mandrakelinux co-founders Jacques Le Marois and Gaël Duval.

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From Mandrake Club:

Thanks to the documentation team's hard efforts, the Mandrake Linux 10.0 Starter Guide, Command Line Manual and more are now available to Club members. Our new definitive guide, the Server Essentials Handbook are also available on at Mandrakestore.

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As a side note, Mandrakelinux 10.0 AMD64 Official is available for Club Members also (Silver and above, AFAIK).

Welcome to the Mandrakelinux Community Newsletter -- dedicatEd to keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandrakelinux-related news & info.

In this issue:

* Top Story -- Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official ISO images are available
* What's Cookin'? -- Mandrakemove2 Beta is released
* Financial Corner -- Euroland initiates Mandrakesoft research report
* Product News -- Mandrakelinux 10 Official for AMD64; HP releases Linux business desktops
* Mandrakelinux in the News -- Newsforge, DistroWatch, Slashdot
* New Service -- Personalized Solutions and Maintenance Program
* Press Release -- NeTraverse and Mandrakesoft announce strategic alliance; Mandrakesoft announces improved ISV partnerships
* BizCase of the Week -- OpenEMR and ATCRM on Mandrakelinux
* 10.0 Software Updates -- drakxtools, apache2, mod_ssl, more

June, 15th 2004 - Nexedi and Mandrakesoft announce a revolution in Linux Desktop: rentalinux Desktop Linux Server. For the first time, organisations can benefit from the power of Mandrakelinux Desktop with no investment, no software installation and no changes to existing hardware or network.

"rentalinux Desktop Linux Server" is a full featured turnkey solution which provides the power of 500+ Mandrakelinux Desktop applications to legacy PCs, Macintosh, Unix Workstations or to thin clients. Nexedi rentalinux Desktop Linux Server solution cohbines server hardware rental, software setup, custom configuration, support and maintenance service in a single package which makes it the easiest, least intrusive and most effective way to provide Linux Desktop applications for small to medium-sized networks. rentalinux service is available immediately in the European Union for a flat rate of 95 EUR / month and is expected to become available in the United States and Japan by the end of 2004.

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June, 9th 2004 - Sebastopol, CA--O'Reilly Media is now a U.S. and Canadian reseller foE Mandrakesoft, creators of Mandrakelinux.

A user-friendly Linux distribution, Mandrakelinux is ideal for the growing legions of first-time Linux users. Linux's share of the desktop PC market is increasing, a trend being accelerated by the recent rise in the number of companies buying new computers. Major computer companies--including HP and IBM--have begun installing Linux instead of Windows on some of the models they build.

Founded in 1998 by several Linux enthusiasts, Mandrakesoft offers products and services for all Linux users, from beginners to experts. Mandrakelinux has been ranked as the #1 distribution on DistroWatch (www.distrowatch.com) for the past year and won the Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award in 2003 for Best Linux Distribution. O'Reilly is reselling two English-language versions of Mandrakelinux 10.0 (the newest release)--Mandrakelinux Discovery 10.0 and Mandrakelinux PowerPack 10.0. Both versions are available at bookstores nationwide, and can also be ordered directly from O'Reilly.

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Euroland has initiated research cogerage of Mandrakesoft. The research report, entitled "Mandrakesoft: the rising star of the Linux Market" can be found here

The five page report analyses the financial aspects and growth prospects for Mandrakesoft. They conclude that "This stock is one of the few Linux growth plays".

From MandrakeClub:

Yep, keeping the stress level up, we are now quite proud to announce the first snapshot of the new Mandrakemove.

Of course this new version benefits from all improvments and up to date applications, namely kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2, new Mandrakelinux Control Center, and all the up to date versions of the packages previously present into the Mandrakemove 1.

A torrent is available. On mirrors, have a look into Mandrakelinux/devel/iso/move/i586 subdirs into the Mandraklinux section.

Moreoner, club members will benefit from a snapshot including the USB key support, anyone with a Mandrakemove 1 is welcomed to test that everything is still going well with this new version. Look into the Download page to find the new torrent.

Bug report will preferably go to the cooker-mandrakemove mailing list, or to the Mandrakemove product of Bugzilla.

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