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.

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

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

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.

From Linux World:

HP has supposedly been selling MandrakeSoft Linux on the desktop for a while but has been so quiet about it that for all intents and purposes it's been a stealth operation. That's all about to change, with two new Linux desktops ready for rolling out by HP to the North American SMB market, both boxes to be sold with Mandrake Linux.

Read the full thing here

From Mandrake Linux:

ISO images of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community are now publicly available on a number of FTP mirrors! Mandrakeclub Silver Members (and above) are granted access to a "PowerPack-like"3-CD version of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community which provides many supplementary add-ons such as NVIDIA drivers, Acrobat Reader, Real Player andothers, as well as a 4th and 5th CD with extra applications. Corporate Club Members (and above) are granted access to a downloadable DVD ISO of Mandrakelinux which includes supplementary add-ons such as NVIDIA drivers, Acrobat Reader, Real Players and others.

The court appointed Administrator has filed the "redressement judiciaire" (Chapter 11 like) exit plan for the company.

The plan proposes the repayment of 4.1 million euros of liabilities over a 9 year period without interest. Of this, 3.3 million euros is exigible and 0.8 million euros is conditional upon certain events. The plan allows Mandrakesoft to repay its liabilities from revenues without raising additional capital. The Court will rule on the plan in the coming weeks.

Read the full thing here

From MandrakeSoft:

The new version of Mandrakelinux provides many new great features and is available for download right now for contributors and Mandrakeclub Members, and as a DVD set available for pre-order at Mandrakestore. Public ISOs will be available a bit later.

Discover all Mandrakelinux 10.0 features, including the new kernel 2.6 integration, MagicDev and others on the feature page.

Mandrake Linux 9.2 for AMD64 is now available with BitTorrent (4 CDs) for silver members. Most of the i586 RPMs are compatible with that release and you will see that this edition is on the average 20% faster than a traditionnal 32-bit system. In addition, AMD64 users will find new commercial RPMs as new NVidia drivers, updated Java RunTime Environment and j2sdk 1.4.2 RPMs.

And, the three first ISOs of a new Powerpack 9.2.1 release include all official updates -- some packages built for the Club such as Gaim 0.74 (which now supports MSN messenger), the latest Mozilla 1.5, and a new OpenOffice with additional patches and improvements.

From the Cooker Mailing List:

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-10.0-rc1.torrent

• We revert to XFree 4.3 for license reason.
• We remove japanese fonts for license reasons.
• New Drakfax.
• Drakconnect must still have some troubles.

-- Warly