Mandrakelinux 10.1 Community.Mandrakesoft has announced the release of its newest and most advanced operating system to date: Mandrakelinux 10.1 Community. The enhanced usability, hardware support and performance is claimed to make this release a milestone on the way to widespread Linux adoption. The release of Community is soon to be followed by the release of a Mandrakelinnx 10. I Official, on which Mandrakesoft's range of products for home users will be based. Mandrakeliunx now officially supports Intel Centrino chipsets, Wi-Fi roaming and BlueTooth devices. Users now have access to the full scale of mobility applications under Linux from wireless networking to PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). and smartphone synchronization. Mandrakelinux 10.1 Community also sports enhanced laptop support. Mandrake mandrake, plant of the family Solanaceae (nightshade family), the source of a narcotic much used during the Middle Ages as a pain-killer and perhaps the subject of more superstition than any other plant. have developed a unique set of configuration tools that save Mandrakelinux users most of the hassles of system administration. It also makes Community an efficient system to work with for advanced users because they do not have to edit configuration files, but they can if they want to. Also for those users, 10.1 Community brings many improvements to the Mandrakelinux suite of development tools, with new versions of GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). (a C, C++, Java and Fortran compiler), Kdevelop (an advanced IDE) and ODB ODB Our Daily Bread ODB Object Database ODB Old Dirty Bastard (Wutang clan & rap group) ODB Old Dirty Bastard ODB Open Database ODB Ontario Drug Benefits ODB Cordoba Spain (airport code) (a debugger). Mandrskelinux 10.1 Community carries both KDE (K Desktop Environment) A GUI-based user interface primarily for Unix and Linux machines, but also available for Windows and Mac. The source code is freely distributed and is maintained by developers around the world. 3.2.3 (KDE 3.3 will be available as an optional install) and GNOME 2.6. Other software upgrades include new versions of Mozilla (a browser and email suite), OpenOffice.org (an office suite) and the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) An open source paint and image editing program for Unix, X Window and Mac OS X that originated as an undergraduate project by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball at the University of California, Berkeley. 2.0 (an image manipulation program) by default. www.mandrakelinux.com |
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