MandrakeLinux ProSuite Edition 8.0

by Mandrakesoft

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005LL29
• Item model number: 1575955288
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,792 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Designed for small and medium-size businesses, MandrakeLinux ProSuiteEdition 8.0 will scale easily for enterprise deployment, and provides astable and secure solution for both servers and workstations. It comes withextended enterprise support, comprising 60 days of phone support and 90 days of Web support via MandrakeExpert. It includes the full version of IBM ViaVoicevoice recognition software and StarOffice 5.2, an integrated officesolution for creating Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, andmore. DrakX installer is a user-friendly graphical installation tool thatallows for multiple configuration choices and disk partitioning, and hasbuilt-in hardware detection. The suite is based on kernel 2.4.2, comes witha fully compatible RPM manager (RPM 4.0), Xfree86 4.0.3, and a unifiedconfiguration tool. Also included are new user interfaces with KDE 2.1.1and Gnome 1.4 pre for 8.0 Beta 2, as well as a variety of 2-D and 3-D games.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Its what you expect from Mandrake..., June 19, 2001

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John P. Hoke "Drinking at the Foo B@r" (Floral Park, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MandrakeLinux ProSuite Edition 8.0 (CD-ROM)

A decent GNU/Linux distribution, although as this is a "dot-0" release, there are quite a few bugs. First of all, forget installing this if you have SCSI hard drives connected to an Adaptec controller, or a SCSI CDRom, you simply can't do it.

I have installed this on a stock desktop (all IDE) and it preforms quite well, all the things you expect from Mandrake are there, slick GUI tools, KDE and Gnome support, bleeding edge versions of the applications installed, etc.

Issues here are in order to install some tools, you *really* have to jump through hoops. An example of this is pine, the old familiar (and my favorite) email reader. It is not listed in the default Installation GUI, it is on the CDs, but no where to be found in the Installation program. Now for those of us who set up linux boxes to access remotely, having eight or nine Graphical email apps is beside the point...

Overall, if you are new to Linux, this is the Distro for you. If you have been around the block a few times, take a look at SuSe or Debian, especially if you run everything off SCSI or high end RAID systems...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Buy!, July 13, 2001

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Thomas ward (Coshocton Oh, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MandrakeLinux ProSuite Edition 8.0 (CD-ROM)

Tired of Microsoft Windows and Windows NT? Mandrake 8.0 is truly one of the best Linux solutions on the market today. For a couple of years now I have been developing software for the Linux OS, and I finally found one that setup all of my hardware during the install, and configured the X11 services, and loaded the KDE desktop right after the XDM login. Also it has many configuration tools that no one else has. I found the tools that comes with Mandrake really made the post setup a breeze.

The installation is extremely strait foward, it detected my vidio and souncard, and I chose a generic SVGA monitor set at 1024=768 60 Hertz non-interlaced, and it went on without a single problem. Also the Java Run Time, Viavoice Dictation, Adobe Acrobat, Real Player, are some great packages that are included with this Linux distribution. If you want to try Linux this would be the one to try.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for those migrating from windows, November 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: MandrakeLinux ProSuite Edition 8.0 (CD-ROM)

I have been slowly migrating to Linux from the windows world and this is by far the easiest of the Linux installs(if you have fairly basic hardware) . It comes with just about everything you would want out of teh box and adding new programs is faily easy. I would recommend this to newbies. You can always get a more complex linux flavor in the future if you become a Linux expert.