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<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER>发信人: linuxrat (叫我老鼠错不了), 信区: Linux <BR>标 题: 对Mandrake创始人的采访, 了解一些历史吧. <BR>发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu Dec 30 20:30:06 1999) <BR> <BR> 喜爱Linux Mandrake的道友可以看看哦. 也是在<A HREF="http://lwn.net/.">http://lwn.net/.</A> <BR> 看来我也改做GNU/Linux发行套件了. 就象DBPZ以前所说, "能做光盘就能做 <BR> 发行套件么?". 当然了, Mandrake可是货真价实的发行套件的. 我是想先自 <BR> 己做一个先, 然后在找个风险投资什么的, 拉一帮人就可以做起来啦..... <BR> (呵....//打了一个哈欠....长长的....呵呵, 我刚才是在做白日梦吧?//grin) <BR>=============Begin of Interview================= <BR>LWN interviews Gael Duval <BR> <BR> Gael Duval is a founder of MandrakeSoft, the producers of the <BR> fast-rising Linux-Mandrake distribution. Gael was kind enough to take <BR> some time to answer LWN's questions about where Linux-Mandrake is <BR> going. <BR> <BR> LWN: What can you tell us about the investment from AXA? What will be <BR> done with the money? <BR> <BR> GD: Axa is a big investor - they have deep pockets (650 billions USD <BR> of asset management), they have many different funds and companies in <BR> the group and are very very reactive. It's been the fastest investor <BR> to be interested and agree to invest in a Linux company. They made <BR> their decision before Redhat's successful IPO and are now very happy <BR> of their decision. <BR> <BR> The money will be used to launch and support more and more innovative <BR> open source projects and to establish MandrakeSoft offices in several <BR> countries. Expect a scoop very soon. <BR> <BR> LWN: Does this investment imply that MandrakeSoft intends to go public <BR> at some point in the future? If so, would you do so in the U.S. or in <BR> Europe? <BR> <BR> GD: As soon as possible and probably in Nasdaq. <BR> <BR> LWN: How big is MandrakeSoft at this point? <BR> <BR> GD: There are currently about 20 employees in several countries and it <BR> grows fast. <BR> <BR> LWN: When Linux-Mandrake was launched, it was essentially positioned <BR> as "Red Hat with KDE." Now Red Hat has KDE. What is the current <BR> "vision" for Linux-Mandrake? How will you distinguish it from other <BR> distributions? <BR> <BR> GD: Firstly, while Red Hat is more Gnome-centric, we are more <BR> KDE-centric. However, we also ship Gnome and other interfaces like <BR> WindowMaker, AfterStep, IceWM.... We want to provide a real choice to <BR> users, and it's very easy to switch from one to the others in <BR> Mandrake. <BR> <BR> Anyways, our distinction comes from the first ideas that I have put in <BR> Mandrake at the beginning: for example easy CD-ROM, Floppy mounting <BR> "Redhat is the IBM of the Linux market, we expect to be the new <BR> Compaq." <BR> for users that are not "root" etc. It has been called the "Mandrake <BR> touch" by someone in the press (sorry I don't remember who!). It's a <BR> set of improvements to make the user's life easier. In the same <BR> spirit, we have a tool called "MandrakeUpdate" which permits an easy <BR> upgrade of packages: just click on the "MandrakeUpdate" on your <BR> desktop and you know what are the new packages to update. Select those <BR> that you need, it prompts you for the root password, and then download <BR> and install the new packages from the net. <BR> <BR> And with all those new developers at MandrakeSoft, we now have many <BR> ideas to put Linux on every PC :) Big projects are currently being <BR> developed, from which Lothar, Linux for Windows, Panoramix and <BR> DiskDrake. <BR> <BR> LWN: Will Linux-Mandrake continue as a value-added distribution based <BR> on Red Hat, or do you plan to split away at some point? <BR> <BR> GD: The split has already occurred from the 6.0 version, although <BR> nobody seems to have noticed it ;) We were developing Mandrake 6.0 a <BR> long time before Red Hat released their version and we have just <BR> synchronized a few things at RH 6.0 release time. So we do not have <BR> exactly the same packages, nor the same versions: not the same Gnome, <BR> not the same KDE, not the same Glibc, not the same Bash, not the same <BR> Linux Kernel etc. <BR> <BR> Nevertheless, one thing is sure: currently we do not want to try <BR> setting our own standards: Red Hat is the leader, we do not want to <BR> reinvent the wheel: it's open source software! So we use the best of <BR> Red Hat and we build in the same direction as them, but faster and <BR> nicer (IMO of course ;)) Mandrake looks like Red Hat and is compatible <BR> with it: it means that every RPM made for Red Hat can run on Mandrake. <BR> This is a very important point because many proprietary applications <BR>
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