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Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) is one of the most advanced and powerful Linux systems available today, with cutting-edge features such as Apache 2, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power-management, "Zeroconf" network support, WiFi support and much more. Mandrake Linux 9.1 provides an unequaled level of comfort for users with a simplified graphical installer, a brand-new "MandrakeGalaxy" theme, stunning anti-aliased fonts, and of course the new KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2 desktop environments.
 System overview
Mandrake Linux 9.1 features the following software:
 Kernel 2.4.21
XFree 4.3
Glibc 2.3.1
GCC 3.2.2
Apache 2, Samba 2.2.7a, MySQL 4. 0.11, ProFTPD 1.2.7, Postfix 2.0.6, OpenSSH 3.5
KDE 3.1, GNOME 2.2, IceWM 1.2, WindowMaker 0.8, Enlightenment 0.16.5, BlackBox 0.62
OpenOffice.org 1.0.2, KOffice 1.2.1
Mozilla 1.3, The GIMP 1.2.3, XMMS 1.2.7
Mandrake Linux 9.1 is optimized for Pentium and higher processors (and compatibles), and therefore does not run on earlier x86 processors.
Mandrake Linux 9.1's features...
| New and simplified installation procedure |  |
Our installation process has long been the most widely respected installer in the Linux field, yet we made it even simpler and it looks even better! It also offers great new features such as the capability to resize NTFS hard-disk partitions.
The graphical installer now offers a more modern look & feel with a new layout, new colors and anti-aliased fonts.
The default installation process has been greatly simplified. The individual phases are extremely intuitive, and most hardware devices are automatically recognized and configured. Power users can access advanced configuration options at any point of the installation.
The 'type' of installation can be a desktop or server-oriented system by choosing from various package group categories.
Installation is possible by various methods such as Network installation, CD or DVD installation.
60 different languages are supported.
In addition to being able to resize NTFS partitions, the installation procedure provides many unique features such as offering various filesystems (including journalized filesystems EXT3, ReiserFS, XFS, and encrypted file systems), setting up RAID disks, and resizing MS-Windows FAT32 partitions.
Various network filesystems are also supported such as NFS, SMB and WebDAV.
The upgrade mode is now trouble-free.
The "auto-install" tool is a convenient way to effortlessly duplicate server and workstation installations.
An easy-to-use rescue mode is available in case of any problems with a system.
Installation has been simplified and
is now mostly automated. |
But "expert" mode is still available and may be selected at any point. |
The installation procedure supports an impressive
number of different languages. |
| On the desktop: New "MandrakeGalaxy" look & feel with anti-aliased fonts |  |
Mandrake Linux 9.1 offers a completely new desktop look & feel with the "MandrakeGalaxy" theme which provides visual coherency between KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2. Attractive anti-aliased fonts are also available in most applications. With its focus on usability, Mandrake Linux 9.1 has all the potential to finally deliver Linux to the widest audience of computer users.
New "MandrakeGalaxy" theme provides visual coherency between KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2. This new theme has been written from scratch to be fast and light in memory.
KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2 are the default graphical desktop environments. Mandrake 9.1 also features WindowMaker 0.80.2, IceWM 1.2.6, Enlightenment 0.16.5, and BlackBox 0.65 as options.
High-quality printing is a snap with the Common Unix Printing System.
All Mandrake users will be pleased to discover that application menus are consistent across the various graphical desktop environments.
The "MandrakeFirstTime" wizard allows new users to easily configure a graphical desktop environment and email client, as well as subscribe to the MandrakeClub.
Unique features make unique products: The Mandrake Linux desktops are dynamic. This means, for instance, that when a new software package is installed or removed, the corresponding icon appears or disappears instantaneously in the application menu. This same "dynamic" feature also applies to hardware devices: Plug in a USB scanner or WebCam and a corresponding icon appears automatically on the desktop.
Another advanced feature in Mandrake Linux 9.1 is "supermount" which lets users access removable media (CD-ROM, floppy, Zip, etc.) instantaneously and transparently without having to use the traditional "mount/umount" commands. Supermount has been greatly improved with a focus on performance and stability.
KDE 3.1 |
GNOME 2.2 |
The new "MandrakeGalaxy" look& feel |
Plug in a USB device and an icon appears... |
| Improved configuration, extended hardware support |  |
For years Mandrake Linux has been a premier distribution in regards to supporting the largest variety of available hardware and with its capability to automatically detect and configure new hardware devices. With the new "HardDrake2" hardware configuration/information utility, the wide range of supported hardware has never been greater.
The Mandrake Control Center provides a single location to access all the important hardware and system configuration utilities. The Mandrake Control Center includes an extensive selection of graphical utilities and wizards for quickly and easily setting up many popular services, including the Apache web server, Postfix email server, Shorewall firewall utility, and many others.
Webmin 1.0.70 provides the ability to safely configure a Mandrake system remotely through a secure web interface -- even through the Internet.
USB 2.0 support has been added.
Many of the latest printers are supported with the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS).
Hot-plug support allows you to plug in new hardware and have it automatically recognized and configured while the system is running.
ACPI support for better power management with laptops.
Zeroconf allows two computers running Mandrake 9.1 to automatically configure their network settings.
Support for a number of WiFi devices.
Additional drivers for NVIDIA-based videocards are available in Mandrake packs.
Additional drivers for Winmodems such as Conexant® and Alcatel Speedtouch® USB are available in the PowerPack and in the ProSuite.
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Mandrake Control Center (MCC):
a single place for hardware and system configuration. |
Security configuration in the MCC. |
Software configuration in the MCC. |
Configuring mount points in the MCC. |
| Simplified System Maintenance |  |
All operating systems require a certain level of maintenance to remain clean and up to date. Mandrake Linux 9.1 provides many tools and associated services to facilitate the most common system administrations tasks.
Our set of URPMI tools (urpmi, urpme) combined with the Software Manager and MandrakeUpdate provide everything needed to easily install and uninstall software packages either with a few typed commands or with a few clicks of the mouse. The Software Management System solves software dependencies automatically and performs system security updates through the Internet. Both the Software Manager and MandrakeUpdate have been completely reworked to provide the easiest software management system ever.
URPMI has also been enhanced to perform dramatically faster and now has a distributed mode which can securely and remotely update a large number of systems at once.
The Mandrake Control Center includes DrakBackup, a utility for backing up important data and for scheduling jobs that must run periodically.
Locating and installing a new application
is easy with RPMDrake. |
Registered Club Members can install a number of commercial applications over the network. |
| Extensive collection of Office applications |  |
OpenOffice 1.0.2 is a full-featured office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications. OpenOffice is available in many different languages. This Office suite can read and write most types of Microsoft Office documents such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
KOffice 1.2.1 is another full-featured and fast office suite designed for the KDE desktop.
Take your choice of several full-featured web browsers such as Mozilla 1.3, Konqueror 3.1.0 and Galeon 1.3.3.
Mozilla-mail, Kmail 1.5 and Evolution 1.2.2 are world-class email clients that now support email encryption for enhanced privacy and security.
GnuCash 1.8.1 is a great personal finance manager, compatible with applications such as Quicken, Microsoft Money or MoneyDance.
Many additional office applications are provided, including calendars such as Kalendar and Gnome-Calendar, address books such as KAddressBook and Gnome-Card, project management applications such as MrProject, and more.
Make the most of the Internet with handy utilities such as instant messengers compatible with AOL, Yahoo and MS, along with a selection of IRC utilities.
Flash® player, Acrobat Reader® and RealPlayer® are included in Mandrake Linux packs.
OpenOffice can read write and most types of Microsoft Office documents. |
Mozilla, the famous web browser. |
KOffice is also a complete office suite. |
KOrganizer is a calendar application
that includes a task-scheduler. |
GnuCash is a full-featured personal finance manager. |
| Multimedia and Games |  |
GnomeMeeting 0.96.1 is an H.323 compatible videoconferencing and voice-over-IP telephony application compatible with Microsoft Netmeeting®. It also supports PC-to-Phone over Internet by registering to MicroTelco Internet telephone service.
Gphoto and XawTV lets you use digital cameras with Mandrake Linux.
Xine 0.9.18 is a video player for viewing unencrypted DVDs.
The GIMP 1.2.3 is the latest version of this world-class image editing application.
A large selection of scanners are supported which can be easily utilized with XSane, The GIMP and Kooka.
Kontour is a vector drawing application similar to Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator.
XMMS 1.2.7 is a premier multimedia application that supports many sound and video formats such as MP3, OGG and MPEG-video.
Grip 3.0.5 and KAudioCreator are easy-to-use programs for ripping audio CDs
Cdrecord 2.0, XCDRoast and K3B are available for burning CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.
FrozenBubble is a highly addictive arcade game. Definitely worth a try.
Chromium is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter with fine graphics.
Tux Racer is a classic 3D racing game featuring Tux, the Linux penguin.
The GIMP, a world-class image editing application. |
K3B is great tool for burning CD-Rs. |
GnomeMeeting lets you phone over the net! |
| Servers, Internet and Intranet services |  |
Mandrake Linux is widely known as a reliable, secure & easy-to-configure system that is becoming the system of choice for Internet and Intranet servers. Mandrake Linux 9.1 includes everything needed to easily install and deploy professional network services, such as the Apache 2/AdvancedExtranetServer.
Enterprise Linux kernel 2.4.21 provides native support for Hi-Memory (> 1024 MB) and SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing).
A special Mandrake feature, DrakGW, allows users to easily configure Internet Sharing so that several machines can utilize a single connection to the Internet.
Apache 2/AdvancedExtranetServer includes "out of the box" support for dozens of modular extensions including mod_perl 1.3.27, mod_ssl 2.8.12 and many others. As a unique Mandrake feature, Apache2 comes with a special upgrade/downgrade mechanism to allow smooth transition from Apache 1.3.x.
The PHP 4.3.1 scripting language contains built-in support for LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Unix-ODBC.
Samba 2.2.7a is the famous SMB file-server.
MySQL 4.0.11a and PostgreSQL 7.3.2 treat you to the best Free-Software databases.
PHPGroupware 0.9.14 is a full-featured groupware server.
SpamAssassin 2.44 is an efficient SPAM-filtering service.
Also available, and easily configured with the Mandrake Control Center, are the world-renowned servers ProFTP, Postfix email server (Sendmail also available), OpenSSH server, DHCP server, Bind DNS server, NFS server.
Apache 2.0/AdvancedExtranetServer
is the default web-server. |
Servers can be easily configured in
the Mandrake Control Center (through MandrakeWizards). |
Do you need a Windows File/Print server?
Configure Samba. |
| Easy Printing with CUPS |  |
The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is the standard printing system for Mandrake Linux which offers great printing rendering. CUPS 1.1.19 supports more printers than ever in Mandrake Linux 9.1: over 800! In addition to the impressive number of supported printers and extended configuration options, CUPS is extremely easy to configure and allows any networked machines to access printers on a CUPS server over the local network without any configuration. Mandrake 9.1 offers one of the best print rendering solutions currently available under Linux.
TCP/Socket (ethernet-connected and HP JetDirect) printers are also detected, as well as printers available through SMB (Windows-servers).
CUPS can be configured in the Mandrake Control Center. |
| Top-level Security |  |
Mandrake Linux has a long tradition of security. 9.1 provides several features that make it one of the most secure operating systems currently available.
Four easy-to-setup security levels are available to choose from -- from "Standard" to "Paranoid" -- depending on the intended use of the system.
Shorewall 1.3.14 is a comprehensive firewall system which can be configured with just a few clicks in the Mandrake Control Center.
Extensive cryptography support is provided with GnuPG, OpenSSH, SSL certificate management tools, a special Linux 'Kernel Secure', encrypted filesystems, and email encryption.
Authentication is supported via local files or through authentication servers such as LDAP, NIS or Windows NT Server.
Set you security level from "Standard" to "Paranoid". |
Email may be encrypted for enhanced privacy. |
| Everything for Development |  |
Develop applications quickly and efficiently:
GCC 3.2.2 features C, C++, Fortran 77, Objective C, Java and Ada 95 compilers.
PHP 4.3.0, Perl 5.8.0 and Python 2.2.2 scripting languages are also available.
Gtk+ 2.0 and Qt 3.1.1 libraries - along with KDE and GNOME libraries - are available for developing graphical applications.
Java bytecode can be run with Kaffe 1.0.7.
Kdevelop 2.1.5 is an Integrated Development Environment.
Quanta Plus 3.1 is an HTML Integrated Development Environment.
Choose from a large selection of editors such as the popular Vim 6.1, Emacs 21.2 and XEmacs 21.4
Creating webpages in Quanta Plus. |
Kdevelop is a complete Integrated Development Environment. |
| Available in 60 languages |  |
Since Linux is truly an international effort, Mandrake has always encouraged localization and internationalization. With version 9.1, Mandrake Linux supports the largest number of languages ever: The Mandrake installer and the Mandrake configuration tools completely (or partially) support 60 different languages, from Afrikaans to Wallon.
Many other applications, such as KDE, GNOME and OpenOffice.org, also support a wide variety of languages.
A wide variety of languages are supported. |
| Linux Standards and Free Software |  |
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The Mandrake Linux 8.2 ProSuite Edition was the first Linux distribution to become Linux Standard Base (LSB 1.2) certified. Mandrake 9.1 also complies with LSB 1.2 specifications, and the next Mandrake Linux Corporate Server based on Mandrake 9.1 will be LSB 1.2 certified. MandrakeSoft is committed to the Linux Standard Base which is an essential step for ensuring compatibility between the different Linux distributions. It also ensures that Mandrake Linux will be compatible with the greatest number of leading enterprise-class applications such as Database, CRM, and Accounting.
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Since Netscape and the last few remaining proprietary applications have been removed, Mandrake Linux 9.1 is a "100% Free Software" product. This means that everyone is granted the right to access the sources, modify and redistribute the software. This also means that Mandrake Linux 9.1 can be deployed on as many machines as desired.
| Recommended hardware for Mandrake Linux 9.1 |  |
Processor: an x586-class or above processor is required. This includes Intel Pentium I/II/III/IV, AMD K6/II/III, AMD Duron, AMD Athlon/XP/MP. Multi-processor machines are supported. (*)
Memory: at least 64 MB is required; 128 MB is recommended.
Hard disks: IDE and SCSI hard disks are supported. Most SCSI and RAID controllers are supported.
Hard disk size: At least 100MB is required, 1GB is recommended.
USB and USB 2.0: most USB devices are supported.
CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives and burners: Most IDE and SCSI models are supported.
Graphic cards: Most ISA, PCI and AGP cards are supported, including 3D hardware acceleration.
Network adapters: Most ISA, PCI and USB network cards are supported. Most modems, RNIS and DSL devices are supported.
Printers: Most Inkjet and Laser printers are supported. Most "WinPrinters" are not supported.
Sound Cards: All SoundBlaster-compatible soundcards are supported.
Laptops: Most laptops are supported.
Misc.: Numerous TV cards, graphics tablets, scanners, webcams, digital cameras and FireWire devices are supported.
(*)A version of Mandrake 9.1 for PPC-based personal computers, as well as IA-64 and AMD-64 versions, will be released later.
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