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is also notable for compiling its packages with optimizations for Pentium-class and more advanced processors which are incompatible with older CPU versions such as 386 and 486. Mandrakelinux was originated by Gaël Duval, who was also a co-founder of MandrakeSoft.
The major features that Mandrakelinux has are:
Mandrakelinux supports over 68 languages
Mandrakelinux uses the Control Center for administration of Linux rather than using a text editor to change settings. It has many programs known as Drakes or Draks, collectively named drakxtools, to configure many different settings. Examples include MouseDrake to set up a mouse, DiskDrake to set up disk partitions and drakconnect (previously known as draknet but forced to change its name after a company of the same name complained) to set up a network connection. They are written using GTK and Perl, and most of them can run in both graphical and text mode.
Mandrakelinux comes with several thousands of software packages containing many different varieties of software. They suit your needs from gaming, office use, servers, and internet use.
Mandrakelinux has a large community of users, that provide help, support, and software to the user of Mandrakelinux.
Mandrakelinux is constantly in development. A development version of Mandrakelinux, known as the "Cooker" is publicly available, but it is not recommended for use in a production environment because of the constant changes going on in it.
Next to that, community members provide RPMs for the latest packages of popular software.
From the ground up, Mandrakelinux was compiled for Pentium-class processors, thus benefiting of a few percents of additional performance on these machines - to the cost of being unusable with 386 and 486, a problem that rapidly faded out due to current CPU power and memory requirements of latest versions of popular software.
The provided kernel and glibc have enhancements for more recent processors. For example, the glibc will load libraries from the special directory /lib/i686 if the detected processor is compatible.
Mandrakelinux is geared to use KDE or GNOME as the standard desktops, but includes others such as IceWM, Blackbox, Window MakerWindow Maker is a window manager for the X Window System, which allows graphical applications to be run on Unix-like operating-systems. History Window Maker was written primarily by Alfredo Kojima for the GNUstep desktop environment. It was designed to to and TwmIn Unix computing, twm is an X Window System window manager, distributed as a standard window manager with the X window system since release 4 (X11R4). It is a re-parenting window manager, it provides titlebars, shaped windows and icon management, and is. A unique themeIn computing, skins and themes are custom graphical appearances ( GUIs) that can be applied to certain software and websites in order to suit the different tastes of different users. Such software is referred to as being skinnable and the process of writi known as "Mandrakegalaxy" provides consistency between applicationIn general, an application is using something general to some more conrete. For example: applied science. In business, an application is call for a job. In computing, an application is software application See also: application server.s and desktop environmentIn graphical computing, a desktop environment DE offers a complete graphical user interface (GUI) solution to operate a computer. The name is derived from the desktop metaphor used by most of these interfaces. A DE provides icons, toolbars, applications,s. Mandrakegalaxy debuted in version 9.1 and Mandrakegalaxy II appared in 10.0. A variant of Mandrakegalaxy is "Mandrakegalaxy Squared", which uses squareIn plane geometry, a square is a polygon with four equal sides and equal angles. Those angles are then necessarily right angles. Squares are regular quadrilaterals, rectangles, rhombi, kites, parallelograms, and isosceles trapezoids/isosceles trapezia. window buttons rather than roundFor rounding in mathematics see significant figure and see also Cartridge (weaponry). A round is a musical composition in which two or more voices sing exactly the same melody, beginning at different times. Row, Row, Row Your Boat is a well known children ones.