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Need a full-featured and powerful Desktop system? The PowerPack provides all the latest and greatest software packages--from the most popular to the most advanced--that will put you ahead of the crowd. With thousands of commercial and Open Source applications, from office to software development, the PowerPack gives you the most powerful Desktop that you could imagine. Additionally, one free month of MandrakeOnline membership provides everything needed to stay current with software and security updates.
Content:
* Six CDs--new!
* Two printed manuals--new!
* Starter guide and reference manual
Services:
* One free month of standard-level MandrakeClub membership
* 60 days of standard Web support for free
* One free month of MandrakeOnline Personal Solutions--new!
Browse the PowerPack packages list
Main features:
* Office
* OpenOffice.org
* Adobe Acrobat Reader, Real Player, and Flash
* Internet
* Organize your data with the integrated personal information suites Kontact and Evolution--new!
* Browse the Web with Mozilla and Konqueror
Multimedia
* Listen to audio CDs and music files with KsCD and Totem
* Edit images and digital photos with The Gimp
Development tools
* Discover Kdevelop--a full-featured and easy-to-use integrated development environment
* Compile source code with GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
* Debug your programs with GDB, the GNU Project debugger
* Choose your favorite editor: Emacs, Xemacs, or Vim
* Commercial applications such as J2SDK 1.4, J2RE, and Intel Compilers
Easily customize your system thanks to:
* An automatized installation process: choose a graphical desktop environment and a theme; partition your hard drive automatically or with customized partitioning schemes; benefit from superior automatic hardware recognition.*
* A highly efficient centralized configuration center with improved interface and optimized utilities. Easily configure network and Internet settings (ADSL), set the system's security level, adjust the display resolution, and much more! New!
* Manage software packages with RPMDrake and URPMI!
* Easily download RPMs from www.mandrakeclub.com and install them with just one click! New!
*Most peripherals supported.
Here are some of the main innovations included in MandrakeLinux 10:
* Kernel 2.6
* Samba 3.0
* KDE 3.2
* Groupware solution
* New look and feel in MCC
* DrakPark
* DrakFax
* Galaxy II
* Magicdev
* MandrakeOnline
Kernel 2.6: more performance and reliability
MandrakeLinux includes in its distribution by default the latest version of kernel 2.6.3. The new operating system software is a major release of a new Linux production kernel. The last time this happened was with the 2.4 version of the kernel release in January 2001.
The significant enhancements are:
* Improved scalability to 16 CPUs or more, with improved performance, using the new O(1) scheduler
* Improved file-system performance, with full inclusion for four journaling file systems (Ext3, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS) for real-time data backup and recovery capabilities.
* Improved threading support
* Added memory support up to 64 GB
* Enhanced disk-drive performance and storage access
* Enjoy low latency support especially for Studio-quality sound
* Support for USB 2.0.
* Firewire and much more!
Samba 3
MandrakeLinux 10.0 now integrates Samba 3.
* Active Directory support (LDAP / Kerberos): Samba 3.0 is now able to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using native Active Directory support.
* Unicode support: Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte and unicode character sets. It greatly simplifies supporting international languages.
New authentication system:
The internal authentication system has been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal, but the new authentication system is also very configurable and supports LDAP account storage out-of-the-box. Support for storing samba account details in XML files (mainly for backup purposes) and MySQL is available by installing the samba-passdb-xml and samba-passdb-mysql packages respectively. When using the LDAP backend, you can also support domain groups, and map unix groups to Windows domain groups (required for the migration of NTdomains to Samba/LDAP). It should also be possible to use the Windows user management tools (User Manager for Domains for Windows NT) on Windows clients to manage groups and users.
Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure compatibility with default Windows 2003 security settings.
It allows:
1. Clients to access resources on Windows 2003 servers
2. The joining of Windows XP machines to a samba domain without any configuration changes on the XP clients
3. Allows samba servers in Windows domains to serve WindowsXP clients without reducing security setting
Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This improves error handling a lot.
Tool to migrate from Samba 2 to Samba 3
Features:
* Backup any existing smb.conf
* Merge the settings in this file into a new smb.conf
* Converting any syntax changes needed between samba2 to samba3
Including the administrator's custom settings in the new configuration file. All merged/modified lines are preceded by a comment so the user knows what took place.
Furthermore, a summary of the changes are written in /var/log/samba/smb-migrate.log.
KDE 3.2
MandrakeLinux 10.0 integrates the third major-release of KDE desktop platform.
Here are the main improvements:
* Kwallet: this tool is providing integrated, secure storage of passwords and Web form data.
* Personal Information Management: Kontact--a unified interface that draws KDE's email, calendaring, address book, notes, and other PIM features together into a familiar configuration.
* Kgpg: providing an easy-to-use KDE interface to industry-standard encryption tools.
* KSVG: a viewer for SVG files.
* Inline spell checking for Web forms and emails.
Groupware solution
For the first time MandrakeLinux offers a solution Groupware. It is only integrated in PowerPack+. The Groupware solution uses Kontact as client and Kolab as server. Kolab is the groupware server that MandrakeLinux chose for its distribution. It is secure, scalable, and reliable server. Furthermore, it is really easy to configure thanks to its Web administration interface.
New design for MandrakeLinux Control Center
Here is the new design of MandrakeLinux Control Center. It includes 62 tools to configure easily and quickly your computer.
DrakPar
This new exclusive MandrakeLinux tool will allow you to maintain and update software on your networked PCs in a highly efficient and centralized manner. Create a new Group Scan a network.
DrakFax
Drakfax is a new tool to setup a fax (modem fax), to send and receive facsimiles. drakfax also provides a client to send facsimile locally or via a hylafax server.
New MandrakeGalaxy
This package displays an html file allowing users to launch browsers to other html pages (MandrakeLinux Web sites or local html documentation) or to launch MandrakeLinux applications such as the MandrakeLinux Control Center.
Magicdev
Magicdev is a daemon that runs within the GNOME environment and detects when a CD is removed or inserted. Magicdev handles running auto-run programs on the CD, updating the File Manager, and playing audio CDs.
MandrakeOnline
Easily update your pack!: MandrakeOnline provides quick access to a wide range of services for easily updating your MandrakeLinux distribution. To help keep your system up-to-date and secure, a new notification system alerts you when new packages become available. Easily locate and download the latest releases of your favorite applications. With the automated update option you no longer need to worry about updating your operating system.
Product Description
MandrakeLinux was created in 1998 with the goal of making Linux® easier to use for everyone. At that time, Linux was already well-known as a powerful and stable operating system that demanded strong technical knowledge and extensive use of the "command line". MandrakeSoft saw this as an opportunity to integrate the best graphical desktop environments and contribute its own graphical configuration utilities and quickly became famous for setting the standard in ease-of-use and functionality.
PowerPack is MandrakeSoft's premier Linux desktop product. PowerPack includes thousands of applications--everything from the most popular to the most advanced. With PowerPack 10.0, MandrakeSoft offers all the power and stability of Linux to both individuals and professional users in an easy-to-use and pleasant environment. Thousands of new users are discovering Linux each and every day and finding it a complete replacement for their previous operating system. Linux as a server or workstation has no reason to be jealous of any other more established operating systems. Features include: OpenOffice.org, Adobe Acrobat® Reader®, Real Player™, and Flash Player™ Organize personal data with Kontact and Evolution/Browse the Web with Mozilla and Konqueror Listen to audio CVs and music files with KsCD and Totem Discover Kdevelop--a full-featured and easy-to-use IDE Compile your source code GCC; debug your programs with GDB Choose your favorite editor: Emacs, Xemacs or Vim Open source applications include: Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6, KDE 3.2; GNOME 2.4, Xfree86 4.3, Glibc 2.3.3, GCC 3.3.2, CUPS, URPMI, and more
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