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What are the advantages of Mandrake Linux?
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February 02, 2009 10:10AM
None. Any distro branded "Mandrake" is long obsolete; the parent company renamed itself to "Mandriva" in 2005.
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What is basic difference between Linux 4 and Linux 9?

== == There is no Linux 9 yet. In fact, there is no Linux 3 yet.
Linux is still at major version 2.
If you meant to ask about the differencences between R-HEL 4 an
R-HEL 9, please ask the question again.
What most people commonly refer to as "Linux" is actually the
kernel or operating system for GNU/Linux. The operating system by
itself provides amongst other things a (software) platform for
programs to execute on. The reason for the "GNU" prefix relates the
the utilities that form part of the user's view of the operating
system. These utilites allow the creation of directories, the
editing of files, deleting files, etc. These utilities are not
distributed in a bundled form with the Linux kernel. The Linux
kernel itself is distributed under a special license known as the
GNU Public Licence (GPL) which allows people to distribute is
legally, and to obtain it freely. Freely here does not refer to
price, however. Many software vendors have started creating tools
and bundled packages which include the Linux kernel. These vendors,
such as Red Hat, or Mandrake, or SuSe, will then give their
particular release a version number, such as Red Hat Linux 4, or
Mandrake Linux 10.1. The difference mainly includes updated
utilities, and an updated (newer) version of the Kernel itself. It
is important to realise, however, that there is really no such
thing as Linux 4, or Linux 9. One may see something along the Lines
of Linux 2.4.26 or Linux 2.6, which is referring to the version or
release of the Linux Kernel.