LULA Roundtable

Todd A. Lyons

Mandrake Linux Usability

Resolve RPM dependencies – urpmi

Easy URPMI

Removable media made easy – supermount

Unified menu system

Mandrake Control Center

PLF – Penguin Liberation Front

Support – Official and Volunteers

URPMI

Powerful CLI

Resolve dependencies

HTTP /FTP / rsync

RPMDrake

Graphical package selection

Various grouping

Same URPM backend to resolve dependencies

EasyURPMI for Adding Sources

Supermount

No need to mount cdrom or floppy

No need to unmount cdrom or floppy

Desktop Hardware Integration

Make hardware easy for user to access.

Removable media

Hotpluggable hardware

Various other types of hardware

Unified Menu System

Each app appears in all menus when installed.

Each app is removed from all menus when uninstalled.

All menus look similar to each other.

KDE on right.

Others on next slide.

Unified Menu System

Mandrake Control Center

Requires root, kdesu asks for root password

Configure all aspects of hardware

Configure Linux for function and security

Mandrake Control Center

Undistributable by Mandrake?

Official Mandrake Support

Volunteers – IRC and Mailing Lists

LULA Roundtable

Todd A. Lyons

2004-02-16T22:26:52