http://alllinuxdevices.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-10-12-005-03-PL-HH is a press release from Mandrake and Avantgo announcing that Mandrake news is now available as an Avantgo channel. To quote: "MandrakeSoft has signed a content provider partnership with AvantGo Inc. to offer the latest Linux-Mandrake news on PDAs such as the Palm." Now, Mandrake, being a Linux company, would obviously not want to shut out a community-developed open solution in favor of a commercial closed solution, would they? Anyone (preferably someone who uses Mandrake - aka a customer of theirs) feel like dropping them a line and asking them to provide the necessary information to create a sitescooper .site, since they obviously have something set up for PDA-targetted content? pasted from All Linux Devices Linux-Mandrake's news now available on AvantGo's PDA information service Oct 12, 2000, 15 :12 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (52 reads) Paris, October 11th, 2000 - MandrakeSoft has signed a content provider partnership with AvantGo Inc. to offer the latest Linux-Mandrake news on PDAs such as the Palm. This is possible through the AvantGo service available on http://www.avantgo.com that already provides numerous information channels to PDA users. This new channel is called "Linux news by MandrakeSoft" and is available on: http://avantgo.com/channels/detail.html?cha_id=2047 For MandrakeSoft, this is a new step in offering still better service to its community of users. "This AvantGo channel dedicated to Linux-Mandrake news has been awaited by many of our users for a long time. By providing them our news regularly through this news stream dedicated to PDAs, we answer a new need of people who are constantly moving outside their office," said Henri Poole, CEO of MandrakeSoft. Still limited to official Linux-Mandrake headlines, the new service will soon be revamped into a real news streams taken from MandrakeSoft's new forum on http://www.mandrakeforum.com For more information about AvantGo on Linux-Mandrake: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/pda/HOWTO-Avantgo.php3 About MandrakeSoft MandrakeSoft publishes the Linux-Mandrake operating system, based on open-source development (which provides free access to source code published in accordance with a General Public License, or GPL). Several hundred developers throughout the world contribute to the constant improvement of the product directly over the Internet. This international developer community has given Linux-Mandrake a product that is available in over 40 languages. Linux-Mandrake is a very complete system with a choice of several powerful, pre-configured graphic interfaces (notably the leaders KDE and Gnome), as well as more than 1700 applications including Netscape Communicator, the StarOffice suite, and the Apache Web server. In a testament to its success, MandrakeSoft received the awards for "Best Product of the Year" and "Best Linux-Distribution/Server" at LinuxWorld Expo 99, as well as the PC Answers Platinum Award in April 2000. The company has signed a strategic partnership with the American publisher Macmillan. "Born on the Internet," MandrakeSoft established headquarters in Pasadena (U.S.) and Paris (Europe). Please visit the web site, http://www.linux-mandrake.com for more information.
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