MANDRAKESOFT ANNOUNCES PROJECT DISKDRAKE

["Lee Sharp" <lee@insync.net>]

I saw this and wondered if it was too late to put it in the distrib, or if
we even wanted to...

            Lee


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MANDRAKESOFT ANNOUNCES PROJECT DISKDRAKE:

"A Hard-Drive partioner for Linux, under opensource license"
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MandrakeSoft - publisher of the popular "Linux-Mandrake" distribution
- announces DiskDrake, a complete hard-drive partioner available for
Linux now (beta version) and for Windows(tm) soon. DiskDrake is
published under the terms of the General Public License (GNU).

Recently, a new need for hard-drive partioners has been felt with the
growing success of Linux: people often want to install Linux on their
PC without having to remove Windows(tm). So, in order to free some
place for Linux they usually need to resize their disk partitions,
which is still a delicate operation, only permitted by some
hard-to-use text based programs like "fips" or other proprietary
software.

We, at MandrakeSoft, have choosen to release our own full-featured
graphical partioner freely (under the terms of the General Public
License). DiskDrake currently runs under Linux. A Windows(tm) port is
envisaged.

The first released version of DiskDrake is beta software, but it
should improve rapidly with the contribution of the free-software
community.

DiskDrake will of course be integrated in the next version of
Linux-Mandrake.

DiskDrake can be discovered and downloaded from:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake/

All developpers with sufficient knowledge in Linux, as well as in
Windows(tm) programming can join the project. Debug it and add some
new great features in it!