MandrakeSoft Announces Project DiskDrake
Jul 22nd, 02:39 UTC
"A Hard-Drive partitioner for Linux, under opensource license"
MandrakeSoft - publisher of
the popular Linux-Mandrake distribution -
announces DiskDrake, a complete hard-drive partitioner 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 partitioners 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 partitioner 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 developers 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!
(Submitted by Dwight Johnson of Linux Today)
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