 February 28 2000 - Linux Mandrake PowerPack 7.0 available
The Linux-Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack edition is now available at retailers and by mail-order in the US.The Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack
includes numerous enhancements, such as our new graphical installer and supermount to address the needs of all Linux users, from beginners to advanced. It also contains new manuals and more than 2000 applications such as the popular Staroffice 5.1a office suite and IBM Lotus Notes server. Read the announce here.
February 16 2000 - Linux-Mandrake Quickies: Lnx4Win and New Documentation Just posted in the Demo & Tutorial Center is a new demonstration of Linux for Windows. Lnx4Win was the first application that allowed users to install and use Linux from a Windows partition. We have also the new Mandrake 7.0 manuals online. Learn everything about Mandrake 7.0, in English, Deutsch, Français or Español.
February 15 2000 - MandrakeSoft into Network Computing
MandrakeSoft will actively join SuSE Linux AG and Linbox Inc. to develop the Linbox Network Architecture, a Linux Network Computing, and bring it to the broadest audience. See the press release there.
February 5 2000 - Linux-Mandrake Demo & Tutorial Center updates Just posted is a new tutorial on installing software using KPackage. Also available are demos of the Mandrake 7.0 graphical installer, the updated KDE Desktop and the DrakConf control panel. Jump here.
February 5 2000 - New ISO image available Due to a bug in the installer that caused problems when resizing certain FAT
partitions and some additional smaller issues, a new Mandrake 7.0 ISO image called mandrake70-2.iso is available for download at the usual locations. You can continue to use the previous ISO image if you make new bootdisks from the updated boot images located in
/updates/7.00/images at the download mirrors. After completing the
installation, upgrade the draxtools rpm with drakxtools-1.0-44mdk.i586.rpm.
February 3rd 2000 - Mandrake 7.0 ported to Alpha and UltraSPARC architectures  Through some agreements and strong cooperation with Alpha Processors Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc., MandrakeSoft is very pleased to announce (1) (2) the port of Linux-Mandrake 7.0 on Alpha and UltraSPARC processors. See the demos at MandrakeSoft booths at Linux-Expo Paris and LinuxWorld Expo NYC (Alpha only).
January 14 2000 - Mandrake 7.0 (Air) is available!
You have been waiting for it for a long time, now it's there! The new
main features are: new graphical installer with partition resizer,
supermount included in Kernel 2.2.14, XFree 3.3.6, security levels, new
desktop enhancements, better internationalization. Discover and enjoy
the first Linux distribution of Year 2000 in this presentation.
The plain-text full announcement is available here.
January 5 2000 - Linux-Mandrake Gold Pack 2000 is available!
 The latest MandrakeSoft package, Gold Pack 2000, is available at local reseller throughout the USA and UK. The Linux-Mandrake Gold Pack 2000 is a complete solution for newcommers to Linux world : it is packed with the latest enhancements to our current distribution (Linux-Mandrake 6.1) and provides 60 days free phone support, an easy hard disc partitioning with System Commander, our new Graphical installer, DrakX and a free update to the next release of Linux-Mandrake.
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Linux-Mandrake at February's expos MandrakeSoft will be there with greet at the world's two largest Linux Exibitions in February 2000. LinuxWorld in New York is scheduled on February 1st to 4th 2000 and Linux-Expo in Paris will meet from February 1st to 3rd 2000. We can send you free invitations to both events, details available here.
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January 4 2000 - MandrakeSoft seeks [A]DSL and cable testers.
More and more people are using [A]DSL and cable modems to connect to the Internet these days. To provide greater support for these fast Internet connections we are adding features for many of these devices into the upcoming Mandrake 7.0 release.
Due to the wide variety of cable and DSL solutions available, MandrakeSoft is looking for interested volunteers who are currently using cable or [A]DSL to try our latest software and comment on any bugs or missing features.
Like Linux itself, it is due to the support of the user's community that we at MandrakeSoft can continue to provide the high quality, high performance distribution we always have.
Information about our mailing list and software downloads are available at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/. Please report comments and suggestions to our "cooker" development team.
December 28 1999 - Demo & Tutorial Center opens.
A new section has just opened on the Mandrake website: the "Demo & Tutorial Center" is intended to show what Linux-Mandrake is. You can currently take a first KDE lesson and discover the MandrakeUpdate utility. More to come soon!
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December 22 1999 - Linux-Mandrake 7.0-BETA available for download.
Linux-Mandrake 7.0-BETA is now available for download from many Mandrake FTP mirrors. We are currently looking for as many beta-testers as possible to improve the coming stable release of Linux-Mandrake 7.0. This is your chance to discover all the new exciting features before the official release. Details on how to download and test Mandrake 7.0-BETA on this page.
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December 21 1999 - Now try Linux-Mandrake without installing any software!
Demolinux, a foundation dedicated to the promotion of Linux and open
source software, now offers a bootable CD that allows PC users to run a fully
functional Linux-Mandrake on their computer without installing any software on your hard disk.
Just insert the CD and reboot your PC to begin discovering the
Linux world you've been reading about. The CD includes KDE, GNOME and the
hundreds of applications that are available on the regular CD.
Enjoy hundreds of softwares without having to run any command line.
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For more informations about DemoLinux, see http://www.demolinux.org.
December 12 1999 - Linux-Mandrake Y2K compliant:
 An independent study says that the Linux-Mandrake 6.1 distribution has full compatibility with all the year 2000 issues and with the critical dates. Linux-Mandrake 6.1 users will set their mind at rest before entering the next millennium. For more details on the study and certification, see our Y2K page.
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 December 01 1999 - Mandrake on the rise - Mandrake has the second-fastest absolute growth of Linux machines registered through the Linux Counter. Read all the explanations here.
November 18 1999 - Jean-Loup Gailly named as Chief Technical Officer - Jean-Loup Gailly has been a long time contributor of free software. He is the author of the compression utility Gzip and co-author of the compression library Zlib. "It's a pleasure to be employed by a company that is so devoted to open-source and has a very high potential on the Linux market in the coming years", said Jean-Loup Gailly. Read the complete announcement here.
November 11 1999 - Press reviews - PC WORLD : in an article called "Mandrake 6.1 Flattens the Linux Learning Curve", PC World has tested Mandrake 6.1 (PowerPack Edition). CPU Review - Distribution Wars II : "Mandrake (PowerPack edition) ended up with the highest composite score" - this is the conclusion between a comparison of three of the most popular Linux distributions.
 The COMDEX will take place at Las Vegas on november 15-19 '99, Mandrakesoft will be in booth number 1524 at the special Linux Exhibition located in the Las Vegas Hilton : Linux Business Expo. Update: LinuxToday is covering the event live! Just tune your mpeg3 player (xmms for example) to this URL: http://linuxtoday.com:8000 - Enjoy!
October 27 1999 - 52% of Linux retail market! According to figures from PC Data, Macmillan accounted for 52% of total Linux software units sold at retail in August, up from 51% in July. Macmillan Complete Linux Operating System is a version of Linux-Mandrake packaged for the American market by MacMillan USA.
October 25 1999 - Mandrake 6.1 review CPUReview has reviewed Linux-Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack in details. The conclusion is: "Overall Grade: A Recommended".
On October 26th and 27th, Mandrakesoft will be at the LINUX FORUM 1999 in Brussels.Many exhibitors will present their product and services on a 500 m² floor. We will have a booth there, so come and see us at LINUX FORUM, access is free.
This Forum is the first Linux Belgian exhibit on Linux open to a wide public. Two conference streams will interest corporate world and technicians. Many exhibitors will present their product and services on a 500 m² floor. MandrakeSoft will be there! The LINUX FORUM will take place in the AutoWorld of Brussels.
October 13 1999 - Business use of Mandrake We have started to maintain a list of all companies that use Linux-Mandrake all over the world. Join the list!
october 12 1999 - Press: Mandrake on a Linux "Superstation" Read this interesting article about how to build a 1100 Mhz computer at low cost, with Mandrake 6.0 running on it!
october 5 1999 -  PowerPack 6.1 is available! The PowerPack edition of Linux-Mandrake 6.1 is available worldwide, with StarOffice, Applixware, VmWare, IBM DB2, MythII... Discover all the features here!
september 26 1999 - Wanna join us? MandrakeSoft is seeking high-level Linux programmers for its numerous projects. Look at the jobs pages
september 24 1999 - Linux-Mandrake opens linuxi18n.org This is a new project to provide a central point of contact between
programmers/project teams of free software, and translators/translation
teams. Read the press-release here.
september 23 1999 - Linux-Mandrake Ranked First in Linux Sales in July!! MandrakeSoft, the premier publisher of the popular Linux-Mandrake(TM) operating system, today announced July record sales for its award winning solution. See the the press-release here!
september 21 1999 - mandrakeuser.org is opened! Have a look at this new website dedicated to free support for Mandrake users! Go to MandrakeUser.org
september 17 1999 - Linux-Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) is available for download. Read the announce here, pick your distro here. Mandrake 6.1 features Linux 2.2.13pre, XFree 3.3.5 and KDE 1.1.2, among others.
september 13 1999 - ``The next big thing?'' "Well, I still see Mandrake exploding for quite some time. The two biggest distributions I see getting exposure from the newbies (this is based by the responses on my website) are Mandrake and Redhat" says Sensei of Linuxnewbie, interviewed on LinuxPlanet. You can read the interview here. LinuxPlanet also mentions DiskDrake in this article.
september 9 1999 - ``The best Distribution of Linux available'' Reviews' R' Us has tested the Mac Millan packaging of Linux-Mandrake. Read their article here.
september 3 1999 - Linux-Mandrake Expands Into China Market MandrakeSoft Development Centers Open in Beijing and Shanghai Strategic Partners LinuxOne, Kingstar and iTRANS establish Distribution. Read the press-relesease here.
august 27 1999 - Linux Weekly News covers Linux-Mandrake this week. Read their very interesting article. There is also an interview with Gaël Duval, founder of MandrakeSoft.
august 24 1999 - AXA Innovation Fund Takes Equity Position in Rising Linux Start-Up, MandrakeSoft. "We believe that MandrakeSoft is poised to be a dominant player in the emerging but potentially huge Linux market" said Peter Bieliczky from AXA Investment Managers Group. Read the Press-release here.
august 23 1999 - ANNOUNCE: Beta version of ``Panoramix'', new graphical installation procedure available. This is a new installation procedure, allowing easy installation of Linux-Mandrake. It has just been integrated in Cooker, our experimental distribution. Panoramix is entirely written in Perl which is interface independent, offering contributors
an easy and flexible way to contribute. This beta version features the integration of Diskdrake, a
complete hard-drive partitioning tool, that offers users a simple graphic tool for completing the
painful partitioning phase while installing Linux.
MandrakeSoft maintains Red Hat compatibility and the well-proven Red Hat installation to provide
its users a choice. Panoramix enables users to install Linux-Mandrake per CDRom or network,
and counts several use-levels to allow new comer, as well as hackers to easily install Linux.
Panoramix also implemented a new powerful kickstart mode from Red Hat that enables users to
quickly install Linux on several identical machines. Panoramix has been designed to be the fastest
easiest to use, and more powerful graphical installation in the Linux market.
Complete Press-release available here.
august 20 1999 - Linux Mandrake open development version available online and through resellers. Linux Mandrake is proud to announce the availability of it's new development version code-named "Cooker".
What sets the distribution apart
from previous versions is that Linux Mandrake has now adopted a new open
style of development that allows real-time updating of the distribution
based on the contribution of both it's dedicated staff and the user
base. This is in accordance to the "bazaar" style of development
popularized by ESR in his landmark essay "The Cathedral and the Bazaar",
and will help Linux Mandrake better serve the Open Source community.
Linux Mandrake Cooker is aimed at the following audiences:
Users who want to stay on the cutting edge with a distribution that is
updated daily.
Users who want an easier way to upgrade their existing software.
Developers who want to contribute to the development and direction of
Linux Mandrake.
Cooker is now available online at:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker
For those without high-speed internet access we also have several on-line
resellers who can create Cooker CD's on demand with the latest package
upgrades.
august 19 1999 - Bynari Systems Group and MandrakeSoft Sign Agreement to Provide Support Services for MandrakeSoft in North America. Read the press-release here.
august 19 1999 - There is an interview of Daniel M. Duley on Linux.com. Like David Faure, Daniel is a KDE developper who works for us.
august 16 1999 - Why did Robin Miller choose to switch from Red Hat to Mandrake? Read the answer in this very interesting article at Andover.net
august 15 1999 - Mandrake is good for Red Hat! "Red Hat is actually pleased, because under the GPL, Red Hat can incorporate the improvements [from Mandrake]" - Donnie Barnes, Red Hat Software Inc. Read the complete very interesting discussion taken from LinuxWorld Expo: "Can Linux and Business work together?".
 august 12 1999 - Mandrake 6.0 wins at LinuxWorld Expo's Editors's Choice Awards! We are VERY pleased to announce that we have won both the "Product of the year" and "Distribution/Server" LinuxWorld's Editor Awards for Mandrake 6.0 today at San Jose, California :-) We are also in second position for the "Distribution/Client" Award!!! Come to meet us there! (we are at "Pick Systems" booth)
Please read the complete results of the Awards on the LinuxWorld Expo site on: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-08/lw-08-penguin_1.html
august 10 1999 - Mandrake to support KOffice!  MandrakeSoft will finance David Faure, core-developer at KDE to work for the KOffice and KDE projects. Read the complete press-release here.
august 08 1999 - Champagne(2)! LinuxMall, one of the biggest online Linux resellers, has just published its TOP40 sells results for July. Mandrake 6.0 PowerPack Edition is ranked #1!
We are in first position by $ volume (Mandrake 6.0 PowerPack Edition), in third position in number of items sold (Mandrake 6.0 "GPL" CDs).
july 30 1999 - Press: - "Buried Treasure: Lnx4win" is an article on LinuxForum. It talks about a tool in Mandrake 6.0 which lets you install Linux on a windows partition. We have not publicized it because it was still beta-software.
july 28 1999 - LinuxWorld Expo Awards: - LinuxWorld unveils the finalists for the LinuxWorld Editors' Choice Awards. Mandrake 6.0 is finalist in three categories: "Product of the year", "Distribution/server" and "Distribution/client"!!!
 july 27 1999 - LinuxWorld Expo: MandrakeSoft will be at LinuxWorld Expo on august 10-12, 1999 - San Jose, CA. We will be at the Pick Systems' booth.
july 23 1999 - BIRTHDAY: on July 23, 1998, Linux-Mandrake 5.1 appeared on a few FTP servers... We are one year old! Today, you can come and ask your questions to MandrakeSoft guys on IRC/GALAXYNET: Server: atlanta.ga.us.galaxynet.org / Channel: #mandrake / Time: 16:00 GMT / 16:00 UTC (check often this news page in case where there would be a problem).
july 21 1999 - MandrakeSoft 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). See the complete announce and the DiskDrake page.
july 20 1999 - LinuxWorld Expo and Awards: "I really like Mandrake 6.0" -- Nicholas Petreley - In this article at LinuxWorld, Nicholas Petreley suggests Mandrake 6.0 for "Editors' Choice Awards" to be given out at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose in August. He wants your feedback! Support us, give your opinion!!
july 15 1999 - Champagne! LinuxMall, one of the biggest online Linux resellers, has just published its TOP40 sells results for June. Mandrake 6.0 is ranked #3 in value and #2 in volume!
We are in second position just after Red Hat... Linux-Mandrake 6.0, which integrates very cool stuff is very adapted for newbies, as well as for geeks, and is now very popular.
july 13 1999 - Cooker: a mailling-list dedicated to Linux-Mandrake internationalization project is opened. You want Mandrake 6.1 to support your language? Contribute to cooker-i18n! Look on the cooker page for how to subscribe...
july 10 1999 - Press: "For ease of getting started, I recommend Mandrake" - here is an article about Linux and Mandrake in "Christian Computing Magazine". Mandrake 6.0 also have a quite good review in "The Duke of URL".
july 8 1999 - Crypto: we are very pleased to announce the availability of strong cryptographic packages for Linux-Mandrake such as openssl, ssh and pgp. Those packages are currently available from ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-crypto/. There should be other unrestricted mirrors soon.
We have also opened a new page for crypto stuff with Mandrake.
july 5 1999 - Press: CPU-REVIEW recommends Linux-Mandrake 6.0. Read their article.
CPU-REVIEW has tested the McMillan edition of Linux-Mandrake 6.0. Results are: "Overall Grade: A Recommended" - "You can't go wrong buying Mandrake 6.0; it is an excellent Linux distribution, and I suspect I will keep using it as a desktop OS".
july 1st 1999 - Cooker: we are very pleased to announce that we have released a development version of Linux-Mandrake. It's called cooker.
It's not really a preview of the next version, just experimental. It's already available from several FTP mirrors. It's updated every hour with the last modifications.
The purpose of Cooker is to improve the Linux-Mandrake distribution by permitting a better interaction between our team and the Mandrake users, both for debugging and adding new features.
HOW TO TEST IT?
Subscribe to the "cooker" list for bug-reports. Then, subscribe to "changelog" so you can be informed of any modification made to the cooker.
More informations on Cooker's page at:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/
june 17 1999 - Press: very interesting article about Mandrake and Red Hat by Andrew Leonard, on Linux.com. It's worth a read and can be found here.
june 14 1999 - Our Frequently Asked Questions page has been updated for Mandrake 6.0. It's available here.
 june 8 1999 - New New Mandrake screenshots available!
june 8 1999 - New Mandrake PowerPack 6.0 (with StarOffice 5.1 included!) available! Please look at our distributors lists.
 may 27 1999 - Mandrake 6.0 (Venus) available for download. Please discover our new version here...
may 12 1999 - Mandrake 6.0beta (Mariner) available for download and tests. All details here.
april 25 1999: Press-review: French magazine `PC-Expert' (ZD-Net publication) about Mandrake: "currently the best distribution"!!
april 23 1999: Which is the best Linux distribution? Vote here! :->
april 22 1999: MandrakeSoft announces Lothar project
 The purpose of the Lothar project is to make hardware configuration easier in Linux,
by providing hardware detection, and a nice graphical interface. Now, it allows Ethernet and Sound Card configuration... Full details in the announce and on http://www.linux-mandrake.com/lothar
 April 14 1999: Press-review
Mandrake wins the `Price Tip' award from `PC-Magazin' "Mandrake earns a big point for their intelligent configuration of KDE" (Germany - issue April99).
 April 13 1999: Press-review
French daily newspaper `Liberation' talks about KDE and Linux-Mandrake (in French).
April 3 1999: Thanks to Tom Berger alt.os.linux.mandrake is available.
April 2 1999: - Mandrake sells: GPL Edition is #2 at LinuxMall TOP40 in January+February+March!
http://www.linuxmall.com/hotlist/hot9901.html, http://www.linuxmall.com/hotlist/hot9902.html, http://www.linuxmall.com/hotlist/hot9903.html. PowerPack Edition is #12 by $ volume in March http://www.linuxmall.com/hotlist/hot9903.html.
March 25 1999 - Mandrake Press-review
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Dream: "Mandrake is to become a standard"
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March 25 1999 - new Kernel 2.2.3-ac4 RPMs available
We have integrated some new RPM with kernel2.2.3-ac4. It is available for Linux-Mandrake 5.2/5.3 and RedHat 5.2.
We have put all details for clean installation, and put all needed packages updates.
The packages are available for download on many mirrors from: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/kernel2.2-upgrade.html
Please report any bugs with those new packages to: bug@linux-mandrake.com
March 15 1999 - BeroLinux joins Linux-Mandrake.
Hello,
we - Gaël Duval from the Linux-Mandrake project and Bernhard Rosenkränzer from the new BeroLinux project - are very pleased to announce that we have decided to merge the two projects because we have similar goals and products.
We want to make the best Linux distribution for the beginner, we want to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Linux and Un|x configuration standards, we want it easy-to-use: we want to put Linux on the desktop!
Bernhard Rosenkränzer will now be employed at MandrakeSoft - the company which produces Linux-Mandrake - and be responsible for the official Linux-Mandrake distribution. The new resulting distribution will integrate the new ideas and features from BeroLinux as well as all the new stuff that is actually developped by the Linux-Mandrake team.
For example, in the next release, our users will have the choice between both KDE and Gnome for the desktop manager, with new nice interoperability features. They will also be given the possibility to get special optimized version for their hardware too (Pentium I/II, K6...).
We last plan to integrate some nice features like full 2.2.x kernel support, Euro support, scalable fonts support etc.
Last but not least, we plan to open the Linux-Mandrake development so that users can contribute and decide what they want for their Linux distribution. Expect more details by the end of the week.
Gaël Duval - gael@linux-mandrake.com
Bernhard Rosenkränzer - bero@microsoft.sucks.eu.org
More information about Linux-Mandrake at http://www.linux-mandrake.com
More information about BeroLinux at http://www.berolinux.za.net/
March 11 1999 - Mandrake sells: #2 at LinuxMall TOP40!
According to two URLs on LinuxMall, Mandrake Linux 5.2 GPL sells by number of units came in 2nd position just after Red Hat 5.2 GPL in January and February at LinuxMall!
http://www.linuxmall.com/hotlist/hot9901.html
http://www.linuxmall.com/hotlist/hot9902.html
We expect such good news (and maybe even better) in March with our new popular version: Linux-Mandrake 5.3 (which integrates KDE1.1) for both GPL Edition and PowerPack Edition.
March 11 1999 - new Kernel 2.2.3 RPM available for tests
We have integrated some new RPM with kernel2.2.3. It is available for Linux-Mandrake 5.2/5.3 and RedHat 5.2. We have put all details for clean installation. However, this is still for tests, not for production use.
The packages are available for download on many mirrors from: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/kernel2.2-upgrade.html
Please report any bugs with those new packages to: bug@linux-mandrake.com
March 10 1999 - Mandrake 5.3 PowerPack Edition available in the USA!
Linux-Mandrake PowerPack Edition (4 CDs, installation guide, 100 days installation support) which includes WordPerfect8.0 for Linux, is now available in the USA. Public retail price is US $50. You can expect it cheaper at a few resellers. Please check our distributors page ! The product will be available in Canada soon too.
March 1 1999 - Mandrake 5.3 in "PC Action" (Italy)
Linux-Mandrake 5.3 available in Italy in "PC ACTION"!
January 27 1999 - MandrakeSoft at IT COMDEX, Paris, France!
 MandrakeSoft S.A. (http://www.mandrakesoft.com), producer of the Linux-Mandrake distribution (http://www.linux-mandrake.com) will be at IT COMDEX (http://www.birp.com/lx/index0.html) in Paris. Feb, 9 1999 to Feb, 12 1999 - Parc des Exposisions de Paris - Porte de Versailles - 75015 Paris
The last version of Linux-Mandrake will be presented. There will be some installation demos too!
January 27 1999 - Linux-Mandrake Installation & User guide available online
Look at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/userguide/
January 27 1999 - Linux-Mandrake on ZDTV (ZDNet)
Linux-Mandrake has recently been shown on ZDTV (ZDNet channel - http://www.zdtv.com). We don't know exactly when, but:
"Hi, I was watching zdtv (a cable tv channel here in the states all about the internet and computers. Anyway this one show has been talking more and more about linux and mandrake especialy." Thank you Ken Ross for the information.
In fact, it seems that the discussion focused on our ISO9660 Mandrake image (for CD burning) (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.html), which is very very popular!
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