News Of Techie (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mandriva lunges already a Release Candidate 1 for its distribution Mandriva Linux 2009, while Beta 2 is out there is less than two weeks. The developers have worked hard and the system is being finalized. What is new compared to the beta 2? Many bugfixes of course, but also: * A configuration automatic deposits: filing potentially the [...]
Linux Cortex (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
"I have personally tested this with Fedora, Suse and Mandriva and it works without problem. I have no doubt it will work for others too." Instant Fundas
News Of Techie (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
The distribution Mandriva Linux is currently in full renovation with the preparation of the 2009 version. Available now in beta 2, it becomes sufficiently stable so that users have wanted to take a look, for example using one of the versions One (Live CD) or in a virtual machine. The main novelty Mandriva 2009 is probably [...]
LinuxDevices.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
A new netbook for European schools runs Linux on a Chinese-designed processor. With a generous 10-inch, 1024�600 display, the 2.4-pound Emtec Gdium boots Mandriva Linux from removable USB flash keys, running it in 512MB of DDR2 RAM on a 900MHz Loongson-2F processor made by STMicroelectronics (ST).
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Firefox theme created after Mandriva Linux.
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Mandriva Flash 2008.1 on ASUS Eee PC 900 News: Slackware tests KDE 4.1, Fedora suffers from update outage, attackers crack LinuxMint.com, interviews with Ubuntu's Scott Remnant and gOS's David Liu, Zypper tips and tricks Released last week: Scientific Linux 5.2 "Live CD/DVD",....
Bala's (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
As I promised in my previous post, I finally managed to capture a few screenshots of the lovely Mandrvia Linux One 2008.1 Spring - GNOME edition. Go here to enjoy the screenshots. I could not resist including the Mandriva Control Center screenshots since the Mandriva Control Center is a great piece of software that differentiates this [...]
OS News (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Here is an interesting discussion of the changes KDE 4.x (via Mandriva Linux 2009 pre-releases) brings to desktop interaction. The article argues that KDE 4 might very well be the next big thing in computing, as it finally tries to steer away from the Xerox desktop metaphor we've all been using since the gory days of disco. While I personally don't really believe KDE 4.x to be revolutionary (I see...
OS News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Jack Wallen of TechRepublic tried the Mandriva 2008 Spring and his verdict is "Mandriva Spring 2008 Live CD better than most other distributions fully installed." He claims that "This is, without a doubt, the finest release of any Linux distribution I have ever experienced in my 10+ years of using Linux."
QNX (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Jack Wallen of TechRepublic tried the Mandriva 2008 Spring and his verdict is "Mandriva Spring 2008 Live CD better than most other distributions fully installed." He claims that "This is, without a doubt, the finest release of any Linux distribution I have ever experienced in my 10+ years of using Linux."
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: First look - Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r1 News: Fedora 10 code name, interview with Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst, Debconf8 Schedule Released last week: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7, Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r1 Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4, Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 2, and....
Slack Perls (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
"I am a longtime user of Slackware Linux, and I have used both Mandriva and Fedora too. By the way, I consider Fedora one of the "easy" distros." ZDNet.co.uk
Linux Journal (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
This week's "Linux Product Insider" features the CherryPal C100 PC, DragonflyBSD 2.0, SansDigital’s MobileNAS MN4L+, Mandriva and Precedent Technologies’ TechSurfer PC and Joey Lott et al.’s Adobe AIR in Action read more
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Mandriva released the first beta of Mandriva Linux 2009.0: "Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 'thornicrofti'. This beta includes the newest release of KDE 4, KDE 4.1 final (with initial implementation of the Mandriva Ia Ora theme, although this is not....
QNX (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The How Software is Built blog secured an interview with Helio Chissini de Castro, one of the KDE developers employed by Linux distributor Mandriva. Helio talks about Mandriva, about KDE 4, and about the state of open source software in Brazil, where he is based.
