http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 05:34:30 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19626/Review:_Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19626/Review:_Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring/ Linuxseekers reviews Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, and concludes: "In conclusion, there is no doubt that Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is a great release. Great artwork! The hardware support for this release has been excellent with exception of the support for the two of my USB-based TV tuners (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 900 and the less well-known Compro type)." Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:18:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/19602/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19602/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Released/ Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring has been released. This new release brings features like full support for the Asus Eee, easy synchronization with Windows Mobile 5 and later, Blackberry, and Nokia devices, a new parental control utility, the Elisa multimedia centrer, Codeina for easy installation of necessary media codecs, and PulseAudio by default. Software updates include KDE 3.5.9 (with 4.0.2 available from the official repositories), GNOME 2.22, OpenOffice.org 2.4, Linux kernel 2.6.24.4, X.org 7.3, and Compiz 0.7. You can download the One (live/install CD) or Free (traditional installer, 100% free/open source software) editions of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring right here. BitTorrent download links can be found here. The main 2008 Spring page on the Mandriva Wiki has more information. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:18:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/19492/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_RC2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19492/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_RC2_Released/ The sixth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes support for easy synchronization of Windows Mobile 5+, Blackberry and Nokia devices, the Codeina multimedia codec installation system, support for Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics cards, more improvements to the Mandriva software installation tools, the finalized 2008 Spring theme, a new metapackage for easily installing a complete LAMP setup, and available KDE 4.0.2. See here for download information. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:05:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 22 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/19420/Whats_Coming_in_Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19420/Whats_Coming_in_Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring/ As the latest Mandriva release, 2008 Spring, reaches release candidate stage, the What's Coming in Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring page on the Mandriva Wiki is available, providing a summary of all the major new features arriving in the forthcoming release, along with screenshots. New versions of KDE 3, KDE 4, GNOME and XFCE, Asus Eee PC compatibility, PulseAudio, improvements to the Mandriva configuration tools and some new applications all make the list. Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:04:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 24 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/19413/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_RC1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19413/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_RC1_Released/ The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008 Spring release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE 3.5.9 and available 4.0.1, some new default applications in KDE and GNOME, and the latest pre-release of OpenOffice.org 2.4. See here for download information. And URPMI got support for rpm5. Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:47:37 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 44 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/19342/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Beta_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19342/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Beta_2_Released/ The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release brings recognition of other installed distributions during installation, NTFS-3G (with write support) by default for all NTFS partitions, significant improvements to the Mandriva graphical software management tool and more. See here for download information. Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:40:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/19220/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Beta_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19220/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Beta_1_Released/ The third pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring has been released. This pre-release brings available KDE 4.0.0 final (in the repositories, not on the discs), a new XML-based package metainformation system, out-of-the-box support for multimedia keys on many common keyboards, new NVIDIA and ATI drivers, kernel 2.6.24 RC8 (with ALSA 1.0.16 RC1), and more. See here for download information. There are screenshots too. Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:39:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/19147/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Alpha_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19147/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Alpha_2_Released/ The second pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release brings a near-final snapshot of KDE 4.0 (final 4.0 packages are currently being uploaded to the Cooker repositories), new NVIDIA and ATI drivers, the chance to test the experimental Nouveau open source driver for NVIDIA cards, kernel 2.6.24rc7, and more. See here for download information. Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:42:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/19049/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Alpha_1_Barlia_released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19049/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Alpha_1_Barlia_released/ Kicking off the 2008 Spring development cycle in earnest, the first alpha is here. This alpha features X.org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8, KDE 4.0 RC2 (in /contrib), GNOME 2.21, kernel 2.6.24, OpenOffice.org 2.3, new NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers, PulseAudio by default and more. Read more at the Mandriva Club. Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:51:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/19018/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Development_Update/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19018/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Development_Update/ An update on the status of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring development, including the publication of the release schedule and the technical specifications for this release. Highlights include PulseAudio, a switch to the fork of RPM that SUSE and Fedora are using, a parental control tool, mail import support for the Windows migration tool introduced in 2008, and automatic repository configuration via geoip. Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:27:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/18997/Mandriva_Flash_2008_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18997/Mandriva_Flash_2008_Released/ Mandriva Flash 2008 has been released. "Mandriva Flash 4GB provides a full-featured system - Mandriva Linux 2008 KDE- that requires no installation, on a bootable USB key. All you have to do is plug in the USB key, turn the PC on and the Mandriva Linux operating system is ready to use, with all you need for office work, Internet and multimedia tasks. System configuration, preferences and data are all saved on the key." Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:34:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 23 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/18780/Review:_Mandriva_PowerPack_2008.0/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18780/Review:_Mandriva_PowerPack_2008.0/ "Mandriva Linux has a history of inconsistency; one release will be superb, and the next one will be so bug-ridden and feature-weak that it's unusable. The only commonality among all releases are the excellent system configuration tools, which have continued to evolve over the years to match an increasing level of complexity in the desktop software stack. True to form, Mandriva 2008.0 is an excellent release, following the terrible 2007.1, and the just as excellent 2007.0. Some of the important things that were dropped from the previous release (Cedega, LinDVD) are back, and some of the problems (huge K menu button, cluttered menus) have been mitigated." Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:20:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News Valour http://www.osnews.com/story/18769/Mandriva_Linux_2008_One_GNOME_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18769/Mandriva_Linux_2008_One_GNOME_Released/ The GNOME version of Mandriva Linux 2008 One has been released and is now available via BitTorrent or from the mirror sites. Featuring all the same new features as the other editions of Mandriva Linux 2008, with a fully up-to-date GNOME 2.20 desktop. In addition, another review of Mandriva 2008. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:18:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 36 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/18757/Review:_Mandriva_Linux_PowerPack_2008.0/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18757/Review:_Mandriva_Linux_PowerPack_2008.0/ Earlier this week, Mandriva released Mandriva Linux 2008.0, the latest version of their flagship Linux distribution. Mandriva was so kind as to provide me with a copy of Mandriva Linux 2008.0 PowerPack, the commercial version. Back when it was named Mandrake, it was my first ever Linux distribution (I bought a Linux magazine), so I have always had a special place for Mandriva. Read on for a review. Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 53 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/18749/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18749/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Released/ Mandriva Linux 2008 is now available for download on the official site (release announcement), and on the network of public mirror servers. 2008 includes all the latest software and enhancements over previous Mandriva releases. You will find KDE 3.5.7 and the new GNOME 2.20 already integrated, kernel 2.6.22.9 with fair scheduling support, OpenOffice.org 2.2.1, a 3D-accelerated desktop (Compiz Fusion and Metisse), Firefox 2.0.0.6, and much more. You can read about the new features of Mandriva Linux 2008 in depth in the Release Tour. The release notes contain important information on changes from previous releases. The errata will contain information on any future known issues and solutions for them. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:16:41 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 56 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW