http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:22:49 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22434/Mandriva_2010_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22434/Mandriva_2010_0_Released/ The boys and girls in the Mandriva team have released Mandriva Linux 2010.0. This new Mandriva release obviously brings the latest and greatest from the open source and Linux communities, including the latest KDE and GNOME releases. Among other things, boot time has been a priority. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:03:37 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 23 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News visconde_de_sabugosa http://www.osnews.com/story/22350/Mandriva_Adds_Moblin_Poulsbo_Support/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22350/Mandriva_Adds_Moblin_Poulsbo_Support/ Mandriva's second release candidate for Mandriva 2010 adds a Moblin UI option, and (in the paid version) auto-detected support for the closed GPU in Intel's Poulsbo companion chip. So, if you've got one of those teensy CompuLab FitPC2s, an early Dell netbook, or perhaps a MID or single-board computer based on Menlow, it might be worth a look. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:53:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News Henry http://www.osnews.com/story/21709/_Mandriva_Linux_2010_Alpha_1_Available_for_Download_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21709/_Mandriva_Linux_2010_Alpha_1_Available_for_Download_/ "Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 1 is now available on public mirrors. This first alpha is available only through Free version, 32 and 64 bits DVDs. This development release is the first one realized without mkcd, our historical build tool, but using bcd available also on Mandriva svn. This new tool should improve global quality of our release and make tests much easier and efficient... Final release of 2010 version is due the 21st of October." Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:48:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21401/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21401/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_Released/ Mandriva has announced the launch of the final version of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (codename Pauillac). This new version comes with a host of improvements and changes, as always. Fun fact: this is the first release reported to us by Anne Nicolas instead of Adam Williamson. For those that keep score. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:20:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 22 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News Anne http://www.osnews.com/story/21270/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_RC2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21270/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_RC2_Released/ The RC2 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Estephe) is now available. This RC2 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26, X.org server 1.6, and kernel 2.6.29. This RC2 version proposes also nearly all of the 2009 Spring design. This version will allow you also to dump in a very easy way All available One hybrid isos on a USB key and then install Mandriva Linux on netbooks. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:05:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News Anne http://www.osnews.com/story/20971/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_Beta_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20971/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_Beta_Released/ The beta release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Margaux) is now available. This beta version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.0, GNOME 2.25.90, Xfce 4.6 RC1, X.org server 1.5, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1, qt 4.5.0 (RC1). This Beta version proposes step 1 of Speedboot. This should improve your boot time. It's not enabled by default. To test it, enter speedboot keyword at boot time. You can use Bootchart to test precisely effects on your boot time. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:59:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News Anne http://www.osnews.com/story/20805/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_Alpha_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20805/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_Alpha_2_Released/ The second pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring is now available. This alpha 2 version concentrates on updating the major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2 RC 1, GNOME 2.25.4, Xfce 4.6 Beta 4, X.org server 1.5, Python 2.6.1.The technical specifications are available. Alpha 2 also includes a complete rewrite of msec, the security framework of Mandriva Linux. This release also supports ext4. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:25:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News Anne NICOLAS http://www.osnews.com/story/20689/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_Alpha_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20689/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Spring_Alpha_1_Released/ The first pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring is now available. This alpha concentrates on updating to the major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2 Beta 2, GNOME 2.25.2, Xfce 4.6 Beta 2, X.org server 1.5, and kernel 2.6.28 rc8. It is also the first distribution to introduce the major new Tcl/Tk release, 8.6. The alpha is available only in the DVD Free edition with a traditional installer and no proprietary applications; future pre-releases will add the live CD One edition with proprietary drivers. Please help test this first pre-release and report bugs to Mandriva. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:20:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 38 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/20614/A_Sad_Happy_Tale_of_Mandriva_Community_Decline_Growth/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20614/A_Sad_Happy_Tale_of_Mandriva_Community_Decline_Growth/ Controversy in the Mandriva world this afternoon. Vincent Danen is all doom and gloom, citing declining numbers of posts to mailing lists as evidence of a shrinking community. However, Javier Villacampa points out in the comments that the community is spreading out to different places, and Adam Williamson responds to Vincent, citing fast-growing numbers of users and posts on the official forums. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:20:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 25 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/20596/Interview_Adam_Williamson/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20596/Interview_Adam_Williamson/ Howsoftwareisbuilt.com posted up an interview with Adam Williamson, Mandriva community manager and developer, covering some information on Mandriva development and also more general discussion on the distribution industry. I'd like to take the opportunity here to wish Adam, OSNews reader, the best of luck in finding a new job. Adam told us he'll be leaving Mandriva at the end of December. Please note that the above interview was conducted before this news was out. Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:11:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/20545/Mandriva_Linux_2009_One_Xfce_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20545/Mandriva_Linux_2009_One_Xfce_Released/ Thanks to the Mandriva Xfce volunteer development team, a community Xfce One edition of Mandriva Linux 2009 is now available for download from all official Mandriva mirrors. A list of download locations can be found on the Wiki page. This release gives you all the benefits of Mandriva Linux 2009 along with a fast and stable Xfce desktop. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:19:37 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 54 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/20370/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20370/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Released/ Mandriva has today released Mandriva Linux 2009, the new major release of the popular distribution. 2009 is a bold release which brings the new KDE 4 as the default desktop, along with a re-designed installer and Mandriva Control Center and many other new features. Other significant updates include GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3, Mozilla Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.27. Key features include new graphical in-line upgrade capability, netbook compatibility, class-leading hardware support, and further improved support for working with mobile devices. For more details, see the Release Tour and the Release Notes. Get it at the download page, or go straight to the torrent list. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:22:05 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 60 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/20338/Improving_Boot_Time_on_a_General_Linux_Distribution/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20338/Improving_Boot_Time_on_a_General_Linux_Distribution/ Mandriva has done quite a lot of work on optimizing boot speed for its latest release, Mandriva Linux 2009. Frederic Crozat (head of the French engineering team) has written a blog post summarizing Mandriva's past work on this front, and the tweaks and improvements made for 2009. It shows that close analysis of inefficiencies in boot, and fixing 'small' bugs, can result in gains as large or larger than 'big picture' items like new initialization systems. Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:58:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 27 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/20148/Mandriva_Spring_2008_the_New_Definitive_Linux_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20148/Mandriva_Spring_2008_the_New_Definitive_Linux_/ 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." Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:14:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Amjith Ramanujam) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/20126/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Beta_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20126/Mandriva_Linux_2009_Beta_1_Released/ 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, GNOME 2.23.5, Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.26 final. The new beta also switches to using splashy (rather than bootsplash) for boot and shutdown graphics, and adds synchronization support for Windows Mobile 2003 devices. As always, Mandriva reminds you not to use pre-releases in any critical situation; install them only on a test system or partition, or in a virtual machine. Additionally, they strongly discourage using this pre-release to upgrade from any earlier release of Mandriva Linux, as the transition process from KDE 3 to KDE 4 is not yet fully implemented and you are likely to end up with an unusable system. Please make sure to read the Errata and Release Notes, and file any bugs not covered in those pages on Bugzilla. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:12:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Amjith Ramanujam) Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/39 News AdamW