Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Mar 2008 23:05 UTC, submitted by AdamW
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.
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Believe it or not, the suggestion to move Fedora to a different location comes up more often than you can imagine. This is completely impractical if you care about distributing in regions where software patents are indeed enforced and is not a long term solution since more and more regions are being forced by treaties to enforce similar laws.
The long term solution would be to eliminate the problem globally and there are many intermediate solutions been worked out including the following that Red Hat/Fedora participates in
http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
http://www.redhat.com/truthhappens/public_policy/
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/features/oin/