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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Member since:2006-08-09
Perhaps Mandriva would one day like to do some business in patently dark places such as the US?
I don't know, I'm not a lawyer, and I couldn't care less.
Would be a great idea BTW if Fedora would 'relocate' and become, officially, a distribution located in, say, Venezuela, or North Korea, or wherever those dumb patents don't apply.
Although I guess that this would require a 'move' of Red Hat as well. I'm not sure the shareholders are willing to go to Aruba or P'yongyang for every meeting. 
Good fun though.
Member since:2005-07-06
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/
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2007-09-06
Member since:2007-02-17
There are a number of ways to get codecs for Linux, but linDVD wouldn't be one of them that I would use.
Google for "Fluendo", "libavcodec" (included in mplayer) or "VLC". Use (and pay for) only the first of these options if you are a suppressed and downtrodden unfortunate living in the US.
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2005-07-06
I am curious how Mandriva benefits from it since they are a distribution based on France where patents on software is not enforced and they can legally ship Free software even when it is patent encumbered unlike Fedora which is US based on has to rely on Codeina as shown at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/Codeina