Archives mensuelles pour décembre, 2008
Help debugging KDE4 for 2009.1 Spring
As you already know, KDE 4.2 beta 1 is available in cooker. KDE developers want to provide a rock solid KDE 4 experience to Mandriva users. For this, all issues ( crashes, missing functionalities, regressions, … ) should be reported on Mandriva Bugzilla. However crash reports are only useful if complete debugging data are provided. For [...]
Mandriva Christmas gift
Today, Anne Nicolas announced on the Cooker ML a marvelous gift : the release of Mandriva 2009.1 Alpha 1. This Alpha release contains many new and updated softwares and features :
KDE 4.2 Beta 2 with improved 3D effects, better stability, more dolphin features and classical desktop support. Please consult KDE 4.2 beta 2 announcement on KDE [...]
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OpenSolaris 2008.11 is released
OpenSolaris 2008.11 have been released, and the new features are really interesting. While reading the release notes, I do appreciate the efforts put to improve usability. Solaris is special because my first unix experience was with Solaris. As I was looking for a free « Unix » to do programming tasks, I end up using Lin [...]
Reading of the Week : When Linux fail...
I’ve just read a very interesting article written by Jeremy Allison ( one the the SAMBA lead dev ). This post was relating a talk given at an Ontarioshow by Ian Howard, called « Free and Open Source Software in Africa – Emerging Opportunities for Linux ». This talk explains why Free Software and Linux may fai [...]
Fixing input drivers issues in Cooker
Since the beginning of the week, Mandriva Cooker have switch to Xorg 1.5, and HAL support have been enabled by default. This means 2 things :
Evdev input driver need to be installed : If you end up with a non-working keyboard and mouse, then you need to install the x11-driver-input-evdev package
You need to specify manually your keyboard lay [...]
What to learn from developement proce...
Recently I’ve been very vocal about quality and regressions issues. Indeed I’m affected because my users are affected, and my job is to make life to my users easy. As I’m starting a new formation about