Since the beginning of the week, KDE 4.2.2 founds its way in cooker repositories. People willing to consult the KDE 4.2.2 changelog should have a look at changelog4_2_1to4_2_2.php. The KDE 4.2.2 features noteworthy fixes like better Facebook compatibility, better khtml text rendering and others performances, improved krunner stability and man [...]
Archives mensuelles pour mars, 2009
KDE 4.2.2 is available in Mandriva Co...
Since the beginning of the week, KDE 4.2.2 founds its way in cooker repositories. People willing to consult the KDE 4.2.2 changelog should have a look at changelog4_2_1to4_2_2.php. The KDE 4.2.2 features noteworthy fixes like better Facebook compatibility, better khtml text rendering and others performances, improved krunner stability and man [...]
The Linux last crusade is audio cd bu...
I couldn’t believe it yesterday, but burning an audio CD under Linux is presently a very difficult and hazardous task … Here is a quick summary of the situation :
Brasero : Brasero is starting fine, you can put your audio files in the burning window, preview them. This is stable and there no particular issues here. Now try to bur [...]
Mandriva cooker ML quote of the day
Gustavo De Nardin > rpmctl should die.
Michael Scherer >
[misc@n4 ~] $ rpmctl -d -b -s cooker main "spuk think you should die" rpmctl
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
Seems it doesn’t want to die by itself.
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Fixing Firefox Bookmarks after a cras...
Today my computer crash while Firefox was running. i noticed that with Firefox 3, theses kinds of crash could lead to a half working Firefox with no bookmarks and the inability to restore the backups. Today, finally, i managed to recover Firefox while still being able to recover my bookmark. Here are the steps I did :
Don’t forget to b [...]
Call for screenshots
Dear lazy web, I’m looking for help concerning the Mandriva 2009.1 Spring visual Tour. Indeed, I’m looking for some interesting and meaningful screenshots for some applications. I prefer to ask the community for the applications I’m not using daily. I made the same request on the Cooker ML, but I guess that more people will [...]
Mandriva 2009.1 Spring Visual Tour fo...
Since tuesday, I add more stuff in the Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Release Tour. As suggested in the comments, i add XFCE 4.6, Qt Creator, new MSEC, more on packages OpenOffice.org extensions, Sugar desktop and virtualbox 2.1, more KDE 4 stuff. So dear lazy web, if you have any other idas, don’t hesitate. Presently I’m looking at d [...]
Mandriva 2009.1 Spring Visual Tour
As advised by Adam, I create a first draft of the Mandriva 2009.1 Spring Visual Tour. I made also some little changes to the Mandriva 2009.1 Spring Releases Notes. I’m waiting for the Rc1 availability before providing screenshots.
However I have difficulties to find all the cool features which have been or will be integrated in the n [...]
La fin du rêve américain ?
Aujourd’hui je suis tombé sur le témoignage d’un ancien couple de français vivant aux USA qui nous raconte l’envers du décors du « rêve américain ». Vous pouvez consulter le témoignage sur Agoravox. Ce témoignage est très intéressant à plus d’un titre, car il révèle tous les travers d’une so [...]
Cooker chef representative vote resul...
The Cooker chiefs vote end Marc, 3th and the results have been presented to the Cooker ML. People can consult them on the dedicated page on the Mandriva wiki. I postulate for the post, but as lately I’ve been less involved, I wasn’t expecting much from this vote. I’m gladly surprise to see that I end at the 5th place. Howeve [...]