I know that I tend to procrastinate a lot, but this time… I take nearly 1 year ! Last year I decide to draw a mockup of a new possible UI for msec. Why ?
Actual MSEC issues
Present MSEC GUI UI in Mandriva 2010
Presently I do think that msec have several issues. IMHO most of theses issues are due to the fact that the target of these tool [...]
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Ghost from the past : MSEC GUI mockup
I know that I tend to procrastinate a lot, but this time… I take nearly 1 year ! Last year I decide to draw a mockup of a new possible UI for msec. Why ?
Actual MSEC issues
Present MSEC GUI UI in Mandriva 2010
Presently I do think that msec have several issues. IMHO most of theses issues are due to the fact that the target of these tool [...]
Upgrading from Mandriva 2010.1 to Man...
With the migration of Mandriva from rpm 4.6 to rpm 5.x, upgrading from a previous Mandriva release is not straightforward. So here are some tips to have a smooth upgrade :
Install the perl-URPM 3.37 package available in main/testing repository ( 32 bits link, 64 bits link )
remove all your current media : urpmi.removemedia -a
add cooker medi [...]
Music tagging made easy with MusicBra...
I must admit that I have a big collection of music files. Tagging correctly theses files take a long time, and the queue of files waiting to be tagged is becoming quite big. Whereas this was optional before, I do appreciate now to have the album covert art as it can be displayed when listening to my music on my Androïd based phone ( Acer Liqu [...]
Some Mandriva 2010 Spring Reviews
Here are some Mandriva 2010 Spring reviews I found on the web thanks to http://www.tuxmachines.org/ :
Mandriva 2010 Spring with GNOME : http://g33q.co.za/2010/07/11/review-mandriva-2010-spring-gnome-with-screenshots/
Mandriva 2010 Spring with KDE : http://g33q.co.za/2010/07/12/review-mandriva-2010-spring-kde-with-screenshots/
Ars Technica r [...]
Fixing computer freeze when using Int...
Today I was willing to configure 2 laptop running Mandriva 2010 to do presentations during a meeting. So I was willing to use clone output. Unfortunately, doing so will result in an instant system freeze. Even worst, if the projector is plugged before powering on the laptop, the kernel will crash at boot ! Both laptop were using Intel chipset [...]
Mandriva: Nine Priorities for Mandriv...
As everybody^wnobody know, Hervé YAHI is no longer the CEO of Mandriva. So I decide to rip off an article from The VAR Guy to issue an open letter to the Mandriva direction. So here are 9 priorities for the new Mandriva staff :
A New Community: Sure, Mandriva has a strong open source community. And ??? will should work to strengthen that com [...]
The point on some Mandriva community ...
There are many communities based Mandriva derivatives, but few of them are known. So here is a ( not comprehensive ) list of some Mandriva based derivatives or projects :
One 64 community : 64bits edition of the Mandriva One LiveCD. A KDE edition and GNOME one are available for download.
LXDE LiveCD : The german community is releasing a Ma [...]
Experimental Mandriva Moblin LiveCD
Thomas Lottmann is providing experimental Mandriva-based Moblin LiveCD images. Theses images are provided in order to help testing Mandriva Moblin implementation.
The announce has been done on the Cooker ML. Please note this is a Mandriva community initative. A tracker bug is available on Mandriva bugzilla for thoses willing to track and repo [...]
Warning to Mandriva cooker NIS users
Today I’ve upgrade my workstation at work to latest Cooker packages. While doing this, the ypbind package have been upgraded to ypbind-1.29.91-1mdv2010.1. Unfortunately this breaks most of my network application. Indeed applications like curl, wget, firefox, epiphany, gftp where all broken. Impossible to install application with urpmi. [...]
First on Distrowatch for the last 7 d...
I couldn’t resist once I learn it on Facebook after a wall post by Blino : Mandriva is ranked at first position on Distrowatch for the last 7 days. This is awesome !
So congratulation to all the Mandriva team and community for this Mandriva 2010 release. Mandriva did a great job on this release, and I’m really happy by the job don [...]