Billets dans la catégorie Linux
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 [...]
Oh time suspend your flying 2
Some days ago, I talk about the fact that some underlying technologies were changing too fast. I was mostly talking about HAL vs DeviceKit/libudev/… saga. Today I’ve discovered another one : PolicyKit vs polkit. Indeed once upon a time, someone consider that su/sudo/consolhelper mecanisms were not
sufficient. So they introduced a [...]
Oh time suspend your flying
I do remember when less than 2 years ago we had to handle the HAL support in xorg.conf … This was painful as there were several issues :
HAL need to be started or else you may end up without mouse and keyboard
By default HAL setting up a US keyboard layout ( QWERTY )
There was the need to find a way to configure the keyboard layout, an [...]
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 [...]
Where is Unix spirit ?
Where is Unix spirit ? Since some years, i had the feeling that the Unix spirit was more and more forgotten.
Today I’ve read an interesting article about a new (mis)feature in Fedora : packages installation by unprivileged users . I must admit that I’ve been shocked when I read this : by default all local users can install package [...]
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 [...]
KDE 4.3 final entering in Cooker
Yesterday, KDE 4.3 final packages begin to appear on Cooker mirrors. KDE4.3 will provide many bugfixes and new features. On top of that, some kde*-experimental are available :they contains some additions to the kde packages.
My ideas for Mandriva 2010.0
1 week ago, I submitted to http://ideas.mandriva.com/en/ my proposals/ideas for Mandriva 2010.0. In order to let people comment on them, I will post the list of my submissions. I was planning to add more, but unfortunately, I’m presently in holidays ( at La Baule ), and so don’t have time to do this . So here are my proposals :
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