The decision that should have been taken today has been postponed to Friday, January 27th. The deadline for the decision on the proposal has been extended by the proposing entity upon request of some shareholders.
We would like to inform that a proposal to acquire Mandriva has been submitted by an external entity. As required in such a situation, the major shareholders have been asked to determine their position. As per today, Mandriva has not received every determination in written form and will, in consequence, wait until January, 23rd to decide on the future of the company.
The 2011 repository has been signed with the official Mandriva key (main and contrib media). This means there is no more cooker key in the 2011 repository.
This change will do a major update of all mirrors, because signed RPM are not the same, so they will be re-synced on all mirrors.
People should now import the official pubkey. They can remove the cooker one if they want, but installed RPMs on the system will stay signed with the cooker key.
You can use any 2011 repository to import the key:
rpm --import ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2011/i586/media/media_info/pubkey_contrib rpm --import ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2011/i586/media/media_info/pubkey_main
To remove the cooker key:
rpm -e gpg-pubkey-22458a98-3969e7de
Moreover following the Oden’s recommendation libreoffice from media/testing has been moved to main/release, to fix #64224 and #64246. QA process has been done following http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/OOo_Quality_Assurance
Following the Mandriva Linux free 2011 Mandriva is proud to launch the Mandriva Powerpack 2011, the full version of Mandriva Linux! Based on its new product strategy, Mandriva changes the release procedure, aiming for a one-year period between major releases. However, Mandriva will also release updated versions of its products
on a periodic time on a 6-month basis.
Quicker, easier and more secure than ever, Mandriva Linux offers new functionalities which revolutionize the desktop. Mandriva Linux Powerpack 2011 is the most advanced Linux Operating System to date, a genuine concentration of technologies and innovations. It supports a wide panel of hardware configurations, making it a stable base for users. It combines simplicity with conviviality in an intuitive, high performing environment. It is the ideal distribution for all users, from the beginner to the most advanced.
Designed to meet users’ real needs in terms of security, performance and ergonomy, Mandriva Linux Powerpack 2011 is everything you ever wanted from an operating System.
Mandriva Powerpack 2011, offers:
A wide range of complementary commercial applications in the Powerpack version: audio and video codecs, adobe flash, adobe reader, codeweaver (crossover), Java, Opera and commercial Nvidia, ATI, Intel, VIA, AMD drivers …
“As a multimedia partner, we are accompanying the new version of the Powerpack with our complete multimedia enabling suite, to provide Mandriva’s users with the latest performance for video and audio playback. We wish the Mandriva Power pack 2011 a great success”,
shares Muriel Paumier Moscardini, CEO of Fluendo.
Mandriva Linux is a convivial Operating System which will adapt to your computer and devices. It will meet all your needs and enable friends to share the experience.
Pricing and availability
Mandriva Linux Powerpack 2011 can be ordered for download at the Mandriva Store, 49
euros / USD59 (20% off for the first two days).
Purchase here: http://store.mandriva.com/pwp
To get benefit of the 20% discount please enter the following
promotion code while ordering: PCS-LCH-2011
The Powerpack subscription, allowing Powerpack download access for 2 years (two releases + updates), is available for 78 euros, or US$95. Also available for 3 years, 102 euros or US$124.
Powerpack subscriptions: http://store.mandriva.com/?cPath=149
The Mandriva online team.
We are glad to announce that a new repository ‘restricted’ is available for public testing!
Actually, most of the repository packages are forked from the PLF repository. If you want additional codecs, programs with “bad” licenses, etc, you should look at this repo.
You can easily add the repository from here.
Update: this is beta version, so please be patient on errors and mistakes.
Sorry for long silence: i was on vacation, but nobody knows about it. Its my mistake at all and i promise do not do like this again.
Ok, during this month Mandriva team make next:
- Mandriva sync now can work in “folder sync” mode, not only in “file sync”
- pulseaudio come to 1.0 version
- x11-server now is 1.11.1 version
- we start backporting rpm 4x to contrib/backports repository for compatiblity reasons
- java stack is finally up
- up can update kernel to 3.0 or 3.1 (manually)
And much more fixes and new bugs as usual. Smile!
Mandriva announces the immediate availability of a new release of the Mandriva Directory Server (MDS), an easy to use, powerful and secure solution for managing identities, directory services and network services within the enterprise.
This new release features enhancements in the mail, network and password policies modules.
The mail module features a more complete solution for aliases management. Aliases can be populated with LDAP users and/or external mail addresses.
The network module provide a new DNS zone record editor as well as a new interface for configuring DHCP failover.
With the password policies module you are now able to create multiple policies (password length, complexity, minimum/maximum age etc…) and apply them to users.
The MDS packages are available for Mandriva Enterprise Server, Mandriva Desktop, Debian, Redhat (and more) with a user interface in the following languages: English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German and Spanish.
Mandriva is at your disposal for providing professional services around the Mandriva Directory Server.
Hooray! As promised earlier, we are happy to announce that Mandriva 2011 is out. You can download ISO images from here.
When downloading an iso-image, perhaps you will want to read the Release Notes.
We prepared a small manual of how to upgrade to the new release for users of the Mandriva Desktop 2010.2.
If you have never tried Mandriva, take a look at the Mandriva 2011 Tour.
Today our developers found a critical bug on one of testing machine. This bug was catched and prepared for future investigation. Nobody was harmed. You can see it.
Ok, it’s just a joke. Seriously, Mandriva 2011 is on the rails and everything seems to be ok.
Today, in celebration of 20th birthday of Linux, we totally freezed Mandriva 2011 repository. No more additions, no more fixes, no more anything. We started the final countdown till “copying to gold”.
As you already know, Mandriva 2011 is coming with .38 kernel and some other “old” applications. But for users, who want to be on edge, we are preparing a little hack: if you want latest kernel, firefox and other programs, you should just enable the “main/testing” repository in your package manager. These programs are already there.
Now we cross fingers for smooth start
