Getting to Gold

Posted on August 25, 2011 by multik

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

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Some beautiful news from Mandriva team

Posted on August 24, 2011 by multik

Today is the middle of week and we have two small news for you.

In latest ISO We fixed bug, that prevented loading drivers for USB webcams. Now you can use such programs like Skype without any problems. Try it!

And we shall present you the additional iso images of Mandriva that prepared in the project EduMandriva.

These images will based on the .39 kernel, one of them uses LXDE for window manager and can successfully start and work on old computers, second based on KDE. EduMandriva uses the same code base and the main difference is that programms for education are included by default.

If you are interested in, you can grab this images from here.

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Mandriva 2011 almost ready for total freeze!

Posted on August 23, 2011 by multik

Today news are completely fits in subject. But i decide to prove this. Here is whiteboard at main developer room.

As you can see, all red dots at finish line …

Remember, our latest test ISO can be downloaded here

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Mandriva is on final line!

Posted on August 22, 2011 by multik

Today, as we promised on Friday, we have for you two good and big news.

First, Oden Eriksson upgraded all php stack in Mandriva 2011 repositories. More than 100 packages have been rebuilt. Great work, Oden!

Secondly, we decided to leave Mandriva 2011 on .38 kernel. Yes, this kernel is not so modern, but stable.

For people, who need the more “modern” kernel, we will make two additional ISOs, “testing” with kernel .39 and unofficial with the kernel 3.0 from MIB. These ISOs we’ll put near the official one.

Remember, our latest test ISO can be downloaded here

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Codename for 2011 has been chosen!

Posted on August 19, 2011 by multik

Today is Friday, and developer team decided to leave more significant news for Monday. But as we promised to inform you about Mandriva 2011 news every our working day.

Some times ago, we asked in cooker and engineering mailing list about new codename for Mandriva 2011. This topic generated lots of emails, where suggestions were from star names to animals.

After some discussion we decided to choose the codename from the periodic table of chemical elements.

So, the official codename for Mandriva 2011 is “Hydrogen”.

Remember: we still try to find out the critical bugs in 2011. Please, download the latest ISOs from here and help us.

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Countdown for Mandriva 2011 still counting

Posted on August 18, 2011 by multik

Today is a another big day: total freeze of repository. What “freezing” mean?

It means that what you can see in Mandriva 2011 today, you will get in final release. No more new versions of programs, no more additional features and even no more error fixes. Now, only few people can make any changes in 2011, and they are hardly motivated to polish existing packages, not fixing errors.

Sure, if somebody finds a critical error, we try to fix it before the “absolutely freeze” stage, but small errors will be fixed only in updates.

So, we proudly ask you to try to find out some critical errors in existing ISOs and tell us about them.

Latest ISOs you can downloads placed here

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Countdown for Mandriva 2011 started!

Posted on August 17, 2011 by multik

As you know, we plan to release Mandriva 2011 at 29 Aug. Since announce about RC2 our development team made a lot of significant changes in distribution. I will explain them day by day.

Guilherme Moro, Alexander Kurtakov and David Walluck made huge job and updated java stack in Mandriva. This titanic job affected more than 1000 packages in repository. Actually, the update is not completed, but when it done, Mandriva will have better cross-distro stack.

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Mandriva Directory Server 2.4.1 now available

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Arkub

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 release features in particular the following enhancements:
- the mail module now supports the management of Zarafa accounts;
- the Samba module features extended fine-grained access control list management on Samba shares, and advanced configuration of the Samba accounts;
- the network module supports new DHCP options.

In addition, the MDS build system has been migrated to autotools, which eases manual install and packaging. 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.

This new version of MDS is a step forward in simplifying the administration of IT systems and in reducing the related costs while increasing the reliability, the security and the evolutivity of the managed services. Combined with Mandriva Enterprise Server and with Pulse2, it provides a powerful stack for managing the IT assets of enterprises of all sizes. The MDS is interoperable with MS Windows, Linux and Mac systems and it provides a rich and documented API for a smooth integration into existing systems.

Mandriva is at your disposal for providing professional services around the Mandriva Directory Server.

MDS Management Console

More info:
- MDS 2.4.1 release notes
- MDS 2.4.1 download
- MDS video demo
- MDS upgrade procedure
- MDS user and administrator documentation
- MDS development site
- MDS translation site

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Mandriva 2011 daily builds

Posted on July 29, 2011 by multik

Short news: By many users requests, we open access to daily builds of Mandriva 2011 RC2. You can grab it here.

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Mandriva 2011 RC2 is out!

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Mandriva Webteam

(Posting on behalf of Denis Koryavov from ROSA Labs, who will be responsible for Mandriva Linux desktop distribution development from now on. Please welcome him in this role!).

Yesterday we went back to work on properly configured environment and as we promised, today Mandriva & ROSA team proudly announce that Mandriva 2011 RC2 is available for download.

In this release candidate we fixed more than 300 bugs and added or changed about 700 packages.

If you need more detailed information, OK, here are main changes since RC1:
- We added virtualbox guest additions by default. Now testing in VirtualBox gives more pleasure than ever.
- Minor fixes in programs for configuring pptp/vpn/wi-fi. Lets try to connect from outside!
- More network cards from Atheros&Intel are supported now.
- Restored some old and added some new epson/hp/lexmark printer drivers.
- Now USB 3G are supported much better. Some of us are working now without wires, so why you can’t?
- We are working hard to improve KDM and Dolphin. Now they work much better.
- Also, our hands added big chunk of code to SimpleWelcome, TimeFrame and RocketBar.
- Improver, Sphere and Sync work like a charm. OK, almost like a charm, but they work!
- ATI and NVidia proprietary drivers have been removed from the installation image. They don’t want to work properly with coool graphics effects. Anyway, you can install these drivers from the repository.
- Made final freeze of 2011 platform in build system. This news is for maintainers only. Thanks for good work, guys!
- We started working on Mandriva 2011 Long Term Support release. Currently we plan to release LTS version by the end of the year. Seriously!
- We started transferring some packages from PLF repository to the «main». Less actions in post install time are better, aren’t they?

Enough? We hope that not! Ok, the visual improvements are coming:
- We added new cursor theme. Now you can point to something so easily …
- We added new icons. Your eyes says thanks for this. We promise not to give up to add new icons in future.
- Also we added new wallpapers. Everybody can take some relax.

Please help us to make Mandriva 2011 better. No more release candidates:
next step is final release!

But because this is just release candidate, here is list of known bugs:
- It takes long start for live-mode
- You can see error message on impossibility to find file user-places.xbel
- Installer shows an error on reading data on flash at installation from it
- Some errors in testing network settings in the installer
- Non-optimal settings for the fonts and the Dolphin file manager
- ROSA Cursors are not used by default
- Graphics effects are turned off by default
- We miss  kernel options for clean start
- Nepomuk&psync status is under heavy development, so some errors exist
- Low volume by default, because some of us like coding at night :)
- Flash plugin in x64 mode consumes too much memory
- There are issues with some USB webcams

We fix them all as soon as possible. Try to update your RC2 copy on next week!
Again, no more release candidates: next step is final release!

You can download Mandriva Desktop 2011 RC2 from your favorite mirror, for example: http://mirror.yandex.ru/mandriva/devel/iso/2011/ (torrents are available from here http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/)  and commit bugs in our bugzilla (qa.mandriva.com).

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