Mandriva Blog » Mandriva http://blog.mandriva.com/en Since 1998, the Linux for everyone Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:00:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Restricted repository is available to public testing http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/10/13/restricted-repository-is-available-to-add/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/10/13/restricted-repository-is-available-to-add/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:20:15 +0000 multik http://blog.mandriva.com/en/?p=1663 Continue reading →]]> 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.

]]> http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/10/13/restricted-repository-is-available-to-add/feed/ 17 We come back to online! http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/10/10/we-come-back-to-online/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/10/10/we-come-back-to-online/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:17:23 +0000 multik http://blog.mandriva.com/en/?p=1661 Continue reading →]]> 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!

]]> http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/10/10/we-come-back-to-online/feed/ 17 Mandriva 2011 “Hydrogen” is out! http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/28/mandriva-2011-hydrogen-is-out/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/28/mandriva-2011-hydrogen-is-out/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:22:10 +0000 multik http://blog.mandriva.com/en/?p=1640 Continue reading →]]> 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.

]]> http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/28/mandriva-2011-hydrogen-is-out/feed/ 262 We found a critical bug in our system! http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/26/we-found-a-critical-bug-in-our-system/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/26/we-found-a-critical-bug-in-our-system/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:02:15 +0000 multik http://blog.mandriva.com/en/?p=1634 Continue reading →]]> 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.

]]> http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/26/we-found-a-critical-bug-in-our-system/feed/ 67 Getting to Gold http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/25/getting-to-gold/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/25/getting-to-gold/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:03:01 +0000 multik http://blog.mandriva.com/en/?p=1631 Continue reading →]]> 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

]]> http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/25/getting-to-gold/feed/ 17 Some beautiful news from Mandriva team http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/24/some-beautiful-news-from-mandriva-team/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/24/some-beautiful-news-from-mandriva-team/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:51:35 +0000 multik http://blog.mandriva.com/en/?p=1629 Continue reading →]]> 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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As you can see, all red dots at finish line …

Remember, our latest test ISO can be downloaded here

]]> http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/23/mandriva-2011-almost-ready-for-total-freeze/feed/ 6 Mandriva is on final line! http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/22/mandriva-is-on-final-line/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/22/mandriva-is-on-final-line/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:19:53 +0000 multik http://blog.mandriva.com/en/?p=1617 Continue reading →]]> 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

]]> http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/22/mandriva-is-on-final-line/feed/ 8 Codename for 2011 has been chosen! http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/19/codename-for-2011-has-been-chosen/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/19/codename-for-2011-has-been-chosen/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:24:42 +0000 multik http://blog.mandriva.com/en/?p=1612 Continue reading →]]> 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.

]]> http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/19/codename-for-2011-has-been-chosen/feed/ 16 Countdown for Mandriva 2011 still counting http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/18/countdown-for-mandriva-2011-still-counting/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/18/countdown-for-mandriva-2011-still-counting/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:39:43 +0000 multik http://blog.mandriva.com/en/?p=1608 Continue reading →]]> 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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