http://blog.mandriva.com Mandriva, standards, communities, open source life and people. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:55:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mandriva is proud to announce the release of its latest distribution, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring. This new release brings features like full support for the Asus Eee, easy synchronization with Windows Mobile 5 and later, Blackberry, and Nokia devices, a new parental control utility, the Elisa multimedia center, Codeina for ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/04/09/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-released/ Mandriva Spring right on time! We are delivering our Spring Distro on time, i.e., on the very same day we had planned 6 months ago. Thanks to the hard work of the developers in France, Brazil and elsewhere, thanks to the help of all the contributors, without whom none of this ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/04/08/bits-and-pieces-about-the-distro/ The sixth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes support for easy synchronization of Windows Mobile 5+, Blackberry and Nokia devices, the Codeina multimedia codec installation system, support for Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics cards, more improvements to the Mandriva software installation tools, the finalized 2008 ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/03/19/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-rc2-aceras-released/ The upcoming Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring release will boast the easiest ever support for synchronizing with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices in any distribution. The adventurous can already try out the support in the current 2008 Spring pre-release repositories, by following the instructions here. Mandriva has uploaded a video ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/03/17/synchronizing-with-windows-mobile-5-and-6-made-easy-in-mandriva-linux-2008-spring/ The fifth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008 Spring release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE 3.5.9 and available 4.0.1, some new default applications in KDE and GNOME, and ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/03/01/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-rc-1-serapia-released/ It's that time of year again - Linux Journal's annual Readers' Choice survey has begun. This is one of the big ones, so let's see some community spirit! You can take part in the survey here. Every vote counts - it really helps to raise Mandriva's profile in the Linux ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/01/24/linux-journal-2008-readers-choice-survey-begins/ Our recent announcement concerning the creation of a joint lab with Turbolinux has generated some controversy. Even PJ, from Groklaw, a site we like very much at Mandriva, showed some concerns and signaled her intention to stop using our Distro. So I would like to ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/01/18/groklaw-mandriva-and-turbolinux/ The second pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release brings a near-final snapshot of KDE 4.0 (final 4.0 packages are currently being uploaded to the Cooker repositories), new NVIDIA and ATI drivers, the chance to test the experimental nouveau open source driver for NVIDIA cards, kernel 2.6.24rc7, ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/01/11/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-alpha-2-neottia-released/ 2007 was a challenging year during which we made major progress: We went through a new capital injection in the company. It was a complex and long process, but it went smoothly. In the process, we gained a new major shareholder with an important stake ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/01/02/2008/ Kicking off the 2008 Spring development cycle in earnest, the first alpha is here. This alpha features X.org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8, KDE 4.0 RC2 (in /contrib), GNOME 2.21, kernel 2.6.24, OpenOffice.org 2.3, new NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers, PulseAudio by default and more. Despite being a first alpha, it is ... http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/12/14/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-alpha-1-barlia-released/