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New “Ia Ora” theme (that’s “Hello” in French Polynesian!), 3d desktop with both AIGLX and XGL, GNOME 2.16, KDE 3.5.4, Kernel 2.6.17… No, no, don’t read this post, go get your own brand new Mandriva Linux 2007!

Mandriva Linux Free 2007

• It’s Free as in Free and Open Source Software, and Free as in you don’t have to pay.
• It’s 3 CDs.
• Catch the Mandriva Linux Free 2007 torrent using your favourite BitTorrent client!

Mandriva Linux One 2007

• 1 CD with the greatest software. Use it in Live mode, install it in minutes from the desktop.
• There’s the Free Software version, with no proprietary drivers.
• There are the free, as in gratis, KDE and GNOME versions, available in 4 flavours according to your language. These include the proprietary drivers for WiFi, video, etc.
• Grab the Mandriva Linux One 2007 torrent using your favourite BitTorrent client! And share it people, spread the love!

Mandriva Linux Discovery 2007

• The DVD designed for Linux beginners, with simplified menus and ergonomy (also available on CD).
• Includes a free 1 month subscription to Mandriva Club (Silver level), to Mandriva Online (the powerful update notification service) and 1 month of free commercial support by Mandriva on our Mandriva Expert platform.
• Includes full versions of LinDVD for DVD playback; Flatout, a hit game powered by Linux; more full versions of commercial software.
• You’re one small step away from adopting Linux with Mandriva Linux Discovery 2007.

Mandriva Linux Powerpack 2007

• 2 DVD’s of pure Mandriva Linux experience for those of you who want to get some.
• Includes a 6 months subscription to Mandriva eTraining including the Linux System Administration course (certified by the Linux Professional Institute), a 1 month subscription to Mandriva Club (Silver level), to Mandriva Online (the powerful update notification service) and 2 months of free commercial support by Mandriva on the Mandriva Expert platform.
• Also includes full versions of LinDVD for DVD playback; Flatout, a hit game powered by Linux; also more full versions of commercial software.
• Fellow Linux lovers, meet Mandriva Linux Powerpack 2007.

Mandriva Linux Powerpack+ 2007

• A 2 DVD solution for your Small Office / Home Office.
• Increased security with Invictus Firewall, the Mandriva-made and exclusive redundant firewall solution, VNC software for remote administration, new VPN configuration tools, ERP, CRM and CMS solutions.
• Best in class commercial software: Arkeia Smart Backup, BitDefender, VMWare.
• Includes a 6 months subscription to Mandriva eTraining including the Linux System Administration course (certified by the Linux Professional Institute), a 1 month subscription to Mandriva Club (Gold level), 3 free months of Mandriva Online (the powerful update notification service) and 3 months of free commercial support by Mandriva on the Mandriva Expert platform.
• Yes, this is Mandriva Linux Powerpack 2007.

We’re very proud of Mandriva Linux 2007. Congratulations to the team, special cheers to our contributors, translators, documentalists and testers!

You too, join the community that is making Linux better on the desktop since 1998!

Do read the release notes and errata.

The latest Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta, codenamed Tyr is out of the oven.

It’s time to embrace 3-dimensional Mandriva Linux. Tyr delivers a ONE CD with 3D Desktops enabled:

• AIGLX and XGL support
• Both FREE and proprietary drivers handled, for INTEL, Nvidia and ATI chipsets
• Compiz window manager for some neat effects
• Ready for KDE and GNOME desktops (”KDE 3.5.4 and GNOME 2.16 RC1″-inside)
• Featuring the new Drak3D tool for easy management

ONE is a live-and-install CD. Just slide into your drive, boot on the CD, and enjoy the ride.

More news from the neat-user-experience-department: the new version of RPMDRAKE, our application management tool, is included. We revamped the User Interface and we want your feedback.

More and more:

• DrakVPN, a tool for managing Virtual Private Networks, is also available.
• Invictus Firewall : Mandriva Linux is certainly the first Linux distro to include a redundant firewall solution. Stay tuned during the next few days for more information on Invictus.
• More applications went into the XDG menus.
• WARNING: some ONE Cd’s (10 versions are available for BETA 3) include proprietary drivers. If you want a purely free Tyr, check out the info.

Ok, that’s enough teasing. Find more information in our development wiki — paying particular attention to the known issues — then download Mandriva Linux Beta 3 Tyr and help us correct eventual bugs by filling reports in Bugzilla.

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The 3D-Desktop has been a hot topic since Novell showed-off their XGL/Compiz integration for NLD 10 at a Solutions Linux conference in January this year. Useless for some, simply cool for others. In any case, there’s a “Wow” factor that’s just good for Linux on the desktop: your neighbours during train or plane trips always ask “what’s with the cube”? “Oh, this is a Linux desktop”, you answer. And that’s when you’ll give her the speech.

So Blino baked a recipe, put it all in Cooker and made a video of Mandriva Linux 2007 running sexy Compiz effects (powered by XGL in this case). Check it out:

Mandriva Linux 2007 3D Desktop
Uploaded by mandriva

We’re enabling both AIGLX and XGL technologies in Mandriva Linux 2007. The selection will be automatic, so it’s a transparent process for you (unless you want to tweak and hack and break and make ). We handle Intel, Nvidia and ATI chipsets through both proprietary and Free drivers. It works on both KDE and GNOME desktop environments.

Apart from those addictive effects (try using a 3D-Desktop for a few days then go back to a plain old desktop to understand “addictive effects”) and the “Wow factor”, many say there’s not much to the 3D-Desktop on Linux yet. Major Linux distributions, and some smaller ones, have just integrated these technologies. This was the first step.

When you’re done showing-off your cool Mandriva Linux 2007 and evangelizing the great things we can achieve through Free and Open Source Software, go make some great 3D-ready applications!

You can now get the latest version of Firefox for your Mandriva Linux 2006 system directly from the Security Updates.

Frédéric Crozat, who maintains Mozilla packages and is the GNOME developer (among other things) for Mandriva, explains:

“Mozilla is not supporting 1.0.x versions of Firefox and Thunderbird anymore. We had shipped 1.0.6 versions of both applications with Mandriva Linux 2006.0 and were able to provide security fixes in sync with version 1.0.8, but now we suddenly found ourselves unsafe. We decided to break our no-backports rule for Firefox and Thunderbird for that reason.”

So there you go, next time you type MandrivaUpdate in your console as root, Firefox will suddenly be safer and more featureful. Kiosk users will benefit from the Firefox update plus the Thunderbird update very soon. UPDATE : Mozilla(TM) Pack 1.5.0.6 is available on Kiosk

Frédéric says it’s likely that a special policy will be implemented for Mozilla software also in Mandriva Linux 2007, resulting in very reactive updates. Although very beneficial for you, dear user, Mozilla’s strategy results in very complicated maintenance of applications that depend on Firefox as a platform, such as Galeon or Epiphany. Another reason to use Konqueror and KHTML some of you will say .

In the meantime, run that MandrivaUpdate command already and get Firefox 1.5.0.6!

Odin, chief God of the Norse pantheon. He stands for wisdom, war, battle, death, poetry, magic, prophecy, victory, hunt. More about him on Wikipedia.
Odin, the second Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta. It stands for:

• GNOME 2.16 beta 2
• Kernel 2.6.17 (based on 2.6.17.8, with ALSA 1.0.12 rc2, i965 support, and new kernel factorization: normal, enterprise and legacy)
• KDE 3.5.4
• More applications migrated to XDG menus
• New ‘Ia Ora’ Mandriva Theme (for now only included in GNOME)
• New VPN configuration tool (drakvpn)

Yes, the new Mandriva Linux 2007 theme is already available for GNOME! It’s called Ia Ora, meaning “Hi” in Polynesian (”Hello” is “Ia Orana”).

::UPDATE – Odin screenshots are already available on Flickr::

Read some more information about this release, don’t forget the known issues.

Then download Odin, install and test it before you feed our Bugzilla with those juicy reports.

Mandriva Linux Beta 1, codename Thor, has been released for tests.

Available in four differents flavours live/install CDs (KDE or GNOME, i586 or x86_64) or in a whole new dual architecture Installation DVD, get a glimpse of the next Mandriva Linux 2007 edition !

This version includes :

• New Mirror structure
• New network popup notifications
• Gnome 2.16 beta 1
• Kernel 2.6.17
• KDE 3.5.3
• Updated wireless application (drakroam)
• Switch to XDG menus (in progress)

Prepare your Qemu or CD/DVD burner and grab Thor !

The Cooker forums on the Club and Bugzilla are craving for your input.

You can check out Mandriva Linux Beta 1 release notes and known issues on the Cooker Wiki.

Happy testing !

Version française ci-dessous

English:

We’ve updated two bundles and published two new bundles today on Kiosk:

• New : Liferea
• New : Gthumb
• Updated : Mozilla(tm) 1.5.0.4 Pack
• Updated : GNOME 2.12.3

Next on the list should be KDE 3.5.3, a newer version of XGL/Compiz, a special compilation of wallpapers by Ayo, and games (won’t tell you everything, that wouldn’t be fun :p ).

We’re looking for good tutorials on how to use these applications. If you know them well and fell like giving it a go, write a tutorial and we’ll link to it from the application’s description in Kiosk. If you know of a good tutorial, do send the link

Enjoy your Kiosk experience !

The team.

Version française :

Nous avons actualisé deux suites et publié deux nouvelles suites sur Kiosk.

• Nouveau : Liferea
• Nouveau : Gthumb
• Actualisé : Mozilla(tm) 1.5.0.4 Pack
• Actualisé : GNOME 2.12.3

Prochains sur la liste : une nouvelle version de KDE (3.5.3) et de GXL/Compiz, une compilation de fonds d’écran dessinés par Ayo, et des jeux (et d’autres choses, mais gardons un peu de suspense).

Nous recherchons des tutoriels pour ces applications, donc si vous en connaissez bien une ou plusieurs, lancez-vous dans l’écriture ou suggérez-nous un lien ! Nous lierons le tutoriel depuis le descriptif de l’application dans Kiosk.

Rendez-vous sur Kiosk!

L’équipe Kiosk.