09.21.07
Posted in Release, English, Mandriva at 6:03 pm by Adam
Mandriva Linux 2008 RC2 ‘Kepler’ was released today. New features since the release of RC1 include the final release of GNOME 2.20, the inclusion of the new 8.41.7 version of ATI’s proprietary driver in the non-free repository to support Radeon HD cards, significant kernel updates that improve support for certain ATA controllers and many audio chipsets, some new features in the urpmi and rpmdrake package management tools, and over 500 bug fixes since RC1. Download information and more is available on the full release information page here, the overall Mandriva Linux 2008 release notes are here, and a guide to the new features of Mandriva Linux 2008 is here.
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09.19.07
Posted in English, Mandriva at 10:10 pm by Adam
Mandriva today announced the signing of a partnership deal with the government of Angola, which will see Mandriva providing software, training and consultancy services to help the country overhaul its entire IT infrastructure. This is a big and exciting project for us and we’re happy to see it finalized. You can read more about the deal in the press release.
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09.17.07
Posted in Mozilla, Event, English, Mandriva at 5:51 pm by François Bancilhon
Last Saturday I participated in Mozilla24 a cyber and physical event organized by the Mozilla foundation. The overall event took place in France, Japan, Thailand and the US. The panel discussion I was in was only (I assume for time zone reasons) in France, Japan and Thailand.
In France, it was held at ENST (a Telecommunication Engineering School in Paris), in a rather ugly auditorium (like most auditoriums of French engineering schools). It seemed from the pictures on the screen that they had found similarly ugly places in Japan and Thailand. Which means the glitter was in the technology rather than in the setting.
The technology was indeed impressive: good and clear communication around the globe, possible interaction between the sites and good quality sound and video. On the other hand, there were lots of people busy pulling wires and frantically typing on keyboards, so I assume there was a lot of work behind the seemingly effortless exercise.
Participants in France were OpenOffice.org (Charles Schulz), Wikimedia (Pierre Beaudoin), Mozilla Europe (Tristan Nitot) and Mandriva (yours truly).
Tristan was his usual mix of fun, kindness and smart and told us some cute stories on the beginning of Mozilla in France, when life was tough (it is much better now). He had given each presenter a list of questions to answer and to my surprise everyone followed the scenario he had provided.
In my presentation, I explained the three key words which drive our strategy: simple, innovative and open. Simple as in “take technology to the masses by making it simple”, innovative as “include innovations in the distro to take them mainstream” and open as in “open source, free software and open standards”. Then I went to our focus on bringing Linux to emerging markets via OEM relationships, as we are doing today for instance in Brazil and Argentina.
I had a question on fighting Microsoft in emerging markets. This is a good question: we indeed met them recently when they offered $3 licenses to a prospect we were talking to in an emerging market country (more on this soon)! I had another question on the multiplicity of distros: 5 years from now, will there still be many distros? Our vision is we should see convergence on the lower layers of the distro, i.e., the core components and the added value of a specific distro should move up in the software stack.
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09.12.07
Posted in English, Mandriva at 6:16 pm by Adam
So it seems Lenovo is running a Linux distribution poll to gauge interest in the various distributions, as a possible precursor to pre-loading one on some of their systems. Mandriva is doing pretty well at the moment, despite being a write-in. We’d love to end up in a strong position in the top group of distributions.
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09.05.07
Posted in Release, Products, English, Français, Mandriva at 7:58 pm by Adam
The first release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Copernic, is now available. The release notes are available here. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this release candidate) is available here, and the detailed technical specifications are available here. This release candidate is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer, and as a mini-CD edition for both x86-32 and x86-64 architectures. A One combined live / install CD edition will be released in the near future (problems with unionfs prevented the One edition from being release at the same time as the other editions).
Et maintenant, pour les francophones (traduction par Damien) :
La première release candidate (RC1) de Mandriva Linux 2008, appelée Copernic, est maintenant disponible. Les release notes sont accessibles sur cette page du wiki. Un guide détaillant les principales nouveautés (toutes ne sont pas encore inclues dans cette version RC1) est présent sur cette page, et les spécifications techniques détaillées sont elles aussi accessibles ici. Cette release candidate est proposée en version 3 CD ou 1 DVD Free (n’incluant aucuns logiciels ou drivers non libres) pour les architectures 32 bits et 64 bits, ainsi qu’une version mini-CD à la fois 32 et 64 bits. Une edition Mandriva Linux One (live CD et installation possible) sera ajoutée dans un futur proche, des problèmes avec unionfs ont retardé sa sortie.
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