Welcome to the Mandrakelinux Community Newsletter -- dedicatEd to keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandrakelinux-related news & info.

In this issue:

* Top Story -- Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official ISO images are available
* What's Cookin'? -- Mandrakemove2 Beta is released
* Financial Corner -- Euroland initiates Mandrakesoft research report
* Product News -- Mandrakelinux 10 Official for AMD64; HP releases Linux business desktops
* Mandrakelinux in the News -- Newsforge, DistroWatch, Slashdot
* New Service -- Personalized Solutions and Maintenance Program
* Press Release -- NeTraverse and Mandrakesoft announce strategic alliance; Mandrakesoft announces improved ISV partnerships
* BizCase of the Week -- OpenEMR and ATCRM on Mandrakelinux
* 10.0 Software Updates -- drakxtools, apache2, mod_ssl, more

June, 15th 2004 - Nexedi and Mandrakesoft announce a revolution in Linux Desktop: rentalinux Desktop Linux Server. For the first time, organisations can benefit from the power of Mandrakelinux Desktop with no investment, no software installation and no changes to existing hardware or network.

"rentalinux Desktop Linux Server" is a full featured turnkey solution which provides the power of 500+ Mandrakelinux Desktop applications to legacy PCs, Macintosh, Unix Workstations or to thin clients. Nexedi rentalinux Desktop Linux Server solution cohbines server hardware rental, software setup, custom configuration, support and maintenance service in a single package which makes it the easiest, least intrusive and most effective way to provide Linux Desktop applications for small to medium-sized networks. rentalinux service is available immediately in the European Union for a flat rate of 95 EUR / month and is expected to become available in the United States and Japan by the end of 2004.

Read the full thing here

From Mad Penguin:

The last time we looked at Mozilla Firefox , it was still called Mozilla Firebird and then only in version 0.6. Times have changed. Oh how they've changed. Today, The browser with the identity crisis has a sleek new intekface, modern features, and is blowing the doors off its competition... and this is putting it mildly.

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From Linux Devices:

Cross-platform video driver vendor SciTech Software has launched a program to enable non-commercial users to use its drivers at no cost. The program is supported by an online configuration portal that helps users download and install a driver configured for their systems. Supported OSes include Linux, W2K/XP, Win95/98/ME, and OS/2.

SciTech's Snap drivers represent an effort to solve the driver crisis through hardware and OS abstraction layers that enable more efficient reuse of code among drivers for a variety of hardware and OSes. The online system delivers "Personal Edition" (PE) Snap drivers that are free for home users under Scitech's non-commercial use license.

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June 9, 2004 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immedia†e availability of KDE 3.2.3, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.3 ships with a basic desktop and eighteen other packages (PIM, administration, network, edutainment, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork, web development and more). KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in 51 languages (now including Arabic, Croatian and Upper Sorbian compared to KDE 3.2.2).

Read the full announcement here

June, 9th 2004 - Sebastopol, CA--O'Reilly Media is now a U.S. and Canadian reseller foE Mandrakesoft, creators of Mandrakelinux.

A user-friendly Linux distribution, Mandrakelinux is ideal for the growing legions of first-time Linux users. Linux's share of the desktop PC market is increasing, a trend being accelerated by the recent rise in the number of companies buying new computers. Major computer companies--including HP and IBM--have begun installing Linux instead of Windows on some of the models they build.

Founded in 1998 by several Linux enthusiasts, Mandrakesoft offers products and services for all Linux users, from beginners to experts. Mandrakelinux has been ranked as the #1 distribution on DistroWatch (www.distrowatch.com) for the past year and won the Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award in 2003 for Best Linux Distribution. O'Reilly is reselling two English-language versions of Mandrakelinux 10.0 (the newest release)--Mandrakelinux Discovery 10.0 and Mandrakelinux PowerPack 10.0. Both versions are available at bookstores nationwide, and can also be ordered directly from O'Reilly.

Read the full press release here

From /.:

"With Mandrakelinux now going for X.org it seems like every big l`nux distributor now has officialy dumped XFree86.

First release for cooker was announced on the changelog list the 7th of June. Nice to see for all us cookers out there:)

Read the full thing at Slashdot

From KDE.news:

A few days ago, we've opened a new section on our Polish K Desktop Environment website called "KDE Users Database". This is not only for Polish users, it's international. After some time it'll be good rate of KDE(users number all over the world. Every registered user can save generated certificates and put them on his desktop or website. So, let's register! Please note, that this is not an official KDE users counter - but, maybe in future - it might change.

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From Linux Games:

Thanks to an unnamed reader for submitting the news that NVIDIA has silently released new IA32 and AMD64 versions of their non-Free nForce chipset driver for Linux.

We have reproduced the changelog entries below, for your convenience:

• Fixed performance problem in network driver that was causing stuttering in audio playback
• Added support for nForce3 platforms
• Added audio control panel application
• Added 6 channel output, audio input selection, speaker selection, per channel volBme control, and analog / digital enable to audio driver.
• Added GART patch for kernel 2.4.21
• AMD64 only: Added support for x86-64 architecture
• AMD64 only: Added binary RPMs for SuSE Enterprise Server 8 x86-64

Read the full thing at Linux Games

Learn how to configure and how to use the Linux Virtual Desktops in Part 2 of MozillaQuest Magazine's (mozillaquest.com) interesting and informative tour of the Linux Virtual Desktops: The Linux multiple-desktops feature, more correctly the Linux Virtual-Desktops feature, is tremendously useful and handy. In Part 1 . . . the . . . Overview, we introduced you to the Linux Virtual Desktops. There, we noted that having virtual desktops is much like having up to sixteen different computers in one. You can open one or more programs in each virtual desktop.

Today in Part 2, this Linux Virtual Desktops Tutorial, we will add more virtual desktops to the configuration and Xpen more than the thirteen windowpanes opened in the Part I Overview. We also will organize the arrangement of applications across the virtual desktops by tasks.