Mandrakesoft announces the immediate availability of the "Server Essentials Handbook," a comprehensive 360 page guide that contains essential information about the use of Mandrakelinux as a server. The handbook focuses on Mandrakelinux 9.2, but the enclosed information applies to all recent versions of Mandrakelinux.

Perfect for all Linux users who need quality reference material on important server topics, the "Server Essentials Handbook" is available now at Mandrakestore.com.

From Frozen Tux:

My girlfriend recently got a Kodak CX4230 Still image camera, and since I am curious, I couldn't resist trying to connect it to my Linux boxes and see if it would work.

Before I go any further, I would like to note that I am in no way an expert on USB, PTP or Digital cameras. I merely got it to work under a couple of distributions, and would like to share the experience with everyone else.

My first attempts at connecting this camera to the Linux box started by making a lot of searches on the Internet, and not a single search showed up with the Kodak CX series and Linux on the same page. I can only assume that this means not a lot of people has tried that before. Because of this, I decided to write a few lines about how I finally got it all to work, and you are currently reading that short page on how to get it to work.

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From Linux World:

HP has supposedly been selling MandrakeSoft Linux on the desktop for a while but has been so quiet about it that for all intents and purposes it's been a stealth operation. That's all about to change, with two new Linux desktops ready for rolling out by HP to the North American SMB market, both boxes to be sold with Mandrake Linux.

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SanDisk's Linux support gets it an Editor's Choice award. MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: Removable memory card readers make using removable memory cards more convenient and extend the usability and range of applications in which you can use removable memory cards. They let you get more and better use out of digital cameras that support them. They let you take more photographs at the highest quality level that your digital camera supports.

From KDE News:

Right on the heels of the KDE 3.2.1 release, Savanna is back with an article about her latest upgrade to the KDE 3.2 desktop. After being on 3.2 beta for several months, she wasn't expecting too much of this upgrade.

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From Mandrake Linux:

ISO images of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community are now publicly available on a number of FTP mirrors! Mandrakeclub Silver Members (and above) are granted access to a "PowerPack-like"3-CD version of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community which provides many supplementary add-ons such as NVIDIA drivers, Acrobat Reader, Real Player andothers, as well as a 4th and 5th CD with extra applications. Corporate Club Members (and above) are granted access to a downloadable DVD ISO of Mandrakelinux which includes supplementary add-ons such as NVIDIA drivers, Acrobat Reader, Real Players and others.

KDE Project Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 3.2 Generation GNU/Linux - UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open Desktop Solution March 09, 2004 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 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 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik).

From Open:

The polite term in system administration is "problem determination." The impolite experience is killing, when IT managers have to spend days trying to figure out why their company's systems froze. This week, IBM vice president of autonomic computing, Alan Ganek, explains the concept of autonomic computing as a solution. Our reader poll lets you decide if autonomic computing as our future is inevitable or impractical.

The court appointed Administrator has filed the "redressement judiciaire" (Chapter 11 like) exit plan for the company.

The plan proposes the repayment of 4.1 million euros of liabilities over a 9 year period without interest. Of this, 3.3 million euros is exigible and 0.8 million euros is conditional upon certain events. The plan allows Mandrakesoft to repay its liabilities from revenues without raising additional capital. The Court will rule on the plan in the coming weeks.

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From MandrakeSoft:

The new version of Mandrakelinux provides many new great features and is available for download right now for contributors and Mandrakeclub Members, and as a DVD set available for pre-order at Mandrakestore. Public ISOs will be available a bit later.

Discover all Mandrakelinux 10.0 features, including the new kernel 2.6 integration, MagicDev and others on the feature page.