The ldNetManager.py tool gives you the ability to manage your network devices with out having to purchase a product like Cisco's LMS or go through the planning phase of deploying a product like func. Each of the tools I mentioned before, only have the ability to manage devices in their realm. Func supports Linux devices and Cisco LMS supports only Cisco devices.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxdynasty.org/howto-manage-your-networked-devices-using-python-and-pexpect.html

Moovida, Fluendo's latest version of open source media center based on Gstreamer's framework, was launched 4 months ago. To inaugurate our newly published documentation for developers, Fluendo decided to organize a contest in collaboration with Mandriva.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/09/23/moovida-media-center-development-contest/

Mandriva Linux 2010 RC1 version is now available on public mirrors. This RC1 version is available through

* Free version, 32 and 64 bits DVDs
* Dual arch CD (both 32 and 64 bits)
* One versions, KDE or GNOME
* Virtualbox image

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/09/19/mandriva-linux-2010-rc1-is-now-available-for-tests/

Just a quick video showing the Cacti 0.8.7e interface.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7M9SXEjN9I

Today Nokia employee Thomas Zander announced in his blog that Nokia will be using KOffice as a base for the office file viewer in Maemo 5. He also sent an email to the KOffice mailing list giving some more details about how this came to be.

"This shows that KOffice has one of the best technical foundations", says Jan Hambrecht, one of the core developers of KOffice. "It is both lightweight, flexible and very fast, which makes it perfect in embedded environments like a smart phone".

Read the full thing at http://www.kdenews.org/2009/09/17/koffice-be-used-next-generation-smart-phone

Cacti stores all collected information via RRDTool into files called rra. The RRDTool requires some parameters in order to create these rra files. Whenever we want to add a new device or create a new graph, we have to input these parameters. Inputting these parameters manually is flexible, but not very user friendly, and there is always a chance of error. Using templates, we can easily overcome this problem.

Read the full thing at http://www.packtpub.com/creating-using-templates-with-cacti-0.8

Colin Guthrie gives an interview on why he started contributing to Mandriva Linux, what components he is taking care of and why people should lend a hand to Mandriva Linux

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/09/04/mandriva-linux-community-words-colin-guthrie/

Opensourc3 Issue 2 is out. Issue 2 looks at the Open vSwitch project, GlusterFS distributed file system for the Cloud, Distributed Web Architecture, Live Kernel patching with Ksplice and Image vs Package Management.

Grab it at http://www.opensourc3.org/

Using recordmydesktop (to be exact, qt-recordmydesktop), I was able to create a quick video on Mandriva 2010 Cooker.

It is saved in Theora (ogv), but YouTube excepts this video format, so it only took a couple minutes to upload and was converted automagically.

Take a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dxai2lFUFg

Boot time has been a hot topic for the past few months in Linux community, either by chip and SSD manufacturers who want to show how fast their hardware can go when software is fixed properly (Moblin fastboot) or even by distributions, mostly on Netbook and OEM, such as various Mandriva Linux based products

Read the full thing at http://blog.crozat.net/2009/02/speedboot-explained.html