Mandriva will be present at the Linux 2009 Solutions Exhibition
Monday, April 06 2009 @ 01:09 AM CST Contributed by: Linegod
Mandriva, the leading European publisher of Linux distributions, will unveil its latest products at the 2009 Linux Solutions Exhibition from 31st March to April 2nd at Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles, in Hall 2.2, Booth C10-D9.
The Linux Solutions Exhibition, the annual European meeting place for Linux and free software, offers exhibitors a unique platform allowing them to meet the different participants in the market besides presenting their products, services and technology.
Saturday, March 28 2009 @ 10:57 AM CST Contributed by: Linegod
Why might you want to use a named pipe in a shell script? One situation might be when you've got a backup script that runs via cron, and after it's finished, you want to shut down your system. If you do the shutdown from the backup script, cron never sees the backup script finish, so it never sends out the e-mail containing the output from the backup job. You could do the shutdown via another cron job after the backup is "supposed" to finish, but then you run the risk of shutting down too early every now and then, or you have to make the delay much larger than it needs to be most of the time.
Friday, March 20 2009 @ 12:05 AM CST Contributed by: Linegod
Mandriva has decided to help porting k3b, the leading and award-winning KDE burning software, to Qt4. 2 engineers of our KDE team are working together with Sebastian Trueg, the lead developer of this project, so that new version can be released sooner and hopefully for 2009 Spring release. Linux users will finally be able to make k3b use the full power of the KDE4 platform through Solid, Phonon and all the Plasma environment.Boiko is one of our 2 engineers working at the moment on this port.
Thursday, March 12 2009 @ 11:56 AM CST Contributed by: Linegod
The RC1 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name pomerol) is now available. This RC1 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.1, GNOME 2.25.92, Xfce 4.6, X.org server 1.6, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1, qt 4.5.0.
This RC1 version proposes a first glance at 2009 Spring design, providing Free wallpapers. This version will allow you also to dump in a very easy way One GNOME hybrid iso on a USB key and then install Mandriva Linux on netbooks.
Friday, February 27 2009 @ 09:02 AM CST Contributed by: Linegod
Without much fanfare or self-congratulations, networking giant Cisco Systems has become one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and an active contributor to the broader open source community.
It's a message that Cisco isn't boasting about yet, but was willing to discuss with InternetNews.com. Cisco is the world's largest networking vendor and a technology juggernaut that is seeing the value in using and contributing to open source.
The beta release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Margaux) is now available. This beta version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.0, GNOME 2.25.90, Xfce 4.6 RC1, X.org server 1.5, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1, qt 4.5.0 (RC1)
Mandriva announces world-wide release of Mandriva Pulse 2 v1.2
Friday, February 06 2009 @ 03:20 AM CST Contributed by: Linegod
Mandriva, the leading European Linux publisher,
announces the delivery of Mandriva Pulse 2 in its 1.2 version.
Mandriva Pulse 2 is an Open Source tool for the management of workstations,
mobile computers and servers, designed to help users manage their information
systems notably in heterogenous environments.
Mandriva Pulse 2 maintains a software and hardware inventory of each computer
in its database, deploy and update applications, has diagnostic facilities
and a remote control module. Mandriva Pulse 2 includes a set of tools that
automate the management of workstations, mobile computers and servers
whatever the operating system while reducing information system
administration and management costs .
Following the anouncement in December 2008 of an international committee associating Mandriva with its Community, Mandriva, Europe's leading Linux publisher, has completed the setting up of Mandriva Linux Assembly.
The roles, tasks and missions of this comity set out below with the goal of motivating future members wishing to take part in this venture.
Despite the recession, Cisco Systems and Digium (the upstart open source IP PBX specialist) are holding strategic partner and customer events within days of each other in Miami, Florida. Cisco’s agenda is all business. Digium’s agenda is mostly technology. The VAR Guy’s agenda: Stirring up some controversy.
From ComputerWorld
Recent developments in the OpenChange and KDE open source projects are set to bridge a “missing link” in messaging and groupware compatibility from Microsoft's Exchange to open source clients.
Many open source groupware suites lay claim to this holy grail of interoperability, but the software to synchronise address book, task and calendar information with Exchange is sold as a proprietary extension.
