https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,146233.0.html

Any of the old heads around here will likely remember that I was a fan of Arch Linux when it first started. However, I've watched the Arch community over the past few years and it's turned into a bunch of unhelpful pricks, with standard "RTFM" replies. As such, I can no longer recommend it. I've watched time and time again as people ask rather simple questions, stating they tried to figure it out on their own and couldn't understand what they need to do, only to be linked to the same wiki page they already read and didn't comprehend.

This is the antithesis of what we need in the Linux world today, which is a more helpful community willing to walk people through the steps they need to take. Much like the attitude we've had on these forums. If you, or anyone you know, is looking for a new distro, I recommend steering clear of Arch. There are better options with more helpful communities.

Support distros that support their users.

Can a mod or admin move this to Everything Linux? I accidentally posted to the wrong forum. Thanks!

I gave it a try in live mode yesterday and it looks pretty spiffy.

Give it a spin!

Glitz.

PS. I tried posting this in Portal News but the post disappeared so I'm posting it here instead.

Ok, you just finished the install of {your distro here}, and signed into it. What do you generally do next? I always do a system update, and if I am trying a new distro, make sure all of the sources I need are setup. Then I always install K3b, DVDrip, playonlinux, gpodder and Xtrkcad, along with any missing multimedia codecs. Then with playonlinux, I install office 2007. I like libre/open office but if I need to do work from home, I need to make sure the format is correct, and I have had some issues in the past with libre / open office.

Now, while I do my updates and installs, the stock wallpaper is gone and I either search for a pic or use one I already have.

So, how do you set yourself up?

Ideas? Thanks,

Kieth

I'm thinking of getting a HP 2011x.

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a

Linux localhost 2.6.36.2-desktop586-2mnb #1 SMP Wed Dec 22 17:11:08 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

KDE 4.5.5

Thanks,

Kieth

My name is Bertrand, from Glasgow. But, I am French originally. Last year, in December 2010, I wanted to put a website on e-mail encryption and protecting the secrecy of correspondence on the Internet. This is probably one of the less known and less practice aspects of network security (protecting data communication).

A few weeks ago, I went back to it, added some text to it and improved the written articles which had already been prepared. The original name of it was protecturprivacy.org, I had purchased the domain name and recorded the video tutorials using this domain. Earlier this month, I made the decision to use encryptyourmessages.co.uk. So, this is the story around it.

The website is now online at www.encryptyourmessages.co.uk. It is built on the CMS CMS Made Simple. Nice and easy collaboration platform for me.

It is intended to be read by non-IT literate people too. That’s why I tried to explain everything in plain English.

The reasons for me coming to post here are I have no specific knowledge of the distribution, for the moment I am the only person involved, and I am highly interested in contributions.

I would like to find people who would be interested in participating in the project. Hoping to find people who like the idea and who could write and maintain tutorials on a specific Linux distribution. For example, the tutorial can be a different visual tool or command-line tool available on your distribution. The website is in English so everything has to be in the same language.

The idea I have in mind is first to find people who can write and keep these tutorials up-to-date, and second, once the tutorials are available, install a message board in order to help people/visitors.

All this is and will be time consuming. That’s one of the reasons to look for people who desire to join the work and submit texts and/or videos. It also true I very rarely use Linux and don’t have too much practice on it, one more explanation to try to find motivated minds.

Another important point is I want people from the future team to use their real first name. That’s because interacting with Steve, Andrew or else is much nicer than if the other person is called Tux2000, SuperDragon or else. It brings respect and politeness naturally during the exchanges. Have seen it working on another website a few years ago and it doesn’t reveal too much about yourself, so there is no breach into your privacy.

A message board would first be installed for the team to exchange messages, ideas and else. Then, it would be open to visitors later.

Many thanks for your time with reading it. Hope a few of you can offer their help.

The website is still under construction, a few things have to be finalized. But you check it online now.

Regards,

Bertrand

Thanks bunches,

Kieth

Mozilla is among those who take a dim view of Native Client.

Read more at The Register.

If you use www.google.com/linux, you are redirected to www.google.com/webhp. To get Linux results, you have to include the word in the search terms.

Thanks to the unofficial GoogleSystem blog for the information.

More at The Register.

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Now, my hardware has much more functionality. I'm now running Linux on my router, and will most likely now be able to upgrade to newer DD-WRT firmware as it becomes available. Now, my web interfaces on all my devices are now the same. I have a Netgear WG602v3 and ASUS WL-330gE running DD-WRT and in terms of management, everything is in the same place on both devices. I have functionality that I never had before, and I have some cool features such as showing me the quality of wireless signal.

Outstanding is my ASUS RT-N10 router which I'm looking to upgrade in the near future smile

Some screenshots from my hardware.....

I have been running Mandriva (Mandrake) since 2003 and have had good luck with it. But that was partly because of the support supplied by this forum. If the community has dried up, I might look elsewhere for my next upgrade. I have been reading up on Ubuntu. All of the ubuntu forums seem to be quite active.

I'm not trying to start an argument, I just am wondering what is going on with all the fine folks that used to populate this forum.

Suggestions? Ideas? Dopeslaps? :o

Thanks,

Banjo

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Last night while cruising the net I came across an ad for Magos, claiming it was based on Mandriva and faster lighter and more secure.

So I grabbed the ISO and loaded it on a USB.

unfiortunately there are 2 issues:

1) Its in russion, my cryillic not so good

2) the typical default passwords dont work, so my attempts at trying to correct said issue seem stymied.

I cant find a default website for it and ditrowatch doesnt seem to have anything listed

anyone know anything about it?

goohle has several hundred links for downloads.....

thanks

j

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Based on the same kernel as Mandriva Linux, Mandriva-Mythware Educational Solution is a complete and easy- to-use tool designed to transform teaching into an interactive experience. It will also help you discover Mandriva operating system, Mandriva Linux 2010: with innovative functionalities and a user-friendly interface customized for the education world.

See the full press release at www.mandriva.com.

For grins i went to mdv.com and saw 2010.2 was available (of course its taking 3+ days to download it) so I thouht I'd grab a copy.

before I try and do anything stupid (this is my main pc and it WORKS so I dont screw w/ much) I want to ask the world.

Is this anything worth worrying about? shouldnt 2011 be out in a bit?

If I regularly perform updates is it worth using?

I'm tempted to dual boot my sons pc (it needs to be reformatted anyway) but at 4yo I dont want to get HIM too far off track either.

actively seeking input!

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ccrypt-1.9 is from http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ccrypt/ 650Kb. There is a version for Windows 95-XP. You also need ccrypt_gui_integration.zip 20Kb from http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/VF/README.html which allows you to encrypt/decrypt files/folders by right-clicking on them in Linux KDE, Gnome, and Windows 98+. I think that in Windows you double click 'ccrypt-Win32-install.bat' to install it.

More information on the Mandriva blog.

The Intel-powered classmate PC is a small and rugged, fully functional mobile PC, specially designed by Intel for primary students in emerging markets. Brazil will be one of the first countries to deploy Intel-powered classmate PCs in their schools to such a large scale. The Brazilian government’s decision to choose as Intel Learning Series solutions running Mandriva Linux on a classmate PCs reaffirms Linux as the preferred operating system for the global education market with Mandriva as the Linux education market leader.

More at www.mandriva.com.

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The patch by Linux kernel developer Mike Galbraith adds a mere 233 lines of code to the kernel's scheduler, but it cuts desktop latency down by a factor of ten. That's impressive — it's almost like getting a new computer.

More at computerworld.com.

Dodonov posted to the Cooker mailing list that Mandriva will be releasing two releases in the coming months. The first will be seen around December 22, as a Christmas present for all Mandriva users. Mandriva 2010.2 is a freshly updated version of 2010.1, or Mandriva 2010 Spring, with all the security and bugs fixes that have been implemented since 2010.1 was released, "plus also lots of improvements, stability and performance fixes in many, many packages."

In addition, Dodonov announced the release schedule for Mandriva 2011. An alpha will be released January 31, 2011; Beta 1 will be released February 28, 2011; Beta 2 on March 28, 2011; Release Candidate on April 25, 2011; and Mandriva 2011 Final should be announced on May 30, 2011.

Starting with the 2011 release, Mandriva will change to a one release per year schedule replacing their previous two per year practice. Dodonov said this is to give developers more time to cook "greater releases, and - of course - will give us more time to test, validate and further improve the overall quality of the release."

Exact technical specifications for each will be published online in the coming days and weeks on the Mandriva Wiki.

The above is the full text of the blog entry at ostatic.com.

Oracle had been OpenOffice's principal contributor - a role it inherited thanks to its acquisition of the well meaning but slow-witted Sun Microsystems earlier this year.

Driving home the changes, OpenOffice.org project is now The Document Foundation while the OpenOffice.org suite has been given the temporary name of LibreOffice.

Oracle, meanwhile, has been humiliatingly invited to re-join the OpenOffice community by applying to the Foundation. It's also been asked to donate the OpenOffice.org brand that it owns to the community.

More at The Register.

I've done a little page about my experience of 2008.1 beta 2 on the tiny laptop from Asus, I hope it can help to make people aware of the quality of the Mandriva distro and to help people to decide to buy one of these tiny mighty PCs (only about £ 230!!)

The link :

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/mandiva_2008.1_beta_2_on_eee_pc

Stef

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I use Radio Tray.  It's straightforward, easy to configure and most importantly not a resource hog!

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KQ’s expertise in kernel programming and deep understanding of file systems has enabled it to take up the task of porting ZFS to Linux for the open source community. After dedicated effort, we have finally reached the beta stage of the port and are now making the much awaited and discussed code available for the selected beta customers. Please log on to the website zfs.kqinfotech.com to apply and register yourself through the beta form in order to get the code for testing. Once you fill the form, one of our representatives will be contacting you to assist you with the proceedings and arrange an interactive one on one demo with our ZFS expert.

As we are selecting a batch of 25 beta customers from different testing environments, please await your turn. To allow proper support bandwidth for beta customers, we have limited the batch to 25. We would be increasing the bandwidth as and by the beta matures. We are in the process of selecting our first batch of customers, so please register yourself through the form now.

Thank you all for your continued support and interest.

Citing unnamed sources, the Post says a "strategic buyer" will shell out cash to acquire the SUSE Linux business that Novell paid $210m for in November 2003.

Another private equity firm is rumored to be taking the rest of the company, including the NetWare operating system, Novell's security and access products, and its systems management tools.

More at The Register.

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People have workarounds and solutions which are kind of 2nd tone replacements to work on Linux, but either ways, all these solutions are not really good replacements as they either are not stable enough or lack some of the salient features of ZFS.

KQ has ported ZFS to Linux and was a much awaited release since January 2010.

We are releasing the closed beta in last week of August/first week of September and are looking for closed beta customers who can test it for free on some environments.

Mail me at darshin@kqinfotech.com to register.

Feel free to put forward any questions as well.

Kind Regards,

Darshin

It's the first time a US court has awarded an injunction ordering a GPL violator to permanently stop distribution of out-of-compliance GPL'd software.

More at The Register.

Only 54 entries so far! They need to make the petition available to all Linux users, not just Mandriva.

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Gimp devs have stubbornly rejected for years the requests for single window mode in Gimp (Photoshop-alike). Now on the devel version of Gimp (currently 2.7.1) the single window mode is embedded in the program. It does start the traditional Gimp way, but you can pick single window mode from the "Window" menu anytime you like.

While at first I was excited by this feature, I do have to say that a) the devel version of Gimp is still quite buggy, and B ) I am so used at working in Gimp in multiple window mode, that I have hardly used the new mode up to now. Oh well... :P

Release announcement

Changelog

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Groklaw is promoting a major discussion on this licence and licences in general here.

DVL is a live CD available as a 1.8 GB ISO. It contains older, easily breakable versions of Apache, MySQL, PHP, and FTP and SSH daemons, as well as several tools available to help you compile, debug, and break applications running on these services, including GCC, GDB, NASM, strace, ELF Shell, DDD, LDasm, LIDa, and more.

Go to www.damnvulnerablelinux.org for more information.

They have also clarified the products covered under the bounty to better reflect the threats they are focused upon. They still include Firefox and Thunderbird obviously, but they have also added Firefox Mobile and any Mozilla services that those products rely upon for safe operation. These are products they have traditionally paid bounties for in a discretionary basis anyway, but they wanted to make that explicit. Release and beta versions of those products are eligible.

More on the Mozilla security blog.

If I buy a PowerPack, will I be getting 2010.1 on the disk?

Thanks,

Banjo

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http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Investoren-retten-Mandriva-1028100.html

The company said the projects will let developers building non-Microsoft and non-Windows applications browse, read, and extract emails, calendar, contacts, and events information currently encased in Outlook's .pst file format. The ability to write data will be added to the SDK in the "near future", Microsoft said.

More at The Register.

Google, Mozilla, and Opera have announced the launch of the WebM Project. The goal of the project is to develop a high-quality, open-source, royalty-free video format suitable for the Web. WebM video files do indeed use VP8 for their video compression, coupled with Vorbis audio compression. The video and audio data will be combined into container files that are based on the open-source Matroska container.

More at ars technica.

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