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Looks like the Kickoff menu takes the kmenu button image from a different place. You only have to find that place and change the image there. Anyway I use the KDE menu style and I managed to change the kmenu button like this.

If a newer version comes out after the distro has been released then the newer package goes there. If you wanna use the latest from everything and don't mind risking a bit then you can do so.

The new fglrx driver can be downloaded. From reading the posts here and there it looks like a must have for AMD\ATI users. Among the new features are: * X.Org 7.3 support * X.Org server 1.4 support * AIGLX support You can already read an article about it on phoronix.com. source: hup.hu

We could easily answer that if you'd give us the URL.

To setup which kernel to load automatically in the boot manager (GRUB by default) launch the Mandriva Control Center (goes by the name "Configure your computer" in the menu) and on the Boot tab choose the the monitor with a wrench icon. It says something like "Setting up system boot". Sorry but I don't use English here you have to find that by yourself. When that starts you should see a window where you can choose which boot manager to choose and the time delay before the automatic boot starts etc. By default GRUB is chosen. You don't have to change here anything click on Next. Here you can change which kernel to load when you change "linux" in GRUB. So choose it and click modify. To make things clearer the option "linux" always points or at least should point to your latest kernel. So when you upgrade your kernel next time choosing linux will automatically load that.

Well then here's an experience report. I tried with the upgrade first. It asked 3 or 4 questions and then upgraded about 1300 packages without any error message. Granted it took a lot of time but I didn't care. Easiest Mandriva upgrade ever I thought. I rebooted with great expectations that's when it all went wrong. CapsLock and ScrollLock starts to blink and the system froze. Great :( Then I downloaded the Free CD version made a clean install without any problem and the system works as it should and even more responsive than before. So I picked the "very problematic installation" and the "system is good". A minor annoyance with GRUB. When I press F1 only an empty window comes up. I only get the help text if I press F1 again. If I press F2 it just freezes. So far everything else works.

This is the first stable release of Compiz Fusion, the result of more than six months of work and polish. This stable release is based on Compiz Fusion 0.5.2, released on the 13th of August. This release is meant to be used with compiz 0.6.2. Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the Compiz community plugin set "Compiz Extras" and the parts of the Beryl project that are independent of the window manager core. The two communities have re-united to create a user experience for Linux that rivals anything available on other platforms. Read more...

I searched for "Flash 64 bit" on adobe.com and this was the first link I found. And rtorrent, bitstormlite, ctorrent, deluge, gnome-btdownload, drakbt, transmission and probably there are others. There's a plenty to choose from.

There is no 64 bit Flash. You have to use the 32 bit version.

You need to recompile the nvidia kernel module note the whole kernel. And you have to do it every time you upgrade\update the kernel. To do that automatically there's a package called dkms-nvidia. For recompiling this module you also need the kernel-source-devel package or the whole kernel-source matching to your kernel.

This is the first update to GNOME 2.20.0. The update fixes all known and unknown crashers, even for those modules which haven't released a new version (AKA gnome-terminal). The next development release contains all crashers ported from 2.20. The release team wants your tarballs on November 10 23:59 UTC, although you could release your tarball earlier as well. The next stable release will be 2.20.2. The tarballs for that release need to be delivered to our lovely window before November 26 23:59 UTC. Read more...

Firefox 2.0.0.8 is released. The following security issues were fixed. Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Support: Firefox 2.0.0.8 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5, although there are some known issues affecting some media plugins. Official releases for Georgian (ka) and Romanian (ro) are now available. Beta release for Kurdish (ku) is also available for testing.

The KDE Community is happy to release the third Beta for KDE 4.0. This Beta is aimed at further polishing of the KDE codebase and also marks the freeze of the KDE Development Platform. We are joined in this release by the KOffice project which releases its 4th alpha release, bringing many improvements in OpenDocument support, a KChart Flake shape and much more to those willing to test. Read more...

You never know. IIRC wobo wrote in the mandriva forum that Xandros (his new employer) sales are rising after the Microsoft deal. Not on the desktop but in the enterprise sector.

Thanks for the wallpaper Arctic.

It makes no sense to me. He was the one who made that deal, wasn't he? I've read the topic on the Linspire forum and 8 pages of the topic on the Ubuntu forum. No one wrote anything like it. Anyway he seems like a controversial man with great potential.

What I was trying to say is that the CDs or DVD contains the same rpm packages like the ftp mirrors. There are only less packages on the CDs\DVD of course. The package manager doesn't really care about where the packages are coming from it installs them just the same. It's generally the same process. Those packages which are not on the CDs or DVD obviously won't get upgraded. But you can upgrade them later if you like by adding the non-free or the plf repos and using "urpmi --auto-select" again.

Thank you. You were great help. If anyone's interested you can find the modified kmenu buttons in the attachement for all available resolutions. To use it you first of all have to get rid of the text "Menu". To achieve this you have to add ShowText=false into your kickerrc under the [KMenu] section. Now you have to copy the image as mdv_kmenu.png to /var/lib/mandriva/kde-profiles/free/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps. If you want to keep the old file then rename it first then copy the new one. Note that this path can change according to your arch, release and kicker size. The path I wrote is correct if you are using the 32bit edition of Free release and the kicker is using the 32 pixel size button (which is the default). Now you have to restart kicker so the changes take effect. Either logout and login or there's a command you have to issue using konsole: dcop kicker kicker restart By using this command net_applet and mdkapplet disappeared from my kicker but they were there again after restarting. The buttons: mdv_kmenubuttons.tar.bz2.txt remove the txt extension from the file name. It's there because the board won't let me upload it otherwise.

I like the new menu button I just want to make it smaller. Basically I need to crop out a piece of it. The problem is that the GIMP crop tool keeps what I selected with it and throws away the rest instead of throwing away what I selected and keeping the rest. You can see the original button (the bigger of course) and what I'd like to achieve in the attachments. To workaround the problem with the crop tool I just made a new image and copied over the parts I need. Now it's almost what I wanted but this new image has white corners I don't want. How can I make an image without the white corners? Because I have 4 more resolutions to crop. The original: The new one:

It's generally the same thing. You are upgrading using the same packages. The only difference is where are those packages stored. So the answer is if you have unreliable network connection use the CDs or the DVD. I upgraded from several Mandrake releases starting with Mandrake 9.something IIRC until Mandriva 2006 and it worked. But when I upgraded from 2007.1 to 2008 though the upgrade process itself looked to work flawlessly when I rebooted the system was broke so I did a clean install.

First of all I didn't read it thoroughly but 2007 is superb 2007.1 stinker? 2007.1 is nothing but an updated 2007. I personally found it more stable than 2007. And reading the topics here and the club forum I can see I wasn't the only one. Now let's see the final conclusions. Strange the 2008 release wasn't so widely tested IMHO as the previous ones due to the lack of live CDs through out the testing phase. The first live CD was made from RC2. It was discussed a million times before. While it's true Mandriva still hasn't got a billionaire behind its back. See the previous point because this is the same. Guess that means his Palm was working flawlessly under a different distro. But I guess that different distro has some gadget which doesn't work there but works with Mandriva. That's usually the way it is. Wonderful idea :-( This is the fastest way to say goodbye about half of the fan base. And LinDVD IS important because it's one (out of two) of the legal way to play DVDs out-of the-box.

The KDE community today released KDE 3.5.8. While the developers' main focus lies on finishing KDE 4.0, the stable 3.5 series remains the desktop of choice for the time being. It is proven, stable and well supported. The 3.5.8 release with its literally hundreds of bugfixes has again improved the users' experience. The 3.5.8 info page lists how to get the sources and distribution packages. For a detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.5.7 release on the 22nd May 2007, please refer to the KDE 3.5.8 Changelog. source: dot.kde.org

Actually Microsoft did opensource some things before without these licenses though nothing really important.

The GNOME version of Mandriva Linux 2008 One has been released and is now available via BitTorrent or from the mirror sites. Featuring all the same great new features as the other editions of Mandriva Linux 2008, with a fully up-to-date GNOME 2.20 desktop. Hope this makes all our GNOME-using members happy! source: Mandrivaclub

You don't have a section called [KMenu] yet so you have to add it.