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Ilia the problem with the Firefox spell checker (marking every word) happens to me when I forgot to switch it back to English.

And while we are at changes congrats to Mnadriva for the new website and for the new look of the club page. They look a way better now.

KDE or Gnome? In KDE right click and choose the "Link pointing to an application". Or something like that, I'm not using English localization.

Check your /usr/lib/opera/plugins dir. There should be a symlink.

Novell today announced the availability of openSUSE 10.3, the newest version of the award-winning community Linux distribution. Enhancements to openSUSE 10.3 include the newest versions of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments, including a KDE 4 preview. OpenOffice.org 2.3 makes sharing files easy, and the newest version of AppArmor protects the Linux operating system and applications from attacks, viruses and malicious applications. OpenSUSE 10.3 also now includes MP3 support out of the box for Banshee and Amarok.

Read the press release and release announcement for more information.

source: distrowatch.org

gqview - photo viewer - I know kuickshow, just don't like how the selected photo pops up in a different frame, gqview does what I want it to do and works the way I expect.

Drakxtools are the configuration utilities of Mandriva Linux. The programs in the Mandriva Control Center (software installer, hardware configurator etc).

I have no window borders, and can't move them anymore....

Beryl has 3 window decorators. One for Gnome themes (Heliodor), one for KDE themes (Aquamarine) and one for its own themes (Emerald). As I noticed the default in Mandriva is Aquamarine under KDE. And I assume Heliodor under Gnome. So you can change themes in the KDE control center or in the Gnome control center as usual. But if you want to use the themes for Beryl you have to use Emerald. For this you have to edit your /etc/sysconfig/compositing-wm and add the line

COMPOSITING_WINDOW_DECORATOR=emerald

then logout, restart the x server then log back in.

There should be a GUI way to change window decorators but I don't know where it is.

Mandriva already has a crashandler called drakbug. You can see it if any of the drakxtools is crashing. Otherwise the KDE and GNOME has its own crashandler AFAIK.

That date is not carved in stone. Never was. The only thing we know they should be ready soon.

Or they can just use an already working voting system. Like take the results of sourceforge\freshmeat\etc votings.

Instead of /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/plugins try /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

And try to update your system Firefox 2.0.0.3 is outdated.

If you find some bugs report it. I reported an rpmdrake bug on the live cd. It was fixed on the next day.

You can register for being an early seeder of Mandriva Linux 2008.

Are you sure it's not working with the newer python release?

The second release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Kepler, is now available. The release notes are available here. A guide to major new features is available here, and the detailed technical specifications are available here.

New features since the release of RC1 include the final release of GNOME 2.20, the inclusion of the new 8.41.7 version of ATI’s proprietary driver in the non-free repository to support Radeon HD cards, significant kernel updates that improve support for certain ATA controllers and many audio chipsets, some new features in the urpmi and rpmdrake package management tools, and over 500 bug fixes since RC1.

source: Mandriva blog and Mandriva club. Also related: Adam's blogpost.

GNOME 2.20 has been released.

The improvements include: improved support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power management and incredibly accurate laptop battery monitoring.

You can read (and see) what's new in the Release notes.

The new nvidia driver is out. It's the first which is compatible with X.org 7.3. It supports some more Quadro cards and has improved GeForce 8 support. Read the details here.

source: hup.hu

I will try adding the non-free repo as well and see if that gets me anywhere.

Dolphin is in contrib/release, the virtualbox packages are in main/release. So if you can't find them now adding the non-free repo won't help in it. It's still useful though.

Available for download now, OpenOffice.org 2.3 incorporates an extensive array of new features and enhancements to all its core components, and protects users from newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It is a major release and all users should download it.

Plus: It is only with 2.3 that users can make full use of our growing extensions library.

* Extensions

* Release Notes

* Security Bulletin

Valve Corporation is an American video game developer based in Washington, USA, made famous by its first product, Half-Life, which was released in November 1998. Read more...

Over the years, Valve has released a lot of very successful games, but was criticized for not caring about Linux gamers. The Linux port of their games and Steam for Linux was asked for on their forum again and again, but their answer was always no. They even threatened the next person who asks this with a ban. Time seems to change. Valve is now hiring a Senior Software Engineer. One of their tasks will be to "port Windows-based games to the Linux platform."

source: hup.hu

There is a new AMD driver. Still no AIGLX support in this one - they are promising it for the next version. It's for both architectures (x86 and x86_64) according to the file name.

Read the Release notes here. Download it here.

The Java stuff in MDV is messy mainly for historical reasons. We used to never package Java stuff ourselves, we used an external repository called JPackage. Since it's become feasible to build quite a lot of Java stuff with a fully free software toolchain (i.e. the proprietary Sun Java is no longer needed), we've started having Java packages in our official free repositories, but we still keep them in sync with JPackage, so they're rather different from standard Mandriva spec files.