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Xorg server 1.4 - see Server14Branch for more details. Highlights:

RandR 1.2: RandR 1.2 offers output hotplug, as well as on-the-fly output reconfiguration and mode switching.

Input hotplug: Input hotplug allows hotplugging of input devices, and also adds enhanced support for touchscreens and tablets, through either HAL or D-Bus.

KDrive: Includes better support for multiple input devices.

DTrace: When running on OpenSolaris, DTrace support is available in the X server, allowing detailed accounting of operations inside the server.

EXA: Work has been done on the EXA framework to make it more usable.

New applications: xbacklight

New drivers: xf86-video-glide, xf86-video-vermilion

Official announcement is here.

As you may already have heard, KDE 4 Beta 2 is out. If you want to try it, there is a live CD based on OpenSuse here. This CD contains all modules of KDE plus a KOffice 2 and an Amarok 2 snapshot.

Also the KDE project has delayed KDE 4. You can read the full new Release schedule here, and the announcement here.

source: hup.hu1, hup.hu2, hup.hu3

No I don't like it because it's MS. No technical reasons. I just have enough of the tricks of MS triing to maintain its monopoly at all costs. Whatever they do I look at it suspiciously. For example in this case if they won over Flash, because that's what it's for, what holds them back to release a new closed Silverlight 2.0 which is incompatible with the open Silverlight 1.0?

If an other company would have done this I would say this is how it should be done.

The first release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Copernic, is now available. The release notes are available here. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this release candidate) is available here, and the detailed technical specifications are available here. This release candidate is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer, and as a mini-CD edition for both x86-32 and x86-64 architectures. A One combined live / install CD edition will be released in the near future (problems with unionfs prevented the One edition from being released at the same time as the other editions).

You can read some more on the changes since Beta2 in Adam's blogpost.

source: Mandriva blog

Ok. Then I ask it a different way. Why do you need to login in a live CD which has only one window manager and its only purpose to help you install a system which is customized to your needs? Plus it's admittedly a mini CD.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. It seems that we should be able to reuse Mark Twain’s joke with Paris instead of SFO. I do not remember seeing such bad weather in the summer: it’s been cold, rainy and miserable. And we know many other parts of globe are suffering from horrible weather conditions: heat wave in the south, floods in the North, not to mention hurricanes.

At the same time, the Mandriva weather has been a little rough over the past quarters, which might have added to the general mood. So it will soon be time to cheer you up with some good news.

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Why is there a login manager on the mini ISO at all?

Even if it's alive Duval seems to make the same mistakes Mandrake had done before. No communication. The forum is very quiet. The latest post is in the topic called "The origin of your nickname". All other posts in the other topics are usually older at least with one or two weeks at best.

The most visible change is the change of the website. It was a little different the last time I saw it back in May.

The bug tracker is currently down.

Looks like it's out of sync. Take a look at this: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Man...evel/iso/2008.0

I haven't heard anything about this cooperation. Do you have some links?

The second beta of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Galilee, is now available. The release notes are available here. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this beta) is available here, and the detailed technical specifications are available here. This beta is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer. Future betas will be available in One live/install CD hybrid editions with proprietary drivers.

You can read about known issues on the Errata page.

source: mandrivaclub.com

One of the new features of Mandriva 2008.0 is a revamped and unified UI to show and configure the network settings: Network Center (draknetcenter). This new config tool allows you to see and configure all the network interface in the same UI. Presently, the UI is still a work in progress. All contributions patches, bug reports, comments, proposals, mockups) are welcomed. I decided to make some proposals and provide some mockups in order to improve the UI and also provide more feedback/information.

Read more and see some screenshots here.

Looks like it`s already installed under /lib/ try linking it to /usr/lib

If you have broadband use hdlist.cz. That contains a lot more information about packages e.g. what files are in the packages. But it's also a way more bigger. Currently you seem to use the compressed index files (synthesis.hdlist.cz) which only contains the package name and a description of the package so you cant search for a file in a package with urpmf or the package manager.

According to the oficial news there is no DVD image at all. Only x86_32 free images. And there's a mini cd ISO too.

Webmin is for making remote system administration easy. So a web interface for iptables makes sense. But for installing\deleting on a remote machine I can't imagine a better solution than the plain old CLI over SSH though I admit I'm far from being an expert.

Anyway if you're determined to do it, and it seems like you are, I don't wanna stop you.

One more thing about GUI design:

Usability

I was inspired by this article: Durability of Usability Guidelines. The best interface is the one you do not notice, it just does its job and enables you to get on. In other words, the user interface should not be attractive - it should not attract the user’s attention from his/her job.

 

Looking at applications and web-pages around me ... For who were they designed?

I found it here (post on 27th of july 2005).

Hey,

I just wanted to say that i do know for a fact that the Linux kernel is written in C and its applications are written either in C or C++ on Gtk+ or Gtkmm (C++) . I just wanted to know if C++ was being used in the newer versions.

Thanks

AFAIk no. It's written only in C. Besides if you are just started to learn about kernels then you should start something which was written for teaching. Like Minix 1 or 2 or GNU/Fiwix. There should be others too.

I believe The Apple Store sells it for $499--- Not $4999--- You may have hit too many 9s...

I didn't, Apple did if it's a typo. Look at the page I linked, scroll down, on the right side there's a box called "Buy shake". It maybe just a very expensive software.

I've found only the French blog post so here it is translated by Google.

You can read here what you can expect in the final version. You can find here the Release Notes.

Important!

According to the blog post the current DVD image is corrupted and the correct one is being uploaded. Wait for the mirrors to download the new iso file. The correct size of mandriva-linux-2008.0-free-beta1.i586.iso is: 3.345.227 776 bytes.

Read it here.

Linux kernel is written in C not C++. And if memory serves well Linus doesn't like the idea of C++ in the Linux kernel. If you're still interested you can try Haiku. It's written fully in C++ AFAIK.

But the regular GUI remains?

Anyway browser based package managing doesn't make too much sense to me. I certainly wouldn't use it. I don't even know who would prefer it over the regular GUI.

Shake is a Mac only application. I'm not sure how you would get it to run in Linux. Probably not possible since it relies on OS X' cocoa environment.

"Shake for Linux is available through Apple Pro Resellers for $4999." See: http://www.apple.com/shake/

But what puzzles me is that you have exe files. .exe is the Windows executable file format. You can run them using WINE (and some luck) - but Shake shouldn't have them.

CJNINE is there a trial version for Shake for Linux?

dexter11 - I've deleted the first post. You can delete the whole text and mark it 'deleted' if it isn't obvious which post should be deleted. A mod or admin will act when they see it. :)

Thank you.

Lzma compression for man pages was dvalin's idea (see this e.g.). It's best to ask him.