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I saw the smily I just thought it deserves some serious answer. Duplicating infos and duplicating efforts are not the same. Besides we are better. They should close down their forum and acknoledge us as the official Mandriva forum. ;) I didn't say we shouldn't have our forum. I wrote only our FAQ and site specific infos should go there. And I don't think writing basic infos over and over again is a strength. How many wikis are on the web? A lot. Which is the most used? The biggest Wikipedia. I still think building a big Mandriva wiki is better than maintain two smaller ones.

It must have a present first, and for the time being it doesn't. If it really works the way I wrote which I don't know for sure then I can very easyly imagine a present for Ulteo. Namely componies with a lots of workstations and a few admins. It looks ideal for that. For home computers no thank you. If I'd like to loose control over my computer I could use Windows.

First Mandriva's wiki will always be more popular no matter how great our wiki will be. Second it's better to keep up one big wiki instead of several small ones. Third we are about to become an official Mandriva forum and should start to cooperate with Mandriva. This is a part of the cooperation. I think our wiki should only contain our FAQ and some other infos specific to this site . Everything else should go to the Mandriva wiki. You don't have to write there if you don't like it anyway. I's better to give the info now before a lot of unneeded work is done and a lots of info get duplicated needlessly. Everything what I wrote is IMHO of course.

Read on Linux.com. source: hup.hu

While weare at wikis for those who haven't heard about it there is a new official Mandriva wiki combining the old community wiki and the developers wiki and possibly some other sources. See: http://wiki.mandriva.com

Just reading the news on the Ulteo website so I don't know anything for sure either. But from what I gathered it looks llike Ulteo is using a server-client based OS concept. You download an image and install it. They maintain it and you just download the updates. Ulteo also has a connected desktop which "is going to provide a way to use the Ulteo OS within the web-browser".

No, but they surely know about it. Actually you *can* boot the installation CD using an external USB CD-ROM, and proceed. But on systems with a common IDE/SATA controller (like my Jmicron) and an IDE drive, most installation CD's based on grub I've tried so far fail to initialize the CD-ROM right from the start. The only variety is that some popup a parsing error straightaway (Mandy 2007.1, OpenSuSE 10.2, Fedora 6 live...), while a few others load the kernel and then inform you that there's no installation medium present (Arch Linux 0.8 alpha...). Even if they know about it you can vote for it in Bugzilla. Developers care about the common mistakes first. If you don't vote maybe they won't fix it if there are other issuse with more votes.

Boycott Novell made an interview with Jeremy Allison. You can read it here.

If it's true then Ulteo has a future.

Maybe if you'd report it the final version could boot and install. Did you report it?

The first alpha of Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring (Hangzhou , Mandriva Linux 2007.1) is out. You can read the Release Notes to see what changed (not much). Likely it will be an updated 2007. From Distrowatch. The Distrowatch link points to the Mandriva Free download page(mirror list). The ISOs are in the devel/iso/2007.1 subdir. source : hup.hu

I don't know what San Diego 3700 is but I read in many places that it's currently no point in using 64 bit Linux (or Windows). In many cases it's even a bit slower than 32 bit Linux. No Java or Flash etc. The apps less tested because the major of the users are still using 32bit.

No man page. This is all I know about this.

Kubuntu is also Linux. AFAIK PC - BSD is FreeBSD with a userfriendly installer plus preconfigured KDE desktop. If you're new in the Linux\UNIX world and want to try BSDs try PC-BSD because installing and running Free or other type of BSDs is not for the ex-Windows users.

No this is the result of having 10-15 thousand packages in the repo with 70 or so engineers in the staff. I hope both of you reported what you experienced.

The Nouveau project aims to provide "Open Source 3D acceleration for nVidia cards". Though in its current state the driver is far from ready and is only for developers Phoronix tested it. The 2D features are mostly working but the 3D is mostly uncomplete. A few days ago Nouveau was merged in the mainline drm and MESA git trees and will be a part of Xorg 7.3. Since Nouveau gets no support from Nvidia they can only reverse engineer the official Nvidia driver. It expected to be much slower than the official drivers but it will be enough for desktop purposes. It will support technologies like SLI which only recently got supported in the official driver. And it will support PowerPC too, currently not supported by Nvidia. You can help the project by using Renouveau. (See how.)The first usable version of Nouveau is expected in summer-autumn of 2007 or the release of Xorg 7.3 according to Keith Packard.

Ryzom remains closed. http://hup.hu/node/33431

You should have removed it with the package manager.

Maybe you are but they don't. Microsoft has already sold 16000 SLES subscriptions. That means a good deal for Novell without a doubt. Developers leaving them? So what they will hire more. Besides if you have a a family to keep up you don't just leave your employer even if you don't like what he's doing. Not everyone can go to Google like Jeremy Allison did.

The new drivers now support the GeForce 8800GTS and 8800GTX based cards. Can be downloaded from here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html source: hup.hu

Choose main, main_updates, contrib, contrib_updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree. Urpmi is the command line package installer. It means if you want to install something and it has a dependency urpmi will automatically download and install the dependency too. Usage is very simple urpmi <what-you-want-to-install>

Jeremy Allison Read the full article on Groklaw. source: hup.hu

Me too. BTW how fast is it? I know it's java but is it usable at least?

Debian founder Ian Murdock has written an article about the current problems of Linux software installation for independent vendors. And software installation problem from the users point of view. And a possible solution in part 2. Software installation on Linux: Today, it sucks (part 1) Software installation on Linux: Tomorrow, it won’t (with some cooperation) (part 2)

Did you install the flac codec?