dexter11

Sorry for double posting. On the side note I see a few other posts which in my opinion should have been put in the news section like Firefox 2.0 is out. Am I the only one who thinks like this ?

You should have sent it to the news IMHO that's why it is. Since the board supports other distros not just Mandriva and there are many users here who use more than one distros it is very appropiate.

Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Kubuntu. I chose "I want the greatest and latest stable software". How does Debian fits in this? Anyway when I tried Debian in the old days (Potato, my first ever distro, and Woody) it wasn't for me that's for sure.

You can read the official announcement here, and the release summary here. The best way to get it currently is downloading with bittorrent. If you can't use bittorrent for one reason or another, try the mirrors. P.S. fedora.redhat.com is currently down. source: hup.hu(as usual)

Just a few thoughts about things not working with a new version which were working with the previous. First as I've read from some people in other forums, mainly hup.hu, who actually saw the kernel source and knew what they're looking at, things can change quite a lot in the Linux kernel even with minor version number changes. The other thing is the developer team which become smaller. Just imagine you are developing a distro you have to put a lot of new things inside, check it works with new hardware and you should check it upgrades the previous version and it works with the older hardware etc. and you have a deadline. What will you do when that deadline comes closer and closer. You take for granted what was working before. It's all IMHO af course.

Why do you want to compile it? Add the plf repos in easyurpmi and install it with the software installer.

Read the news on the front page. 1.0-8776 is the latest which is pretty much 8774 but with a buffer overflow fixed.

Did you setup your sources (with easyurpmi)?

It's 8476. 8474 has a serious security bug.

There is package called kdmtheme which is not installed in my machine so I think it's not installed by default. Maybe you just need to install it and it will be in the KDE CC. Thinking of it how could KDM themes and kdmrc be in a normal users home dir? There is one mutual KDM theme and mutual KDM settings for everyone in one machine. It means IMHO there is one kdmrc per system and it should be in the /etc dir and one KDM themes dir somewhere in the /usr dir.

Nvidia fixed the buffer overflow error reported in a Rapid7 security advisory. Can be downloaded from here (32 bit) and here (64 bit).

That's what I wrote, of course it's the same in Mandriva. From the kde-look site: It's hard to believe but it looks like there's no gui for that.

There is a KDM configuration in the KDE Control Center (kcontrol on the command line). Don't know how to apply KDM themes though.

There was a program called easymandriva but I can't find it anymore.

You better write to the official club forum. The admins will help you there.

You have multiple desktops just press Ctrl+Alt+Left\Right and you can see them. It's just compiz doesn't work with the KDE desktop changer applet.

NVIDIA has released a new driver and the first from the 1.0-9XXX series: 1.0-9626. There's almost no change to the 1.0-9625 beta driver. This is the first non-beta nvidia driver which contains the "GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap" extension, which is needed for AIGLX to work with nvidia cards. Can be downloaded from here. source: hup.hu

According to a hup article(Hungarian) one of their childrem said that hans Reiser and his wife was arguing in medium voice on the upper floor and when the kid went up Hans Reiser sent him down and told him to not come up in any case. One of the seats was missing from Hans Reiser's car and there were some plastic bags in it too. They found some blood samples in the car and in the house. A few days before Nina Reiser went missing he bought two books which were about homicide investigation : "Homicide" and "Masterpieces of Murder". All of the above were in the hup.hu article quoting various sources but none of the sources were actually linked except the police press conference.

Not even Firefox 2 is released yet, but there's already brainstorming about the features of Firefox 3. You can read the ideas (maybe even add your own) here. source: hup.hu

OpenOffice.org is six years old. To make this day even more remarkable, they released a new version: 2.0.4. It has some new features and bugfixes. You can read the details here. source: hup.hu

Try synthesis.hdlist.cz on the update mirrors.

There is a mini ISO somewhere.

The creator and main developer of ReiserFS has been arrested on suspicion of murder of his wife and mother of their two children, Nina Reiser. She has been missing since the 3rd of September. A website was set up to help find her at www.ninareiser.com. source: hup.hu1, hup.hu2

There is a kdmtheme package in main.

James Ward (systems engineer at Adobe) has tried out a pre-alpha version of Flash 9 for Linux. He tried some Flex 2 applications and most of them worked. You can read the full blog entry here. Mike Melanson (the leader of the Flash player for Linux team) has released the list of required libs needed to run Flash on Linux in his blog. source: hup.hu