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  1. libcryptopp6 - Base shared library part of libcryptopp​ 

    Crypto++ Library is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes.

     

    This package contains the library needed to run programs dynamically linked with libcryptopp.

    It's in contrib. You added the official repos too, didn't you? If yes then maybe the mirror you are using is not synced try update your sources. You can find it in the File menu of rpmdrake (the software installer).
  2. I don't know how to retrieve GRUB error messages. I guess there is a way to start it in debugging mode.

    Anyway if you can't boot Mandriva to reinstall GRUB then you have to use a different media e.g. a live CD to boot then chroot to the Mandriva / partition and then reinstall Grub.

  3. Dropping the old KDE is not just the decision of Mandriva. If the KDE krew decides to drop it then supporting it would take extra effort and resources, and this is something Mandriva just can't afford.

    Not to mention that supporting both KDE 4 and 3.5 didn't make any good for Mandriva 2009 too. Instead of one stable KDE release now we have two mixtures: KDE 3.5 with KDE 4 apps or the opposite. None of them working perfectly.

  4. Actually there are more KDE 4 applications blended in 2009 KDE 3 like Gwenview, Ktorrent and Krusader. Somebody made a package of Gwenview on the official forum (look for a topic called KDE 3). There is an Amarok package in the official repo which works, except theming, unlike the new Amarok. I thought about rebuilding the KDE 3 packages of Ktorrent and Krusader but one of them needs 100 M in dependencies just to build, the other one needs 300 M. So I wait until I become really desperate or somebody makes a package of them.

    BTW both SoS and MDE seem to be stopped. Anyone have some news about them?

  5. It can be an amazing technology and it can bring amazing speed but how much does it cost? AFAIK fibre is very expensive. What's the fastest I could get now? I think it's about 10 Mbit. I had 3 Mbit at one time and it was more than enough. So why would I want a fibre channel? Why would most of the people? To get 1 wire for TV, phone, internet etc ? Truth is I don't care how many wires they use to get me those services. They are already there and they are working well. I don't wanna pay more for the "one cable for all" solution. And I doubt most people want.

  6. For now perhaps yes.

    I don't have fibre channel and I don't think I'll ever have one. All new realistic internet providing technologies focus on using already existing cables like phone or power lines or not using wires at all.

    So I say this one sounds good but nothing will come out of it for us.

  7. Here's the LWN article about this. What I don't understand is this:
    The X Window System runs the C preprocessor and compiler on startup, in order to build its keyboard mappings.
    WTF? Every start X starts to compile? My keyboard mapping didn't change since.. I don't know.. it never changed. What's the point of this?
  8. If you wanna judge a distro's reputation you should get info from more sources. I see new users on the official forum frequently. Read about several new fan sites opening. And they had some very good releases, Mandriva 2008 Spring is probably one of the best they ever made. Community support and the reputation has dramatically changed positively since Adam Williamson arrived. All the decisions of the company were community friendly lately.

    Hardly the signs of declining. IMHO that's an old article and should be rewritten. The only valid point there is the website. It's still chaotic but as I read in the forum the curent club website will be phased out. I proposed several times to use this forum as an official forum but it didn't happen for reasons unknown to me and likely won't happen.

    As for distrowatch ranking, I can't really remember the last time Mandriva was first there. Probably it was still Mandrake. Ever since Mandriva was around the 7th place. Some times better sometimes worse. It tends to go up whenever a new release is out. And it tends to go down slowly afterwards.

  9. A new bugfix and maintenance release for the KDE 4.x series codenamed "Codename" has been released. The most important changes from the announcement:

    • Deleting files got a nice 32 times speedup.
    • Many bugfixes and improvements in KHTML and its new JavaScript bytecode interpreter Frostbyte. "Stop animations" is back in Konqueror.
    • The Kopete Instant Messenger team fixed crashes in the ICQ, Yahoo and Gadu-Gadu protocols.
    • Comicbook backend fixes in the document viewer Okular
    • Fixes in Gwenview's thumbnailing,
    • Various crash fixes in KGpg, the PGP security utility.

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