Reiver_Fluffi

Given all this it's not surprising that their share price has fallen by ~90% in one year (no stock splits to consider here), and are seeking finance from VCF's at the same time as reporting yet another operating loss. The latter brings a whole new level of scepticism when you look at the idea that the venture capital money was to invest in new strategies, more likely it was to alleviate the pressure on what I imagine was a worsening liquidity problem. It gives me no surprise that the financial information on Mandriva's "investor" area is so limited, it is more than likely hiding issues with working capital management that would put off potential investors. The Mandriva management seriously need to remove their heads from their backsides and learn to do business rather than play shop like a bunch of four year-old's, there's only so much debt you can manage before the bubble bursts!

but I also just bought another MB for a PVR system that ONLY uses DDR2 - 533

(thats what the books states).

I would air on the side of caution and stick to the DDR2 - 533.

the screenlets...are screenlets (not gdesklets)... ;)

Sweet, will check that one out later ;)

I don't believe that the desklets are part of AVN, AVN is just the bar, or at least it was when I last used it.

An alternative to AVN is Kiba-dock which is worth a look ;)

Maybe shaming the Nigerian Government to do something about it !!!.

It's kinda embarasing when you are shaming the wrong person/organisation though :unsure:

and it's just my humble opinion too :) As for me calling saying it's a "common opinion" -- i meant that I have seen it expressed in many places by other people.

 

Though I don't see how that theme is "innovative"

 

James

note:

(although not necessarily pure in this case)

In the context of originality and innovation.

The original article never indicated the involvement of an agent, it indicated that it was the Nigerian government that made the decision, Sorry, but if you are going to criticise, do it properly, yet again FB has demonstrated poor business skills!

Every criticism you made is either a matter of your personal choice or unjustified, I do not see how that translates to common opinion. If it were common opinion were that round edges were "generally terrible" then why are there so many, and that some are popular? You criticise the button placement, saying that it is inconsistent, inconsistent with what? Other themes? What was wrong with innovation and orgininality (although not necessarily pure in this case)? You remark that the appearance was unbalanced, sorry but by virtue of the fact that there is one button on one side, and three on the other, it is natural for metacity themes to be unbalanced!

It might not be the best theme in the world, but it doesn't merit it being described with one derogatory word.

JMHO

Gorgeous artwork? That window decoration is fugly!

iphitus, I am sorry that the general concensus does not meet your approval :P

The links are borked? :huh: Seems to point to a webmailcluster.

Yeah, my bad I copied it straight from my webmail.

There's been no announcement on the mailing list yet, but the homepage for Fedora states in so much that Fedora 8 is now available, and provides links to torrents & mirrors

Edit, it's official now, I just received the announcement:

(To the tune of Michael Jackson's "Thriller")

 

It's close to midnight and something cool is coming through the "tubes"

It's looking real tight, a distro for the experts and the n00bs

With Live CDs* so you can try it out before installing

Or DVDs so you can have the packages you choose

No way to lose

 

'Cause it's Fedora, Fedora 8

We'd love to have you join us and together we'll be great

Using Fedora, Fedora 8

Just click the link and rescue your computer's future today

 

Hotplugging speakers, you realize PulseAudio is sweet

You feel the power of kernel 2.6.23

You close your eyes but then you can't see all the gorgeous artwork

You want online? New NetworkManager helps you explore

And try out BigBoard

 

'Cause it's Fedora, Fedora 8

This is the leading edge of free and open source today

You've got Fedora, Fedora 8

A brand-new shiny desktop with the latest, greatest awaits

 

(BRIDGE)

Now firewalls, you will find, are a ball to configurate

Virtual hosts you can manage the most secure way

(It makes your day)

Now you can authenticate

 

They're out to get you, security enhancements stop them cold

You want your codecs? Codeina is the legal way to go

We've got the spins -- developers, electronics, and gaming

And that's not all, we wanted to make sure your Java's free

So we've got IcedTea

 

Inside Fedora, Fedora 8

We promise Number 9 is no more than six months away, world

Fedora, Fedora 8

So get aboard the torrent, share Fedora, score a new Fedora, by next May

'Cause it's Fedora, Fedora 8

You get to keep both pieces anytime that something breaks, girl

Fedora, Fedora 8

If only Vincent Price could read this killer filler:

 

"Werewolf" moves across the land

Router meltdowns close at hand

Sysadmins in search of blood

For those who caused this bandwidth flood

And whosoever took the risk

But failed to make an extra disc

Must face the Bastard Op from Hell

And lose his access to the shell

 

The best of Linux now is here

To kill the FUD and strike with fear

The hearts of those who steal your rights

And hide their code far from your sight

Closed source takes away what's yours

But you'll never shake the horror

Until you taste the freedom and

The power of FEDORA!

 

[*Note: Some Live images are actually too big for CDs and require DVDs

or USB storage for use. Refer to

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins for more information.]

 

 

= WANT FEDORA? GET FEDORA! =

 

To get Fedora, visit:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

 

= WHAT'S NEW? =

 

To read about all the latest changes, visit:

ttp://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/

 

For a summary, visit:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary

 

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*) This mail was brought to you by the Fedora Docs team.

 

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Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

EDIT fixed broken links, my bad

You oughta remove the part of that script "Security features" as it refers to SELinux (this part doesn't actually pick a variable up, it just echo's some text.)

P.s. Fedora 8 is out today, might be worth a try ;)

My desktop for this month. Don't worry boys and girls, the compile of OpenOffice will be finished in about 4 hours ;)

Source distro's are soooooo overated :P

BTW are you running hardened-gentoo?

gdesklets :)

And IIRC the desklet is called FTB, you can get it here if your distro doesn't package it (this is the only place I could find the source for this desklet).

You don't need reload to grub like you do with lilo, your grub entries should mirror that in the menu.lst file without doing anything else.

Have a look here mate

My shiny new Fedora 8 install (well almost, technically it's "still rawhide")

Love the new slideshow background, sadly you can't appreciate that from one screenshot :P

Oh and yes, I have changed the habit of a lifetime and finally installed the 64-bit version,

Ian, it looks to me that the O/P seen the page you link and that was what he was rantng about (well at least they both bear the nvidia quadro logo). I think the point is that the corporate server is poorly marketed on Mandriva's site, that page is very basic and in no way inticing, a total contrast to say the product page for the powerpack. I don't see one selling point on that page, just a list of specs, which are meaningless on their own. The O/P is right, there is no way that any potential customer would be interested in the product after looking at that lack-lustre attempt to sell it to them, there's nothing there to compell anyone to be interested.

I agree 100% with what SoulSe said above.

There doesn't need to be bribery involved here. There is a strong argument (as much as I hate to say it) for the Nigerians to adopt Windows, is the fact that the majority of the westernised world "depends" on Windows and compatible software, Microsoft will have driven that message to the Nigerians, that will have some part to play in the U-turn. It's a dire situation to which progress is being made, but not of benefit to Mandriva in this situation.

Well, the "communication thing" definitely got better since Adam began to take care of communicating with the "outer world". The financial situation? ... Cannot comment on that as I don't know the companys financial data and it's future-strategy in detail.

I agree with you, Adam has made a difference, but it's nothing compared to, say for example, the Ubuntu marketing machine, far from it.

Tip for Mandriva: Find some people to check your grammar/spelling/etc (preferrably ones that speak english natively). Reading through the letter, there are quite a few mistakes, especially for a business correspondence. I realize this is his personal blog (it IS an open letter, though), but seriously, it looks bad when you criticize someone but can't use proper English (especially when the receiving party is English-speaking - I would say the same if it was in any other language).

 

I say this partially because of this open letter, but also because I've seen Mandriva make such mistakes in more official forms before. I know French is their native language, and for all I care they could do everything in French, but if you are going to write in another language...

I was thinking the same, but couldn't think of a constructive way to say it (work tired me out ;))

I have managed to vote twice on that poll from the same IP, says a lot about the credibility of that poll, and a fact that Lenovo will be well aware of. In all honesty I believe that the end result will come down to "which community/organisation" will work best with Lenovo. I can not see this being Mandriva given the ineptitude of their management with regard to communication and financial management.

(who moved this before I managed to finish my reply, grrrr).

if you want to ignore the dependencies use

rpm -i --nodeps PACKAGE_FILE

or you could force the installation using this method

rpm -i --force PACKAGE_FILE

From what I have seen on the Ubuntu forums, the performance from fglrx+AIGLX is a bit choppy. I have yet to get AIGLX working with Ubuntu or Mandriva with open or closed drivers (of which my card is supported by both)