Reiver_Fluffi

It has to be publicly available at some point prior to "official" release so that anyone mirroring can sync and get the files.

Passwords?

You misread what I said, I think. They couldn't test it until it was fully uploaded. I personally don't know the exact hour, second and millisecond original was uploaded, or when they found the error and began uploading the new one. Apparently you do? Because you're certainly ready to criticize based on a single post, it would seem.

 

Not to mention that, based on every post referring to it I've looked at, it appears they found the error and began uploading the new DVD rather quickly (ever upload a DVD ISO? Ever tried to sync a crap ton of mirrors?). In less than a few hours from the initial upload, and at most in less than a day. Personally, I think you just feel the need to cut on Mandriva, since there is no evidence giving reason to do so, aside from your own assumptions.

No assumptions really, bringing things into context, the guy (gal?) writing the original blog knew that the file had been uploaded and was available, that to me states that the file was publicly available. You don't need a formal notice to announce things like this, you get enthusiasts that check mirrors in anticipation of new releases, etc, then announce it themselves and generate the inevitable hysteria. A good manager that knew the market that they are dealing with would know that and would have taken reasonable steps to prevent that file appearing to the public before it could be adequately checked, that is where the QC failed in my opinion.

It's completely possible that the file was corrupted during the original upload. QC wouldn't have caught something like that until after the upload had finished. I'd personally give them credit for correcting it so quickly.

So nobody tests it after it has been uploaded, such a simple thing to test? Looks like a weakness in the QC chain to me (last I looked they had a QC department, looks like they were sleeping on the job ). If this was a sponsored and/or community project I would have some sympathy, but this isn't hence the harsh criticism. ;)

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.

Mandriva's QC is as efficient as ever these days

What? No comment about the fact that I'm running KDE? :o :blink:

Sorry, all flamed out here....

Where's yours?

It's in backports AFAIK, methinks you need to be doing this:

urpmi --media backports pidgin

could be wrong though

I often use this approach after installing a new Linux OS with Grub on the new root partition.

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I never knew you could do that, thanks for the tip, I'm sure it will come in handy ;)

According to The Register, the BBC Trust has asked to meet open source advocates to discuss their complaints over the corporation's Windows-only on demand broadband TV service.

 

The development came less than 48 hours after a meeting between the Open Source Consortium (OSC) and regulators at Ofcom on Tuesday.

Interesting, if the last few months are anything to go by, the beeb ain't exactly flavour of the month as far as Ofcom is concerned.

or alternatively:

su -c "kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst"

and then enter your root password. With this your login to the root account is restricted editing the file in this one instance, this way you cannot do any damage anything other than to the grub file you are working on (and kwrite should create a back-up). IMO it is better to do this now, rather than get lazy and leave root logged in unnecessarily.

That must mean then that I am naive and fanboyish.

 

John.

That depends on how much of your hard earned cash you part with and deliver to said company. ;)

copy this part:

title openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default

and manually add it to grub, it should work. Don't let the fact that the Suse initrd isn't named *.img, that shouldn't be an issue.

then I do not see how it can survive, EVEN in the short run.

Naivity and fanboyism!

Alternatively, ensure you have /boot on it's separate partition, and each distro can use this and then grub can be managed from all distros. At least, I'm pretty sure although I've not tested it. All changes will be made by root, the the uid/gid of files will remain the same across distros.

I'm sure I tried this before, but it didn't work for me and I was too lazy too find out why.

Contractually Mandriva are liable, it is up to them to chase the sub-contractor not you, you should not need to have any contact with Dane Elec. It is a pity that linux as a whole will be tarnished by the negligence and bad business practices by one company.

Choose one system to be the master for the boot loader. I usually use Mandriva. Then I write the lines I need to boot the system, whether grub or lilo. You can look at the sample grub record in the /boot directory of the non-master system, if you are unsure of their syntax. But this is how I boot as many as 5 os's on the same machine.

Pretty much what I do, on my system the Fedora installed grub is used to boot between Fedora, Ubuntu, and Win XP. This isn't a matter of preference, rather convenience, as Fedora doesn't use symbolic links for vmlinuz and initrd.img, unlike other distro's such as Ubuntu and Mandriva. Therfore grub needs to be updated everytime you update the kernel on Fedora, whereas it doesn't on others, only the symbolic links need to be updated. I suppose you could use your own symbolic links on Fedora, but I'm lazy.

For email: I bought myself a dreamhost account on sunday, and download all my email accounts to the one place and read it via imap or the webmail ui

I did a similar thing in November last year, I have an email only account with 1and1, 5x2GB mail box's with anti virus, anti-spam, and regular backups, for little more than £10, IMAP rocks IMHO.

Searches for Arctic with a stick

Right behind ya

Although Windows is better than one respect "better" at being vulnerable and useless out of the box :P

reiver: I go weeks at a time without using a pen, and months without writing more than a cheque or a signature. it's a digital age =)

Nooooooooooooooo I refuuuuuuuuuuuuse!

As much as I am a wannabe geek, i'm no good when it comes to flicking through documents on screen. Although in my line of work, when you have several files (accounts, tax, correspondence, and then client record in their varying forms) to work with daily, things are so much easy when you can have them on a desk and flick through them as desired, having them all on screen isn't practical. My boss was considering a paperless office, he received a resounding no from all concerned (however I believe the reliability of our Win 2K3 server "hit the nail in the coffin" so to speak).

BTW, am I the only one that uses a good old fashioned diary, and a pen?

And most of that (84.47%) is what came installed on their computer and they are too lazy (or don't even know how) to install something else.

Ain't that the truth!

Hmmmm, wonders if any senior Mandriva officials will be attending, might be worth a skive off work :D (and a trip to weedgieland :unsure:, don't know what KDE where thinking about when they picked that slum). As much as John Riddell's words were inviting, I'm damn sure he will be peddling his shiny Kubuntu CD's to parties "interested in Mandriva".

Did I miss something? :unsure:

BTW, I'm not a Microshaft hater on principle- Win2K was a great OS, and XP unnecessarily complex and bloated, but still a good Win2K substitute.

But I could not really care less about the other MS-OS reincarnations...

I agree with your in terms of the individual merits of their software in terms of evaluating software itself. For me the problem is their business practices with regards to their attempts to control software, hardware and similar IT markets to the detriment consumers and other suppliers within those markets.

Microsoft is currently trying to make the ISO National Bodies believe that its Office Open XML (OOXML) format is a good standard. This website discusses why this broken proprietary standard should never be accepted by ISO. A decision by each National Standardisation Body in each country will happen somewhere during the holidays of July or August. Written comments should be sent before the end of June in most countries.

Source: http://www.noooxml.org/

More important, the petition: http://www.noooxml.org/petition