Reiver_Fluffi

Behaviour like this is symptomatic of corporate failure. This, along with Mandriva's poor financial position and the current economic climate may indicate troubles ahead. You might argue that Mandriva's financial position has been improving, but that was on the back of a stable and growing macro-environment, I do not see Mandriva's management as having the skills necessary to maintain this through a recession nor ensure survival. I could be wrong, only time will tell.

I would have liked to have explored this further, looking at any other messages I could see from their site but that appears to be down for me.

For Project, I heard someone (on another forum) mention Gantt Project, which is Java based.

Access is going to be more difficult, AFAIK OpenOffice.org can open and read mdb files, but that's as far as it goes as you can not edit (well the structure at least, not sure about the data) nor can you export it into another format.

Thanks for this SS. I believe that the Windows binary is already updated for this, hopefully the fix will filter through to distros soon.

So, I'm paying Mandriva for a product, and I see rubbish/non-existent support, and non-existent bug reporting, so I'll pay them more money? Where's the logic in that? A company that wants to improve should offer good customer support, etc, etc, etc. Don't show a good level of service, how do you expect people to return and want to pay more for the product? That's where Mandriva Expert failed because nobody wanted to pay for support that was non-existent or nobody bothered to reply to.

Spot on, rational purchasers expect value for money. Paying more for less is a public sector phenomenon, any activity resembling this in the private sector will inevitably be forced out by substitution or government intervention in the case of monopoly or cartel.

There are Linux projects that do not have a corporation back up, and they manage to handle their bugs pretty well, so i do not see here something extra ordinary. Of course, i think that if you pay people money for their work - the work might be done faster, so I think there can be some bug tracking performance change.

I'm not disputing that, but those community projects do not have a business model to maintain, one that includes enterprise and OEM customers...

"Prudent management of operating costs" is what it is called.

Unfortunately business these days is about meeting the quality requirements of customers, getting the level of quality right is critical to modern day business. Mandriva wants to offload a key aspect (well I see no sign of TQM practices, therefore quality appraisal is pretty fundamental) of this to the community...a disaster waiting to happen IMO.

You say that 2009.1 is swapped onto the secondary master, then the entry should be

title linux-0
kernel (hd2,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.3-desktop586-1mnb BOOT_IMAGE=linux-0 root=UUID=a913dfc7-91b9-4e2a-8eba-7843f00de8f0 UUID=a913dfc7-91b9-4e2a-8eba-7843f00de8f0 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd2,0)/boot/initrd.img

(all I have done is replaced (hd0,0) with (hd2,0), (hd0,0) is your primary master and, with a primary slave in place, (hd2,0) is your secondary master).

If they supply a genuine licensed copy of OS X with the PC, then it should be legal, as the Apple license clause that restricts installations onto Apple hardware only should be unenforceable under EU law.

I think you misunderstand the remit of anti-trust law, such laws are about protecting product markets (groups of similar products) from monopoly, not market sectors (groups of customers with similar needs). Apple does not have a monopoly position in the PC market.

They also offer OSX on non Apple hardware, is this legit?

Wish they would sort out the Windows installer, it's a pig to uninstall unless you have the original installer file.

those are good news! Mandriva could end up as one of the most used distros...cool!

I wouldn't read too much into it, it is a very small sample thus far and constrained by other factors over and above "popularity".

Tried this on my wife's Aspire one last night, works like a dream compared to the preinstalled Linpus Lite distro (even though I was running Ubuntu on a memory stick and not the internal SSD). Yeah there's a couple of known bugs, but they are hardly deal breakers and one of them we have a work around if need be.

Good job (ooh, I feel dirty for just saying that ).

Sorry, don't get the joke.

Looks like I will have to wait then.

 

Thanks all.

Alternatively you could try installing the windows version of firefox through wine, might work.

IIRC Moonlight's major releases have the same release numbers as their Silverlight equivalents, therefore I expect the current Moonlight to be equivalent to Silverlight 1.

Greg2 is correct, the plugin is in the form of a XPI file which should install irrespective of what distro you use.

Oh wait, just realised, I already have that one, got it about 3 weeks ago. :D

April edition must be due soon.

I will no doubt pick it up at the weekend, like to have something to read in the toilet

I have a HP1018, works fine with the foo2zjs driver.

What are you trying to achieve over PXE, installation of software to the local machine from the server, or booting the client machine over PXE running all software on the server with no installation on the client machine (LTSP)?

If it is the former, then tux99 is pointing you in the right direction. If it is the latter then you should start by looking at this on the wiki.

what do you mean by better, that linux has shorter battery life?

 

 

 

 

http://event.asus.com/eeepc/comparison/eeepc_comparison.htm

We already know that Asus decided to get into bed with M$, feel free to provide independent statistics.

linux is optimized for servers, windows for the desktop

I have never heard such an ignorant statement in my life.

I heard that Linux can run better on low power netbooks than Windows, but I'm sure you will find reason to disagree with that "myth".

What tutorials are you using?

I found the Traditional DNS Howto at howtoforge.com very helpful. Yeah it's a big read, but I took the time to read it and found configuring bind to be very simple thereafter!

No, I think everyone is just busy answering your criticism.

Seriously neddie, I thought you were a bit more mature than that...

So, you advocate logging in daily as root then reiver? I expect not.....

No, but I have found times where logging into root has allowed me to get certain things done, with no significant risk (remember risk is a relative measure depending on the individals own risk preference). However. that is due to circumstances unique to me! My point was that everybody was quick to judge the O/P's practices without having a clue what the O/P was doing and trying to achieve it! We do not know that the O/P intends to log in as root daily, all we know is that he wants the option to log in as root.

Everybody is too busy chastising the O/P rather than trying to see what logging as root is "enabling" for them and suggesting alternatives. Okay, so the last sentence of the original post isn't exactly filling us up with warm fuzzy feelings, but I thought we were capable of rising above it....