Reiver_Fluffi

Quite plain, but I think it works.

 

#Click#

Nice, what's the superkaramba theme?

read this

I read that and it again mentioned per-copy licence fees for players - so how do the costless programs like Winamp etc provide gratis mp3 playing ability if they have to pay a per-copy licence? Doesn't sound like a good business model. Unless it's not true for players, just for encoders perhaps.

Except I also read this.

Hmmm, the mp3 license is surrounded by controversy in europe at the moment:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5326660.stm

Those are some decent looking wallpapers imho. But I would have made the "free" text smaller in size. ;)

But then you wouldn't be compelled to go out and but the powerpack........ :huh:

Although, lets be honest, who actually keeps the default desktop if they really don't like it.

It wouldn't take much effort to gimp out the writing though!

I can vouch for horde as well, and yes the interface on squirrelmail is far from pleasant, they are working on theming for 2.0

I'm thinking Vista will have a very hard time winning peoples hearts over... and their wallets. Plus, after it has been launched, it has to be supported as well.

That's only true for those people who saw other OSes. Those who worked only with Windows will be amazed by the new look. Xp is already behind KDE IMHO and still there are more Windows users.

IMHO you just hit the nail in the coffin mate :D

http://home.kde.org/~binner/kickoff/sneak_preview.html

 

Looks cool :)

Whoa, that looks sweet!

Generally I agree with all of the above, a very good idea Darkelve

Some more screenies: http://flickr.com/photos/mandriva/

This guy highlights transparent menu's in KDE as a feature? IIRC correctly they have been available since 2005LE, and it's a KDE selling point, not a Mandriva SP. If you are going to showcase a new product/beta it's better to focus on innovation and updates, not features that have been implemented by a third party a long time ago, and by and large haven't changed much.

Looks like KDE still has galaxy though. Hopefully artwork will be finished and updated for the final release.

Aye, the main point of galaxy was to have a near unified desktop between KDE and GNOME!

Looks better than galaxy, but similar to galaxy :P

Very similar to clearlooks IMHO, i'm sure i have seen a similar metacity theme somewhere as well!

Got cookie?

Yes, but they are all mine :P

I take that back, unfortunately the feature isn't 100% efective. If someone you are not ignoring quotes a post of someone you are ignoring, you still see the quote okay......kinda defeating the purpose.

Thanks SoulSe, that will indeed be handy.

Mines for August....

Oh, I have been searching this icon for some time but I haven't found it yet. It is not included in the stock gnome icons. :sad: But I have already five new icons ready, for amusement, adventure, applications, arcade and artificial intelligence sections. :)

Yip it ain't a stock GNOME icon, it's in a pixmaps directory somewhere in /usr (I think it's /usr/share/pixmaps). Either way the icon is for a mandriva app that uses perl-gtk, as it's not a stock GNOME app i'm not sure if you theme it in the same way as the stock gnome icons.

(Hey arctic, you remember this icon was giving me a headache with transparency and kicker in KDE 3.2............kicker still does not display GTK system tray icons properly in 3.5.3, yuk)

I tried jigdo with debian, and it was crap. When it put it back together, it didn't even work afterwards.

 

I ended up just downloading the iso in the end. Worked far better, and much quicker than jigdo.

You must have been unlucky there Ian, Jigdo worked fine for me when I downloaded sarge DVD1, although it did take a while, I reckon longer than a new release over bittorrent, but in this case I reckon jigdo (fingers crossed) would get the job quicker.

Are you sure about that?

Yes, I am. It's a recent change: read here. If you are subscribed to the free circulation you should have received an e-mail earlier this week explaining the change and also informing you that previous free subscribers will continue to get 12 more issues (1 year) free - at the end of which you will have to pay the $9.95 for 12 issues.

I also got notified of this when they emailed me the last issue, although it's not as if the subs are expensive.

To be fair, the "verdict" should be taken with a pinch of salt, given the skewed bias in some areas (Like Mango and her endless GNOME bashing.....I'm sure we discussed this before)

I used to run Mandy on a P-III 550 with 384m ram, it worked fine for me with 2005 and 2006.

Sounds good, thanks for the tip

:P

My onboard nvidia AC97 works fine :P

Sorry, basic install no kde, gnome, etc. :P

 

Oh, and link here: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=33131&hl=

Oh right! Make that about an hour (on account of the fact that I generally, being the noob that I am, am very slow when it comes to configs). :D

:lol:

 

Well, maybe I could add quick* and use the asterisk to see the small print at the bottom

 

*NB - can be quick if your hardware spec is good :D

 

I've actually found my home PC, Athlon XP1800+, 1GB RAM is really nice for Gentoo. I did install to a USB2 disk, but it was damn quick. I had it all finished within the hour. Some other hardware, that even had a better spec than this took longer :unsure: dunno why, just seemed to. Either that, or it was when I hadn't good experience of installing gentoo many times before I streamlined myself.

 

Of course, I'm as of the sources on the CD, but syncing portage and all that gets me up to date, in, well, a couple of hours or so depending on my internet connection speed, and erm, compile times. ;)

You What :o

Last time I did it, it took me 8 hours on my box: AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (939) with 2 x 512 mb DDR400 RAM (Dual chanelled).

Meh! :unsure:

"umask=000" is usually enough for me

Mandriva have been increasingly like this.... for instance the nvidia and ATI drivers they maintained they were unable to provide for "legal reasons" ... was all just BS.... Im not saying they have to include them in the free version but they should be honest as to why....

Yes it si BS, but it is also a sneaky marketing trick IMHO!

Yeah 7.0 is in FC5 which installed about 80 packages, although i'm not sure about removing any, usually when I do things like this it breaks..... :D

Is there any optopmisation benefits from removing packages other than disc space?

Cooker already has GNOME 2.15 and I guess they'll backport the bugfixes, don't know when GNOME's feature freeze is though....

@SoulSE: synaptic and apt are available in the repositories for mandriva.

It's the same ol story as last year. Even if 2.12 could have been rushed at the time, they wouldn't on the grounds of stability. Just because 2.15 is in cooker, doesn'y mean that it is stable, or that it will make it into the official release come September! I'm only going by the precedence Mandriva set in previous years!

Oh and another thing, why include 2.16 in official (including free), when you can make it a club/kiosk option? Ka-ching €€€'s