chris:b

Thank you very much for the warm welcome. And thanks to the admins of MUB to give MCNLive a place on this board.

MUB is the forum where I started my Linux adventure some years ago. The help I found here has always been great

In the next days I'll post some announcements about MCNLive, will change my website to link here for the international community and get out the info.

Just a quick info for the Dutch users, MCNLive has still its Dutch home at http://www.mandrivaclub.nl

Regarding my name and my nick. I will post here under the nick I took when I registered here first, anna. It is the second part of my name. The MCNLive folks know me as 'Chris'. :D

--chris

I second iphitus advice, mystified.

Don't bother with yet another distro. Help an existing one by joining and be a 'good' tester. They are gold worth, they are the most wanted people by developers. The biggest problem is that people are not verbose about bugs or just can't describe what they are doing. A good tester has to have some knowledge, is very clear about the process and willing to follow some steps by the developer when asked.

You learn a *lot* by being a tester, and it's awesome when you see how the bug gets solved.

And Arch seems to be a fine choice :-)

Tools -> Delete private data .. > Details --> Manage wand passwords ...

--chris

That was exactly my question.

Is selling/shipping boxed versions (in part. for the home user) meanwhile just not profitable?

While the buntu's are spreading zillions of (AOL-like) CDs, people more and more tend to believe that Linux is mainly about free-beer.

We will probably see quite a different direction, Mandriva is heading in the future.

I am using Mandrake/Mandriva since version 9.1

* I never had to pay one cent. Noone ever asked me to pay for it.

* I always got the full open-source distribution, and additional I have worldwide access (http/ftp) to all the software that don't fit on CD/DVD.

* I can install additional closed-source packages within no time

* I get all official security and bug fixes for free, I don't have to pay anything

* Noone forces me to install twice a year

Do you think that this is the 'incorrect way' of the 'Mandriva' management, too?

--chris

1. I booted my system(512 MB RAM) from USB (2 GB) using virtual city. It loads perfectly. I configured my wireless connection, it worked beautifully. The only problem is that when I reboot the system from the same USB, all the setting are gone ....i.e. I have to reconfigure EVERY SINGLE THING. Am I missing something?

 

2. I have the intel graphic card, so 3D desktop should work but it gives me some errors when I follow the steps. After that it goes to console mode (when I say end session, during the process) and when I type KDE on console it doesn't load KDE and gives me some more error messages.

Hi pipa,

let me explain some basic things. What you are seeing is the magic of a live system. No matter if it is a live cd or live usb. The system wide settings are always gone when you reboot. To keep your personal settings there are small wizards included in MCNLive.

You can find more about this concept here: www.mcnlive.org/mcnlive.htm.

Here are some tips for installing additional software:

http://www.mandrivaclub.nl/site/index.php?showtopic=7916

When you open a browser in MCNLive, click on Howto remaster, and you will find a step-by-step how you can roll your own version, including all your favorite software.

Regarding the Intel video card and 3D. Most Intel card will work just fine, following the steps you see explained on the wallpaper on MCNLive. But some, very old ones, won't work.

Don't want to hijack this thread.

mindwave: the boys and gals from this board introduced me to Linux and Mandrake/Mandriva some years ago, helped me to get started. Never thought then I would ever build and develop such thing as MCNLive, oh and I am doing it in my spare time.

But I am paying a price with the success of this project, I don't have enough time to visit my 'roots' and say hi to the friends here.

If you have any questions, technical or whatever, don't hesitate to post them. Will try to answer.

Currently I am busy to write an introduction to VirtualBox for the final edition of MCNLive, for people who don't know what this virtualisation stuff is all about. I would like them to get started in a practical and friendly way.

--chris

HOWEVER the MCNLive project from NL now has a version that A) has VirtualBox VN software installed (run XP in your Mandriva!). AND has the ability to be installed on my WD passport 60gb HD.

I should come here more often ...

--chris

Here the other way round, running Mandriva 2007 as guest, inside Win XP with VirtualBox ...

(actually first running MCNLive Cherbourg as .iso/cd, then installing it from the running iso, and running it from the virtual HD), pretty fast on my box:

http://www.mandrivaclub.nl/site/index.php?showtopic=7815

(warning: with screenshots)

--chris

tyme !!!!!!!!

You just repaired my 19' TFT monitor which had a small white line at the top (result of an extensive monitor-edid bug-fixing cooker test last year).

I owe you something

--chris

Roll your own version:

www.mcnlive.org/howto_en.htm

It's a problem with qt based browsers on Intel Cards (and some more) when translucency/composite is enabled, see my bug report:

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26253

Workaround:

MCC -> Hardware -> Setup the graphical server

--> options --> uncheck: enable translucency

--chris

Furthermore I felt a definite loss in quality, not a good sign for a distro that wants to be a major player imho.

So, what was your contribution the last years to the Mandriva distribution, besides bashing?

Where are your bug reports? Testing? Did you submit patches? Did you help the developers?

Sure, by reading the official announcement, by comparing the installed rpm"s to those on the mirrors.

MDV One (beta and final) is plain MDV 2006 Community.

There is absolutely no cooker package in it.

Hello John, long time no seen --

Seco wishes to produce a *video*, thus recording a whole sequence from the screen. ksnapshot only makes screenshots :-(

There are two tools that I know for linux, the mentioned Wink (not Open Source, but free beer), and xvidcap/gvidcap, which is in /contrib -- and unfortunately completely broken and not functional in MDV 2006 and in LE 2005.

Wink can make interactive tutorials (from the screen, running programs for examples) or just produce a non-interactive flash film.

Cheers, Chris

Hi Ceco,

try "Wink for Linux":

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

It works fine with Mandriva. Very powerful.

But: it creates Flash Videos (.swf), no .avi.

--chris

You can try the following.

Boot with the first MDV 2006 install CD. At the very first initial screen, hit the function key F1, you will get a boot: prompt. Type here:

linux noapic nolapic

Hit the enter key.

I went back to LE 2005. (after several clean installations) Reasons besides xorg:

* on one of my computers I get randomly freezes (as do other people) - without kat, without the acpid bug etc. Also harddisks problem on sata drives and pata DVD-drive. Unusable.

* menudrake is broken, kmenuedit for the first time does not work at all (known bug, nobody cared)

* digikam kipi-plugins --> mjpegtools (to create mpeg slide shows from pictures) are completely broken, only reverting to mjpegtools from 2005 works (known bug, months before the release, nobody cared)

* kaffeine (default kde video player) crashes konqueror after playing streaming media (known bug since months, nobody cared)

* kde text-to-speech: broken

* kicker crashes randomly (known bug)

* localization problem when working with more than one language or with certain characters, also keyboard problems (known bug)

* sometimes I can't logout from KDE, xserver/dm just hangs

* urpmi mirrors: messed md5sums and keys on many mirrors, known since weeks, nobody cares.

* when installing from pata drives (dev/sr0) --> many errors about packages, also cd/dvd writing problems.

* on some computers it is only possible to install with: ide=nodma

* The good working 'USB removable media' in LE: less reliable in 2006, sometimes it works, sometimes not. When writing files to an USB key/drive, often the files are not synced, or worse: the partition is not accessable afterwards.

* kmail is intentionally *broken*: the MDV welcome message can't be deleted.

....

--chris

[edit] And another reason: I am so tired of the 'patched' KDE MDV version. Try the kio_slave media:/ in MDV :o

JuK and Codeine --> the best functionality just broken.

Has anyone successfully made a Live-CD from Mandriva 2006?

Currently the *only* working Live-CD based on Mandriva 2006 is MCNLive, but there is no How-to at http://www.rainbowlinux.org , nor any new version of mklivecd package which used by MCNLive released.

 

If the MCNTeam used a customized mklivecd script to make their distro, shouldn't they at least release the diff patch?

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I don't have the time to write a howto for MDV 2006. Nor to answer the many emails I am getting. There won't be a howto the next months. And I am tired of being the (free-beer) personal helpdesk for people all over the world.

All scripts are included in MCNLive.

Also, the cvs of mklivecd should work. If you have questions or problems, you should ask the developers of the mklivecd scripts.

--chris

ps: hi Mysti an Ix :-)) Sometimes I wish I never started building LiveCD's, sigh. Meanwhile people just expecting that they get a recipe within a few days after a MDV release. For free, of course.

Thanks, Thac.

Will need to build my own kde 3.5 then, sigh.

* The srpms are not available.

Question for Thac: do depend those rpm's again on PLF and contrib?

And do they depend on a different xorg version than the version that comes with MDV 2006?

Thanks,

chris

Why just 3hours ago, I sucessfully downloaded 25 updates for 2006 official and ony one lacked a signature. I am using the British mirror that I generally use and earlier in the day could not get downloads so they must have been updating the mirror. Unlike ANNA I haven't tried cooker for the past 4 days and don't plan to until later in the week so I am not sure if I would get the same probem she experiences.

I didn't talk about 'cooker' but about the cooker 'mailing list' where also bug reports/mirror reports of the Official distribution(s) are discussed.

BTW you don't see the error because the 'update' tree on the mirrors does have the md5sum file which matches the hdlist.

aRTee

I am getting the same error. According to the cooker mailing list this is a temp. problem of some/the majority of the mirrors where in the /media_info dir a/all md5sum of the hdlists is/are missing, and urpmi is complaing.

It's weekend in Paris, sun is shining bride, we are having a wonderful autumn - and I believe they will fix it after the weekend.

Cheers to Zuerich,

--chris, sighing about the mdv mirror mess, same as every year :-)

Well done, aRTee, as always.

May I suggest that you include a link to the 2006 Errata website:

http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main...Linux2006Errata

Though newbies might be scared by these notes, but I got the feeling that we see some serious problems in 2006, with xorg, cpu usage and kat. Hopefully updates will be available soon.

--chris (12 minutes install time)