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5 Resolved issues

5.36 Modems supported by hsfmodem and hcfpcimodem drivers do not work when configured via Mandriva tools

 

10 Software issues

10.2 MandrivaUpdate installs packages from non-update repositories

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Sun Microsystems is to pay $1bn for open source database developer MySQL.

MySQL's open source databases are widely used online, but Sun is hoping to increase their use in more traditional IT and enterprise settings. The database is used by many websites - 50,000 copies a day are downloaded.

More at The Register.

Mandriva, the leading European editor of Linux distributions, and Turbolinux, a leading Linux client and server distributor in Japan and China, signed the agreement about Manbo-Labs last October and have been working together since then. Both companies decided to wait until first internal delivery to issue this announcement.

 

Manbo-Labs' team is composed of more than ten developers from France, Japan, Brazil and also includes developers from the community. Altogether, they have been working on building a common Linux base system to be released in April 2008. Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring will be based on this system.

 

The current internal delivery is composed of: gcc; glibc; rpm; kernel; bin-utils; mkinitrd; udev.

As usual, I was unable to find any reference to this on the Mandriva site. The press release is here.

5 Resolved issues

5.8 KWeather available for addition to KDE panel even if not installed

5.51 gxmms does not work

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PC vendor Lenovo has promised ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 for some time now. This week, they will release pre-installed SLED 10 on the Intel Centrino processor-powered ThinkPad T61 and R61 14-inch-wide notebooks. In February, Lenovo's pre-integrated Novell Linux offering will expand to include some Penryn-based ThinkPads.

More at DesktopLinux.

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Gentoo Linux made the headlines last week and once again it was for the wrong reasons. It appears that the Gentoo Foundation's charter as a non-profit organisation was revoked several weeks ago, when it was discovered that all except two trustees had resigned or were unreachable: "There has not been any public explanation from the Foundation's trustees as to why this was allowed to happen, or what steps are being taken, if any, to fix this. This is very bad for the morale of the Gentoo community." The founder of Gentoo also offers a solution - his return as President of Gentoo Foundation: "If I return as President, I will preserve the not-for-profit aspect of Gentoo. Beyond this, you can expect everything to be very, very different than how things are today." The response by the Gentoo community was mixed - some launched a petition supporting the return of Robbins as the project's benevolent dictator, but others seem to be against the idea. Whatever your opinion, one thing is clear: a radical solution is needed to take Gentoo Linux out of the current quagmire. Failing that, the latest news item on the Gentoo Linux home page -- announcing the October 15 weekly newsletter -- could be the project's very last news release.

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The Observer claims to know why Intel and OLPC fell out:

The first big contract signed by OLPC was with the government of Peru, which bought 300,000 XOs. Its vice-minister for education was then visited by an Intel salesperson, who is said to have comprehensively disparaged the little green machine. The politician apparently took notes of the exchange, which he then shared with Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the OLPC project, who shared them with Fortune magazine. 'It was unbelievable,' according to Negroponte. '"The XO doesn't work, and you have no idea the mistake you've made. You'll get into big trouble", that kind of stuff. We kept the sale, but when one of your partners does that, what do you do?'

5 Resolved issues

5.32 Characters not correctly displayed on virtual terminals with non-Unicode locale

5.33 ez-ipupdate crashes on x86-64 systems

5.34 drakvpn crashes when attempting to enter a username and password

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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and Microsoft are working together to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries, the head of OLPC said in an interview Tuesday.

It's a brand new development for the XO laptops, as the low-cost notebooks are known, and came about because of Microsoft's friendlier attitude toward open-source software.

More at ComputerWorld.

sorry for the double post, our windows-boxes at work are sucking !!!

No problem. B)

Mandriva 2008 Spring is currently in development. The pre-release Errata can be found at wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Errata.

The pre-release Notes for Mandriva 2008 Spring are at wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Notes.

9 Hardware issues

9.2 Mouse thumb buttons (back and forward buttons) not working

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i just periodically go through the unanswered posts and try to respond.

You're in good company - ianw1974 has been caught out like that. B)

You may have a long wait, Jon. Bob hasn't logged in for 2 years... :P

9 Hardware issues

9.9 Random freeze with NVidia GForce 6200/7200/7300 and SMP

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5 Resolved Issues

5.25 Cannot access files on AFS servers

5.26 OpenAFS fails to work on x86-64 architecture as kernel module fails to load

5.29 Some GNOME applications do not start due to evolution-data-server not exiting at session end

5.30 Run-time configuration changes for top not correctly stored

5.31 Totem volume control does not display correctly in full screen mode

5.46 gphpedit cannot be installed due to missing library

 

8 Kernel

8.1 System crashes when netrom module is unloaded

8.2 System freezes when cm4000 / cm4040 PCMCIA card is ejected

 

10 Software Issues

10.4 CUPS fails to install when /usr/local is not writeable

10.5 Characters not correctly displayed on virtual terminals with non-Unicode locale

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I must be missing something - where are the rpms? If they're not in any of those repositories then where are they - are you supposed to configure urpmi to use an additional repository at 99k.org?

Each forum has a Configure Repository announcement, for example here. :)

Thanks for reporting back. ;)

The detailed specifications for 2008.1 are here. :)

But but but.... wouldn't it be rather simple to write a routine that checked the "usual places" for boot files for other distros during Grub setup?

This is due to appear in 2008.1.

I posted some info in an old thread, but I am not sure if that was the correct place to post the info.

I've removed your original post to avoid confusion. :)

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