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  7. Plugging In $40 Computers

    in Everything Linux

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    What would you do with a $40 Linux computer the size of a three-prong plug adapter?

     

    Marvell Technology Group is counting on an army of computer engineers and hackers to answer that question. It has created a “plug computer.†It’s a tiny plastic box that you plug into an electric outlet. There’s no display. But there is an Ethernet jack to connect to a home network and a U.S.B. socket for attaching a hard drive, camera or other device. Inside is a 1.2 gigahertz Marvell chip, called an application processor, running a version of the Linux operating system.

     

    More at the New York Times blog, and lots of suggestions in the comments...

  18. Mandriva 2009.1 Errata

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    See the Errata for Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring for information on known problems and, where available, how to fix, avoid or work around them.

     

    4 Installation Troubles

    4.1 VIA Technologies, Inc.|VT8251 AHCI/SATA 4-Port Controller : no disk found

     

    5 Installing Updates

     

    6 Resolved Issues

    6.1 SiS 670 / 671-based video adapters do not work

     

    7 Kernel issues

    7.1 DVB viewers don't work with ASUSTeK P7131 Dual saa7134 based card

    7.2 Machine freeze on X.Org startup on some via based motherboards+gforce 7300 video cards

     

    8 Hardware issues

    8.1 Upgrade of x11-server

    8.1.1 Some ATI cards are no longer supported by ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

    8.1.2 Possible 3D instability with radeon and radeonhd drivers for ATI graphics cards

    8.1.3 Possible display freezes with Intel graphics cards

    8.1.4 The keyboard and the mouse don't work with some cases

    8.1.5 nVidia drivers 71xx dropped

    8.2 Slow or no internet response (particularly web browsing)

    8.2.1 IPv6 issues

    8.2.2 TCP window scaling

    8.3 The Fn+F2 Key Combination To Toggle WiFi Doesn't Work On Some eeePC Models

    8.4 Graphical boot menu not working on some CD readers

    8.5 No sound at first boot with SBLive sound cards

     

    9 Upgrade issues

    9.1 Update your Mandriva Linux 2009 system before upgrading

    9.2 Splashy disabled after upgrade using installer

    9.3 Migration from KDE3 to KDE4

    9.4 Package source keys not imported correctly when upgrading from installer

     

    10 Software issues

    10.1 Printer configuration tool not installed by default in KDE One editions

    10.2 No burning application by default in KDE One editions

    10.3 Firefox sometimes marks all typed words as misspelled even though they are correctly spelled

    10.4 Impossible to drag folders to the trash in kde4

    10.5 Desktop effects don't work with speedboot on slow system

    10.6 VMware Initial Configuration Script Fails To Build Necessary Modules

    10.7 NFS shares not mounted during bootup

    10.8 Speedboot not enabled after One installation

    10.9 No Sound on a Dell Dimension 4550

    10.10 VFAT partitions not mountable because diskdrake sets umask= instead of umask=0

     

    11 3D-accelerated desktop

    11.1 3D-accelerated desktop and video playback

    Updated 25 September 2009

  19. Mandriva 2009.1 Release Notes

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    The Release Notes contain important information about the Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring release.

     

    The following topics are covered:

    • General information about new features and major changes
    • Changes to the Mandriva installer and upgrade instructions for users of previous releases
    • Changes to supported hardware and drivers
    • Changes regarding software packages
    • Other technical information for experienced users

  22. Developers quit PCLinuxOS to start Unity Linux

    in Everything Linux

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    Internal issues have rocked the world of PCLinuxOS, with numerous developers quitting the project. The issues appear to have started when project lead, Bill Reynolds (Texstar), took a year-long break from running the distribution and left the distro's primary system administrator, Solis, in charge. Without input from the project founder, development of PCLinuxOS 2009 by the community continued but just before release, Solis halted it so that Reynolds could overview it. The release was then delayed two weeks while it was finalised. It appears that many developers were not happy with the way this was handled and have consequently left the project.

     

    More at DistroWatch.

  23. Recent cooker kernel sources

    in Cooker

    Posted

    I do wish they had a 'view your posts' link like many other forums but they don't so I have only just found your question.

    Click on a viking777 link (or anybody else's for that matter). If this takes you to the member's profile, select Options - Options - Find member's posts. If the link is attached to a post, you can go straight to Find member's posts... :)

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