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  1. Another not-needed Linux distro ... and one smelling like "big brother". I will definitely never ever touch it. People should be more careful with Google IMHO as the company became way too powerful and never really played fair. Plus: Their will to collect all possible data from everyone is very disturbing and cloud-computing makes this so much easier for them. Shall I help them to get more information about me, my family, my job, my friends as they already have by using their software? Nope. Google is doing more or less what Bill Gates once wanted to do but never managed to do: concentrate all information in one place and gain a monopoly - or let's say a very dominant position.

  2. A Korean company held a press event today during which it launched its Tmax Window operating system. Built on in-house technology, they claim it has 100% compatibility with Windows software.
    Story here: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Tmax-1013937.html and here (screenshot included) http://cosmic.mearie.org/2009/07/tmax-window/

     

    I wonder if they will get sued, using Linux, BSD, ReactOS and Windows technology ... according to the second article. :unsure:

  3. My two cents:

     

    I can understand wobos reaction and the decisions made by the german community. Do I back them? Mostly. Mandriva has once again proven that the company somehow doesn't care about it's community (or doesn't know of it's importance), about it's customers (remember: many of their community mambers are also their customers!), about the people who are responsible for paying the cheques of the Mandriva staff. However, I am convinced that this all has not happened the way it happened because Mandrivas employees are "bad, evil, and non-caring capitalists" but because Mandriva simply has no one who is or feels really responsible, no one who actually can coordinate the corporate communications. They seriously lack some qualified personell IMHO. They need a qualified CEO, a qualified PR-Staff, and a good marketing division. Mandriva has actually never had this. And this has kept them from making any advances during the last ten years. And it has caused them trouble over and over again.

     

    I am also pretty sure, that prior to the LinuxTag something very serious happened behind the scenes (Staff clashing? Staff not knowing what to do with the CEO out of business? People being expelled?) at the headquarters that made everyone more than nervous. But whatever happens, never ever should any employee give answers the way Mandrivas staff did -which is a sign of incompetence.

     

    I would have waited a few days, then kindly asked for an explanation for their behaviour. If they still behave like clowns then, then it's okay to cut ties with Mandriva IMHO.

  4. (Aside point: The name Mandriva, what was originally Mandrake has not caught on. There was not a single position that used the new term. Mandrake however was still used and had an average demand of about 10 jobs a month).
    Ouch! I had expected that at least some francophone countries and/or Brasil (where Conectiva vcame from) would demand some Mandriva-experts. I hope that they get back on the right track. The product is top-quality, their business-skills and marketing skill are - as discussed earlier - a completely different thing.

     

    BTW: I had expected SUSE/Novell to be a bit more prominent these days. But apparently, fighting against Red Hat (which is admittedly damn stable) is a pretty tough job.

  5. Try using both JFS and ext3 on a several 100Gbyte or TByte filesystem, try doing a fsck after a unclean shutdown, or better a full fsck (as ext3 likes to do that ever so often), or copying thousands of small files around, or deleting multi-GByte files, then you will notice a massive difference...
    Well, I do copy hundreds of 5-12MB files (jpg and raw photos) on a regular basis - but I am copying them from the USB-Card-reader (2, 4 and 8 GB CF-Ultra III-cards) to the harddisk, not from harddisk A to harddisk B, so no wonder I do not notice massive time differences. And after all, if it takes a few seconds longer, I have more time left for drinking some coffee. B)
  6. I also gave JFS a shot roughly one year ago (when I used Arch) but I didn't experience any better or worse performance when using JFS instead of ext3. Is there a significant difference between ext3 and JFS? And are there some benchmark-tests that compare ext4 to JFS that you know of? Would be interesting.

  7. You complain about Mandriva laying off AdamW, but none of what you do (FWICT) leads them to be in a position where they don't have to do that again the next time things get tough.
    *cough* Nice that you know better than myself what "I" (or others) did for Mandriva to become a better distro. Before you point any fingers, please do your homework.

     

    I submitted and verified bugreports and tested cooker, I have helped here and on the official Mandriva IRC-channel for free whenever I could, I created icons for Mandriva in my spare time, I collected information on how to improve Mandriva and shared the information with the company, stayed in touch with them, I propageted the distribution on other sites, I wrote several positive Mandriva-reviews, I burned and shared dozens CD-images with newcomers to linux. And you tell us that we have no reason to complain because we don't improve Mandriva? Sorry pal, but that's utter nonsense.

     

    Anyway, with Mandriva being a company run by CEOs whose business-skills are imho very questionable, the influence we have in Mandrivas success and improvement is VERY limited. The programmers do a good job and create a good quality distro on a regular basis - but Mandrivas business-policy is a joke.

  8. I used ext4 for a short time and yes, it feels a bit snappier than ext3. But like you, I had some concerns about stability. And as these are my work-systems and no "play-around-and-let-them-crash" computers, I decided to stick with ext3 for a little bit longer. I guess in 6 months or so, it will be pretty safe to migrate to ext4 as default filesystem - if the developers (mainly debian and Red Hat community afaik) continue to work as hard as they did the last months. Anyway, ext4 is a very interesting and promising filesystem imho.

  9. Some say it's harsh words against Mandriva, but it can be deemed justified considering the way they seem to operate and treat people. A company trying to live off the profits off their products - OK. Using the community to live off those profits - not OK. Find the balance, like Red Hat, like Ubuntu, like other open source companies.
    Well said. I couldn't agree more.
  10. Hi,

     

    being stupid, I bought a D-Link DWA-140 USB WLAN stick and - big ooops! - forgot to check if it works with Linux. I roamed the net and found that there are drivers available that need to be compiled against the kernel (Ralink 2080), but the latest kernel in Fedora (anything later than 2.6.20) apparently refuses to compile with the driver. Meh... So no wireless for my old Laptop yet - unless I boot into Win XP. :wall:

     

    Simple question: Does anyone know it it works with any of the current or older Mandriva releases or maybe some other distro out of the box? :unsure:

     

    And yes,... I am lazy and don't want to compile if possible ('been so long since I compiled something the last time...). :P

  11. Okay, if you are installing Mandriva from scratch, then you always have a backup-desktop with IceWM. You can apply from there some patches to your system using the Mandriva Control Center (MCC, aka. "Configure your computer"). I guess that you ran into one of the bloody KDE4 bugs. I used KDE4 myself for some time and found it horrible and bug-ridden, so I went back to good old Gnome.

     

    Try to apply the updates to your system for now, then let's see if it is fixed or if we need to take a closer look at your system.

  12. Welcome aboard. :)

     

    Just a basic question: Are you installing from scratch or are you really trying to "upgrade" Suse with Mandriva? In the latter scenario, trouble IS expected, as the two linux-distributions are very, very different from each other and not really compatible (Suse is looseley based on Slackwares architecture and system-design, while Mandriva is rather based on Red Hats architecture and system-design).

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