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by Cyprix as at Mar 11 2010 1:11am
by Cyprix as at Mar 11 2010 1:11am
| Mar 10 2010 11:49am | Development Release: Unity Linux 2010 RC1 |
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| Matthew Dawkins has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Unity Linux 2010, a minimalist distribution and live CD based on Mandriva Linux: "The Unity L... more | |
| Mar 10 2010 4:58am | Jérome Quelin: on testing |
| testing is good for your modules. even the ones you know work as intended. case in point: i wanted to refactor curses::toolkit::object::coordinates to use moose.however, refac... more | |
| Mar 10 2010 4:32am | Google Summer of Code 2010? |
| The deadline for organizations is on Friday, 23:00 UTC. We have a year-old SoC 2009 idea page, and most of the ideas seem still valid to me: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Goog... more | |
| Mar 9 2010 11:21pm | Development Release: MCNLive Kris Beta 1 |
| MCNLive, a Mandriva-based distribution and live CD, has been resurrected by the members of the Dutch Mandriva Club. The first beta of the brand-new MCNLive Kris, is now availa... more | |
| Mar 9 2010 8:00am | mlocate being replaced by findutils? |
| After recent Cooker updates, I had to urpme mlocate to install the findutils: Installation failed: file /usr/bin/locate from install of findutils-4.5.5-1mdv2010.1.x86_64 c... more | |
| Mar 9 2010 5:47am | Monday's security updates |
| Fedora has updated drupal (F12, F11: multiple vulnerabilities), F12: fetchmail (arbitrary code execution), and F12: sudo (unintended privilege escalation). Mandriva has updat... more | |
| Mar 8 2010 11:00pm | Chmouel Boudjnah: Howto use backtrack4 from hard disk with Grub2 |
| If you want to boot backtrack4 from time to time on your Linux desktop/laptop but don’t want to carry it on a USB drive (or CDROM) on you then this guide may help. I am ... more | |
| Mar 8 2010 8:34pm | Mario González T.: Au revoir, bye bye Mandriva |
| 14 months ago something great and unexpected happened. Before I tell you what was it, let me tell you that during half of 2007 I decided to resign from a quite bore and "moti... more | |
| Mar 8 2010 8:34pm | Mario González T.: 2008 is finishing, what have I done so far? |
| I have almost forgotten what to write in a blog was about :-) but here we ago again. Yeah, that's right, we will leave behind this year in a few days and perhaps today is a g... more | |
| Mar 8 2010 8:34pm | Mario González T.: Nothing Important, I think |
| I was really hoping I could participate in the Google Summer of Code this year and I made a proposal with Gnome Desktop Applets to the Gnome project. There were some misunder... more | |
| Mar 8 2010 8:34pm | Mario González T.: Taking again the development in gdesklets |
| The last days have been very busy, in Mandriva we are working in a exciting project with Dexxon company; this is what we're doing. They're interested to build a small factor m... more | |
| Mar 8 2010 8:34pm | Mario González T.: Football match on Instanbul Lands |
| The time is carrying on as usual but I have forgotten some great time I have had so far. I will refer now about the game we played in the last GUADEC, I didn't remember if so... more | |
| Mar 8 2010 6:35pm | Trashing files and directories from non-home partitions in Mandriva is a pain |
| For years trashing files and directories from non-home partitions. Instead of these files being moved to <partition>/.Trash-<uid> these files are moved to ~/.local... more | |
| Mar 8 2010 9:39am | Firefox 3.6 : partially packages in 2010.0 backports |
| In Mandriva 2010.0 64 backports, the packjager has packages 3.6 and offered it as an update for Firefox 3.5. But many depending packages have been forgotten and have been u... more | |
| Mar 8 2010 7:20am | RFC: Prepared tigervnc Package for Cooker |
| Hi all, Currently Mandriva Cooker lacks a VNC server (Xvnc). As a result, after consulting some people on #mandriva-cooker on Freenode, I prepared a tigervnc package for Co... more | |
| Mar 7 2010 3:42pm | Trying to improve backports process for packagers |
| Hi, I'd like to propose some improvements in the backports process to : - make it less time consuming for packagers - have packages better tested by users before they're subm... more | |
| Mar 6 2010 7:10am | Dropping motor |
| Hi. I suggest to drop motor. It's unmaintained and old package. Motor was also dropped from Debian. See (https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44348) ... more | |
| Mar 6 2010 6:29am | Security advisory for Friday |
| We have one security advisory from Mandriva for poppler (multiple vulnerabilities).... more | |
| Mar 5 2010 10:16am | Christophe Fergeau: One way to help free software projects |
| Free software projects are always looking for new volunteers to help, new coders, new translators, new documentation writers, ... However, sometimes you want to contribute but... more | |
| Mar 5 2010 6:36am | Security advisories for Thursday |
| Debian has updated cups (arbitrary code execution). Fedora has updated automake (v1.4: F11, F12; v1.5: F11, F12; v1.6: F11, F12; v1.7: F11, F12: arbitrary code execution),... more |








