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by Cyprix as at Mar 11 2010 1:11am
Mar 10 2010
11:49am
Development Release: Unity Linux 2010 RC1
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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