Re: [newbie] mandriva future?
On Monday 11 Apr 2005 12:04, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Dear community, After the merge, what happents to the distro? Will be any free version available? I used MDK for 2 years... I've started to love it! quote Q1. Will the Limited Edition 2005 distro be split into several flavors, like Discovery and PowerPack? A download Edition (3CD available on public mirrors) will be released? A1. There will be only one version available through the Mandrakestore. Club members will have access to several different versions, and there will be a Download edition as before. /quote There will be one download free version per year, with additional material available to club members. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpwDrMxfmM9k.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] mandriva future?
On Monday 11 April 2005 05:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 11 Apr 2005 12:04, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Dear community, After the merge, what happents to the distro? Will be any free version available? I used MDK for 2 years... I've started to love it! quote Q1. Will the Limited Edition 2005 distro be split into several flavors, like Discovery and PowerPack? A download Edition (3CD available on public mirrors) will be released? A1. There will be only one version available through the Mandrakestore. Club members will have access to several different versions, and there will be a Download edition as before. /quote There will be one download free version per year, with additional material available to club members. Anne Hi Anne Do you think there will be (free) updates available for the download version as it is now? I suppose the same urpmi soruces will be available? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mandriva future?
On Monday 11 Apr 2005 18:04, Mike Adolf wrote: quote Q1. Will the Limited Edition 2005 distro be split into several flavors, like Discovery and PowerPack? A download Edition (3CD available on public mirrors) will be released? A1. There will be only one version available through the Mandrakestore. Club members will have access to several different versions, and there will be a Download edition as before. /quote There will be one download free version per year, with additional material available to club members. Anne Hi Anne Do you think there will be (free) updates available for the download version as it is now? I suppose the same urpmi soruces will be available? I don't have any insider info, but I was in the chat room when this was said. I got the impression that security updates etc will continue to be freely available. New material, possibly including major updates, will be confined to club members. That's only my impression, though. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpDCu1TILkFe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq
On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? after configuring konqueror and the screen resolution, installing firefox and thunderbird from mozilla.org, and not seeing my external usb harddisk, i restarted, and now konqueror does not start anymore. so i wanted to uninstall it, but software manager does not find it. is there a faq answering such questions ? kind regards philippe I gather from your post you are very new to linux in general. Try not to expect the same handling as you did in windows. Do not (just)uninstall what doesn't seem to work for you, you might need it again later. Take your time to look around at what you've got installed...it's more than you think or can see at a first glance. Yes, I would certainly advise to _only_ install via the software managerthat will save some disappointments, depencies_wise. For tips, tricks and faq's check the twiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? is there a faq answering such questions ? I gather from your post you are very new to linux in general. not really new, but not at home, right :-) Try not to expect the same handling as you did in windows. Do not (just)uninstall what doesn't seem to work for you, you might need it again later. in debian a troubleshooting trick is to remove completely, including the configuration files, through synaptic, and then reinstall. can mdr software manager remove config files too ? Take your time to look around at what you've got installed...it's more than you think or can see at a first glance. Yes, I would certainly advise to _only_ install via the software managerthat will save some disappointments, depencies_wise. i will try then. For tips, tricks and faq's check the twiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome ah great, thank you. now on: http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/ Getting started points to the beautifully done http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ that i needed today. and everything done by the kind souls helping so much on these lists too. thank you all. kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:51:11 -0400, Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Here's one tidbit that makes the change a bit more palatable: The long-winding trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation has reached a point where we decided it is more reasonable for us to move forward. By adopting a new name, we eliminate the liability attached to the Mandrakesoft name Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move it's cool. i like ManDiva, Mantrivia; Mandrilla. Mandrills are great :-) http://www.thebigzoo.com/Animals/Mandrill.asp you know it's funny when it gets better every time :-) and it follows a modern androgynous trend ;-) in any case, you can't complain they lack humour, and a whiff of entertainment can't be bad for our future Windows ... kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move Well, maybe there is a method in this madness. Anyone knew anything about thouse trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation? Rafa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Friday 08 April 2005 01:14, Rafa Kamraj wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move Well, maybe there is a method in this madness. Anyone knew anything about thouse trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation? Rafa MandrakeSoft have been in dispute with the owners of the rights of 'Mandrake the Magician' a 1920's comic strip for some time. The use of the wand and stars in Mandrake's old logos did not exactly help their case. (now only the stars remain) IMO the name is not important, they may as well change it if only to get that magician off their backs. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
I think Mandriva is awful... El Martes, 5 de Abril de 2005 11:57, JR escribió: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:45 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: It seems our favourite distro is going to change its name snip That would be a pity, I always thought Mandrake was a great name. And the two suggested ones are awful (maybe it's my Irish accent?). Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:45 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: And the latest newsletter says Mandrake is going to incorporate elements of technology from Conectiva, particularly in the area of the smart package management software and some of Conectiva's kernel enhancements. I think that means apt-get... No, that means the SMART package manager. SMART is a technology that does better dependency checking than urpmi or apt-get, and is package manager agnostic, so it can be used with urpmi or apt-get. In fact, it is already in contrib. Probably what will happen, based on the discussions going on on the Cooker ML, is that some of the cool elements of SMART will be integrated into urpmi somehow. But no one thinks urpmi will be ditched for apt-get, especially since apt4rpm is, as I understand it, unmaintained. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
Josenildo Marques wrote: It seems our favourite distro is going to change its name to _Mandriva_ (i.e., Mandrake+Conectiva), according to an article I have just read. The article says Mandrake bought the domains Mandriva.com and Mandriva.net. Conectiva bought the domain mandriva.com.br whois mandriva.com whois mantiva.com (might need to 'urpmi whois' first ) IRRC, there might've one or two others also. Speculation was that Mandrake registered those domains, shortly after the merger, on a just in case basis. Search 'mandriva' on a cooker ML archive to get the whole discussion. IIRC, Mantiva was the favorite. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker And the latest newsletter says Mandrake is going to incorporate elements of technology from Conectiva, particularly in the area of the smart package management software and some of Conectiva's kernel enhancements. I think that means apt-get... Greg already did a good job of answering this, but you could also search cooker to see this discussion. And visit http://linux-br.conectiva.com.br/~niemeyer/smart/doc/README.html -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandriva
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:45 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: It seems our favourite distro is going to change its name snip That would be a pity, I always thought Mandrake was a great name. And the two suggested ones are awful (maybe it's my Irish accent?). Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
