Silent Bob
10-25-2005, 01:28 AM
Mandriva Linux Community Newsletter - Issue # 109
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Mandriva Linux Community Newsletter
Issue # 109 October 24th, 2005
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Welcome to the Mandriva Linux Community Newsletter - dedicated to
keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandriva-related news & info.
Inside this Issue:
* Top Story - Mandriva Linux 2006 released!
* Mandriva News - Mandriva Linux 2006 available for paid download and
pre-ordering
* Mandriva In The News - Tuxmachines' Final Look at Mandriva 2006
* Mandriva Security - Keeping Mandriva Secure Is Totally Worth It, Says
Local Woman
Top Story
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Mandriva Linux 2006 released!
One big story to start this week: the newest Mandriva Linux, 2006, is
now available for all Club members to download! The new release
includes our new interactive firewall tool, improved wireless roaming
and network configuration tools, the Kat desktop search tool, smooth
upgrades from Conectiva Linux 10 and much more, in addition to the
usual improvements - all packages updated to later versions, improved
hardware compatibility and a smart new look. Particularly worth a
look, even if you're an experienced user, is the new Discovery/Lx
edition, created by combining some of the best features of Lycoris
with the Mandriva Discovery edition. It's the perfect version to
convert all your friends to Mandriva! If you're not in the Club yet,
Sign up now and you can download right away. Club members can
download by Bittorrent, or by direct FTP / HTTP access on request.
http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/club/
Mandriva News
----------------------------------------
Mandriva Linux 2006 available for paid download and pre-ordering
It's not only Club members who can try out Mandriva Linux 2006. It's
also available from the Store for everybody. You can either pre-order
a box set (with a 25% discount on Club membership!) or you can get an
instant paid download from our dedicated, high-speed servers, at a
10% discount on the box set price. Manuals in PDF format in several
languages are included. Just one more way you can try Mandriva Linux
2006 today!
http://store.mandriva.com (http://store.mandriva.com/)
Mandriva Partner program reorganized
Our channel partner program has recently been reorganized to allow for
ever closer and more productive relationships with our sales partners.
The new structure allows much more flexibility to partners, allowing
them to choose between several levels of membership in order to find
one which matches their requirements. It also makes new features and
services available, particularly at the higher levels. More
information can be found in the press release.
http://www.mandriva.com/partners
Mandriva developer acts as kernel maintainer
In another demonstration of Mandriva's involvement in the Linux
community, one of our developers, Arnaldo Carvalo de Melho, is
temporarily acting as maintainer of the net-2.6.x kernel branch. He
will oversee the develpment of net-2.6.15 and its merge into the
final kernel-2.6.15 while the permanent maintainer is on holiday.
Congratulations to Arnaldo on this post!
Mandriva material for Linux User Groups
Do you represent a Linux User Group (LUG)? Will you be organising a
Linux-related event soon? If so, please contact us! We can provide
you with Mandriva-related material which you can distribute to your
members during the event. Contact us at lugs at mandrivalinux dot
org.
Application Of The Unspecified Time Period
This Unspecified Time Period's featured application is units. units is
a simple console (command-line) application for converting from one
unit to another. Its usefulness comes, quite simply, from its huge
database. You almost certainly won't be able to find a unit which
isn't covered by units. It can cope with modern and archaic units of
distance, weight and time across a huge range of fields, from
theoretical physics to cookery. It's also very simple to use: just
run 'units' and it will ask you what quantity you want to convert to
what unit of measurement. Another interesting thing about units is
its database, which is a plain text file and contains many intriguing
nuggets of information. You can read it simply by opening the file
/usr/share/units.dat in any text editor. Install units from the
Software Installer, or by running 'urpmi units' from a console as
root.
Mandriva In The News
----------------------------------------
Tuxmachines' Final Look at Mandriva 2006
Tuxmachines has been following Mandriva 2006 closely throughout its
development, and now the final version is available, they've written
a final roundup on it. You can read it here. They take a good look at
all the new features in 2006, and conclude: "Mandriva is a world class
system that can meet any user's needs, as it comes with just about any
application in existence and many server applications as well."
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/3053
Mandriva Linux 2006 configuration guide
One of our longest standing community sites, Mandriva Linux tips for
free, has posted its new guide to Mandriva 2006 configuration. This
page has some great tips on configuring software installation, remote
controls, extra mouse buttons, KDE settings and much more. Check it
out and use the tips to refine your Mandriva 2006 even further!
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configuration2006.html
Mandriva Security
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Keeping Mandriva Secure Is Totally Worth It, Says Local Woman
Karen Jones looks like any other local woman, but she has a secret -
she keeps her copy of Mandriva Linux up to date every day. "In the
past," Karen remembers, "I used to worry all the time about whether
my computer might be cracked. I'd be at the supermarket when suddenly
I'd remember the latest PHP vulnerability, and run home to check my
security logs." Now Karen says she never has to worry - she makes
sure she has installed all the latest Mandriva updates. Some people
tell Karen it's just too much effort to update every day, but she
tells them about Mandriva Online. Says Karen: "I signed up to
Mandriva Online last month, and now it downloads and installs all my
security updates for me as soon as they become available. It's made
such a difference to my life!" Be like Karen - do your security
updates regularly, and think about signing up for Mandriva Online.
https://www.mandrivaonline.com (https://www.mandrivaonline.com/)
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Mandriva Linux Community Newsletter
Issue # 109 October 24th, 2005
************************************************** *********************
Welcome to the Mandriva Linux Community Newsletter - dedicated to
keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandriva-related news & info.
Inside this Issue:
* Top Story - Mandriva Linux 2006 released!
* Mandriva News - Mandriva Linux 2006 available for paid download and
pre-ordering
* Mandriva In The News - Tuxmachines' Final Look at Mandriva 2006
* Mandriva Security - Keeping Mandriva Secure Is Totally Worth It, Says
Local Woman
Top Story
----------------------------------------
Mandriva Linux 2006 released!
One big story to start this week: the newest Mandriva Linux, 2006, is
now available for all Club members to download! The new release
includes our new interactive firewall tool, improved wireless roaming
and network configuration tools, the Kat desktop search tool, smooth
upgrades from Conectiva Linux 10 and much more, in addition to the
usual improvements - all packages updated to later versions, improved
hardware compatibility and a smart new look. Particularly worth a
look, even if you're an experienced user, is the new Discovery/Lx
edition, created by combining some of the best features of Lycoris
with the Mandriva Discovery edition. It's the perfect version to
convert all your friends to Mandriva! If you're not in the Club yet,
Sign up now and you can download right away. Club members can
download by Bittorrent, or by direct FTP / HTTP access on request.
http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/club/
Mandriva News
----------------------------------------
Mandriva Linux 2006 available for paid download and pre-ordering
It's not only Club members who can try out Mandriva Linux 2006. It's
also available from the Store for everybody. You can either pre-order
a box set (with a 25% discount on Club membership!) or you can get an
instant paid download from our dedicated, high-speed servers, at a
10% discount on the box set price. Manuals in PDF format in several
languages are included. Just one more way you can try Mandriva Linux
2006 today!
http://store.mandriva.com (http://store.mandriva.com/)
Mandriva Partner program reorganized
Our channel partner program has recently been reorganized to allow for
ever closer and more productive relationships with our sales partners.
The new structure allows much more flexibility to partners, allowing
them to choose between several levels of membership in order to find
one which matches their requirements. It also makes new features and
services available, particularly at the higher levels. More
information can be found in the press release.
http://www.mandriva.com/partners
Mandriva developer acts as kernel maintainer
In another demonstration of Mandriva's involvement in the Linux
community, one of our developers, Arnaldo Carvalo de Melho, is
temporarily acting as maintainer of the net-2.6.x kernel branch. He
will oversee the develpment of net-2.6.15 and its merge into the
final kernel-2.6.15 while the permanent maintainer is on holiday.
Congratulations to Arnaldo on this post!
Mandriva material for Linux User Groups
Do you represent a Linux User Group (LUG)? Will you be organising a
Linux-related event soon? If so, please contact us! We can provide
you with Mandriva-related material which you can distribute to your
members during the event. Contact us at lugs at mandrivalinux dot
org.
Application Of The Unspecified Time Period
This Unspecified Time Period's featured application is units. units is
a simple console (command-line) application for converting from one
unit to another. Its usefulness comes, quite simply, from its huge
database. You almost certainly won't be able to find a unit which
isn't covered by units. It can cope with modern and archaic units of
distance, weight and time across a huge range of fields, from
theoretical physics to cookery. It's also very simple to use: just
run 'units' and it will ask you what quantity you want to convert to
what unit of measurement. Another interesting thing about units is
its database, which is a plain text file and contains many intriguing
nuggets of information. You can read it simply by opening the file
/usr/share/units.dat in any text editor. Install units from the
Software Installer, or by running 'urpmi units' from a console as
root.
Mandriva In The News
----------------------------------------
Tuxmachines' Final Look at Mandriva 2006
Tuxmachines has been following Mandriva 2006 closely throughout its
development, and now the final version is available, they've written
a final roundup on it. You can read it here. They take a good look at
all the new features in 2006, and conclude: "Mandriva is a world class
system that can meet any user's needs, as it comes with just about any
application in existence and many server applications as well."
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/3053
Mandriva Linux 2006 configuration guide
One of our longest standing community sites, Mandriva Linux tips for
free, has posted its new guide to Mandriva 2006 configuration. This
page has some great tips on configuring software installation, remote
controls, extra mouse buttons, KDE settings and much more. Check it
out and use the tips to refine your Mandriva 2006 even further!
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configuration2006.html
Mandriva Security
----------------------------------------
Keeping Mandriva Secure Is Totally Worth It, Says Local Woman
Karen Jones looks like any other local woman, but she has a secret -
she keeps her copy of Mandriva Linux up to date every day. "In the
past," Karen remembers, "I used to worry all the time about whether
my computer might be cracked. I'd be at the supermarket when suddenly
I'd remember the latest PHP vulnerability, and run home to check my
security logs." Now Karen says she never has to worry - she makes
sure she has installed all the latest Mandriva updates. Some people
tell Karen it's just too much effort to update every day, but she
tells them about Mandriva Online. Says Karen: "I signed up to
Mandriva Online last month, and now it downloads and installs all my
security updates for me as soon as they become available. It's made
such a difference to my life!" Be like Karen - do your security
updates regularly, and think about signing up for Mandriva Online.
https://www.mandrivaonline.com (https://www.mandrivaonline.com/)