So I see the new Guitar Hero is out. Some choice quotations from the IGN review:
“…but this title does play a tad different than what you’re probably used to if you’ve been following the series closely. For starters, the window of time in which you can successfully hit a note has been extended by quite […]
Yep, the backports for the new Compiz and Compiz Fusion releases have hit the 2008 repositories. If you want to use it on 2008, just set up your backports repositories - go to the repository configuration tool and enable them - then update the appropriate packages (compiz, libcompizconfig, compiz-bcop, compiz-fusion-plugins-main, compizconfig-python, compiz-fusion-plugins-extra, ccsm).
Just to let everyone know, we (as in, the Mandriva development community) are aware of the new ATI driver release. Anssi Hannula (who does the actual ATI / NVIDIA driver packaging), myself (who handles the graphics card / driver detection tables), and Olivier Blin and Colin Guthrie (who handle compiz and drak3d) are co-ordinating to […]
I was a bit surprised recently when I read about Ubuntu’s PPAs. After years of being irritatingly good at everything infrastructure-y, this is a mistake so hilariously bad I don’t know how they could have made it. Basically, Ubuntu has institutionalised the third-party repository.
A PPA gives any registered Ubuntu developer a personal repository into which […]
So there’s been some more reviews of 2008…
Here’s one!
Here’s another!
Here’s another!
And here’s one more!
All pretty nice reviews so far, which is great.
As for Cooker, it now has the new beta 3 of KDE 4, mostly. We are looking at backporting it to 2008, but this has some problems which would need to be worked around.
Personally […]
okay, so we’re all about the shiny new 2008, but I know there’s those of you out there who are perfectly happy with 2007 Spring thankyouverymuch and won’t be upgrading till it goes out of maintenance. So if you’re in this group but you’d like the latest proprietary NVIDIA or ATI driver for your card, […]
Okay, so those of you who kept on bugging me about the GNOME version of 2008 One can stop now, it’s out! Grab the torrent or find the ISO on the public mirrors.
Updated both my mail and web server VMs to 2008 today. Went very smoothly in both cases, via urpmi. Everything seems to be […]
Just a followup to my posts from a few months back about GTK+ WebKit stuff. I haven’t actually checked in the other major distros, but I believe Mandriva 2008 may actually be the first to ship a Webkit-based GTK+ browser. It includes Midori 0.0.6, built against SVN revision 25144 of WebKit (WebKitGdk as the GTK+ […]
A final message on the NOKEY issue: all mirrors in the official list are now okay with the sole exception of ftp.cica.es. Any other mirror proposed by the Mandriva repository configuration tools should now be okay. As mentioned in the previous message, if you have already set up your repositories and are encountering the NOKEY […]
Following up the previous post on this topic, the issue with missing pubkey files leading to NOKEY errors is now resolved on the majority of mirror servers. The following servers from the list used by the Mandriva tools have been tested and found to be GOOD:
ftp://ftp.mandrake.ikoula.com/Mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrake/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/official/2008.0
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.0
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrivalinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
http://mandriva.dcc.fc.up.pt/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
The following servers have been tested and found to be […]