Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring released

Yes, it's finally done. And for the first time...well...possibly ever? Certainly since I can recall, anyway...it's on time. In fact, a day early, really, as our initial plan set release for the 10th. Yep, 2008 Spring is done, we stuck a fork in it and sent it to the mirrors this ...

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April 9, 2008

Windows Mobile synchronization: video!

Following on from my last post - I cleaned up the Windows Mobile 5+ sync support even more, and tested that it works from a completely clean install of 2008 Spring. And then I made a video, and now I'm sending it to the world. :) The video shows me installing ...

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March 17, 2008

Windows Mobile syncing made easy

So somehow, last night and today, I've more or less dropped everything else and been working on making it *really easy* to use Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices connected via USB in 2008 Spring. Happily, I'm making a lot of progress. This was the state of play as of a ...

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March 12, 2008

Meet the new stuff

So as the Bugzilla mail piles up happily in my inbox (I'm glad it's an electronic inbox, if it was a real one, it would have toppled over and caused me a serious head injury by now), I spent today doing...other things. :) The What's Coming in Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring ...

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March 3, 2008

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC 1 “Serapia” released

Yep, the 2008 Spring pre-release cycle just hit the late beta...err, I mean, release candidate...stage. RC1 has lots of juicy stuff, including the new look for 2008 Spring (which is very pretty), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.1, some new default applications, the drakconnect / ndiswrapper bug finally fixed!, WPA-EAP support, new ...

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March 1, 2008

Plea for help

So, um, I don't do this often, but I could do with some help. Basically: I am drowning in an unending sea of bugs. Last year we set up a much better process for handling bugs than we previously had. There is now a proper policy for bugs defining exactly what can, ...

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February 25, 2008

Multiple external monitors, on a laptop, on Linux, with Tritton See2 USB video adapter / sisusb

I decided today that I really hadn't had enough crazy hardware hackery in my life lately. I've been planning for a while to buy a new desktop, replacing the laptop I've been using as my only client system for the last year and a half. This was mainly due to a ...

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February 6, 2008

Alpha 2 released

So the second alpha is out today - codename Neottia. New NVIDIA and ATI drivers, nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards is available to test, KDE 4.0 is going into Cooker as we speak, and Thierry did automated rebuilds on several thousand packages since the last alpha. Should be fun! Full details ...

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January 11, 2008

yak shaving time again

Working on old packages in Cooker always leads to interesting bouts of yak shaving. The latest goes like this... I'm working through the few remaining 2007.1-era packages in main. I got to libgfortran1 - an old major of libgfortran, which came from GCC 4.1.x. It's still around because some apps haven't ...

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January 7, 2008

A Mandriva Christmas present: latest NVIDIA and ATI drivers for Cooker, 2008 and 2007 Spring

Well, Anssi and I might not quite look like elves, but we act like them sometimes! Indeed, your Christmas present from Mandriva is the latest NVIDIA and ATI drivers packaged for all supported Mandriva distributions. Updated for the latest drivers (February 2008) and better instructions to avoid the DKMS bug. The latest ...

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December 27, 2007