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Review: OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 6th of May 2014 08:19:31 PM Filed under
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It has been a while since I've done a review, and I apologize for that. This week isn't actually getting any less busy for me; last night I finished my undergraduate thesis and submitted it to my thesis advisor, and hopefully there aren't too many major revisions that I would need to make. Beyond that, though, I still have problem sets, a midterm exam, and final projects to finish. I'm just doing this review now because finishing the thesis was exhausting, and I need a short break before I can get back to work. In that time, I'm reviewing OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0.

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A quick tour of OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0 (Phosphorus)

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 6th of May 2014 08:13:50 AM Filed under
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This is a quick test of the OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0 (Phosphorus), focusing mostly on desktop and (my) hardware support.

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Whitehurst Interview, Linus Reflections, and OpenMandriva Screenshots

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 6th of May 2014 06:17:58 AM Filed under
Linux
Red Hat
MDV

Today in Linux news, The Business Journals has a new interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. Alex Handy looks back at the contributions made by Linus Torvalds and explains why Torvalds is his "security blankey." In other news, Softpedia has some screenshots of newly released OpenMandriva Lx 2014 and is also reporting that the newest Unreal Tournament may be released for Linux.

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ROSA Software Center: Beta, but looks, feels and functions better than the competition

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 2nd of May 2014 07:15:22 AM Filed under
MDV

I was really impressed by what I found. With ROSA Software Center, users will be able to perform all package software management tasks from one beautiful and user-friendly graphical application. Here are some screenshots. What these screenshots cannot show is the smooth transition as you navigate between the different aspects of the application. Also, the screenshots cannot show the speed with which the application takes to get stuff done. Installing and removing applications happens so fast it puts similar applications to shame.

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“A Breath of Fresh Air with a KDE Soul”* – OpenMandriva­ Lx 2014 is burning free!

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 2nd of May 2014 12:26:32 AM Filed under
MDV

All of us in the OpenMandriva Community are pleased to announce the release of OpenMandriva­ Lx 2014.0 Phosphorus!
This release is the culmination of a huge effort by our community to bring a fresh, new release of good quality to our supporters and – to the world!Smile
The name of our release, taken from the Greek meaning “Light-Bringer”, describes our hopes for this work. What you will have on your disks in a few hours will, we hope, will showcase some of what our predecessors might have done if they had continued their work. We wanted to rekindle the spirit and hope that made their efforts so exciting and in doing so pass that same feeling on to you.

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Mandriva and Linux Solutions Brazil, sign partnership

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 30th of April 2014 11:04:46 PM Filed under
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With the Brazilian arm of Mandriva gaining activity, a new partner to on-board our partner ecosystem recently is Linux Solutions a leading consulting, services and solutions based company using Linux platform and offering a wide range of integrated programs and high technical quality since 15 years.Throughout its existence, Linux Solutions has handled more than 150 projects and assisted over 100 clients. More than 1000 students have also been trained. Linux Solutions specializes in clusters and various demands solutions in TCP / IP networks, such as file services, email, firewall, routing, proxy, among others

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OpenMandriva RC1 is released!

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 19th of April 2014 05:45:12 PM Filed under
MDV

This release candidate has been optimised for boot speed and you will find our latest kernel release that will ensure that you will be able to interact seamlessly with the new KDE-4.12.4 that has been included. The new kernel has the very latest scheduler as well as featuring UKSM to which one of our team have been contributing packages. UKSM is a kernel memory management tool which aims to reduce duplicate data in system memory and as a result increase the kernel responsiveness. Of particular note are some patches that partially correct a misinterpretation of the USB standard. This will improve device compatibility and ensure that device reawake properly after suspend or hibernate.

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OpenMandriva Lx 2014 Beta Is a Breath of Fresh Air with a KDE Soul

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 26th of March 2014 07:00:47 PM Filed under
KDE
MDV

You mustn't confuse the former Mandriva community and operating system with OpenMandriva, as they are completely separate entities. The company behind Madriva still exists, but it hasn't released anything since 2011. OpenMandriva shares some of the original values of Mandriva, but the developers have been a lot more active and they managed to release quite a few new versions until now.

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OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0 Beta is here!

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 25th of March 2014 04:23:28 PM Filed under
MDV

The 2014.0 beta is a fantastic sneak-peek at what will become the final release of OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0. That being said, it is a beta, and as such you may encounter issues that prevent you from using the system normally.

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Multiboot Laptop Update

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 20th of March 2014 09:17:07 AM Filed under
PCLOS
MDV
Reviews

When I bought the ZaReason Strata Laptop, I asked them to pre-load Mageia 4 to it. However, I knew that I was going to add more distros to the hard drive as soon as I can, to make it feel like the pentaboot HP Pavilion that died on me.

To begin, I wiped the original install and re-installed Mageia. Then, I tried to put PCLinuxOS into the hard drive, but the distro had problems with the display. As I could not achieve a decent display, I decided to do some research and try with PCLinuxOS later.

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