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Mandriva Linux Community Newsletter

Issue # 115 February 24th, 2006

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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 to join NEPOMUK Social Semantic Desktop project
* Correction - Errors in last issue's Application Of The Unspecified
Time Period piece
* Mandriva News - New Mandriva e-magazine launched
* Mandriva in the news - Mandriva featured in Newsforge's 'My desktop
OS' series
* Mandriva Security - Do your updates - pretty please!

Top Story
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Mandriva to join NEPOMUK Social Semantic Desktop project

The biggest news this issue is Mandriva's involvement in a
revolutionary, EU-sponsored desktop development program. Mandriva's
EDGE-IT subsidiary will be involved in the new NEPOMUK Social
Semantic Desktop program, which is partly funded by the EU IST
programme and partly by major commercial partners including DFKI,
SAP, Thales, and IBM. The aim of the project is to design and
engineer new systems and technologies to extend the personal desktop
into a collaboration environment which supports both personal
information management and sharing of information via social and
organizational channels. Both the development process involved and
the end products created will collaborate deeply with major open
source desktop communities and technologies, including KDE, Mozilla
and Eclipse. Mandriva's own roles in the project include involvement
in the design and development stages, as well as leading the
submission of APIs developed by NEPOMUK to the w3c and being one of
the first to implement NEPOMUK technologies by integrating them into
the Mandriva Club platform. You can read more about this exciting new
project here.
http://www.cordis.lu/ist
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/en/company/press/pr/mandriva_to_participate_in_nepomuk_social_semantic_desktop

Correction
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Errors in last issue's Application Of The Unspecified Time Period piece

We must print a correction this issue to an error in the last issue.
The Application Of The Unspecified Time Period piece stated that
beep-media-player replaced xmms in main in Mandriva Linux 2006. This
is not in fact true: xmms was in main, and beep-media-player in
contrib. It should also be noted that in Cooker (and therefore in
Mandriva Linux 2007, when it is released this fall),
beep-media-player has itself been replaced by audacious, a project
which continuing development on beep-media-player after its initial
development team ceased work in order to focus on their
next-generation bmpx player.

Mandriva News
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New Mandriva e-magazine launched

Mandriva Linux Inside, the new e-magazine devoted to Mandriva Linux
and the Mandriva Linux community, was launched this month. The
magazine is edited by the new Community department of Mandriva, and
we hope that the first issue will serve as a demonstration of the
kind of articles future issues can include: we would like to see much
of the future content coming from the Mandriva community. So if you
have Mandriva-related news you'd like to spread throughout the
community, write an article for Mandriva Linux Inside! The magazine
incorporates a revived Cooker Weekly News, giving a quick summary of
all the exciting work going on in the development distribution. You
can read the first issue in PDF format on the Mandriva website, and
one of our community members has created a wiki page for discussion
and translation of the magazine. For the moment, submissions for the
next issue of the magazine can be sent by email to Gael Duval (gduval
AT mandriva DOT com): the magazine does not have a set schedule yet,
the next issue will be released when there is enough material for it.
http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/e-mag/e-mag-1-20060602.pdf
http://cookerspot.tuxfamily.org/wikka.php?wakka=MandrivaMagazine

Mandriva Polish translation team contributes Polish translation of KDE

In another contribution to the open source community, Mandriva's
Polish translation team has contributed a translation of many pieces
of KDE documentation to the KDE project. The contribution was very
well-received by the KDE project. Thanks to the Polish team! This
isn't Mandriva's only contribution to KDE translations: Thierry
Vignaud, one of our development team, is a major contributor to the
Breton and Welsh translations.
http://dot.kde.org/1140034589/

François Bancilhon interviewed for the Mandriva Club

François Bancilhon, Mandriva's CEO, was interviewed for the Mandriva
Club. The interview covers a range of topics, from his typical work
day to the future of Mandriva and the Mandriva Club. You can read all
about François' scooter, his opinion of Ubuntu and his parents'
religious affiliations at the Club!
http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/Main/interview-francois0602

Mandriva staff pictures

The Mandriva staff are faceless names no more! The Mandriva Club now
features exclusive pictures of many of Mandriva's Paris-based staff.
Now you too can see François' stylish glasses, the marketing team's
stylish knitwear, and the unstylish inability of the entire
development team to find a tie. There will be more pictures
forthcoming soon of other Paris staff and those based at other
offices, including your humble editor.
http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/Main/gallery-1-2006

Mandriva - the penguin

One of the winning suggestions in last year's contest to find the best
ways to promote Mandriva was to adopt a penguin. Well, we did! Through
the International Penguin Conservation Work Group, we adopted a
penguin and named it Mandriva.

Mandriva was adopted last year just before the egg-laying season, and
laid two eggs. One of the chicks died when it was young, but the other
one is doing well and is now venturing out of the nest on its own, and
is described by Mike from IPCW as "fat and healthy"! There is a lot
more information about Magellanic penguins (that's Mandriva's breed)
and IPCW's work on their website, and you can even adopt a penguin of
your own! Expect more progress reports on Mandriva as they come in! http://www.seabirds.org

Mandriva in the news
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Mandriva featured in Newsforge's 'My desktop OS' series

The popular open source news site Newsforge has an ongoing series of
articles in which readers choose their favourite operating system and
explain why it's their choice. This month, the featured OS is none
other than Mandriva Linux 2006. Author Thomas Cortese explains why
Mandriva Linux is the best OS for him. You can read his reasoning
here.
http://www.newsforge.com
http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/02/03/2023231.shtml?tid=2

Mandriva Security
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Do your updates - pretty please!

Once again, we remind you to do your security updates every day by
running MandrivaUpdate, the easy update installation tool available
through the Mandriva menus or the Control Center. And if even that's
too much work, just buy yourself a subscription to Mandriva Online,
the automatic update notification and installation system. Even if
you don't, updating is easy with MandrivaUpdate. Since the last issue
of the newsletter, updates have been issued to the kernel, gnupg,
postgresql and other major packages, so as always, updating is vital!
https://www.mandrivaonline.com

È uscita la buova beta del Live CD (anche installabile) basata sulla versione 2006.
Sono in tutto quattro CD, disponibili su quasi tutti i mirrors Mandriva.

Per la lingua italiana è sufficiente scaricare il CD:
Mandriva-One-Occident-2006-0.2-CD.iso

AL MOMENTO NON È ANCORA PRESENTE SUI VARI FTP

E' decisamente un periodo duro per i kernel di Mandriva che non vengono più aggiornati da parecchio tempo.

Finalmente però qualche cosa si stà muovento, è uscito oggi in Main un kernel Ultra Sperimentale dal nome kernel-linus che non va a sostituire il kernel attuale ma vi si affianca per permettrne la sperimentazione.

Il kernel si chiama kernel-linus-2.6.15.rc6.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm, manca però ancora all'appello il kernel-source che speriamo esca nelle prossime ore.

Ciao Ciao Moreno