From:	 Phil Lavigna <phil@mandrakesoft.com>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Fwd: Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter - Issue #23
Date:	 Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:03:15 -0800


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                  M A N D R A K E     L I N U X

          C O M M U N I T Y      N E W S L E T T E R

            Issue #23    Tuesday, 18 December 2001

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Welcome to the Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter -- dedicated to
keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandrake-related news & info.

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This Week's Summary: Mandrake in the News; Hot topics from the Cooker
mailing list; Business Case of the Week; Software Updates; Top Stories
from MandrakeForum.


Mandrake in the News
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ExtremeTech.com -- Linux: The Time is Now!

The technology website "ExtremeTech" reviews four Linux distributions
and concludes:
"We can't end the review without mentioning that Mandrake Linux 8.1 was
the easiest to install, maintain, and use of all the distros tried...
We can say there is indeed something lacking from Mandrake: problems.
It is as powerful as any distribution on the market, and offers the
very same choices as the other distros, with one more added: facility
of use. Of the four distros we have used to research and produce this
article, Mandrake 8.1 remains in each of our PC's as our primary
operating system."

A very thorough review covers the following topics:
Key New Features; Initial Installation Steps; Partitioning; Packages;
What Next?; Closing Thoughts.
http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s%253D1027%2526a%253D19919,00.asp

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NewsForge.com -- Mandrake 8.1 Gaming Edition opens Linux to more games,
more users.

The NewsForge website hosts a review & discussion of the Mandrake 8.1
Gamer's Edition:
"If you are maintaining a dual boot system just to run The Sims, or any
other game on the TransGaming fully supported list, you no longer are
doing so by necessity. Mandrake 8.1 Gaming Edition delivers on the
first game in its promise to bring a greater number of first-rate games
to the Linux desktop. At a retail of $69 USD, and a street price around
15% less than that, it is an excellent value only slightly more
expensive than The Sims for Windows alone. The installation was easy,
complete, and well polished overall, making it accessible to new and
experienced users alike."
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/11/2337252


What's Cooking at MandrakeSoft?
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Hot topics from last week's Cooker mailing list include discussions
about:

1) Unsupported action listdir in Konqueror2.
Silvan Pagan said that he had seen many references but no fixes for:
"Click the floppy icon, the drive mounts, then Konq. opens and pops up
an "unsupported action listDir" box and barfs." Richard Wenninger later
solves the problem.

2) Tux.
Oden Eriksson asked if the patches he submitted for the Tux webserver
were going to be accepted. Oden replied that it could be built as a
module, but Vincent summed up the main concern: "But, even then, what
if this starts a trend? Do we expect to see an FTP server, dns server,
a proxy server, in the kernel next? Scares me."

3) Samba upgrade disables samba at boottime.
Alexander Skwar reported that after he upgraded to the newest Samba
RPM, it had disabled Samba from starting at bootup. Sylvestre Tabur
pasted the section of the spec file "/sbin/chkconfig --level 35  smb
on" which should take care of that.

4) PCMCIA network install failure.
Robert Fox reported that a pcmcia net install failed and provided a
little info on what he did and what he saw.

Read the Cooker Mailing List Archives at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&r=1&w=2


Business Case of the Week
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Horizon IS charter school: Complete ISP services for 7000 students, and
more!

A California public school makes extensive use of Mandrake Linux
resulting in higher productivity and immense savings:
"Our school also provides Internet connection for our students. In
fact, we are our own ISP with a OC3 backbone connection to the net. We
handle dialup Internet services, email, FTP, student web sites, company
web site, web-based calendars and databases, video-conferencing, as
well as web office suites, for approximately 7000 students."
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=237

Every "bizcase" counts; please share your story by submitting it to
MandrakeBizcases.com
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/submit.php


Software Updates
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openssh -- fixes local vulnerabilty
passwd -- fixes lack of md5 support

View the entire list at:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/


Top Stories from MandrakeForum
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Workarounds for common printing problems in ML 8.1.
MandrakeSoft printing guru Till Kampeter provides solutions for two
printing problems in Mandrake 8.1:
1. Printerdrake can completely freeze the system (depending on your
motherboard).
2. Some printers which worked well in Mandrake Linux 8.0 produce
inferior output, or fail to work in 8.1.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1485

Using A Digital USB Camera With Mandrake Linux.
In this article, Tom describes how he uses his shiny new Canon
PowerShot A20 digital camera with Mandrake 8.1; many readers also
discuss their experiences with digital cameras in Linux.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1476

Windows XP - the end of the road?
The new WindowsXP license seems to be pushing users away from
Microsoft; will they flock to Linux? An interesting column here.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1475

Cooker: supermount is back!
This hot story is from Denis: "It's still too early for a full-scale
celebration, but this is so good to miss, at least as a "rumour": I
talked with our QA guys about rpmDrake today, and they mentioned that
supermount has been tested, and worked fine in latest Cooker kernels."
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1472

Configuration Quickie: The Basic Firewall.
Tom describes how to configure the "Bastille" desktop firewall.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1467

Read these and other stories at:
http://www.MandrakeForum.com/

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