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From: Phil Lavigna <phil@mandrakesoft.com> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Fwd: Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter - Issue #36 Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:10:31 -0800 *********************************************************************** 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 #36 Wednesday, 27 March 2002 *********************************************************************** Welcome to the Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter -- dedicated to keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandrake-related news & info. You are receiving this newsletter because you have subscribed to one of the Mandrake services. To be removed from this mailing list, or to request the newsletter in a different language, please see the bottom of this page for instructions. *********************************************************************** This Week's Summary: 8.2 Release Follow-up; New Products at MandrakeStore; Latest MandrakeClub Activities; Mandrake in the News; Website Notices; Headlines from MandrakeForum Top Story ---------------------------------------- Last week's launch of Mandrake Linux 8.2 was extremely successful based on the amount of traffic reported by the download sites. If you had any problems locating a good download mirror, it should be much easier this week now that the initial frenzy is over. For people wanting to burn their own CDs, three ISO9660 image files are located in the "iso" directory of the various download sites. ISO images are files that can be easily burned to CDs, and each ISO image is approximately 650 MBs in size. Only the first image (the Install disk) is needed, the other two images contain "extra" applications and utilities that you might want at a later date. Check the download page for a list of up-to-date mirrors: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 If you don't have the time (or bandwith) to download Mandrake Linux 8.2, place your order today at MandrakeStore: http://www.mandrakestore.com What's New at MandrakeStore? ---------------------------------------- Even the most die-hard Linux users sometimes admit that they miss certain Windows applications, viewers or plugins on their Linux desktop. Two great software products that solve this dilemma are now available at MandrakeStore: Win4Lin lets Linux users run Windows applications *in* Linux at native speeds without any additional hardware or the need to dual boot, dramatically improving productivity and reducing hardware and OS license upgrade cost. The CrossOver Plugin delivers a complete web browsing experience by making Windows plugins and document viewers compatible with Linux. It supports QuickTime 5, Shockwave Director, the Microsoft Office document viewers, and more. Stop by MandrakeStore.com for more information about these products and for other attractive offers in our Third-party Software and Licenses section. For more information please visit: http://mandrakesecure.com/license/ MandrakeClub ---------------------------------------- 33 applications from the Mandrake Linux 8.2 Commercial CDs are now available in the Download section of the MandrakeClub website. Some of the new additions include: Black Adder -- Integrated Development Environment Blender -- 3D modeling/rendering/animation package Hancom Office -- a full-featured office suite Netscape 6.2 -- the latest version of the Netscape browser suite Codeweavers Wine -- allows certain MS-Windows programs to run in Linux Not yet a Mandrake Club member? To learn more, please visit: http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/ Mandrake in the News ---------------------------------------- Slashdot.org -- Mandrake 8.2 Available. Slashdot reports on the new release: "Linux Mandrake 8.2 is out! Check out the official announcement or head off to your closest mirror to grab the ISO images. The release is bound to be amazing, with the return of kernel-secure, a 65MB minimum install, hotplug device support, encrypted filesystems and more!" http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/18/2111221 Website Notices ---------------------------------------- Thanks to Hendrik-Jan from the Netherlands and Alice from Russia, MandrakeLinux.com now supports two new languages: Dutch & Russian. If either of these languages are your native tongue, please stop by an visit: Dutch -- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/nl/ Russian -- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ru/ To help with website translations, please email us at weblocal@linux-mandrake.com with all the details. Thanks! Extremely Off Topic ---------------------------------------- MandrakeSoft employee Jean-Michel Dault reports that last month the neighborhood surrounding the MandrakeSoft Montreal office was invaded (yet again) by Hollywood film crews. They were shooting scenes for "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", an upcoming film produced by Miramax and directed by George Clooney. The film crew built a section of the Berlin Wall on the adjacent street to recreate scenes of East Berlin in 1971. The movie will star Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt. Some other films that also used the neighborhood include The Score, The Whole Nine Yards, Varian's War, and scenes from a couple of Sherlock Holmes movies. Headlines from MandrakeForum ---------------------------------------- Mandrake Linux 8.2: Your first impressions. Tom asks everyone to share their first impressions of 8.2 and quickly receives over 200 replies! http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2006 Mandrake Linux 8.2: Missing Your Boot Messages? If your Mandrake Linux system uses the framebuffer on startup, you will notice a lack of boot-time messages. Tom describes several ways to restore them. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2011 Instructions on how to fix insecure default kdm configuration An advisory has been released, MDKSA-2002:025, which details an insecure condition with the KDM display manager. Since the fix is so simple, Vincent describes how to quickly edit the configuration file. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2008 Have you noticed any problems with 8.2? If so, this is your chance to tell us so we can add it to the 8.2 errata. Before submitting a report, please make sure the error is reproducible by including all the details. We're mostly interested in severe errors such as applications crashing or hanging, major parts of the environment not working, etc. http://mandrakeforum.com/search.php?query=8.2:%20Got Read these and other stories at MandrakeForum http://www.MandrakeForum.com/ ---------------------------------------- To subscribe to the weekly Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter, please visit the MandrakeSoft website and enter your email address into the "Sign in" box located on the right side of the webpage. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/