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From: Phil Lavigna <phil@mandrakesoft.com> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter - Issue #31 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:39:23 -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 #31 Tuesday, 19 February 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 Beta Articles at MandrakeForum; Mandrake PPC 8.2 is coming; Mandrake in the News; New Product "Goodies" at MandrakeStore; Have You Been to MandrakeExpert Lately?; Business Case of the Week; This Week's Online Poll; Security-related Software Updates; What's New at MandrakeUser.org?; Headlines from MandrakeForum. Top Story ---------------------------------------- MandrakeForum is hosting a series of articles about Mandrake Linux 8.2 Beta2 and needs your feedback. If you've installed the latest beta, please post your comments and suggestions about the following topics: * What's new and how to test this latest beta * Supermount and urpmi * Server functionality * Diskdrake * Scannerdrake * Printerdrake http://mandrakeforum.com/search.php?query=8.2+beta2 What's Cookin' at MandrakeSoft? ---------------------------------------- Great news for Linux PowerPC lovers. MandrakeSoft's Stew Benedict reports that he's currently creating beta ISOs of Mandrake Linux 8.2 for the PPC platform, so we should be seeing an official PPC beta very soon. Keep an eye on the Mandrake website and upcoming issues of this newsletter for announcements regarding the release of the first Mandrake Linux 8.2 PPC Beta. For all the latest news from the PPC Cooker, subscribe to the mailing list by sending an email to sympa@linux-mandrake.com with the words "SUB cooker-ppc" in the body of your message. Two online archives are also available for browsing: http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/cooker-ppc/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2 Mandrake in the News ---------------------------------------- OFB.biz -- Mandrake cooks up a winner. The "Open for Business" Open Source Migration Guide offers a compelling review of Mandrake Linux 8.2 and concludes: "Our Compliments to the Chef. In the end, we found our installations - which were done on two desktops and a laptop - came out nothing short of well done. If you are looking for a way to move even the most staunch Macintosh or Windows users over to Linux, giving them a taste of Mandrake certainly would be a good way to do so. Summary Overall: A+ Functionality: A+ User Interface: A Availability of Updates: A+" http://www.ofb.biz/article.php?sid=75 -- DesktopLinux.com -- A conversation with Gaël Duval, founder of Mandrake Linux. DesktopLinux.com founder and executive editor Rick Lehrbaum speaks with Gaël Duval, Founder of Mandrake Linux. Gael relates the history of Mandrake, explains what makes Mandrake unique, discusses the company's market focus, describes Mandrake's philosophy with respect to Open Source, and offers his vision of the future of the Desktop Linux Market and what will help its success. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT4698611406.html -- Mandrake Linux 8.1 & MandrakeExpert nominated for LinuxFormat Awards. LinuxFormat, the UK's top-selling Linux Magazine, is hosting their first ever Linux Format awards and YOU get to choose the winners. Mandrake Linux 8.1 is a candidate in the "Distributions" category; MandrakeExpert.com appears in the "Best Support Resource" category; and the Mandrake Firewall is an option as "Best Security Tool". The polling ends on March 4th, so be sure to cast your vote. http://linuxformat.co.uk/awards/ Product News ---------------------------------------- New Products at MandrakeStore. Now you can order your own official Mandrake Cap, Mandrake CD Holder, and Mandrake T-shirts featuring "SuperTux" or "Mandrake Tux" (check website for product availability; products may not be available for all locations). View the latest products and place your order at MandrakeStore: http://www.mandrakestore.com MandrakeExpert ---------------------------------------- The MandrakeExpert online support site offers two levels of support: * Community-based support provided for free by the Linux community * Premium Support offered by MandrakeSoft and Affiliate Experts. Following suggestions from many users, the website's layout recently went through a major redesign resulting in noticeable improvements in navigation and usability. But don't take our word for it, stop by MandrakeExpert and take a look around -- hopefully you'll want to stay awhile. And remember, anyone can ask a question and receive an answer for free! The Top-Ten Experts are: dakota (6570) uligue (2650) delboy711 (2160) rolan (1330) charles78 (1100) mara (1030) sfsetse (800) DaveF (630) achiral (560) fane (430) http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/ Business Case of the Week ---------------------------------------- Incat Systems Inc. -- Mandrake Linux = powerful server! Terry Mills -- an engineer for Incat Systems Inc. -- runs Mandrake on his laptop to help troubleshoot networks and to set up communications between systems and CNC equipment. One of the main reasons he uses Mandrake is for the ability to connect to many networks while working at various customer sites. "After getting connected I have all the tools needed to share resources, like my cd to allow me to mount it from other systems and install software, ftp data and install images to my customers machines." http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=244 For many more examples of Mandrake in the workplace, please see: http://www.MandrakeBizcases.com This Week's Online Poll ---------------------------------------- Have you tested the 8.2 beta? * Yes * No, but I'll test the second beta! * No, I'll wait for the final and complain about bad QA * No, but I won't complain when final comes out Cast your vote in the Voting Booth and check the results: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/pollBooth.php?op=results&pollID=28 Software Updates ---------------------------------------- Security-related software updates have been released for: ucd-snmp -- fixes multiple vulnerabilities cups -- fixes potential buffer overflows openldap -- fixes permissions vulnerability View the complete list at MandrakeSecure.net http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ What's New at MandrakeUser.org? ---------------------------------------- Thanks to overwhelming support from MandrakeUser fans, Tom is happy to announce that he plans to stick around and continue working on his popular website. Additionally, Deno reports that he and Tom are working to better integrate "MandrakeForum" and "MandrakeUser" with the goal of eventually merging them into one very strong news, documentation, and discussion site. There are many updates and new contributions this week at MandrakeUser.org, including 100 new entries in the Mandrake Laptop files which now contain 950 listings, and updates on: * Being "root" * Enabling supermount * Keyboard in X * IDE HDs * Samba Setup * System Recovery * Mounting * and lots more Read the complete list of changes at: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=1700 Headlines from MandrakeForum ---------------------------------------- Aliases On Steroids: Shell Functions Tom writes: "Usually, if you have some long and cumbersome command to type over and over again, you would set an alias in your .bashrc and be done with it. There are cases, however, in which an alias will no longer do and you need something more powerful. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=1697 Accounting Software for Linux. Moulinneauf describes several accounting packages that are available for Linux, and readers recommend their favorites. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=1695 Another Beta To Test: KDE 3.0 Beta 2. Tom writes: "Boy, do we have lots of stuff to play with these days ... ;-) Yesterday, KDE 3.0 Beta 2 has been announced and today there are already packages for Mandrake Linux 8.1, 8.0 and PPC on the KDE FTP mirrors." http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=1691 Read these and other stories at MandrakeForum http://www.MandrakeForum.com/ ----------------------------------------