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Mandriva small NFS server

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed. … Continue reading

Install Lamp in mandriva 2011

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LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, originally coined from the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and Perl/PHP/Python, principal components to build a viable general purpose web … Continue reading

Mageia RC1 is released! "Mandriva Fork"

Written by Ayesha .A on . Posted in Software

Mageia RC1 is released! “Mandriva Fork”,  This is the last development release before the first stable version of Mageia. This release is mainly about bug fixes and translation updates.

Mandriva 2010.2 Screenshots Tour

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Mandriva

Mandriva 2010.2 is an incremental update on top of Mandriva 2010.1, incorporating all the security and bugfix updates since its release.some of these packages were updated more than once (for example, firefox and thunderbird went through several releases since 2010.1). … Continue reading

Mandriva Linux 2010.2 released

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French Linux distributor Mandriva has released the final version of Mandriva Linux 2010.2. The latest stable version of Mandriva includes a number of updated components, as well as security and bugfix updates over the previous 2010.1 Spring release from July, … Continue reading

Mandriva Linux- The beginning of the end

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    As every body knows, Mandriva‘s situation ever since the first signs of the company being in serious financial difficulties started resurfacing earlier this year. But apart from occasional rumours and overoptimistic statements by the company’s CEO, there has … Continue reading

Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia

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Most of the Mandriva employees working on the Linux distribution were laid off due to the liquidation of Edge-IT (a subsidiary of Mandriva SA) and trust in the company has diminished, the development community (including the core developers) has decided … Continue reading

Mandriva is for Sale, Linagora confirms takeover

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In case you are using Mandriva, the once popular Linux distribution, you might be interested in knowing that the French company is now up for sale. According to Mandriva Linux Online, the firm is in deep financial trouble and getting … Continue reading

The opensource game Speed Dreams 1.4.0 is released | Linux Gaming

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Gaming On Linux

Speed Dreams 1.4.0 is finally released. the new version of this game comes with many new features like 3 amazing fine tuned and balanced new car sets, 3 exciting new tracks and many visually improved ones, 2 new TRB first-class … Continue reading

Mandriva 2010.1 beta come with part of gnome3 | Screenshots

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

The time has came for the first beta release of the 2010.1 version of Mandriva Linux. It’s now available as 32-bit and 64-bit DVD images, as well as live CD images with GNOME or KDE. This release includes GNOME 2.30 … Continue reading