Mandriva

[viking60]

Charles Schultz will help Mandriva with the consolidation. He is apparently working with the Document Foundation today and was a part of the team back in the Mandrake days.
http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/31/ ... community/
I hope it will help but why do they always announce the steps, right before the last person leaving is about to turn out the light?
The most important thing is a good distro though - If that happens people will come back.
What I never could understand why Mandriva was not commercially interesting in the last few years. The potential was there - the only thing lacking was the markets confidence in the stability of Mandriva.

[R_Head]

Mandriva lost its way; that is what happen.

[viking60]

Mandriva is releasing its thech preview 2012 (Bernie Lomax) tomorrow.
It is supposed to be great stuff
http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic. ... 6&start=25

[rolf]

I've been looking forward to this. Hope it is a worthwhile upgrade from 2011.

[viking60]

Regarding Berie Lomax - The Mandriva programers in front:

But I am stuck with 2010 until someone figures out how I can transfer My VB with Windows XP. It is an old sun version an any attempt to upgrade has failed miserably so far...

[dedanna1029]

What I never could understand why Mandriva was not commercially interesting in the last few years. The potential was there - the only thing lacking was the markets confidence in the stability of Mandriva.

I'll tell you what it is in 6 digits: 2008.1.

They haven't come close to it.

[viking60]

Gave Bernie PreLomax a spin in my VB and the installation part looks OK:



But picking the Norwegian locale was no success - after a reboot I got errors on that.
Installing American went through - Network would not be correctly configuered though and the GUI does not start on boot.
The display manager failed to start:


So I will have to give those settings a workover.....
went to root and did a

Code: Select all

mcc

But that does not fire anymore so you must help me out here people: What is the correct drak-something to adjust the display settings?

[jkerr82508]

What is the correct drak-something to adjust the display settings?

drakx11 or XFdrake.

Jim

[viking60]

Thanks Jim.
Tried it - and no reaction there either my bash must be fubared - I will reeinstall.
My main problem seems to be that the network config does not go through in my VB - thus Bernie cannot pull the needed libraries...
Näh
I cannot get it to work in VB No Network and no Display setting is working. I will have to wait for another version..

[rolf]

I thought Bernie Lomax was supposed to be out today.

[dedanna1029]

Interesting, too. this is their last blog post (posted June 1).

I logged into twitter just long enough to send this out. Be watching for a response on http://twitter.com/proyvind

[jkerr82508]

It has been delayed until June 8th.

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Mandriva_Li ... d_delivery

Jim