Mandriva

[viking60]

Well yes Mandriva 2011 works well. But I am kind of blocked from upgrading from 2010. They really need to solve that. But as a fresh start, Mandriva 2011 is good enough I guess.
As it is they lose all the "upgraders" to Mageia.

[viking60]

Some life sign here
It is a market check where they need the community to participate.

[rolf]

I don't know where the cooker archives have gone to, so it's hard to link to the whole thread. However, this 'life' seems something of a response to POK's report on nearly terminal worsening relationships between Mandriva developer community and Rosa. Here is a copy/paste of one email:

pok-rosa-doom.txt

(MySql exception, again, when I try to post the lengthy email stuff So, there is the text file.)

So, Jean-Manuel Croset, COO, and Jean Parpaillon, another bigwig, recently acquired by Mandriva, weigh in with some nice sounding lip-service in that thread but one must wonder if it is only more lip service with no action to follow, as ever in Mandriva history. Well, there is some new date for release of information. Will things be different?

On April, 30th, Mandriva will hold his long-awaited general assembly of the shareholders. Shortly after that, we’ll define the strategy and set our priorities for the next twelve months.

[viking60]

I think Per Øivind is right. In many ways Mandriva is already dead so we need a resurrection. That will be to late to ask a community what they would like to do - because the community is gone already.
I think they have not assessed the situation correctly
Or maybe they have, and are desperately reaching for straws.....

[rolf]

It is interesting times. I see Russia/Rosa having a lot of capability for maintaining this software but I don't know how far they will go to accommodate the former userbase. It seems most discussion of development is in the Russian language, with little concern for the convention of using English as "international", which I rely on, don't you know. There are some emissaries from the motherland who make periodic, frank statements. One is below, by Dmitry Komissarov, in response to another interesting comment by Andrey Bondrov, aka Pulfer, another Russian I see working at MIB and Mandriva forum.
pulfer-komissarov.txt *




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General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

Incorrect string value: '\xD0\xB4\xD0\xBB\xD1\x8F...' for column 'post_text' at row 1 [1366]

An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.

[viking60]

Yes the charachter mentioned in the error are not digested, due to the UTF thing - I will take the board down one day and fix it,,,
And let us hope the ROSA guys get international.

[rolf]

Yes the charachter mentioned in the error are not digested, due to the UTF thing

Is there a character code I can use at this end to make sql happy, meanwhile? Thanks.

[viking60]

There are the oddest combinations that trigger this. The name of the Iranian prime Minister will crash the sql but if I remove a - it is accepted.
Non western characters are the problem.

[rolf]

so, is UTF-8 safe or the problem? There are Western ISO choices. Should I try one of those, next time? or just wait....

[viking60]

Western iso sounds good. The problem is that I have not set the databases to UTF.

[rolf]

If I hit that hiccup before you fix it, I'll try Western iso.

[jkerr82508]

I don't know where the cooker archives have gone to

I use this:

http://mandriva.598463.n5.nabble.com/Ma ... 34407.html

Jim