Why I will stick to Mandriva

I have a new Acer Aspire laptop, and with all the fuss around Mandriva, I decided to try two of its derivates to make a dual boot system. First I tried a PClinuxOS which I downloaded about a year ago. It starts as a live CD OK on that machine, but ...

Message posted on the August 31st, 2011 - 10:11 AM ET

Mandriva Flash 2010 is available

The French Linux maker has announced the release of their Mandriva Flash 2010 memory stick, sold for 59,90 $.

News published on the November 27th, 2009 - 8:26 AM ET

Mandriva InstantOn : Linux in 10 seconds for $15

The Mandriva development team has released a fast Linux operating system aimed at mobile devices looking to access the Web.

News published on the December 22nd, 2009 - 4:12 PM ET

Test and comparision: Seven high capacity memory sticks

PC’s and MACs are today delivered without floppy disk drives. This isn’t really a problem, as a small memory stick that weighs a few grams will do the trick! On this Christmas Eve, we have tested seven high storage memory sticks. These aren’t ...

Review published on the December 24th, 2008 - 8:18 AM ET

Jolicloud: the cloud computing operating system

This article is aimed at netbook users in particular, but is also of interest to all users who spend a lot of time surfing online services, social networks, picture sharing sites and performing office tasks… JoliCloud is a "Cloud computing" ...

Review published on the January 24th, 2011 - 4:39 AM ET

Additional sources for Mandriva ?

hey you all, A couple of weeks ago I bought a netbook (hercules e-cafe) which uses Mandriva at its core. I am fairly content about it, however, I have always used Debian and Ubuntu, and I am somewhat spoiled by the Debian archives, which contain an ...

Message posted on the January 28th, 2010 - 12:42 PM ET

Additional sources for Mandriva ?

hey you all, A couple of weeks ago I bought a netbook (hercules e-cafe) which uses Mandriva at its core. I am fairly content about it, however, I have always used Debian and Ubuntu, and I am somewhat spoiled by the Debian archives, which contain an ...

Message posted on the January 28th, 2010 - 12:42 PM ET

auto-mount USB stick under KDE4

Hi, I remember that before Mandriva 2010, USB sticks would auto-mount when plugged in. On 2010.0 they do not (for me). The only recent mention I could find on the web was Mandriva bug 55717, which doesn't seem to quite explain what's going on. ...

Message posted on the May 12th, 2010 - 12:43 PM ET

way [OT] mp3 files on dvd

Is it possible? I have an LG BD 560 blu ray player I have been spinning my wheels thinking about this One positive is that .- The player will read a conventional file system and play mp3 files FROM A STICK. Can this be translated to a dvd? I was ...

Message posted on the June 19th, 2011 - 7:13 PM ET

Firefox update policies

OK, so Firefox 5.0 just came out, and the guys taking care of Mandriva 2010.2 still haven't embraced FF 4. They just updated my Mandriva FF to 3.6.18. From what I read, Mozilla has embarked on an ambitious schedule to put out four (count 'em, 4) ...

Message posted on the June 23rd, 2011 - 11:32 AM ET

BIOS issues.

I tried to boot one of the Mandriva 2012 ISOs today, but my BIOS didn't even see it. I was about to blame the DVD or the release, when Fedora 16 did exactly the same thing. The Fedora forum suggested that my BIOS is out of date. Something called ...

Message posted on the September 18th, 2012 - 8:55 AM ET

motherboard and processor upgrade

I think my Biostar Socket A motherboard is developing a problem. Not really surprising, as it is seven years old. It has an Athlon XP 1900+ processor and 2GB of DDR RAM installed, as well as a BFG-made nVidia Geforce 6100 AGP video card, and I'm ...

Message posted on the March 9th, 2010 - 11:31 AM ET

Troll-Free COLA Stats: Saturday the 14th of January, 2012.

ngstats.pl version 1.36 Written by Roy Culley. Contributions from Mark Kent. Modifications by Homer, 2007 - 2012. Published under the authority of 7, President of COLA. All Hail the President! This report covers 623 articles received by this ...

Message posted on the January 14th, 2012 - 4:00 AM ET

Today, I recommended Windows

One of my users (3 Mandriva desktops in his office and home, 1 Debian server) has a smallish sound studio, where he plays with his own band and records local bands using Adobe Audition on a Pentium IV 3.4GHz machine with 1GB of RAM, running XP pro. ...

Message posted on the April 22nd, 2010 - 3:19 PM ET

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