This maybe have something with to do with the major changes in Gnome 3. Im not a user of Mandriva and I like Gnome 2.x a lot and I like to chose but I still think it a good move as the developers can put more focus on that desktop.

“This concentration of our efforts allowed us to make Mandriva Desktop the best KDE-based distro in the free software industry,” the software's developers explain.

Most of all, Why would you like to loose you dedicated customer's??

So why do you post that here? If you are one of Mandrivas customer I suggest you talk with Mandriva.

chekkizhar wrote:

Because, "system" is a library, which can be used to execute any shell commands from program,if we want. So, I won't say "system" is a system call. just my opinion Aron.

Ok so we have the same opinion, did I miss something?

chekkizhar wrote:

Well, according to me,
[code]
nread=read(,,,,)
[/code]
is a system call.

I don't agree with you on that, it's a C wrapper function to a system call.

It should be noted that the terms "system call" and "syscall" are often incorrectly used to refer to the aforementioned C standard library functions, particularly those that act as a wrapper to corresponding system calls with the same name.

chekkizhar wrote:

And thanks for the link Aron.

Richard, if you want Dennis Ritchie book soft copy, let me to know. I have that.

Happy provider of links :)

I have planed to get a hard copy of K&R in a long time, I have to buy it one day.
I guess that soft copy is copyrighted right?

I think using http://sourceforge.net/ is the easies thing to do, they have lots off mirrors and developers can care about what matters.

Also check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities

I checked out my "University mirror" http://ftp.sunet.se/ and yes what do I see they are mirror providers to sourceforge!

Edit: Btw I have seen distributions that only have there ISO-files on SF and it's enough for world distribution. So you only have to put one download link on the distro page :D (you can always go with torrents to)

Thank you mfillpot for making the site admins aware of this.

I don't remember why I was turning of ABP (Adblock Plus Firefox plugin) in the first place.

I give up now, it can be solved (except by blocking). I hope they complain to Google (or wait I guess they get money from them).

I opt out, that setting is saved in the cookie, but it makes no difference. [file name=Linux_dot_com_ad.png size=103057]http://www.linux.com/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/files/Linux_dot_com_ad.png[/file]

I removed all cookies, now the Google ads setting page says I need to opt in to get the cookie agen (edit: lie it was auto created agen, I will test opt out) so hopfully I will not see any more of those adds.

I got some ads in Swedish so some of them is based on your location.

Hurricane:
I feel sad for the Irene casualties, and hope that everyone will be fine and thats it over soon. I did just read on the news that they are evacuating 370.000 in New York (by force). Can you still stay in your homes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Irene_%282011%29