This Week’s Summary: Xerox Chooses Mandrake Linux; Latest MandrakeClub
Activities; Cooker Snapshot ISOs; PPC News; Mozilla 1.0; What’s New at
MandrakeUser.org?; This Week’s Survey; Security-related Software
Updates; Headlines from MandrakeForum.
Activities; Cooker Snapshot ISOs; PPC News; Mozilla 1.0; What’s New at
MandrakeUser.org?; This Week’s Survey; Security-related Software
Updates; Headlines from MandrakeForum.
Business Case of the Week ---------------------------------------- Xerox chooses Mandrake Linux/Caldera Graphics to optimize enterprise production. Xerox announced that it has selected Mandrake Linux for its XES (Xerox Engineering Systems) department, and will deploy Mandrake Linux for customers and clients who are interested in digital printing solutions based on the Caldera Graphics RIP. Almost 160 servers, 95% of the computer farm used by Xerox's Graphic Arts department, run on the combination Mandrake Linux/Caldera Graphics RIP. X2 technology is the fastest on the market, providing high-volume production with costs that are 30% to 40% less than those offered by other digital products. The choice of Mandrake Linux enables Graphic Arts providers to handle client file formats created on any operating system, whether Mac or PC based. Read the complete announcement: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/partnerships/2196 MandrakeClub ---------------------------------------- Club members currently receive a: * 20% discount on the DVD-only version of Mandrake Linux 8.2 * 33% discount on MandrakeExpert support packs * 20% discount on Win4Lin (special good until June 26th!) Also, many new apps have been added to the Club download area, such as: * Opera 6.01 * Driver for Connexant HCF modems * AX25 HAM radio packages * Lexmark printer drivers * DB2 developers edition Plus, a new "Mixed Networks" category has been added to contain software that may be useful in mixed networks, such as: * Nifty Telnet SSH * WinSCP2 * PuTTY The MandrakeClub website now lists all of the current benefits on the front page, so be sure to stop by and stay informed. Also, we are currently categorizing all of the products at MandrakeStore to make sure that Club members will receive significant discounts on the most popular products, as well as small discounts on any remaining items. Not yet a Mandrake Club member? To learn more, please visit: http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/ What's Cookin' at MandrakeSoft? ---------------------------------------- Cooker Snapshot ISOs. MandrakeSoft developers released a snapshot of Cooker on Friday, June 7th. If you have an extra machine to test this latest development release, two ISO images are available for downloading: MandrakeLinux-Cooker-20020606-CD1.i586.iso MandrakeLinux-Cooker-20020606-CD2.i586.iso The images are approx. 700MBs each, so be sure to burn them with 80MIN 700MB CD-Rs. The developers are particularly interested in receiving feedback regarding: - if the 700MB ISOs cause any problems - if isolinux boots OK (if you have a laptop, try to boot and report the results) - KDE3 - the latest kernel Please note: - X is likely to have some troubles with i8XX motherboards. - The default compiler is now gcc 3.1 The files can be downloaded from the usual FTP sites, just look for the /mandrake-iso/i586/ directory. Please report your results and observations to the Cooker mailing list: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 PPC News ---------------------------------------- 8.2 PPC Supplemental Goodies. Ben Reser is at it again -- this time he has built all the 8.2 PPC RPMs that were not included in the official ISOs (due to space limitations) and has them available via urpmi/rpmdrake from his his mirror. He asks that everyone be respectful of the bandwidth since it is a personal site. Read the announcement here: http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/cooker-ppc/2002-06/msg00031.php -- PPC wrapper for Blackdown's Java IDE & SDK. MandrakeSoft's Stew Benedict has added two new packages for MandrakeClub members that will automatically download and install the PPC version of Blackdown's Java IDE & SDK. http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/ Mozilla 1.0 ---------------------------------------- Stick a fork in it... It's done! Congratulations to everyone involved in the release of Mozilla 1.0. Mozilla includes an advanced, standards-compliant web browser, email reader and chat client. "The release of Mozilla 1.0 represents a huge milestone for the free software community. From browser technology to software development tools, the Mozilla project has had an enormous impact on open source development," said Nat Friedman, Vice President of Product Development at Ximian Inc. New unsupported packages of Mozilla 1.0 (and dependencies) for Mandrake Linux 8.2 are available at: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/unsupported/8.2/i586/ What's New at MandrakeUser.org? ---------------------------------------- Tom Berger reports: "Just added Kevin McCormicks article on Connecting A LAN Via Dial-up. Revised my portion of the article on Samba (Printer friendly version). Complete rewrite, adoptions to Samba 2.2.3, Mandrake Linux 8.2. Better focused on actually getting basic things to work. There's more than enough documentation on the advanced features of Samba already. Added Installing php-cgiwrap by Jeff Bert." http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2212 This Week's Survey ---------------------------------------- The Mandrake printed manuals are: * The reason to buy a distribution. * Waste of paper, online version is enough. * A shame. * Who needs manuals? Cast your vote in the Voting Booth and check the results: http://mandrakeforum.com/pollBooth.php?op=results&pollID=36 Software Updates ---------------------------------------- Security-related software updates have been released for: bind -- fixes DoS vulnerability View the complete list at: http://www.mandrakesecure.net Headlines from MandrakeForum ---------------------------------------- Bash auto-completion on steroids. 'bash' is the standard Linux shell. If you've ever used it, you will know about the auto-completion feature which expands file and directory names in path names upon hitting the TAB key. If you spend any considerable length of time on the shell, you'll want to read this tutorial. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2211 MandrakeClub Newsletter (8). Read about the latest Club activities, including: * MandrakeSoft increase of capital: becoming a shareholder * More discounts for Club members * New programs on MandrakeClub http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2208 How to boot into KDE3.....? An anonymous Mandrake Linux user asks: I have just switched from Gnome 1.4.1 to KDE 3.0.0 and whatever I do, whenever I boot to Linux, Gnome starts up instead of KDE! http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2205 Win4Lin - real world report. Due to the MandrakeClub special on Win4Lin, Deno has been receiving lots of mail sent by folks who bought Win4Lin since the start of the promotion. In this column, he shares several of the most interesting comments; readers also contribute their own opinions. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2204 Read these and other stories at MandrakeForum http://www.MandrakeForum.com/ ----------------------------------------
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