“This week’s summary: Mandrake in the News; MandrakeSoft StockTrader
Update; Website resources; MandrakeClub Summary; Business Case of the
Week; Software Updates; Headlines from MandrakeForum.”

Mandrake in the News
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LinuxPlanet.com -- A Month Later with Linux-Mandrake 8.1.
Brian Proffitt wraps up a two-part review of Mandrake 8.1 and concludes:
"For the home user to which this distro is targeted, there is no doubt 
in my mind that Mandrake Linux is the best offering I have seen to date 
for that audience."
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4000/3/


Financial Corner
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Note to investors interested in trading MandrakeSoft shares on the OTC 
market:
Since MandrakeSoft has just entered this market, you may experience 
temporary difficulties while executing transactions. Once enough 
initial transactions are generated, we should see real time quotations 
with bid/ask prices. Additionally, it is important to place a 'limit 
price' high enough to make a stockholder interested in selling you the 
stock and a 'duration period' long enough to have the transaction 
performed.

For more information about MandrakeSoft and the stock exchange, please 
see: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/trade


F.Y.I.
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The Mandrake family of websites keeps growing; here's a brief summary 
of the online resources that are currently available:

* MandrakeLinux.com -- Central website dedicated to the Mandrake Linux
  project. Here you'll find News, Screenshots, Demos, Download links,
  Product descriptions, Support lists, Documentation, Developer's
  section, Security & Contact info.
* MandrakeSoft.com -- The MandrakeSoft corporate site. Here you can
  learn about our full range of Products, Consulting services,
  Professional Support & Training, Labs, Company Info (including a
  Corporate profile and Investors information).
* MandrakeForum.com -- A community discussion board for Mandrake news,
  rumours, tips & tricks.
* MandrakeSecure.com -- Everything related to security
* MandrakeUser.com -- A comprehensive collection of Documentation,
  Troubleshooting tips, tutorials, and discussion board.
* MandrakeExpert.com -- Dedicated to free and paid support for Mandrake
  products. Got a technical question about Mandrake Linux? This is the
  place!
* MandrakeCampus.com -- Expand your Linux knowledge by participating in
  online training. Courses include Basic Tools, Desktop Administration,
  Server Installation, and Server services.
* MandrakeBizcases.com -- See what everyone is using Mandrake Linux for!
* MandrakeClub.com -- A "members-only" site for Mandrake supporters and
  contributors.


MandrakeClub 
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There are now 43 applications available for Club members to download. 
The top-5 most popular downloads are:

 1: Flash Player
 2: Acroread plugin
 3: CompuPic
 4: Acroread
 5: DeskCDR

Not yet a Mandrake Club member? To learn more, please visit:
http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/


Business Case of the Week
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When Chris Nolan and a group of IT professionals started their own 
business, they chose Mandrake Linux for many reasons including:

* Mandrake Linux includes Postfix by default
* Advanced Extranet Server is Apache
* URPMI
* WebMin

"In the first week of operation, we were successfully serving many 
users with web and mail offerings without a hitch. We could confidently 
do this during such a critical phase of our development thanks to 
Mandrake Linux."
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=259

For many more examples of Mandrake in the workplace, please see:
http://www.MandrakeBizcases.com


Software Updates
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Security-related software updates have been released for:
mutt -- fixes buffer overflow
bind -- fixes permission insecurities

View the complete list at:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/


Top Stories from MandrakeForum
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ML 8.1 Troubleshooting: 3rd party software compatibility.
Deno writes: "In a quickly changing Linux world, a two-year old 
commercial application is unlikely to work 'out of the box' on a newly 
installed system... If you know of any programs which do not work out 
of the box in Mandrake Linux 8.1, and how to make them work, please 
share your knowledge with others by posting it here.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1552?=en

Making Maple 7 work on Linux Mandrake 8.1 (and 8.0).
Rutger Noot describes the steps he took to install & run the Maple 
mathematics application in Mandrake Linux.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1549?=en

Making Word Perfect 8.0 work on Mandrake 8.1.
George Mitchell provides some tips on getting Word Perfect 8.0 to work 
with Mandrake 8.1.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1545?=en

Gart: a Java GUI builder.
Andreas Bergstrøm speaks about a recent discovery:
"For all those Java developers out there looking for just a Java GUI 
builder, it has arrived. A small group at the College of Oestfold has 
made one, and I find it very usefull with my Java programming."
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1546?=en

Linux-tips digest (2).
Denis posts a second batch of tips from the Linux-tips digest; and a 
reader describes how to setup Flash and Real Player to work in 
Konqueror, Netscape 4.7x, Galeon, and Mozilla.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1544?=en

Read these and other stories at:
http://www.MandrakeForum.com

Yurii A. Rashkovskii writes: “A small team of volunteers has started a new open source project, aimed to solve enterprise automation tasks. We’re trying to make a next-generation solution, that is aimed not to copy existing solutions, but to invent new ideas and approaches that will satisfy enterprise automation needs. Now we would like to announce our “official” startup and probably invite volunteers interested in this kind of project.”E/AS is a software project to create an open source framework for an enterprise automation needs. We are trying to attain the next-generation solution, the next step in the enterprise management. The main benefit that will allow us to achieve this goal is the progressive object model used to assembly different substances in the entire tree.

Therefore it is easy to keep books of these substances in the identical manner; there is a common approach to transact operations and so on.

E/AS offers enterprise-level features, such as distributed computing, support for non-stop systems, fault tolerance and organic integration with third-party software.

You will be able to run E/AS software on mostly all major platforms, such as Solaris, Linux, Windows NT/2000.

Our software will be useful for different kinds of enterprise automation, like business accounting, correspondence maintainance or billing system. Due to the fact that E/AS software is designed to be flexible and extendable, we do not limit the set of problems that can be solved.

E/AS site is in its initial state but can be found at http://www.openeas.org.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at yrashk@openeas.org.”

The Register: “The latest installment in the Linux development tree came out yesterday with
support for USB 2.0, which allows for data transfer rates of up to 480 mbps, making
it a bit fatter than Apple’s more popular Firewire.”

NewsFactor Network writes: “The Microsoft server that handles security updates and patches for the software giant’s Windows operating system has apparently experienced problems since last Thursday. The glitch has prevented users from downloading fixes for Windows vulnerabilities from Microsoft’s security Web site. Microsoft spokesperson Jim Cullinan reportedly said Monday that the problem would be fixed by Tuesday. Cullinan explained that a router configuration update was the likely cause of the glitch and that technicians were in the process of restoring the previous software configurations.”

PCWorld: “After steadily falling for almost a year and a half, the price of DRAM chips has surged in the last week and consumers could feel
the effects as early as this week in higher retail prices.

A week ago, a stick of 256MB SDRAM traded for around $15 among brokers in Asia. That same stick of memory was trading for
$30 in Asia on Wednesday, according to market-data supplier ICIS-LOR.”

NewsFactor Network writes: “Many of us dream of a network without wires, with visions dancing in our heads at night of checking e-mail and accessing Web sites completely free of cables and cords. This dream comes closer to reality with the latest wireless technologies, such as Wi-Fi and 2.5G cellular networks. It is taking shape in the Dallas, Texas area, where wireless networks are popping up in places like the airport, Starbucks coffee shops, and even at the local shopping mall.”

Slashdot: “I’m a long-time advocate and user of open source and free
software and, as of this morning, I am a candidate for the Charlottesville, VA (USA) City
Council. Naturally, I see lots of areas in Charlottesville’s IT infrastructure (as well as
potential areas of expansion) where Linux and various free software projects would be
ideal. But can I make that a talking point while campaigning? How do I make that concept accessible and
interesting to 40,000 citizens?”

Tosatti: “So here goes pre4.”

source: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.18-pre4.gz
changelog: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.18.log

pre4:

- Networking updates                            (David S. Miller)
- clgenfb update                                (Jeff Garzik)
- 8139cp: make it faster                        (Jeff Garzik)
- 8139too: fix bugs, add experimental RX reset  (Jeff Garzik)
- Add MII ethtool interface and change 
  several drivers to support that               (Jeff Garzik)
- Fix ramdisk corruption problems               (Andrea Arcangeli)
- Correct in-kernel MS_ASYNC behaviour 
  on msync/fsync()                              (Andrew Morton)
- Fix PLIP problems                             (Niels Jensen)
- Fix problems triggered by the "fsx test" 
  on smbfs                                      (Urban Widmark)
- Turn on OOSTORE for IDT winchip               (from -ac tree)
- Fix iphase crash                              (from -ac tree)
- Fix crash with two mxser cards                (from -ac tree)
- Fix tty write block bug                       (from -ac tree)
- Add mono/stereo detect to gemtek pci radio    (from -ac tree)
- Fix sf16fmi crash on load                     (from -ac tree)
- add CP1250 (windows eastern european) 
  translation table                             (from -ac tree)
- cs46xx driver update                          (from -ac tree)
- Fix rare data loss case with RAID-1           (Ingo Molnar)
- Add 2.5.x compatibility for the kdev_t
  changes                                       (me)
- SPARC updates                                 (David S. Miller)

CNET: “Online vandals are using a two-month-old security hole in Sun Microsystems’ Solaris
operating system to break into servers on the Internet, a security expert said
Tuesday.”

PCWorld: “Microsoft has once again showed it understands what a software operating system is, and how to leverage that knowledge in the
constantly changing wireless market.”