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OStatic: While waiting for the Mandriva management to decide the future direction of the distribution, the community is taking matters into their own hands and beginning the planning stages for the next release,
OStatic: Mandriva will live for another day (but we still don't know about next month or year)
An anonymous reader writes, quoting OS News: "In his usual man-of-a-few-words manner today, Jean-Manuel Croset, Mandriva COO, announced that enough funds have been secured to allow Mandriva to keep its doors open and continue development." From the announcement: "The strategy review started two weeks ago will now actively be finalized and the corresponding decisions taken mid of May." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Techzed: Unlike the competition in this sector, Mandriva offers an incredible array of features and cool little tidbits.
ITWorld:More and more, Linux vendors aren't just selling Linux... They're selling Linux as a vehicle for their big idea
OSTATIC: "The fate of Mandriva is still in flux today as Jean-Manuel Croset posted of yet another delay in determining the future of the once popular Linux distribution."
The H Open: "A proposal to acquire the company has been submitted by an external entity."
LinuxScribe writes "A shareholder fight (French [Google translation]) has put one of the oldest commercial Linux vendors at risk of shuttering on January 16. If Mandriva can't raise 4 million euro in capital by then, it will have no choice but to cease operations." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
ITWorld: A shareholder fight has put one of the oldest commercial Linux vendors at risk of shuttering on January 16.
OSTATIC: "ROSA Media Player (ROMP) is a fork of MPlayer and SMPlayer with a sleek design and new features."
UbuntuManual: Mandriva 2011 is a revolutionary Linux distro.
LinuxBSDos.com: "This article offers a detailed review, based on test installations (in a virtual environment and two real computers) of the 32-bit version."
Linux Notes: Did developers who started Mandrake project back in 1998 knew that their baby would become a world famous operating system?
LinuxPlanet: The platform that began with that simple message 20 years ago expanded this past week with multiple updates from Linux vendors large and small.
LinuxBSDos: Mandriva doesn't work out-of-the-box as it should...
Mandriva: "We happy to announce Mandriva Desktop 2011 - the most considerable step in the Mandriva development."
shibashaba writes "Mandriva 2011 is out. Look around for ISOs or click here if you already have Mandriva installed. [Or use the 32-bit torrent.] Mandriva may not be as popular as Ubuntu, but they came long before and had an easy to use (and powerful) desktop back when it was almost unheard of." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OSTATIC: "Yesterday was the 'total freeze' of the Mandriva repository. That means that all features, software, kernel, and versions are set. Nothing left now but last minute critical show-stopping bug fixes and rolling the ISOs."
OSnews: "Unlike Apple and Microsoft, and despite numerous demands from their users, Linux distributions have been traditionally unable to directly ship the popular Adobe Flash Player with their packages, due to the closed source nature"
OSTATIC: "Mandriva 2011 RC2 was released yesterday with lots of bug fixes and stability improvements. In the release announcement Eugeni Dodonov also introduced the new release manager, Denis Koryavov from ROSA Labs."
OSTATIC: "During his time as Mandriva he wore several hats and one of which was in the trenches coding some of Mandriva's handiest tools. He has updated and placed them in a github directory for any distribution to use."
Eugeni Dodonov has announced the availability of the second (and last) release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2011: "Today Mandriva and ROSA teams proudly announce that Mandriva 2011 RC2 is available for download. In this release candidate we fixed more than 300 bugs and added or changed about 700....
OSTATIC: "Today the Mandriva Security Team sent out a message to users that versions 2010.1 and 2010.2 have reached the end of their desktop support."
Softpedia: "Mandriva, through Eugeni Dodonov, announced a few minutes ago, June 29th, the immediate availability for testing of the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Mandriva 2011 Linux operating system."
The first release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2011 is available for download. This pre-announcement, published some 24 hours before the release, lists the most important changes since beta 3: "Integration of (almost) final user interface, new login manager, desktop themes, plasma widgets, icons, backgrounds, splash screens, launcher, boot....
Softpedia: Mandriva,announced on June 1st, the immediate availability for testing of the third and last Beta version of the upcoming Mandriva 2011 Linux operating system.
Eugeni Dodonov has announced the availability of the third beta release of Mandriva Linux 2011. This is an unscheduled beta release on the pathway to the delayed 2011 version which is to be followed by a release candidate before the final release on an as-yet-unspecified date. From the....
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Mandriva: New Mandriva 2011 distro is nearing release