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LinuxBSDos: "Been awhile since Mandriva 2010 Spring was released. Considering the company's financial woes, and the rumored takeover negotiations, we thought they might never release it, but they did. Mandriva Linux 2010, aka Mandriva Linux 2010.1, was made available for download on July 8, 2010. There are three versions:"
LinuxBSDod.com: "This article documents my experience upgrading Mandriva One 2010 and Mandriva Free 2010 to Mandriva One 2010 Spring and Mandriva Free 2010 Spring respectively. One worked perfectly while the other did not."
Linux Journal: "Mandriva S.A. issued a press release to announce the restructuring of its core business organization. While specifics were still not given, the main message did come through: Mandriva will survive, in some fashion, for a while anyway."
ars Technica: "The Spring 2010 version was finally released last week after some new investors bailed out the company and made it possible for development efforts to continue."
Mandriva Linux 2010.1 has been released: "Mandriva, the leading European publisher of Linux solutions, announces today the launch of the final version of Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring. Quicker, easier and more secure than ever, Mandriva Linux offers new functionalities which revolutionise the desktop. In a nutshell, Mandriva Linux....
Linux Journal: "It was over six weeks ago that rumors, later confirmed as true, circulated stating that Mandriva's financial situation was so dire that it was considering buy-out offers to try to avoid having to close its doors"
IT Pro: "It looks like Mandriva, the Paris based Linux company, continues to be a fig leaf away from financial breakdown."
O'Reilly Broadcast: "After weeks of concern about the "catastrophic state of it's finances" and an indefiniete delay in the release of version 2010.1, the French website LeMagIT is reporting that Mandriva has been saved by new investors."
Mandriva Blog: "I'm now a researcher in bioinformatics working as a post-doc on bone cancer. During the past ten years Mandriva has proven rock solid on all the installations I had to perform for my own usage and for my colleagues."
Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the second and last release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2010.1: "As announced previously, here comes the last development release for Mandriva Linux 2010.1. This is essentially a bug-fix release. Again ISO images are available on all public mirrors: 32-bit and 64-bit....
Mandriva has announced the availability of the release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2010.1, the last test build before the final release scheduled to arrive early next month: "Here comes the last development release of Mandriva Linux 2010.1. A few days left now before final release planned for 3rd....
IT World: "After years of fiscal ups and downs, it now appears Mandriva S.A., makers of the Mandriva Linux distribution, may be up on the seller's block."
Dissociated Press: "Word on the street is that Mandriva is looking for a buyer, due to cash flow problems. This isn't the first time the company, formerly known as Mandrake, has faced tough times."
The French company that creates and sells the Mandriva Linux distribution is up for sale. The news about Mandriva SA originally surfaced on a French Mandriva portal, and was confirmed by one of the potential buyers. Mandriva the distribution is a merger of the former MandrakeLinux and Conectiva distros. Mandriva the company is no stranger to hard times, having sought bankruptcy protection in the past. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
MLO: "In other words, the resale of the company appears as the only alternative to closure."
Mandriva: "The second beta for Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring (2010.1) is available. There is information about the new release in various places:"
Anne Nicholas has announced the availability of the second beta release of Mandriva Linux 2010.1: "We are now very near the final release. Here comes the second beta release for 2010.1 version of Mandriva Linux. As usual you will be able to test it as it's available on....
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Howtoforge: "To share USB devices between computers with their full functionality, USB/IP encapsulates "USB I/O messages" into TCP/IP payloads and transmits them between computers."
Netstat -vat: "Mandriva Linux announced a new CEO today. Arnaud Laprevote succeeds Stanislas Bois in the top spot at the European Linux vendor."
The first beta release of Mandriva Linux 2010.1 is ready for testing: "The time has came for the first beta release of the 2010.1 version of Mandriva Linux. It's now available as 32-bit and 64-bit DVD images, as well as live CD images with GNOME or KDE. This....
Howtoforge: "This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Mandriva 2010.0 server."
Distrowatch: "Mandriva has announced the release of Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1, a commercial Linux distribution with 5-year maintenance support: "The first update of Mandriva Enterprise Server (MES) 5, the simple and innovative Linux server, is available today."
Phoronix: "Last week we delivered benchmarks of Fedora 13 Alpha and Ubuntu 10.04 (along with testing the Fedora 11 and 12 too), but today we have a new set of comparative benchmarks that are covering the latest development versions of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3. Here they are."
Mandriva has announced the release of Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1, a commercial Linux distribution with 5-year maintenance support: "The first update of Mandriva Enterprise Server (MES) 5, the simple and innovative Linux server, is available today. Coming with plenty of technology enhancements, hardware support scope and software list....
The H Open: "Mandriva began life in July 1998 as Linux Mandrake in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands."
Mandriva press release: Mandriva, Europe's leading Linux solutions publisher, will display its latest products at the 2010 Solutions Linux exhibition, from March 16 to 18 at the porte de Versailles Exhibition Centre – Hall 1 – Stand E 29.
Tech Source: "This time, I'll be giving tribute to one of the best Linux distributions (currently topping our "Best Linux Distro of the Decade" poll) around, by sharing with you yet another set of beautiful desktop wallpapers."
Distrowatch: "I've been happily using Mandriva 2010 as my desktop system since its release last November. The few issues I've had could be traced back to KDE 4.3.2. I had run the Update Manager a couple times at the beginning, but soon became lax and haven't updated since."