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Mandriva (merger of Mandrakesoft, Lycoris, and Conectiva) is a French software company, and creator of Mandriva Linux. Describing itself as a "project initiator and a skills organizer in the Open Source arena", Mandriva is also founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium.
Mandrakesoft operated under bankruptcy protection from January 27, 2003 to March 30, 2004. Despite its efforts to cut losses and improve profits, Mandrakesoft was forced to file for protection due to a series of quarterly losses. The déclaration de cessation de paiement (similar to the US Chapter 11) gave the company protection from its creditors. Mandrakesoft recorded its first quarterly profit since 1999 of €270,000 on €1.42 million of revenue during the period between October 2003 and December 2003.
Shares of Mandrakesoft are again being traded on the Euronext Marché Libre exchange (ISIN code MLMAN) and on the US OTC Bulletin Board (Stock symbol MDKFF).
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Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 9
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:30:49 -0000
"This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup."
Hosted Zimbra Email Catches On With Managed Service Providers
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:30:49 -0000
MSPmentor: "When it comes to hosted email, why zig when you can zag? That explains the strategy at EtomicMail, a managed service provider that’s hosting Zimbra — an open source email platform — rather than Microsoft Exchange."
An Open Source Seeing Eye Dog for Web Surfers
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:26:40 -0000
LinuxInsider: "WebAnywhere is an open source, Web-based application that acts as a screen reader of sorts for blind people. Its developer, a student at the University of Washington, designed it so that blind people can access public computers for important information."
Perl and Bash Versions Of Binary To Decimal Conversion Script
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:30:49 -0000
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "As promised, in yesterday's post on converting binary values to decimal in C, today we're going to follow up with straight-up ports to Perl and shell. Actually, they'll be slightly different. If you check yesterday's post, for some reason I left in a variable called "difference" which was a part of the code I mentioned that I had originally written to pad 0's on the left hand side of a binary number less than 8 digits."
E4X: JavaScript on Steroids
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:30:49 -0000
IBM Developerworks: "E4X is designed to simplify the task of writing JavaScript code for XML. It is an efficient, powerful tool that you can use to interact with XML nodes and attributes. The primary objective of E4X is to give JavaScript developers a straightforward and efficient way to manipulate an XML document without relying on the Document Object Model (DOM)."
Linux 2.6.26 Kernel Benchmarks
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:30:49 -0000
Phoronix: "Over the weekend the Linux 2.6.26 kernel was released. This quarterly update to the Linux kernel introduced Kernel-based Virtual Machine improvements, new One Laptop Per Child support, a new video web camera driver, updates to the Direct Rendering Manager, and other improvements. In this article we have done some quick benchmarks of this new kernel from within the Phoronix Test Suite."
Adventures in the Museum - Installing Mandrake 8.0, Part I - Installation experience installing on a pentium 90.
Meta Description: [ Glen Gray, details how he got Mandrake 8.0 up and running on a legacy PC. ]
Cooker list archive - Monthly list archive for Mandrake's development version 'cooker', including all bug reports. Other Mandrake list archives (expert, newbie) further down on the page.
Installing Mandrake8.0: A Newbie's Guide to Freedom - Advocacy and installation walkthrough.
Meta Description: [ Helping to make Technology: Mans Best Friend ]
Mandrake installation and configuration tips - A guide to software installation and configuration on Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 9.2. Contains a very useful guide to urpmi and Rpmdrake on 9.2.
Mandrake Linux Business Cases - User testimonials describing their experiences with the product in a business environment.
Meta Description: [ VeriSign Digital Brand Management Systems Customer.VeriSign, Inc. operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the worlds voice and data networks. ]
Mandrake Linux tips for free - Lots of tips on installation, configuration and use of Linux in general and Mandrake Linux in particular (versions 9.1 and 9.2)
Meta Description: [ Tips on Mandriva Linux ]
MandrakeClub - The Mandrake Linux Users Club. Membership fee (different levels - starting from $60/year). Privileged access to forums, software repositories and online documentation.
Meta Description: [ VeriSign Digital Brand Management Systems Customer.VeriSign, Inc. operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the worlds voice and data networks. ]
MandrakeExpert - Support channel. Allows submission of questions to be answered by volunteers (free). There is also an option of paying for a support incident, and with it, receiving a guarantee of response, from MandrakeSoft, or its affiliate Experts, within a defined timeframe.
Meta Description: [ VeriSign Digital Brand Management Systems Customer.VeriSign, Inc. operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the worlds voice and data networks. ]
MandrakeStore - Sells Mandrake products. Part of MandrakeSoft.
Meta Description: [ VeriSign Digital Brand Management Systems Customer.VeriSign, Inc. operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the worlds voice and data networks. ]
Mandriva - Firm develops Mandriva Linux. Products available to buy and download; support options, training links, internationalization efforts, open-source community involvement, corporate information, consulting, support, training.
Meta Description: [ Mandriva is the company which develops Mandriva Linux: the strong graphical Linux Operating System, famous for being easy to install and ready to use as a desktop or as a server. Mandriva also accompanies its products and first-class consultancy, support and training for Linux. ]
Penguin Liberation Front - PLF (Penguin Liberation Front) is a repository of RPMs that cannot be included into the Mandrake distro for legal reasons (copyright/license/patent), which make those packages legal in some countries and illegal in others.
Securing Linux Mandrake - Basic tips on securing a server or workstation.
Meta Description: [ Feature: Securing Linux Mandrake ]
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Step-by-step Guide to Installing Mandrake 8.2 - Install and review of 8.2 download edition. newbie's guide to installing Mandrake 8.2 on your PC. Needed: PC, CD burner, Internet connection, time to join the Mandrake club. [LinuxWorld]
The Mandrake eXPerience - A collection of articles and tutorials relevant to Mandrake Linux 8.1 and 9.0 (and probably later versions). A separate gaming section.
The Register: Mandrake Linux Ate my CD Drive - News article reporting an issue with Mandrake 9.2 and LG CD drives which causes drive firmware to be blanked.
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