OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available
Blog I have been using OOo 2.4.1 on my Linux systems, because that is what comes bundled with Ubuntu 8.04 and Mandriva 2008, and 3.0 on Vista because I had to install it myself anyway, and it has gotten to the point where I notice the difference right...
[October 12, 2008, 18:03]
Ubuntu 8.10 And OpenOffice.org 3.0
Blog This is a sort of interesting role-reversal with Mandriva, who have typically been the more conservative about including new software in their releases, but they have OpenOffice 3.0.0 in their Mandriva 2009.0 release.
[November 7, 2008, 8:07]
Browser-based OpenOffice.org Released
News Ulteo is a new Linux distribution that was initiated by Mandrake (now Mandriva) Linux creator Gaël Duval. It uses the ISO-approved OpenDocument Format (ODF) by default to read and write documents, although it also works with the document formats...
[December 18, 2007, 11:30]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful And Maddening
Blog The next candidate is Mandriva Linux, currently on what they term their "Spring 2008" distribution. Overall, my first impression of Mandriva Linux is very positive. The first thing I noticed was an interesting variation in the installation...
[July 1, 2008, 11:07]
Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring review
Reviews As with the previous version, the software is available as a free download in a number of formats, including the Mandriva Linux One implementation that we tested, which ships as a single bootable Live CD.
[May 28, 2008, 10:42]
Linux And Laptop Screen Resolutions
Blog First, the new release of Mandriva (2009.0), gets the screen resolutions exactly the way I want them, by default. As I have mentioned before, neither Ubuntu nor Mandriva was able to handle this "properly".
[October 13, 2008, 16:03]
So Why Not Put Linux On Your Business Desktops?
Talkback "Ironic that the text is unreadable in my Linux desktop" very 'ironic'.as Firefox supports html quite well ;-), & I am reading & writing from a Mandriva 2006/Firefox desktop. Ubuntu, by default, gives the first user created (Linux completely...
[November 30, 2005, 14:50]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful And Maddening
Blog Comment If you want to install a lot more apps and mess around with stuff more, you may start to find the default Xandros distro limiting, and want to install something like Mandriva or the Eee-customised versions of Ubuntu and PCLOS that are available.
[July 14, 2008, 16:39]
Foresight Linux
Blog This was running the laptop alone, not on the port replicator or with the external display, and both Ubuntu and Mandriva have been able to get this right without trouble. I've just made a somewhat brief test of Foresight Linux.
[August 29, 2008, 10:24]
Wireless Networking - Linksys WRT350N And Intel 4965AGN
Blog Comment This evening I will be trying with Vista, Mandriva and openSuSE as well. As soon as I made this change to the router, Ubuntu, Fedora and MEPIS Linux were able to get a wireless connection, and XP was still able to connect.
[November 17, 2008, 9:19]
Ubuntu Gets More Virtualisation-friendly
News Ubuntu has risen to popularity alongside better established versions of Linux such as Red Hat, Suse Linux, Mandriva and Debian. The Ubuntu version of Linux is getting more virtualisation-friendly, but in a different way from its top rivals.
[April 16, 2007, 15:36]
Various Thoughts And Experiences With Linux
Blog Once I reinstalled Mandriva, I could boot them again, and I could boot Debian as well. Mandriva - KDE. Mandriva - Gnome. It has a KDE desktop, and it is the first of those that I have actually been able to use reasonably well (I have tried Kubuntu...
[November 13, 2008, 13:38]
Linux And Laptop Screen Resolutions
Blog Comment "I then tried to un-mirror the displays in Mandriva, but it doesn't quite get it right. If you work off the instructions here as a base: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Eee_External_Monitor Probably the framebuffer issue (I'm curious whether...
[October 14, 2008, 8:18]
