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Mandriva One 2010 RC2 Available
Blog For the Mandriva users who have been waiting anxiously (hi, Ator! the iso images for Mandriva One 2010 RC2 are now available. The Mandriva Free version has been available since the end of last week, but the One version always lags a few days behind.
[October 13, 2009, 5:52]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2
Blog I set about installing the new Mandriva One 2010.0 RC2 distribution today, on all of the various netbooks and notebooks around here. It has taken significantly longer than I expected it to, because I have run into a couple of problems.
[October 14, 2009, 14:12]
Windows Vista RC2
Talkback I downloaded and installed RC1 & RC2, both clean installs on an un-used 20 gig HD. RC1 took 47 minutes. RC2 took 56 minutes. Neither of them found my Linksys nic card, or my SB16 PCI sound board. I found that many familiar items were difficult to...
[October 12, 2006, 18:44]
Windows Vista RC2 review
Reviews With the release of Windows Vista RC2 build 5744, Microsoft hopes the operating system is good enough to hand over to hardware manufacturers by the end of November, with a final retail edition of Windows Vista expected in late January 2007.
[October 12, 2006, 8:05]
Microsoft releases Windows XP RC2 to manufacturing
News Microsoft will release Windows XP release RC2 to manufacturers on Saturday, according to the company's group vice president Jim Allchin. Allchin stressed that the final release of Windows XP is still on track to ship on 25 October.
[July 27, 2001, 17:15]
Windows Vista RC2
Talkback The Vista Rc2 took 20 mins to install fresh copy. I am running 2 and half years old pc. Its P4 3.00GHZ, 1Gb of Ram, and 256Mb video card Ati and on Intel Motherboard. Its running faster then Rc1 ok. Its less Memory Hog in Rc2 now.
[October 13, 2006, 20:17]
Windows Vista RC2
Talkback I concur with the conclusion - installing Vista 5744 from scratch, i've found about 15 issues that are bad design or features that should have been incredibly obvious to add, and about 30 errors spanding from network connectivity, games that...
[October 14, 2006, 12:52]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2 Available
Blog Comment The multitude of Linux distributions is a disadvantage in some regards, no doubt. One of the biggest is that it gives critics and detractors something easy to point at, and when their major objective is FUD, it is easy to create a lot of the "U" by...
[October 19, 2009, 15:17]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2 Available
Blog Comment How do you find time to test out all these distros! I have enough on my hands with Ubuntu, always finding new ways to do things and new software. It must give you a good overview though of where the distros are headed -- are they _that_ different...
[October 13, 2009, 16:47]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2 Available
Blog Comment Hi Jake, Thanks for reading and commenting, as always. My current motto is "it's easy to be flexible when you're unemployed". A corollary to that is that I am able to spend as much time as I like doing things that I find interesting.
[October 14, 2009, 13:26]
Windows Vista RC2
Talkback Adobe has a patch release for the flash player that is supposed to address some vista concerns. Its currently in beta and can be downloaded from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html. Not running vista myself, I have no idea how this...
[October 12, 2006, 14:51]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2 Available
Blog Comment The way that the open source community advance and develop there primary operating systems without doubt rides the crest of technology advancement, which is good and i can never see that practice ever being surpassed by any other model out there.
[October 20, 2009, 0:29]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2 Available
Blog Comment As for the "many distros" of Linux, and the family tree analogy, I think you have to look at the branches.and how they grow. A lot of the MS branches make lateral moves while the Linux branches are always pointing up.
[October 19, 2009, 15:13]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2 Available
Blog Comment Wow, that's some response! Doesn't the existence of so much choice in distros actually _detract_ from the appeal of Linux to the new user? One of the reasons I use ubuntu (apart from the hardware support, ease of installing apps, online support and...
[October 16, 2009, 13:40]
Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2
White Papers Service pack 2 will solve a majority of computer problems that plague the industry today. The main focus on SP2 is security. After the outbreak of Slammer Worm, Microsoft took what they were going to implement in an unreleased version of Windows...
[September 29, 2005, 3:00]
OpenOffice 3 reads MS Office 2007 Files
Blog The release of OpenOffice.org 3 must be getting very close now; Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is available for download, and it looks very, very good indeed. The best news about this release, at least for me personally, is that it can read Microsoft...
[September 30, 2008, 13:56]
Microsoft issues final Vista test version
Talkback RC2- After trying RC2 (64-Bit version) for over a month now, it's stable and the majority of programs run with it, however, I can't use my Fatality sound card, HP Scanner, my logitech Bluetooth keyboard & mouse or net-camera!
[October 9, 2006, 16:48]
Spoke too soon about XP SP3?
Blog Comment I tried to install XP SP3 RC2 today. I already had XP SP3 RC1 installed, so I followed MS instructions to remove it first. This apparently took me back to my original XP installation with SP2 by removing all subsequent updates including SP3 RC1...
[February 21, 2008, 23:52]
Mozilla releases second Firefox 3 release candidate
News Mozilla has released the second release candidate for its upcoming Firefox 3 web browser, ahead of the full release in mid-June. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback...
[June 5, 2008, 12:33]
Windows 2000 Datacentre to go beta next week
News Microsoft says it will deliver to 300 beta testers next Monday the first public beta of its Windows 2000 Datacentre package. Datacentre is the high end of Microsoft's planned Windows 2000 lineup, with the other SKUs being Professional, Server and...
[September 23, 1999, 16:03]
