Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter

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                        M a n d r a k e    L i n u x

                C o m m u n i t y    N e w s l e t t e r

          Issue #60    Thursday,   19 September 2002

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This Week's Summary: Linux-Campus Expansion; New Products at
MandrakeStore; Club Downloads now "URPMI-aware"; Business Case of the
Week; This Week's Survey; Security-related Software Updates; Headlines
from MandrakeForum


Top Story
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MandrakeSoft announces the availability of Linux-Campus Courseware at
30 training sites across the Americas.

The recent adoption of the Linux-Campus catalogue in the Americas has
resulted in a significant expansion of the MandrakeTraining partner
network. EPICenter and EvolServ in the U.S., along with Synesis in
Canada and Informatica Integral Intelligente in Mexico, are just the
latest additions to the list of experienced training centers that have
been selected by MandrakeSoft to become Certified Centers.

In keeping with Open Source values, MandrakeSoft's Linux-Campus
training is relevant to all Linux distributions and prepares trainees
for the renowned and vendor-neutral LPI (Linux Professional Institute)
certification program: http://www.lpi.org.

For more information, please visit the website:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/training


Product News
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Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns - Special Awards Edition.
"Once the ruling power of the world, the Kohan is a lost civilization
destroyed by massive cataclysms. Their immortal nature prevents them
from an eternal death, allowing them to resurface."

Sound fun? This popular game is now available at MandrakeStore.

Features:
  * Command large armies of archers, footmen, cavalry, and even legions
    of undead.
  * Over 90 units with over 400 frames of animation each.
  * Wage war in multiple environments that include lush forest,
    rolling hills, and barren desert.
  * Scores of magical spells ranging from protective blessings to
    devastating fireballs.
  * Multiplayer supports up to 8 players who can choose to play as one
    of four factions, all struggling for supremacy in a war-torn world
    over LAN or Internet.
  * Special Awards Edition includes: 12 Awesome New Maps. 13 Brand New
    Heroes. 16 New Computer Strategies. Improved Computer AI.

http://www.transgaming.com/webstore.php?ref=mdkemail

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OpenBrick - Open platform.
OpenBrick is a small, lightweight and completely silent computer
appliance optimized for Open Source/Free Software solutions. This great
little Linux box can be used as a firewall, micro-server, PABX, thin
client, multimedia, almost anything imaginable. It contains a fanless
300 Mhz x86 compatible Geode processor and 128 MB SDRAM. Software can
be installed on a Compact Flash or on an optional Hard Disk. Learn more
about this amazing little Linux box and the strong Open Source
community that is forming around this small server:
http://openbrick.org
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/partnerships/2389

Shipping from MandrakeStore to the US, Canada, Japan and Europe only:
http://new.mandrakestore.com/mdksa/index.php?PAGE=tab_2/menu_0.php&id_art=226
&LANG_=en#GOTO_226


MandrakeClub
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Great news: Club downloads can now be used with urpmi!
Denis describes how to add the Club RPM download site to urpmi/rpmdrake
so that the packages can be painlessly installed.
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=68

Not yet a Mandrake Club member? To learn more, please visit:
http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/


Business Case of the Week
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Education/Research: DHCP and File Sync to/from Novell Servers via
NCPFS, IPXUTILS, NCPFS.
When this systems engineer took a new position, he migrated the whole
company to Mandrake for DHCP services, MIS Intranet, and public web/ftp
server.

Burke Azbill explains:
"As soon as my superiors & peers saw the benefit of Mandrake, they gave
me a machine in our central office to move our MIS Intranet to
Linux-Mandrake 8.1.[...] The web-based administration of the Mandrake
box (Web-Min) as well as the Intranet (Postnuke) gave way to new
possibilities for the MIS group to really provide dynamic services to
its users."
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=362

For many more examples of Mandrake in the workplace, please see:
http://www.MandrakeBizcases.com.


This Week's Survey
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What kind of computers do you run Linux on?

 * Only PC(s)
 * Only Apple(s)
 * Mixture of Apple and PC machines
 * Just about everything you could imagine. .-)

Cast your vote in the Voting Booth and check the results:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/pollBooth.php?op=results&pollID=42


Software Updates
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Security-related software updates have been released for:

kdelibs -- fixes SSL vulnerability
krb5 -- fixes remote root vulnerability

View the complete list at:
http://www.mandrakesecure.net


Headlines from MandrakeForum
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"bi0s" asks the question: "How many people have completed the Mandrake
Campus?" Many readers talk about their experience with MandrakeSoft's
free online training course:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2424

How to use Windows as a simple terminal for Linux?
'benblo' asks: "I'm a student, and in my school we can use Linux
programs under Windows NT, with a soft called Reflexion X.
With this we just connect to Linux computers with an X session, and are
able to do anything as if we worked directly under linux. Better than a
telnet session...!"
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2422

How to rotate X.
If you've ever wondered how to rotate the video display by 90 degrees,
this article provides some possible solutions:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2426

Read these and other stories at MandrakeForum.
http://www.MandrakeForum.com/

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