Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter - Issue #74

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               Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter

                Issue #74  Friday, 31 January 2003

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Welcome to the Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter -- dedicated to
keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandrake-related news & info.

In this issue:

 * Top Story: Mandrake Linux 9.1 Beta 2 is available
 * What's Cookin' at MandrakeSoft?: New PPC Beta has been released
 * Financial Corner: Court grants MandrakeSoft protection period
 * Mandrake in the News: OpenMag.com & DistroWatch.com
 * MandrakeClub: Your package votes making a difference
 * Upcoming Event: Paris 'Linux Solutions' Show
 * Website Watch: KDE Tips & Tricks in Mandrake 9.0
 * Software Updates: fetchmail, printer-drivers, sane, cvs


Top Story
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Mandrake Linux 9.1 Beta 2 is available.
The second Beta of the upcoming Mandrake Linux 9.1 for x86 is now
available for download & testing. Beta 2 is offered as two 650MB ISO
images and includes KOffice (1.2.1), OpenOffice (1.0.2), plus hundreds
of additional applications that were voted in by Club members. Everyone
is invited to download Beta 2 from the usual locations, then report any
bugs to 'BugZilla.'
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/


What's Cookin' at MandrakeSoft?
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New PPC Beta is available.
There's no reason for Mac users to feel neglected now that Stew
Benedict has released a new Beta ISO image for the PPC platform. See
what all the excitement is about: Download the PPC beta from the usual
mirrors, then learn more about the PPC Beta by viewing the Cooker PPC
mailing list archive for January:
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker-ppc/2003-01/


Financial Corner
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On January 27th, 2003, confirmation was received from a French
Commercial Court that MandrakeSoft had been granted a six-month
observation & protection period to establish a business continuation
plan. MandrakeSoft welcomes this latest news as a positive step toward
achieving solid restructuring and profitability.

Please see the following announcement for additional details:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2406&lg
=en


Mandrake in the News
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DistroWatch.com -- Mandrake Linux 9.1 - a GNU/Linux Distribution in the
Making
Two weeks ago Andrew Balsa reviewed Mandrake Linux 9.1 Beta 1 for
Distrowatch.com, this week he reviews Beta 2 (with lots of great
screenshots):
"[...] if MandrakeSoft can keep up with this rate of development, by
beta 3 or 4 they could start concentrating on the eye-candy and their
final 9.1 release would then be terrific. I am still reluctant to erase
my Mandrake 9.0 configuration and switch over, but my fingers are
getting twitchy..."
http://distrowatch.com/review-mandrake.php

OpenMag.com -- Reader Survey Results
The 'Open-Mag' weekly e-zine published the results of their reader
survey. A whopping 73% of readers use Mandrake Linux, and Mandrake is
the top pick as "Strategic Linux Distribution":
http://www.open-mag.com/cgi-bin/opencgi/surveys/survey.cgi?survey_name=distro
_survey


MandrakeClub
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Your package votes are making a difference.
Beta testers are now enjoying the results of MandrakeClub RPM voting.
The recently released 9.1 Beta 2 includes hundreds of applications that
were voted in by Club members. See the following announcement to the
Cooker mailing list for the newly included package names, number of
votes received, and other interesting details.
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2003-01/msg01351.php

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


Upcoming Event
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MandrakeSoft is pleased to join Jaluna (www.jaluna.com) in their display
booth at the upcoming Solutions Linux to be held in Paris, France, from
Feb. 4-6, 2003.
Jaluna, founded by the team that invented Chorus^(TM) microkernel
real-time operating systems, will announce its Jaluna-2, which enables
manufacturers and integrators to add Real-Time, Availability and
Security into their Linux products.
On Jaluna's booth, you will see Jaluna-2 demos and will learn more about
Jaluna-1, the Open Source, royalty-free, carrier-grade Real-Time
Operating System (RTOS).

Both MandrakeSoft and Jaluna look forward to seeing you at the show!


Website Watch
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KDE Tips & Tricks in Mandrake 9.0.
Two new chapters have been released on the trylinuxSD.com website
titled "KDE Tips & Tricks in Mandrake 9.0" which offer some pointers
that may not be obvious to new Linux users. Learn about:

 * View Profiles; Konqueror for the Web & FTP
 * Fun with fonts; Speeding up KDE
 * Creating and using Shortcut keys
 * Using desktop wallpaper, styles, themes & icons
 * Introduction to KDE System Administration Utilities, and more.
http://www.trylinuxSD.com/


Software Updates
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9.0 software updates have been released for:

fetchmail -- fixes remote exploit vulnerability
printer-drivers -- fixes local vulnerability
sane -- fix various bugs
cvs -- fixes multiple vulnerabilities

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

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