Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter

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               Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter

                 Issue #82  Thursday, 31 July 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 9.2 Beta 1 Released
 * Financial Corner -- Consolidated results for first-half 2002/2003
 * MandrakeClub -- Special Offer on Crossover Office
 * Updated 9.1 Manuals Available Online
 * Business Case of the Week -- Almost Everything on Mandrake
 * Software Updates -- kernel, mpg123, phpgroupware, more
 * Headlines from MandrakeClub


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            This week's sponsor: Thawte -- "It's a trust thing"
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Top Story
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Mandrake 9.2 Beta 1 Released.
Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta 1 has arrived to offer you the opportunity of
 summertime bug squashing. Join forces with the Mandrake Development team by
 installing the Beta then submitting bug reports. Remember: This release is
 for testing purposes only and is not suitable for production machines. Learn
 all the details: http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3


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Financial Corner
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Consolidated results for the first half year 2002/2003.
Strong reduction in operating losses; since January 2003 MandrakeSoft is
cash-flow positive.
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/newsletter/sn030724


MandrakeClub
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MandrakeSoft has negotiated a special offer with CodeWeavers -- the producer
 of Crossover Office -- just for Club members:

If you desire to run Windows applications without Microsoft Windows at all,
 then 'CrossOver Office' is the ideal solution for you. CrossOver Office lets
 you run many popular applications including Microsoft Office XP, 2000 and
 97, Microsoft Outlook, Access, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Visio, Lotus
 Notes, Quicken (and more) without the need to run Windows or even own a
 Microsoft Operating System license!

- Download from MandrakeClub.com a fully functional RPM package of CrossOver
 Office so you can try the product for free - Purchase CrossOver Office for
 only $44.95 USD (a $10 USD discount)

To take advantage of this special offer, please see:
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1033

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


Mandrake Linux 9.1 Documentation
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Updated 9.1 manuals are available online.
Visit the Mandrake website for links to electronic versions of documentation
which details the Installation and usage of a Mandrake Linux 9.1 system.

Choose from:
 * Quick Startup Guide (PDF & HTML)
 * Starter Manual (PDF & HTML)
 * Command-Line Basics (PDF & HTML)

Available in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Russian.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3


Business Case of the Week
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Almost Everything on Mandrake.
The "Monolithic Dome Institute" uses Mandrake Linux for their webserver, mail
server, firewall, and three workstations. Their online newspaper receives
50,000 visitors every month and runs on Mandrake 9.0 & PHP-Nuke from
Contribs.

"Next year, I plan to switch everything over to Mandrake. A new
fileserver, print server, and switching every desktop over to Mandrake. We
will only have one or two computers left on Windows, the rest will be
Mandrake: 50 stations."
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=539

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


Software Updates
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9.1 software updates have been released for:

 * kernel -- fixes multiple vulnerabilities
 * mpg123 -- fixes vulnerability
 * phpgroupware -- fixes multiple vulnerabilities
 * xpdf -- fixes arbitrary code execution vulnerability
 * nfs-utils -- fixes buffer overflow
 * apache2 -- fixes multiple vulnerabilities

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


Headlines from MandrakeClub.com
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Undercover beta program?
"Warly was about to collapse from hunger, so I had to let him go, but ISOs
 are available on all the usual mirrors, so go ahead and give them a try.
 Have fun, and don't forget to put protective gloves when handling these
 ISOs: they are really hot."
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1045

Ready for some [more] beta-testing?
Deno has a few more weeks left as a MandrakeSoft employee. He promised to
clean up the code at MandrakeClub.com before leaving, and asks for your help
to test it:
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1041

LDAP and Samba articles on MandrakeSecure.
Vincent Danen writes: "In the last month three new articles have appeared on
MandrakeSecure. The first is an updated revision of the "Using LDAP for
Authentication" article I wrote a year ago, with more information on how to
do the job. The other two articles, written by Jim Collings and Buchan Milne,
deal more with Samba and it's relationship to using LDAP for authentication,
and goes into more detail about PDC's and BDC's, disconnected authentication,
and LDAP replication. All three articles are a must read for anyone
interested in and looking at using LDAP for authentication, be it for
Linux-only use or Linux/Windows."
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=1024

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

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