Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter - Issue #57

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             Issue #57    Thursday,   29 August 2002

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This Week's Summary: 9.0 Beta 4 Has Been Released; 9.0 Commercial RPMs
Ready for Testing; Marketing Survey Needs Your Input; Summer Special at
MandrakeStore; Mandrake PPC Pre-loaded on Macs; The Latest MandrakeClub
Activities; Mandrake in the News; Business Case of the Week;
MandrakeSecure.net: "Making the most of OpenSSH"; Headlines from
MandrakeForum


Top Stories
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Time to debug 9.0 Beta 4!
The fourth Beta of the upcoming Mandrake Linux 9.0 for x86 is now
available for download & testing. Our thanks go to everyone who
submitted valuable input during the previous Betas. OpenOffice 1.0.1 is
the star feature of Beta 4, other highlights include:

* Drakconf: memory leak has been fixed. Additionally Drakconf offers an
  improved look and feel.
* "tinyfirewall" is now active
* RpmDrake: Several improvements have been added including the ability
  to perform search in descriptions and the availability of
  "noclearcache" option.

Read the official Beta announcement, plus the complete changelog:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90beta.php3

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9.0 Commercial RPMs ready for testing.
The first Commercial applications built for 9.0 have been uploaded to
the MandrakeClub download area so that Club members can test them
before the final release of 9.0. The QA team has tested these new apps,
but we could use your input and observations. Please report any
problems with the packages to the webmaster (Denis), and he'll forward
them to MandrakeSoft QA.

Some of the available applications include:
 * Cameleo -- for image acquisition (scanners or digital cameras),
   processing, retouching, composing, RIPping, layout, output, etc.
 * Codeweavers-wine -- for running MS-Windows programs in Unix
 * FlashPlayer, Realplayer & Acrobat Reader 5.0
 * VMware Workstation
 * Plus games, anti-virus programs, hardware drivers, developer's
   tools, configuration utilities, and lots more. 84 packages total.
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=59


Marketing Survey
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To help determine and satisfy the special needs of Mandrake Linux
users, MandrakeSoft's Marketing team is conducting a brief survey that
requires your assistance.

Please help us improve our products by taking two minutes out of your
busy day to answer this brief questionnaire:
http://q.mandrakesoft.com

Your input is highly valued and greatly appreciated.


Summer Special at MandrakeStore
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Don't miss this special offer! Order anything at MandrakeStore between
August 22 - September 22 and we will ship the order anywhere in the
USA, Canada or the European Union for FREE. Customers in all other
countries receive 50% off shipping.

This is a great opportunity to purchase MandrakeSoft products and
goodies at a special price.

Stop by MandrakeStore today:
http://www.mandrakestore.com/


Mandrake PPC available pre-loaded on Macs.
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QliTech, an Authorized Apple Reseller (VAR) located in Illinois, has
announced that they now offer Mandrake Linux PPC pre-installed on Apple
computers. QliTech's Apple page lists iBook, PowerBook and PowerMac
systems, as well as a Rackmount server.
http://www.qlilinux.com/products/apple/


MandrakeClub
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Denis has returned from vacation so he's back in action again.

The latest headlines from MandrakeClub:
 * Club discounts for 8.2 update CD, and for 8.2/PPC
 * You can test commercial 9.0 applications NOW!
 * Mandrake Linux 9.0 is coming!
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/

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


Mandrake in the News
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NewsForge.com -- MandrakeSoft to warrant holders: Show us the money.
MandrakeSoft CEO Jacques Le Marois explains why the company is giving
investors a little more time to participate in its initiative to
increase capital. "Even with MandrakeSoft's recent positive financial
results and an attractive valuation, most people are difficult to
convince. Just two years ago, we could have raised all the necessary
funds in only four days with a similar operation."
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/20/140226

HWExtreme.com -- AMD Hammer Review.
The popular hardware website 'HWExtreme.com' benchmarks Mandrake Linux
(with kernel 2.4.18-24mdk) running on AMD's Opteron platform,
previously codenamed Hammer.
http://www.hwextreme.com/reviews/processor/opteron/


Business Case of the Week
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Internet/E-commerce: Mandrake delivers the goods at Nigerian CyberCafe.
When "iDaystar" launched a new cybercafe in Akure, Nigeria, they needed
a server to provide a local web server, a mail server with webmail
capabilities, a caching DNS & proxy server, and a Windows 2000 domain
controller.

"Creating a mail server was an especially challenging task, because we
needed to fetch email from a common maildrop, sort it into recipients
mailboxes, and serve it to them over web mail. So we set up a box with
Mandrake Linux 8.2, and put it to work."
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=358

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


What's New at MandrakeSecure.net?
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MandrakeSecure.net: Making the most of OpenSSH.
"Ever wanted to know more about using OpenSSH? Like maybe how to use it
properly, or how to use it more securely? Want to know how you can
configure outgoing SSH connections to suit your needs, as well as
configure how incoming connections to your account are treated? This
and more is described in the latest MandrakeSecure paper, entitled
'Making the most of OpenSSH.'"
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php


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

xinetd -- fixes remote DoS (denial of service)

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


Headlines from MandrakeForum
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Mandrake Linux 9.0 - fourth try!
Read about Deno's first impressions of the latest Beta, and many
reader comments as well.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2386

Sigma Designs, MPEG4 codec, and GPL
"Anonymous" discusses what might become an interesting test case of the
GPL license: "Shortly after the fact that Sigma Designs "borrowed" GPL
code from xvid.org in its proprietary MPEG-4 video codec has been made
public (thus infringing the XVID license), Sigma design realized the
difference between "GPLed" and "public domain" software."
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2384

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

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