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Infrastructure delays and current progress
It’s no mystery that there have been some delays on the infra front during the last few days. So I thought it prudent to publish an explanation. As per our last published development schedule, the...
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Meet our Face!
At last we have a face! OpenMandriva Association is proud to announce that after some weeks of discussion, voting and analysis this is our new logo. Using the Magnificent 7 we opened the discussion to...
View ArticleAssociation. Comments on some definitions.
Hello everybody On April 10th, a common TC (Technical committee, for now = all active developers) + Council meeting took place. Logs will be posted. Here is the agenda and summary. Best, OMA secretary...
View Article“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?*”
Yes. You know what I mean. We know you are willing to talk, make questions, participate. So OpenMandriva Association has the pleasure to invite you to our Mailing Lists and IRC channels. You can bore...
View ArticleWe all are the Community!
We all are the Community! Short story. Facts and statement. OpenMandriva Association (OMA) was founded by community members to continue development of desktop Mandriva Linux, which Mandriva S.A....
View ArticleThe Quest for the Holy Name
Hello sir knights The quest is beginning. Check the name list at the wiki and contribute to it. Please add more than names, add arguments for choosing the names. Any name with no details, arguments or...
View ArticleThe Quest for the Holy Grail – The Order
The list is closed. No more arms in this armory. The process for this quest was approved by council and will be concluded next week. After listening the general community and asking for contribution,...
View ArticleWhat’s the name Sir Knight
Thy name is…. OpenMandriva. So it was fast? hmmm. Let me introduce a little: As you know OpenMandriva Association (OMA) started a quest to find a name for it’s Linux distribution, that involved the...
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A Conversation with… Gaël Duval
1. Talk a bit of the origins of the Mandrake, the name, the image, the values, the motivations? It started as a personal project in 1997. I was an enthusiastic user of Linux on i386, and an early user...
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Mandriva Wiki Archives
As you all know wiki.mandriva.com will cease to exist in the coming couple of months, Mandriva guys were kind enough to pass on its data and content to OpenMandriva for archiving purposes. I’m happy to...
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OpenMandriva new Alpha is ready for Bug Hunting
A new version of OpenMandriva Lx is ready for Bug Hunting. There is still a lot of work to do, some already identified bugs to fix and artwork to implement. You can get the Alpha (i586 or x86_64) at...
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OpenMandriva.org virtual machines
OpenMandriva proudly announces the “Get it ready” project. Now you can download a pre-installed virtualbox OpenMandriva virtual machine ready to run in your system. C’mon, get it ready at...
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FISL14 – Nós Vamos!
OpenMandriva Association (OMA) will be at FISL 14 (3 to 6 of July), the largest open source event in South America. We are teaming up with the OpenMandriva Brazilian community to present the...
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Farewell, Ron…
Yesterday, we have learned the sad news about the death of Ron van Pomeren, aka Arvi Pingus. He was deeply involved in the Dutch Mandriva community, as well as in international forums, and lately he...
View Articleopenmandriva.org is up and running again!
As most of you might have noticed, openmandriva.org was down for around 48 hours, starting July 23rd. Thankfully, things are back up and running once again. The outage was caused due to an apparent...
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Beta release postponed
After some discussions and infrastructure issues we have decided to postpone the release of our Beta for some more days. We are working on the setup of a release branch in ABF at the same time we are...
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Building Community Pods
We are setting up the Community Pods for our Association. This is a crucial organizational matter. Community Pods are autonomous groups in the community that contribute to the fulfillment of the OMA...
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OpenMandriva Lx progress schedule
Nicolas Pomarède, long time community member (user/contributor) of Mandrake/Mandriva, asked some questions to the Technical Committee of OpenMandriva. Bernhard Rozenkränzer (bero), coordinator of the...
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The Flavor of Freedom: Wallpaper Contest
“To live is not necessary. Necessary is to create.” (Fernando Pessoa) OpenMandriva Lx is in the Cooker but we need to add more flavor to it—some spicy, juicy new wallpapers. We need the help of our...
View ArticleWeb Server Migration
In an Infra team meeting a few months back, it was agreed upon on replacing Cherokee with nginx as our webserver, owing to lack of documentation, no support for .htaccess, and difficulty in creating...
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