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Well, today there are good news for the Mandriva supporters and users (or just curious) out there and is that Mandriva 2007.1 has been released.
This time, also, the Free edition has been made available to public download before the Club edition one. To help people interested in the download I’ll make a brief summary [...]

Due to some private life events last week I forgot to share the news that the italian Mandriva users community run by ILDN has gotten the official baptism from the Mandriva Club to be THE italian forum for its community.
Myself is a long time user of the MandrivaItalia.org forum, and actually i do collaborate [...]

In guilty lateness i have discovered that Mandriva guys are creating a new GTK theme for their distro studied to refresh the look of the Galaxy theme they have introduced some time ago.

A little explanation on what’s going on is available in a couple of posts by Frederic Crozat.
Finally, as maybe you’ve seen in the [...]

Today Mandriva has released two products few hours ago.
Mandriva One released to the public
Mandriva One 2006, the Mandriva Linux 2006-based live / install CD, has now been released to the public.
Mandriva One is an innovative live CD version of Mandriva Linux which can be used as a normal live CD and also installed to the [...]

Yesterday night, on an online opensource software italian blog, I read the news about one of the 3 founding member of Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva) leaving the company he had contribuited to create eight years ago.
For sure the company finds herself to a turning point. Most of comments are in the direction of a [...]

As SUSE remains my Linux distro of reference, during the first days of January I had the occasion to install the Mandriva Linux 2006 December Club edition that a friend of mine let me try and install on my primary desktop machine. The installation and the configuration went smoothly as usual, given also the fact [...]

Seems that someone finds useful to catalogue in a clear and accessible way ALL of it’s knowledge on a topic on a wiki.
The univertity of Latvia, has started a wiki section in it’s own wiki called Unofficial Mandriva Linux 2006 Starter Guide.
I’ve taken a quick look at the guide and seem very clearly laid out, [...]

I’m a bit late on the news
It looks like we’ll be getting another free electronic magazine for Linux. It is focused onto Mandriva Linux distribution and it has been called Mandriva Linux Inside.

There will be no schedule or deadlines for publishing new issues. It will all depend on the amount of articles [...]

As I’ve said in my previous post I am actually trying the Mandriva 2006 on my laptop …. the installation process has undergone some problems, but in any case I was up and running with just a little tweaking ….
I’ve found out a KDE 3.5 + Gnome 2.12 + E-17 + XFCE 4.2 repository for [...]

{WARNING: italian post !}
Stamattina leggo con piacere di DUE belle iniziative portate a termine dagli amici di ILDN:
Mandriva Italia: Mandriva in OFFERTA per gli utenti di MandrivaItalia.org! Powerpack al prezzo di 62€ invece di 72€, Powerpack Plus al prezzo di 179.00€ invece di 192.66€
SuSE Italia: SUSE LINUX 10.0 In offerta per SuseItalia.org! Prezzo di [...]