CNSNews.com Headlines NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media BiasThe previous article here was about upgrading Mandriva Linux on a Compaq Armada M700 laptop used for business. Since that laptop has a minimal amount of software installed, mainly just business related applications, I thought I would document upgrading from Mandriva 2007.1 to Mandriva 2008.1 on my tower PC. This PC is for business and [...]
Mandriva Linux is a Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) distribution. One uses RPM to install, remove and manage software packages on such a distribution. In the past RPM got a reputation for causing “dependency hell” and many folks still think this about RPM based distributions today. However, Mandriva has tools called ‘urpm*‘ created by very [...]
We have a client that needs a new server for their primary Point of Sale site (SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 + Advantage accounting. I know “SCO! hiss! boo!” but this is what they have used “forever”, meaning about 20 years. We tried to move them to LedgerSMB on Mandriva Linux but it does not fill their [...]
I have been pondering the makeup of the Linux and FOSS (Free Open Source Software) communities and my role in the same. I see myself as an Advocate of Linux and FOSS. I attempt to promote the use of Linux and FOSS as often as I can. While I am also not a proponent of [...]
I dislike Google. Ok, I know “Google is your friend!” is a common phrase on USENET, in web forums and on IRC. But in my case I Just Do Not Like Google™ and do not think it is my friend. My reasons are personal and political and I will leave it at that.
So, imagine my [...]
There appears to be confusion in the Mandriva community about how to manage a PC using a static IP address (no DHCP client) with static nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf from the Linux command line interface (CLI). With newer versions of Mandriva the /etc/resolv.conf file is managed by the /sbin/resolvconf executable. There is a comment in [...]