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The Mandriva Linux 2009.0 release is available today. If one has not tried Mandriva Linux lately then now would be a good time. In this author’s opinion Mandriva’s distribution of Linux is at least as good as, if not better than, any other desktop Linux distribution. The torrent files have been up on Mandriva’s torrent . . . → Read More: Mandriva Linux 2009.0 is Available  Once again we are back to pop the balloon of another Linux myth. This one is that Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is not good to use. For newbies to Linux, packages are software. In other words, the programs one uses like Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org office suite placed in a package for . . . → Read More: Linux Myth: Installing RPM Updates is a Pain Not if the “third party” software is designed to install on Linux easily. For this rebuttal we will forget the fact that almost all software in a Linux distribution is “third party”. I believe what those who claim to detest Linux really mean by “third party” are non-free applications from closed source developers and some . . . → Read More: Linux Myth: Installing “Third Party” Software is “Hard” As many a Linux user that follows posts on USENET and other online forums can attest there are Linux Haters out there. Typically these Linux Haters are folk that, for some reason or another, decide “I Hate Linux and You Should Too!”. Most of the time they advocate for Microsoft and its’ products, but not . . . → Read More: Linux Myth: Installing Software on Linux is Hard The 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 . . . → Read More: More About Mandriva Linux Upgrades 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 . . . → Read More: Mandriva Linux Upgrades from Repositories Using urpmi 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 . . . → Read More: Compiz Fusion, Mandriva 2008.1 on AMD Phenom Quad-core PC with Demo 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 . . . → Read More: Managing Mandriva’s /etc/resolv.conf from the CLI |
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