http://vlogcanic.com A little weblog written while living on a volcano. Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:12:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Spring is ready for download (or purchase). The new Mandriva edition, 2008.1 Spring, arrives with a lot of new features after their previous delivery gained lots of very good reviews. Among the new features are: New parental control system. The Elisa multimedia center. Support fo many Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Nokia devices ... http://vlogcanic.com/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-available-101.htm SimplyMepis 7.0 final release became available last December 23rd. The now not so new version features a major base-system upgrade from Ubuntu to Debian stable for the core system and apps compiled from the latest source code available form Debian unstable and Ubuntu. Among the new features are: 2.6.22.14 kernel updated, patched for ... http://vlogcanic.com/simplymepis-70-available-since-last-december-100.htm Klaus Knopper, Knoppix founder and lead developer has announced that, after a year's time of unavailability, the next release, Knoppix 5.3.1 will be ready for download no later than 22/03/2008 --some four days from now. The announcement comes after Knoppix 5.3.0 was released at Germany's CeBIT conference some days in order ... http://vlogcanic.com/knoppix-531-will-be-ready-for-download-in-four-days-98.htm Every now and then something will happen to your Ubuntu system that will break your xorg.conf file: module updates, a recovery session gone bad, things of the sort, so that the next time you boot your Ubuntu system you find your monitor's resolution to be configured to 800x600 instead of ... http://vlogcanic.com/how-to-automatically-update-your-xorgconf-file-in-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-97.htm As usual the new Foresight Linux release is the first distro to feature the new GNOME desktop environment, GNOME 2.22. Besides that, the rPath based distro has some new things to offer with the new version: A new .tar based installer which should take no more than 10 minutes to install, ... http://vlogcanic.com/foresight-linux-20-released-96.htm GNOME 2.22 is the new version of the most widely used Linux desktop graphical environment. It's now ready for use after half a year since the last stable GNOME release (the GNOME project releases new stable versions bianually). Among the many new goodies in GNOME 2.22 are: The GVFS virtual filesystem framework an ... http://vlogcanic.com/gnome-222-is-here-94.htm Typical nuisance: your machine has Windows XP and a Linux distro sharing a hard drive with dual boot. Whenever you are using your Linux system (say, Ubuntu 7.04 or something alike) your NTFS partitions get mounted automatically without any hassle (unless you left them hibernating) BUT the day you are ... http://vlogcanic.com/how-to-read-linux-partitions-ext2-and-ext3-from-windows-93.htm Linux Mint 4.0 KDE  community edition is available. Dont' get confused: this is not a KDE 4.0 or KDE 4.01 demo LiveCD but a full desktop system in a LiveDVD based on KDE 3.5. In Linux Mint 4.0 KDE Community edition you'll find the 2.6.22 kernel (Ubuntu Gutsy's), KDE with a customized ... http://vlogcanic.com/linux-mint-40-kde-community-edition-available-92.htm Linux Mint 4.0 has been available since last November, which is the reason this post is included in the belated category. Daryna, as it's codenamed was released in two editions, standard and light, it's based in Ubuntu but features some improvements in terms of out-of-the-box experience such as pre-installed multimedia codecs. The ... http://vlogcanic.com/linux-mint-40-out-and-about-since-last-november-91.htm Knoppix new releases have not been that common in the last few months, but the distro is alive and kicking. Klaus Knopper, the distro's founder, has announced that Knoppix 5.3.0 will come to light at the CeBIT expo in Hannover, will be mad available through inclusion in the c't magazine ... http://vlogcanic.com/long-awaited-knoppix-530-livedvd-soon-to-come-88.htm