Gentoo Linux 2008.0 released

The 2008.0 final release is out! Code-named "It's got what plants crave," this release contains numerous new features including an updated installer, improved hardware support, a complete rework of profiles, and a move to Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD. LiveDVDs are not available for x86 or amd64, although they may become available in the future. The 2008.0 release also includes updated versions of many packages already available in your ebuild tree.

• Updated installer: The installer now only performs networkless installations using the packages and ebuild tree on the LiveCD. It also contains numerous fixes for extended and logical partitions.
• Improved hardware support: Moving to the 2.6.24 kernel added many new drivers for hardware released since the 2007.0 release.
• Complete rework of profiles: Restructuring profiles allowed significant cleanup of redundancies, reducing developer maintenance and confusion. The difference for you is that profiles now appear in /usr/portage/profiles/ under default/linux/ instead of default-linux/. See the upgrading guide for more details.
• Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD: To save space, the LiveCDs switched to the smaller Xfce environment. This means that a binary installation using the LiveCD will install Xfce, but you're still free to build GNOME or KDE from source.
• No LiveDVDs on x86 or amd64: In the interest of getting the release out, the release engineering team decided to postpone LiveDVDs because of problems in their generation. They may show up later—if so, we'll let you know.
• Updated packages: Highlights of the 2008.0 release include Portage 2.1.4.4, a 2.6.24 kernel, Xfce 4.4.2, gcc 4.1.2 and glibc 2.6.1.

A big thanks goes out to our release engineering team members for their hard work over many months to turn 2008.0 into reality.
Get the new release from our "Get Gentoo!" page.

Boot Mandriva from Flash Drive

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Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna KDE Community Edition Released

"Linux Mint 4.0 KDE released. Daryna KDE is nearly as 'minty' as the main edition now. The packages are (safely) up to date and the kernel is the Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon kernel 2.6.22. Mint applications: mintInstall, mintwifi, mintUpdate, mintAssistant, mintUpload. Minted versions of Firefox, Sunbird. Changes since the beta release: fixed the HAL USB NTFS problem; changed some Compiz default settings to make it more KDEish and fix a known bug; added a Linux Mint user agent to Konqueror and pre-added some sites to use the Mint user agent

Daryna KDE is nearly as minty as the main edition now. The packages are (safely) upto date and the kernel is the Gutsy Gibbon kernel 2.6.22-14.

Mint applications:

• mintInstall
• mintwifi (new)
• mintUpdate (new)
• mintAssistant (new)
• mintUpload (new, done via konqueror—> right click file-->Actions-->Upload file )

Minted versions of:

• Firefox
• Sunbird

Linux Mint MiniKDE CE (CD)

The following applications were removed to fit KDE CE onto a CD: Inkscape, Hugin, Scribus, KMymoney2, K9copy, The Gimp, libicu34, kde-icons-mono, ttf-arabeyes, OpenOffice.org, diveintopython, kde-icons-nuvox, kaffeine, knotes, kdepim*. Some documentation and some wallpapers were also deleted.

Linux Mint Daryna KDE CE Upgrade Notes From Beta 44.

There is really no need to reinstall or upgrade from Beta 44 since in the end I only made a few changes:

• Fixed the HAL USB NTFS problem (there is a post in the forums).
• Changed some compiz default settings to make it more KDEish and fix a known bug.
• Added a Linux Mint user agent for Konqueror and pre-added some sites to use the Mint useragent. This helps people know Linux mint is out and about.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop(SLED 10) implemented in ELCOT,India

Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) is rolling out SUSE Enterprise Linux across 30,000 desktops,1,800 servers in Tamil Nadu schools in India,ELCOT itself has migrated its entire IT infrastructure from Microsoft Windows to Suse Linux Enterprise server Desktop a year back,”The open source software in SUSE Linux Enterprise is superb,.”said C.Umashankar,managing director ELCOT,”In addition,They estimate that moving to Linux has reduced their general software cost by nearly 25 percent,In case of high-end servers,the savings could be as much as 80 percent

Novell[open Suse] Ties up with Software Gaint Microsoft

MICROSOFT Corp and Novell Inc have announced an interoperability collaboration plan that aims to bridge the divide between open-source and proprietary software. The two companies inked an agreement last year that will see the two rival software developers work together to bridge Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Server to Microsoft’s Windows platform. Novell will co-operate with Microsoft to create a bi-directional open-source translator for wordprocessing, spreadsheets and presentations between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office “With more companies adopting Linux, there is a need for interoperability between Windows and Linux,” Microsoft Malaysia platform strategy manager Gerald Lim said in a local briefing on the plans.
The collaborative efforts by the two companies will also make it easier for all software companies and developers to create and deliver products that work across both Windows and Linux platforms. In concert with the efforts to promote interoperability between the two platforms, Novell also announced support for the Office Open XML file formats in their version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite.