Earlier Mandriva announced the upcoming launch of Mandriva Linux 2010, the latest version of its innovative operating system. Mandriva Linux 2010 will be available from Tuesday, 3rd November.
Codenamed “Amelie”, Mandriva 2010.0 is this year’s autumn release of the popular Red Hat based Linux distribution.
Mandrivia Press says,
Mandriva Linux offers new functionalities which will revolutionise the desktop. These include ‘Smart Desktop’, an original technology which offers dynamic acces to all your files by labelling your photos, documents, mails or videos and managing your personal data in a completely customised approach.
Mandriva Linux 2010 not only proposes the most advanced and easy to use Linux operating system on the market but also integrates a list of the most far-reaching software.
Mandriva Linux is a convivial operating system which will adapt to your computer and devices. You will be able to customise it according to your needs, or to improve it, and it allows your circle of acquaintances to share the experience.
Mandriva Linux 2010 will be available in three editions: Powerpack (the commercial edition, including exclusive commercial software, support, and services), One (a live CD which can also be installed to the system permanently) and Free (an edition which contains only free / open source software).
Link : Mandriva
A core group of developers posted an open letter to primary admin of Cent OS Lance Davis, threatening to fork the open source OS if he didn’t discuss his apparent disappearance from the project.
Two days after this happenings, Davis has answered their call – and he seems to have quelled their complaints.
Reads a new post to the project website,
“The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance,During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved issues. There should be no impact to any CentOS users going forward.“
In this open letter, the developers accused Davis of putting the entire project at risk by removing himself from everyday involvement without ceding control to others.
The letter reads,
“You seem to have crawled into a hole…and this is not acceptable,Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the project.”
According to the letter and various blog posts from the developers, Davis had disappeared from the project though he still maintained sole control of the CentOS domain, sole “Founders” rights in the project’s IRC channels, and sole access to the project’s PayPal and Google AdSense accounts.
Davis has now given up at least some of this control, though it’s unclear whether he will still be involved with the open source OS, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. “The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains and owns all trademarks, materials, and artwork in the CentOS distributions,” today’s post continues. “We look forward to working with Lance to quickly complete all the agreed upon issues.”
