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Time has came for second alpha release for 2010 Spring version of Mandriva Linux.  It’s now available through 32 and 64 DVD isos on public mirrors 2010 Spring planning Detailed information ab…

Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring Alpha 2 est sortie ! Vous la trouverez sur tous les mirroirs publics, sous forme de DVDs 32 ou 64 bits. planning de la 2010 Spring Informations détaillées à propos de la…

Nous serons présents ce we à Bruxelles à l’occasion du FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting). Il s’agit d’un événement important pour les développeurs de pr…

We will be present in FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting) in Bruxelles. This is a great event for all Open Source developers but also for less technical visitors to meet all the…

Dear Lazyweb, I need to represent some bibliographic information records like this one in a machine-readable format. But I wouldn’t like to invent my own format when there are dozens to choose f…

Finally all testing and bugfixing is finished. OpenLink has done an outstanding job with this new release of Virtuoso. Again my thanks go out to the Virtuoso development team and Patrick van Kleef who…

in dzil plugin autoprereq, i'm extracting prereqs from the dist modules. i want this extract to be fast, based on the actual code (not makefile.pl or meta.yml, since the goal is to generate them), and…

GUADEC (pronounced GWAH-DECK) is an acronym for the GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference. Held annually in cities around Europe, GUADEC is the largest gettogether of GNOME user…

I was shocked by the prices announced for electronic books on iPad (USD 12.99 or 14.99). This is more expensive than most books I own... Today, Amazon annouces that they have to follow and increase pr…

Nepomuk in KDE uses NRL – the Nepomuk Representation Language – especially the named graphs that it defines. Each triple that is stored in the Nepomuk database is stored in a named graph. …

Linux kernel 2.6.33 rc6 is now the default kernel in Mandriva Cooker. In this kernel, the anticipatory I/O scheduler has been removed, and there were again various performance improvements to the CFQ…

While reading KDE Planet, I've noticed this blog post from Peter Penz : Internal Cleanups. He was talking about code cleanups and refactoring he was doing in Dolphin code, which is a very good thing I…

So, I somehow forgot to mention that I got a new shiny: it’s an AT&T Tilt 2. Odd choice since it’s an American phone and there are several versions available in Canada, you may think,…

So, here’s something about MythTV that people may actually find useful! MythTV has, as I mentioned, a neat web frontend called MythWeb. Obviously since I have a webserver I wanted to run MythWeb…

We are glad to introduce you our brand new website for our Brazilian subsidiary. Thanks to this website, Brazilians will be able to download our free solutions, to discover all our products and goodie…

Nous avons lancé hier notre nouveau site internet pour notre filiale brésilienne. Ce site internet permettra aux internautes brésiliens de découvrir l’ensemble de notre gamme de produits, de…

Hoje, 28/01 a Mandriva lançou o seu novo Website, que agora é totalmente baseado na aparência do site francês(sim, a Mandriva é francesa). Não deixem de dar uma espiadinha, (né Pedro Bial ?), e…

This is the kind of thing I just love. Now I have my PVR setup, it’s possible for the power state of the cable box to get kind of ‘out of sync’, with the combination of two different…

So far Nepomuk only handled annotations for local files and did not care about mount points and the like. With KDE SC 4.4 that is about to change. (What I present here today is the first step in suppo…

So I managed to find myself yet another ‘little’ project. I’ve had an HTPC for years, running Freevo; but that’s all it’s been, it just plays videos and music. At the ver…