Mandriva

Install

• http://www.mandriva.com/en/

mandriva wiki 2012 Wiki Page

new (Unity-gnome3 like) interface

• Mandriva SA cedes control of Mandriva Linux to the Community

http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-return-to-the-community/

How to install Sugar on Mandriva

• see: Mageia2-alpha1 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Mageia

task-sugar migrated to Mageia2-alpha1

• Beginning from 2009.1 version Mandriva supports Sugar out-of-the-box.

Mandriva Linux release 2011.2

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2010.2/

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2010.2/mandriva-linux-one-2010.2-GNOME-europe1-americas-cdrom-i586.iso

http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads/2011/

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2011/Mandriva.2011.i586.1.iso

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2011/Mandriva.2011.x86_64.1.iso

Install Sugar

Start Mandriva LinuxMandriva.2011.i586.1
start browser
  http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
 <Add Official Media> {Hit button on website]
 (packages download)
start root terminal
urpmi task-sugar --allow-nodeps (python-xpcom-2.0.0.0-0.hg20101106.1mdv2011.0.i586 (due to unsatisfied xulrunner[== 2.0]) can't install
128 pkgs
urpmi task-gnome (KDE has no switcher)
Configure your Computer/ Set up display manager (x) GDM
restart
Log in with gdm switcher as sugar FAILS 
(gnome and KDE start)

Activities (updated)

Updated in Control Panel 4 December 2011

irc 10
read 92
pippy 43
write 77
log 27
chat 73
Image Viewer 19
terminal 35
jukebox 23
calculate 38
Turtle Art 129
Browse 129 (Tabbed browsing)
Cartoon Builder 14
Etoys 115

Reviews

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110829

Mandriva Linux release 2011 beta 3

http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrivalinux/devel/iso/2011/

http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrivalinux/devel/iso/2011/Mandriva.2011-beta3.i586.iso

http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrivalinux/devel/iso/2011/Mandriva.2011-beta3.i586.iso.md5sum

Mandriva Linux release 2010.2 (Sugar 0.88.0)

Released 12/22/2010

use same commands as for 2010.1 to install

• log in on gdm switch bar selecting "sugar"

Browse 123 works fine, (07/04/2011 satellit)

Mandriva Linux 2010.2 (Sugar 0.88.0 )

Mandriva 2010.2 Downloads

Mandriva-linux-one-2010.1-sugar Virtualbox Appliance

mandriva info

Mandriva wiki: Sugar_Desktop

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Tour#Sugar_Desktop

Start Mandriva Linux 2010.2 (Official) for i586
start browser
  http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
 <Add Official Media> {Hit button on website]
 (packages download)
start terminal
su
password
urpmi task-sugar
Log Out
Log in with gdm switcher as sugar

Mandriva Linux 2010.0 (Sugar 0.86.2 )

Start Mandriva Linux 2010.0 (Official) for i586
start browser
  http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
 <Add Official Media>
  in root terminal
  urpmi task-sugar
 (76 packages download)
Log Out
Log in with gdm switcher as sugar

Mandriva Spring 2009.1 (Sugar 0.84.2)

Start Mandriva Linux Spring 2009.1 (Official) for i586
start browser
  http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
 <Add Official Media> {Hit button on website]
 (packages download)
Log Out
Log in with gdm switcher as sugar

• Sugar-emulator available

Older then 2009.1 or using last development versions

You should setup link to development repository. Add these lines to /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg

Contrib mirror/arch/media/contrib/release {
}

Where mirror is a cooker mirror from that list and arch is one of supported platforms

Install Sugar packages

To install core components (services, window manager, journal etc.) type:

sudo urpmi sugar-glucose 

To install core activities type:

sudo urpmi sugar-fructose

Or to install the Sugar Platform (sugar-glucose + sugar-fructose + honey's deps):

sudo urpmi task-sugar

NOTE on x86_64 architecture you need i586 repository to install squeak dependency.

Platforms

• i586
• x86_64

Packages

Sugar packages are being generated by jhconvert and follow its matrix of package versions.

Bugs

Post bugs to official Mandriva bug tracker. You need to fill in follow fields:

• Product to Mandriva Linux
• Component select from list
• Version to Cooker
• Hardware Platform to i586 or x86_64
• Source RPM follow field's comments

• Note:

eracc> Hmmm, looks like the 14th (feb 2011) was the day everything was deleted in the on-line media sources. I guess this is Mandriva's Valentine's Day Massacre.

Shutting Down?

January 06, 2012, 7:47 AM — >Signs are not good that Mandriva will be continuing much longer in its current state.

That's the news coming out of France this week, as rumors and vague confirmations point to the French Linux company possibly shuttering its doors on January 16. The reason? An apparent shareholder fight that is blocking an influx of much-needed capital.

Mandriva S.A. hasn't had an easy time of it, even after emerging from bankruptcy in 2006. Formerly MandrakeSoft, the company merged with Brazilian Linux vendor and former UnitedLinux partner Connectiva in 2005.

Even as the Mandriva releases received fairly positive reviews, the company never seemed to have much of a direction, and it's developer community continually declined in strength. The company's decision, for whatever reason, to let founder Gaël Duval go alienated the Paris-based company from its development community. The popularity of Ubuntu on the desktop and the one-two punch of Red Hat and SUSE on the server side has also put a strong squeeze on Mandriva.

In 2011, there were rumors that French open source firm LINAGORA would be acquiring Mandriva, but those rumors turned out to be just that.

Today, other investors in Mandriva seem to be causing more headaches for the beleaguered company.

Here's what is known: on December 30, Rapahël Jadot, a veteran contributor in the Mandriva community, posted a notice within the Mandriva forums indicating that trouble was indeed afoot.

   "Well, let's make it short: everything was fine, but there is a big problem: a minor shareholder (Linlux) refuses the capital injection required for Mandriva to continue, even though the Russian investor had offered to bear it alone.

   "Except turnaround Mandriva should cease activity Jan. 16…"

It is not clear from the community chatter what exactly is going on, but it appears that Linlux SARL, a minority shareholder in Mandriva with 42 percent of the shares, is blocking a move to raise new capital for the company. Townarea Trading & Investment Ltd., the majority stakeholder in Mandriva, has approved plans to raise the needed funds of €4 million.

In an open letter to investors, Mandriva CEO Dominique Loucougain outlined the situation. The letter, sent in French, has been posted, and a (rather bad, I have to admit) translation does confirm this investor tussle.

"In less than four weeks, the company may indeed have to file for bankruptcy and cease all activities because the necessary recapitalization has been twice prevented by Linlux SARL, even though Townarea Trading & Investment Ltd, another shareholder, was willing to bear the full cost of EUR 4,000,000," Loucougain wrote.

Townarea, a Cyprus-based investment group that appears to be comprised mostly of Russian investors, seems perfectly willing to move forward and provide the €4 million. But Linlux (formerly Occam Capital) seems intent on preventing the investment. Due to my poor knowledge of French, it is not immediately clear why Linlux is pursuing this course of action, though accusations are flying that Marc Goldberg, the lead at Linlux, doesn't want to see his own investments in Mandriva reduced.

Whatever the motivation, this is not the first time Linlux, nor its previous incarnation as Occam Capital, has attempted to block such investments. Occam was one of the biggest investors involved in pulling Mandriva out of the French equivalent of Chapter 11 a few years back. In the past, the capital has come in anyway.

It is not clear if that will be the case this time.

Since the creation of the community-led Mandriva fork Mageia on 2010, the work done by Mandriva and its community over the years won't be lost. But whatever its name--Mandrake-Linux, MandrakeSoft, or Mandriva--this company has a long and valued history within the Linux community, and its loss should be noted. Mandriva made significant achievements in Linux desktop technology and getting desktop Linux deployed more widely in Europe.

Hopefully the company will pull through again… but signs are not looking good this time.

Contacts

• Aleksey Lim
• Tomeu Vizoso
• Tom Gilliard testing
• be involved and add yourself here

Resources

• Mandriva wiki:Releases
• Home page
• Tool to generate Sugar packages
• XfceLive_2010_Spring download
• Community_liveCD
• 2011 alpha1

2011 Blog