MIB - Mandriva International Backports

Linus Torvalds computer before his 1st PC:


http://www.oldcomputers.net/ql.html

More:

http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... s-himself/

4.1.12-nrjQL-desktop working well in OM 2014.2. Was working well in Cooker also until Xorg packages were updated. Don't know if kernel version has anything to do with that or if it's in the updated Xorg packages...

Just wondering if anything was afoot with newer kernel versions 4.2 or 4.3?

Recently the Qtcurve theme in OM Lx 2014.x is acting up. Even though SystemSettings>Application Appearence>Style is set to Qtcurve KDE4 apps are showing up as Oxygen. Firefox and Thunderbird do show as QTcurve though. Does anyone else see this?

Thanks, I'm having a difficult time getting everything on my to do list done but this is on it. To try this .iso I mean.

AS title says what is best version of ROSA with Plasma 5 desktop?

joeghi thanks for the informative post.

OK, I need to learn some stuff about this. What does this package change besides swappiness? Is swappiness set in /proc/sys/vm/swappiness? Regardless of which initscripts package I have installed I always get: # cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 10 So what am I missing? So far I haven't really tested this...

For testing how to downgrade to the OMV initscripts after installing this one. I try: # urpmi --debug --downgrade initscripts ... getting exclusive lock on rpm search_packages: found initscripts-9.53-1.6-omv2014.0.x86_64 matching initscripts search_packages: skip initscripts-9.52-4-omv2014.0.x86_64...

For testing how to downgrade to the OMV initscripts after installing this one. I try: # urpmi --debug --downgrade initscripts ... getting exclusive lock on rpm search_packages: found initscripts-9.53-1.6-omv2014.0.x86_64 matching initscripts search_packages: skip initscripts-9.52-4-omv2014.0.x86_64 ...

In a short while we will be releasing a new OpenMandrivaLx-2014.2 edition, this is a tribute edition to acknowledge the contribution that Mandrake/Mandriva Community made to the Free Software movement. This release will also contain many new features, and bug fixes. As part of this tribute it was fe...

Came across these doing research for my own Linux distro to be called "FUBAR Linux featuring PEBKAC desktop" brought to you by Ben Bullard. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=private+snafu+cartoons https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Seaman+TARFU These training videos were good en...

https://blog.openmandriva.org/2015/06/s ... ting-i586/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/windows-10-to-be-last-version-of-microsofts-os-10239146.html http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ssds-lose-data-if-left-without-power-just-7-days-1500402 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/ford-tries-shut-down-third-party-repair-tool-copyright http://money.cnn.com/...

Working fine in 2014.1.