Je viens de constater que je suis encore sur Planète Mandriva. Pourtant cela fait bientôt 2 ans que je suis passé à Mageia, et je suis content de ce choix. Par conséquent, je viens d’envoyer un mail pour être retiré de la planète…

Bye bye Mandriva, nous aurons passé …

The evening started normally. I just wanted to play a bit on the computer, which I rarely do nowadays. And Battle for Wesnoth is the game I choose in these moments. I then fired up the multiplayer game, which I had never tried before, and was greeted with a message …

Mon titre ne rimant qu’en français, cet article sera en français. Sorry, english folks !

Samedi 28 novembre 2009, c’est jour d’install party pour nos confrères Ubuntistes. À cette occasion, leur gourou (meditation), j’ai nommé Mark Shuttleworth sera à Paris, à la Cité des Sciences pour nous …

Mandriva 2009 Spring has been out for a few days now. Congratulations to everyone involved ! I did my upgrade this week end, all in graphical mode with mdkapplet. I had some bad luck, which was fortunately quickly repaired. What you need to know is that using a 23MB /boot partition …

Funny thing I saw today : grep version jumped from 2.5.1a in 2008.1 to 2.5.3 in 2009.0. Sounds useless, huh, grep does its stuff, so this should only be a bugfix or code cleaning release, don’t you think ?

Well in fact, its not. Grep …

This is my new boot time, thanks to the instructions of Mandriva’s kernel star, pterjan :-p. Thanks for having been so reactive.

If you didn’t, you should read my previous entry about boot time. So, how did these 9 seconds (compared to 2009.0 without the fix, and …

Hum… Why did I lose 2 seconds in boot time ? 2008.1 booted in 31s, and 2009.0 boots in 33s.

Update : As asked by pterjan, here is the result of the lsinitrd command.

Update : running depmod didn’t fix the problem.

But not without glitches.

Here’s how it went. I tried to remain in the position of a newcomer that has no clue about what a command line interface is, so even if I used a terminal a couple of times, it was just to check some stuff, not to …

Je me suis posé la question de savoir si je devais tenter une migration vers la Mandriva 2009.0 tout de suite. Après avoir vu la réaction d’Olivier, qui était aussi la mienne en début de soirée, je me suis dit que je devais essayer d’être plus couillu …

Here we are, Mandriva Linux 2009.0 has been released today ! Congratulations to everyone involved !

Download Mandriva Linux 2009.0 (bittorrent download) (make sure you choose 2009.0 and not 2008.1).

Download Mandriva Linux 2009.0 (direct download)

Read the errata

Read the release notes