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For those that still hold some nostalgia for Mandriva/Mandrake, there's good news. The OpenMandriva project was able to obtain a lot of the files before their server was scrapped. An archive has been set up by the OpenMandriva gang for all to share. On the OpenMandriva.org Website today, Anurag Bhandari posted that Mandriva's and Mandrake's old wikis, forums, mailing lists, and such have been saved. The records seem to go back to Mandrake Linux 9.1 and Corporate Server 4.0. The note said more was to come, but that may have been in reference to languages. Right now OpenMandriva have relocated English and French. I'd hoped to see it go all the way back to the beginning which I think was somewhere around 5.1 or so (echoing Red Hat's version at the time because Mandrake was based closely on them back then). So, we'll be sure to check back from time to time to see the progress. The data is being kept at archive.openmandriva.org. One of my earliest Linux screenshots, Mandrake Linux 7.2, from 2000. Related Activities Comments (0) Post a Comment Ask a Question Related Software Mandriva (3 alternatives, post review) Related Blog Posts Meet Pidora: A Custom Version of Fedora for Raspberry Pi (post comment) It's Easier Than Ever to Slap Your Favorite Linux Distro Onto a Chromebook (post comment) OpenMandriva Picks Name, Releases Alpha (1 comment)

San Francisco-based company Cloudscaling is the latest small company focused on the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform to score some meaningful venture capital. The company has raised $10 million in Series B funding from partners including Trinity Ventures, Juniper Networks and Seagate. That's some pretty solid backing, and Cloudscaling--which provides infrastructure-as-a-service support--is just the latest Northern California company to get solid funding. Cloudscaling was founded in 2006 and is one of a handful of small companies competing with Amazon Web Services and Rackspace to be “the leader in elastic cloud infrastructure.” Its platform is the Open Cloud System, an OpenStack-centric software framework. According to the company's documentation for Open Cloud System: "Open Cloud System 2.5 is a complete Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution powered by OpenStack technology. OCS is designed to meet the requirements of next-generation dynamic applications such as web/mobile apps, SaaS/PaaS deployments and Big Data implementations. OCS delivers the agility, performance and economic benefits of leading public cloud providers, but deployable on your infrastructure and under your control." Other Northern California companies are getting solid venture backing with their OpenStack strategies as well.  Mirantis, which is well-known to numerous technology titans as a consulting firm that knows its way around OpenStack, has  received steady funding from Dell, Intel and WestSummit. The small firm has an impressive list of customers working with it on OpenStack projects, including AT&T, PayPal and The Gap. “This financing round caps a tremendous year of momentum for the company,” Cloudscaling CEO Michael Grant said in a statement, following the company's funding announcement. “That momentum affirms the voice of the market, clearly stating that customers want more than OpenStack. They want an on-premise, OpenStack-based private or public cloud turnkey system solution that delivers architectural and behavioral fidelity with major public clouds like Amazon Web Services. Our Open Cloud System product delivers on that need to enable hybrid cloud application deployments that span private and public cloud services.” Related Activities Comments (0) Post a Comment Ask a Question Related Blog Posts Dell Changes Up OpenStack Cloud Plans (post comment) Rackspace Creates Bridges Between .NET and OpenStack Platforms (post comment) Project Savanna, Bridging Hadoop and OpenStack, Moves Forward (post comment)

LTSI Kernel Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the latest version of LTSI Kernel (3.0.79-LTSI and 3.4.46-LTSI) on May 21. The followings are the changes that have been merged for each release. 3.0.79-LTSI: • Update to 3.0.79 kernel release • New kzm9g board-specific patches • Updated documentation 3.4.46-LTSI: • Update to 3.4.46 • Updated documentation • af_bus Kconfig dependancy fixed • armadillo800 patches added • Clock bugfix • USB gadget fixes • lttng bugfixes • shmobile fixes • marzen i2c and sata support added • arm smp updates • irqchip patches added With these releases, a large amount of upstream bug/security fixes have been applied (1,368 with 3.0,79-LTSI; 944 with 3.4.46-LTSI). This should result in a dramatic reduction of in-house maintenance costs for the companies who use LTSI Kernel. In addition to the back port of bug/security fixes, LTSI has many patch collections now that are not merged and can be very useful and easy to apply to products. A couple resources that can be helpful when applying these patches to your products: LTSI Patch Collection How to adopt LTSI Kernel to your products: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/slides/elc2013_munakata.pdf The new version of LTS (hence LTSI) kernel version is expected to be selected within a few months, followed shortly after by the the opening of the merge window of the new LTSI Kernel. If any of your organizations would like your patches to be merged into the latest LTS (and LTSI) Kernel, please look for the new announcement in a few months or so. Also, the 3.4 series will be maintained for another year. If you wish to merge your patches to 3.4, we always welcome you codes. If there is anything we can help you, please contact us!

There are lots of people in the U.S. gearing up for a long Memorial Day weekend, and if you happen to have extra time on your hands this weekend you may want to consider entering Mozilla's Firefox Flicks contest. It's a global video contest designed to give budding filmmakers the opportunity to create and submit short videos about letting people discover "the power of the web on mobile devices." (We covered it when it launched.) If you submit a short video by May 29, you qualify for Mozilla's Early Entry status and you'll be automatically entered to compete for the Grand Prize. Here is more on the prizes and rules.  Mozilla has a number of example videos from the contest online and you can view them here.  The contest runs through July 31, and winners will be chosen from four regions around the world: North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Grand Prize winner will fly to Los Angeles to work with producers (and Flicks judges) Franklin Leonard and Couper Samuelson, and representatives from Panavision to professionally produce their winning entry using professional equipment. If you submit a flick by May 29, it may earn an Early Entry award of $1,000. There are also regional prizes and people's choice awards as described here.  The contest is part of Mozilla's ramp-up for promoting its Firefox OS mobile operating system, which we've covered extensively.  The company is reorganizing its executives and its whole strategy around mobile technology, and Firefox Flicks is designed to promote the advantages of mobile tech. You can find out much more about Firefox Flicks on the contest blog. Related Activities Comments (0) Post a Comment Ask a Question Related Software Firefox (25 alternatives, 24 reviews) Mozilla (34 alternatives, post review) Related Blog Posts Chromium May Become Default Ubuntu Browser in Version 13.10 (2 comments) Mozilla Needs More Time Before Blocking Third-Party Cookies By Default (post comment) Firefox 21 Arrives, Featuring Health Reports, More Social Features (post comment)

The H Community Calendar presents the coming month's events in various open source, development, Linux, Unix and other communities, from multi-day conferences to user group get-togethers

Google has release Chrome 28 to the beta release channel. The new version brings faster page rendering and a number of new developer features like fullscreen mode and WebGL in the Android version

"Since Cloud Expo is running the week of June 10, we thought it'd be a great idea to schedule our Meetup this week. That way, if you have colleagues, friends, or family in town that week for the Expo, you can invite them to join you!" With those words, the OpenStack New York Meetup Group's organizer's launched a landing page this week where anyone interested can register for the June 12 evening event.read more

Twitter has now applied its Innovators Patent Agreement to a recently granted patent in a move designed to ensure that patents under the agreement are only used for defensive purposes

The Tizen Developers Conference saw a glimpse of a desktop/laptop version of Tizen from Intel, the latest update to Tizen's SDK, and an application competition launched

Less than a month after the smartphone's commercial launch, Dan Rosenberg found a design flaw in Samsung's secured bootloader that allows arbitrary kernels to be booted even on a locked phone