August 29, 2011

Mandriva Desktop 2011 in round figures

As many people already know, Mandriva/ROSA Desktop 2011 has been released. Some interesting statistic information about this release:

* since Technology preview (including it), we did 9 releases (TP, alpha1, alpha2, beta1/2/3, RC1/2, release);

* people, who were involved in Mandriva Desktop 2011 preparation live in (as minimum, quite possible I do not know all of them) in:

  • 28 towns: Moscow, Saratov, Saint-Petersburg, Vladivostok, Cheboksari, Novosibirsk, Ufa, Penza, Glazov, Ivanovo, Odessa, Kiev, Belgrad, Jokkmokk, Curitiba, Joinville, Sao Carlos, Pomerode, Toulouse, Metz, Paris, Rennes, Nantes,Tours, Aubagne, Fraiburg, Chapel-Hill, Oslo);
  • 10 countries (Russia, Ukraine, France, Sweden, Serbia, USA, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Norway);
  • and on 3 continents (Europe, South America, North America).

* more than 200 testers;

* solved more than 2000 issues (qa.mandriva.com, support.rosalab.ru);

* our testers downloaded more than 10 TB of data while tested new images;

* first user started downloading the final iso image while we have been uploading it to the main mirror;

* more than 1500 iso-images for testing have been builded (not all of them were in public access); 

* more than 5500 messages have been sent by developers in different mailing lists;

* our developers wrote more than 33 000 lines of new code (not including many patches!);

* more than 35 000 cups of tea and coffee have been drunk by our workers while we prepared our new distros;

* more than 50 active maintainers; 

* more than 22600 packages in repositories;

* more than 10 unique utilities/applications/big changes in the new release (some of them in beta versions).

* 3/4 people in our commands (Mandriva, ROSA, Conectiva) are new workers.

Well, what I can say? Long live the Mandriva! :)


August 16, 2011

Get used to Trackpads

Get used to trackpads because mouses will be displaced later by them. Why? The trackpads work much better with gestures - the main usability feature that can greatly increase your productivity. Also gestures are more natural variant to manage your system - they are closely connected with the real life (Btw, that is why tablet pc become popular so fast - they are really easy to use).

If you think that is only my thoughts, well, take a look at this link. In spite of the fact that this information was disproved later, I think ‘the first swallow announces the …’.  And what do you think?


August 06, 2011

Mandriva 2011 with kernel 3.0

Hello everyone!

We prepared unofficial image for Mandriva 2011 RC2 with kernel 3.0 by MIB group. Note: because it is unofficial distro, it destined only for testing purposes. Mandriva 2011 will be with kernel 2.6.38.7, and later, after some period of testing, we will update kernel to 3.0. You may get Mandriva 2011 with 3.0 kernel from here.