Linux-Mandrake community newsletter – Issue #2

From: aurelien.marchand@researchcapital.com
Subject: Linux-Mandrake community newsletter - Issue #2
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 20:15:07 GMT

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This Week’s Summary: Linux Expo Montreal, Mandrake 8.0 for
Itanium, Single Network Firewall, MandrakeForum headlines.

Upcoming Events
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Linux Expo Montreal — This year’s Linux Expo Montreal will
convene June 13 & 14 and will focus on GNU/Linux and Free
Software as a solution for Internet Servers and E-Commerce.
MandrakeSoft is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s show. If you
plan on attending, please stop by our booth and say “Hi”; we’d like
to meet you.

Presentations will be made by Quebec’s Industry Minister,
Syspark, IBM, Compaq, and MandrakeSoft’s Jean Michel Dault. Mr.
Christian Belisle, from MandrakeSoft Canada, will deliver a
presentation of Linux as a graphical platform, and Michel Dagenais
(Linux-Quebec) will focus on GNOME. http://www.linuxexpomontreal.com/EN/home/

What’s Cooking at MandrakeSoft?
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Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Beta for Itanium — MandrakeSoft announces
the availability of Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Beta for Itanium. The
Itanium is a new 64-bit processor from Intel designed for
high-performance workstations and servers. ISO images are available
from the Linux-Mandrake Download page http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#ia64

Product News
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MandrakeSecurity “Single Network Firewall” has been released —
MandrakeSecurity is an easy to use Firewall and Router designed to
protect a network against intrusions while providing Internet
access to all computers on a LAN. Perfect for small office home
office (SoHo), small and medium enterprise (SME) and individual
users, the Single Network Firewall combines ease-of-use with
powerful configuration tools via a secure Web interface.

MandrakeSecurity’s main features include:

• Proxy server to speed up web requests and maximize
  bandwidth
• Easy to use Web interface and specialized graphical
  configuration tools
• Intrusion Detection
• DHCP server to automatically provide IP addresses
• URL/Content filtering with Squid
• Port Forwarding
• Monitoring tools for detailed information about network
  activity, system logs, intrusion detection, DHCP and URL
  reports
• Bastille is a powerful “hardening” system that provides extra
  protection against IP Spoofing attacks
• Filtering rules can be created at the user level or by
  department to control information entering and leaving a
  network
• Specialized feature to allow Internet access only during
  specified hours
• Dial-on-demand for a hassle-free way to share a dial-up
  connection
• Updates through the Internet

The Single Network Firewall is available for purchase at
MandrakeStore http://www.mandrakestore.com/
for $99 USD and includes two CDs plus a 400 page manual.

Download MandrakeSecurity SNF for x86 at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#security

Mandrake in the News
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An article at Newsforge speaks about MandrakeSoft’s upcoming
IPO: “Can Mandrake raise money by being your team?”. The Newsforge
article resulted in a lively discussion at Slashdot titled “Could
Mandrake Sell Stock To Users Who Love It?”
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/30/2024259

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/31/1737212&mode=thread

Slashdot also recently had a discussion about the upcoming
Linux-Mandrake 8.0 PPC beta:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0334216&mode=thread

Another Slashdot article titled “Should You Donate Money to
Companies?” was prompted by Mandrake-Linux voluntary contributions
page at http://linux-mandrake.com/donations/

Read the discussion here:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0732206&mode=thread

Software Updates
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Security-related Software updates have been released for GNUpg,
XMMS, KDElibs, ncurses, OpenSSH and Samba; an updated PAM package
is available for Linux-Mandrake 7.1. See the entire list at:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/mdk-updates.php3?dis=8.0

Top Stories of the Week from MandrakeForum
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Linux-Mandrake 8.0 in Brazil – Part III MandrakeSoft employee
Till Kampeter has been in Brazil demonstrating Linux-Mandrake; his
latest stop was in Rio Grande do Sul. Rio Grande do Sul is a state
in Brazil which has implemented a law promoting the use of Free
Software.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=923&lang=en

Nvidia driver tutorial for Linux-Mandrake 8.0

Little White Dog has a tutorial with numerous screenshots and
detailed instructions on installing Nvidia video drivers in L-M
8.0. If you’d like to get 3D acceleration on your Nvidia card but
don’t know how to do it, this tutorial is what you’ve been looking
for.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=911&lang=en&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Central user configuration on Mandrake?

A system administrator writes: “I have a network of machines all
running various versions of mandrake. My biggest problem at the
moment is that several people need to use the network on various
machines and I don’t want to be bothered about the stupid problems
you get when each machine has it’s own user administration. I’ve
seen a document called: System Authentication using LDAP. That
might work, but I haven’t tried it yet. I was wondering if there is
an easy way to do in in mandrake?” http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=916&lang=en

MandrakeForum recently had a special “User Day” series dedicated
to topics important to desktop users. These are the headlines and
their respective links:

User Day 6: Scanners

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=881&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

User Day 5: DrakX (Installation)

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=874&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

User day 4: Installation failed. What now?
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=868&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

User day 3: Fonts

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=866&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

User days 2: Sound
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=851&lang=en

User days 1: XFree and Co.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=846&lang=en

Read these and other stories at:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/

Latest poll:
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What would you consider purchasing from MandrakeSoft? 1) A
standard retail pack
2) Support
3) Download Edition 2CD set
4) MandrakeFreq CDs
5) Monthly update CDs
6) Other

Register your vote in the Voting Booth and check the results at:

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/pollBooth.php?op=results&pollID=6

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