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Raffle results, prizes arriving!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/05/raffle-results-prizes-arriving

Hey guys and gals! Some time ago we ran a crowdfunding campaign to support our infrastructure, and along with perks for contributions, we announced 3 prizes for sharing information about the campaign on Facebook. Here come the winners! Congratulations! Clément Clarisse Mario Karl Moles Stephen Lemos Winners, please contact us in private message in Facebook or through join@openmandriva.org to … Continue reading »

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Missing some good read? Have a look here
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/05/missing-some-good-read-have-a-look-here

Great guys from Linux voice magazine have recently published another good report about FOSDEM, featuring OpenMandriva’s stand news as well. In case you missed the story – enjoy now!    

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Mixing the Ingredients Together – Announcing #OpenMandriva_Lx 3 Alpha
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/04/mixing-the-ingredients-together-announcing-openmandriva-lx-3-alph

The OpenMandriva Community has been working hard, and after a long period of development and fixes, we’re happy to announce the alpha release of OpenMandriva Lx 3 (Einsteinium)! If you’re eager to jump in and try some of the new features from this release, you can download OpenMandriva Lx 3 Alpha at the following links: … Continue reading »

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OpenMandriva website error ? Please no worries !
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/03/openmandriva-website-error-no-worries

Hey folks Small technical announcement, the renewal of our website certificate is delayed 2-3 days due to technical payment issue on the provider side. Everything is in order, but during 2-3 days visiting our website with https will display an error (that can be simply ignored). No worries!:)   Yours,   OMA team

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Last campaign days ! Contribute now !
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/03/last-campaign-days-contribute-now

Hey folks! You were waiting to the last days to contribute to our funding campaign? These days have come, it is the chance to support infrastructure and popularization of your distro – and enjoy the perks we offer! Every contribution, no matter the size, counts! Thank you for your support! ▻https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/free-easy-and-secure-advanced-software-for-all/x/9281410#home

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Here comes OpenMandriva image for Raspberry Pi2!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/03/here-comes-openmandriva-image-for-raspberry-pi2

Hi folks! Good and interesting news for you! Our genius Fedya made a simple omv image for Raspberry Pi2. Img file contains minimal openmandriva cooker system for armv7, without any graphics, works fine. just do sudo dd if=pi2-omv.img of=/dev/[your_device] bs=1M and edit /etc/fstab to make root partition writable. ▻https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmandriva/files/Raspberry_Pi2 Enjoy!

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96boards goes public
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/02/96boards-goes-public

Hey folks! OpenMandriva is glad to announce news from our friends from Linaro Connect, who have announced the 96boards project to the public! ▻http://96boards.org This means 2 pieces of good news — first, it means there’s finally some cheap Aarch64 hardware available to the public, and 2nd, OpenMandriva gets one for our usage! This will … Continue reading »

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OpenMandriva to have a new installer for the 2015 Release
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/02/openmandriva-to-have-a-new-installer-for-the-2015-release

We are pleased to announce that we are supporting and contributing to the Calamares project ▻http://calamares.github.io Calamares is a distribution independent Linux installer which features a modernistic graphical design and a modular approach to installation tasks. It will be the default installer for the 2015 release. Have a look, enjoy, comment, join!    

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“How to trace a cat to the tree and keep it up there” by Chwido ..oops. No. “OMA’s switch to clang” by Bero: interested? got questions? we got answers!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/02/how-to-trace-a-cat-to-the-tree-and-keep-it-up-there-by-chwido-oop

Enjoy the presentation of our release manager, brightest developer and great mascot-keeper Bero at FOSDEM, “OpenMandriva switching to clang”!  

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Pre-Alpha OMA Lx3 is here – hot and fresh!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/02/pre-alpha-oma-lx3-is-here-hot-and-fresh

Why pre-Alpha? Because we are eager to deliver you the freshest and hottest, and with your help this new release can start shining brighter even sooner! Have fun, report bugs, enjoy! You can download pre-Alpha here ▻http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmandriva/files/alpha/2015.0 Please check out the release notes here ▻https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/Release_3/Release_Notes So what is in? Desktop The oma-welcome oma-welcome, or Welcome to OpenMandriva … Continue reading »

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Revision number for OpenMandriva Lx
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/01/revision-number-for-openmandriva-lx

The next release of OpenMandriva Lx will return to Mandrake Linux roots <▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux#Table_of_versions> and use a revision number instead of year number. This decision has been discussed democratically amongst members. The change will affect only the brand (the public releases name). The suggestion first came during the Prague meeting. It was decided to postpone the … Continue reading »

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Invest into the free world – participate in our campaign!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2015/01/invest-into-the-free-world-participate-in-our-campaign

Hello-hello! And here it comes, OpenMandriva starts crowdfunding campaign to maintain infrastructure and you are most welcome to support your distro! Please visit our campaign page on Indiegogo and we thank you in advance for your contribution! (a list of our perks you can see on the campaign page;) ▻http://igg.me/p/free-easy-and-secure-advanced-software-for-all/x/9281410 We count on your help … Continue reading »

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Happy New Year!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/12/happy-new-year

Happy New Year to all of our friends! May 2015 be successful, prosperous, bring you luck and happiness! Happy New Year!! Always yours OpenMandriva Team  

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2015.0 Alpha delayed
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/12/2015-0-alpha-delayed

Hey folks! We know you expected Alpha today to have some fun after the Christmas fuzz is over, but we have to share that it is delayed till January 15th. Reasons? Hardware taking an early holiday and KDE Plasma 5 simply isn’t ready yet (and making a 4.x based release for testing doesn’t make that … Continue reading »

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Wandering OpenMandriva, part 4 : France !
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/12/wandering-openmandriva-part-4-france

A little late, but the November issue of the French Linux Magazine “Linux Identity Kit” included a DVD with OpenMandriva Lx and a 24 pages guide. We proudly read that OpenMandriva has a “seductive desktop environment”. Thank you!

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QA and bug fixing: team growth!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/11/qa-and-bug-fixing-team-growth

Hey-hey! Guys and gals, we hope that life treats you well, wherever you are and whatever you do  you’ll be pleased to hear that we have some good news to share! OpenMandriva is approaching it’s 2nd anniversary and together with you we’ve done a great job, and now we are heading  for new horizons! The … Continue reading »

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User Survey 2014 results
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/11/user-survey-2014-results

“Listening looks easy, but it’s not simple. Every head is a world.” Cuban proverb. Today Jofazepa provided the results of the last user survey. We would like to thank everyone who took time to take it, and thank also Jofazepa for the neat and beautiful synthesis. You can download the results here (pdf format, english … Continue reading »

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All news in one place!
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/11/all-news-in-one-place

Interested in what’s up? Lost the track a bit and want to catch up? Now we collect all media, related to Openmandriva in one place:   ▻https://media.openmandriva.org Come on and check this out!      

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You did not get OpenMandriva 2014.1 yet? Certainly give it a try!:)
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/11/you-did-not-get-openmandriva-2014-1-yet-certainly-give-it-a-try

By Jesse Smith, Distrowatch   “This version of OpenMandriva was presented mostly as a bug-fix and polish release and that shows. The operating system is stable and the interface looks friendly. For the most part, the distribution worked very well for me. OpenMandriva has a sense of polish and friendliness about it which is hard … Continue reading »

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Translation team : new positions open !
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/10/translation-team-new-positions-open

Hey-hey! Just a quick news for those, who would like to engage themselves with OpenMandriva using their language skills during these rainy days! (and later on as well;-p) We are systemizing and enlargering our translation team and you are most welcome to join! What is needed? If you your English is good, you could help … Continue reading »

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OpenMandriva presentation in Wolfsburg, Lower-Saxony / Germany
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/10/openmandriva-presentation-in-wolfsburg-lower-saxony-germany

        Hello everyone,   Association member and translation contributor Maik „tapwag“ Wagner will be giving an introduction to the openMandriva project at the Ostfalia Campus (University of Applied Sciences) in Wolfsburg on 13 November 2014 at 19:00 pm German time. The presentation is being held at the monthly WOBLUG (Wolfsburg Linux User … Continue reading »

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Talk to us, we are listening
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/10/talk-to-us-we-are-listening

“Alpha 60: What is your secret? Tell me, Mr. Caution. Lemmy Caution: Something which never changes, day or night. The past represents its future. It advances in a straight line, yet it ends by coming full circle.” in Alphaville (1965), from Jean-Luc Godard OpenMandriva Association (OMA) wants to listen to the community. The community is what … Continue reading »

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If you thought it couldn’t get better, here is OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/09/if-you-thought-it-couldnt-get-better-here-is-openmandriva-lx-2014

OpenMandriva  is proud to announce the release of OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1, that aims  fixing lots of bugs and improving the overall performance of the distro. We would like to thank everybody that help us made this possible, testers, bug submitters, developers and all the community. You can find in the ISO: kernel 3.15.10 with new … Continue reading »

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OpenMandriva Lx in day-to-day action: Install and use R (Part I)
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/09/openmandriva-lx-in-day-to-day-action-install-and-use-r-part-i

At work I often see my colleges stuck with the fact that they do all the same things with the computers, day after day. Going to facebook, see some youtube videos, reading some news, chatting and of course working. When they see I don’t use Windows or Mac they ofter say: “oh, you are one … Continue reading »

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Danke Sehr !
▻https://blog.openmandriva.org/en/2014/08/danke-sehr

We have very good news to all the community: we were selected by Thomas Krenn Open Source Sponsorship 2014 jury to be congratulated with the 4th place. OpenMandriva applied for this at LinuxTag 2014 in Berlin earlier this year and is proud to announce it to you. First we would like to thank Thomas-Krenn for … Continue reading »

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