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User:Abattoir

2005-08-20T18:45:14Z

Abattoir:

I have been pretty jobless this weekend(29-07-05), and when i saw how neglected the wiki was decided that i must contribute.

URPMI

2005-07-30T09:22:15Z

Abattoir: /* Tips */

==Introduction==
'''urpmi''' is an [[rpm]] wrapper which makes installation of rpm files easier for the user. It is a part of [[Mandriva]]'s [[urpm]] perl tools which make package installation and management hassle-free.
''Note:In most setups, urpmi command only works for [[root]] user.''

==RPMDrake==
The GUI front-end of urpmi is called [[RPMDrake]] and can be accessed on Mandriva/Mandrake systems through the Mandriva/Mandrake Control Centre.

==Sources(Media)==
urpmi maintains the list of rpm packages found in sources, referred to by it as 'media'. Sources (or media), include removable discs(CD/DVD ROMs), http sites, ftp sites, computers in a local network and local directories.
urpmi sources for various Mandriva(or Mandrake) releases can be setup by the following steps:
*Visit [http://easyurpmi.zarb.org EasyURPMI]
*Select the different media which you want to install (main, contrib, jpackage...etc.)
*Select the sources for your media(from various ftp and http mirrors).
*Open a shell and as root enter the commands generated at the last step.

===addmedia===
<pre>urpmi.addmedia [options] <name> <url> [with <relative_path>]</pre>

This adds a medium with the name <name> and location <url>. For ftp and http locations, a '''''hdlist''''' file stores information about the packages present in the location.

eg.
<pre>urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.2 with hdlist.cz</pre>
This command adds a medium 'plf-nonfree' with ftp://ftp.free.fr as the source.

See urpmi man page
<pre> man urpmi</pre>
for more information regarding the options.

===update===
<pre>urpmi.update <media></pre>

This command updates the <media> specified.
eg.
<pre>urpmi.update main contrib</pre>

This updates the media main and contrib. i.e. It downloads the latest packages list.
===removemedia===
<pre>urpmi.removemedia <media></pre>

The command removes the packagelist of <media>.

eg.
<pre>urpmi.removemedia plf-nonfree</pre>

This removes the media plf-nonfree(and its package list), from the list of its sources.
==Running URPMI==
<pre>urpmi [options] <nameofpackage></pre>

urpmi, when no options are given, searches the package lists of various media for <nameofpackage> and finds if the package is installed, and if installed, checks if it is the latest version(as available in the package list of sources). If the version of the <nameofpackage> is the latest(as per package list records), then a message similar to "The package(s) are already installed" is displayed.

If there is a newer version of <nameofpackage> to be installed, urpmi then finds the dependencies for <nameofpackage> and then finds if ''they'' are installed and if they are, it finds if they are the latest version. If the dependencies are not installed (or if they are not the latest version), urpmi then presents the dependencies along with <nameofpackage> and their total size to the user and asks if they want to continue, installing <nameofpackage>(and its dependencies).

[options] include
* --media (which installs from particular media,separated by comma(s)).
eg.

<pre>urpmi --media main,update amarok</pre>
This searches for the package amarok in the media main and update.

* --update (which uses only the update medium).

* --excludemedia (which excludes particular media,separated by comma(s)).

* --auto-select (which automatically selects packages and upgrades the system).

See urpmi man page
<pre> man urpmi</pre>
for more information regarding the options.

==urpmf==
urpmf is a tool(part of urpm) which is used to find files within packages. This works by scanning a summary of the headers of the rpms in the hdlist file.

==urpmq==
urpmq is a tool(part of urpm) which queries the urpmi database for packages.

==urpme==
<pre>urpme <packagename></pre>
urpme is a tool(part of urpm) which is used to remove rpm packages installed in the system.
eg.
<pre>urpme amarok</pre>

This command removes the package 'amarok' from the system.

See urpme man page
<pre> man urpme</pre>
for more information regarding the options.

==Tips==
'''Backup RPMs'''
Urpmi automatically deletes the rpms downloaded from media after successful installation. If you want to save the RPMs for future use you can use the --noclean option
eg.
<pre>urpmi --noclean amarok</pre>

''Note:The RPMs are stored in "/var/cache/urpmi/rpms" in most cases.

'''Installation from local directory'''
Local directories, unlike ftp and http sites, do not require a hdlist file(urpmi generates the file by itself). With the help of this feature, you can store rpms in a local directory and use the directory as a medium.
eg.
<pre>urpmi.addmedia backup /root/backup</pre>
This command adds a medium called 'backup' which points to the location /root/backup.

'''Avoid Prompts'''
<pre>urpmi --force <packagename></pre>

This option forces urpmi to continue without asking the user for his opinion. i.e it assumes yes on all prompts.

'''Remove all media'''
To remove all the media and their package lists do
<pre>urpmi.removemedia -a</pre>

==See also==
*[[Yum]]
*[[Apt]]

==External links==
*[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1041774#post1041774 Motub's instructions from the LQ Forum]
*[http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Easy URPMI] - You can select your mirrors here.

AmaroK

2005-07-29T12:50:07Z

Abattoir:

amaroK, is a GUI multimedia player for [[KDE]](But it also can be run successfully from other environments).
==History==
Mark Kretschmann, the founder of amaroK, was frustrated by the missing 1x1 pixel target in popular mediaplayer [[XMMS]] and decided to create amaroK(This was because, he was hitting the stop button instead of the play button in XMMS).

See [http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/index.php/History The official amaroK History wiki] for more information.

==Features==
amaroK is arguably the most feature-rich multimedia player for KDE.
It has a practical and well-designed layout.
There is also the option to choose between a single-window jukebox-like interface or a multi-window interface.

It's Important Features include
*First-run wizard:
The user is given the option of setting up a collection of his music, using which amaroK determines the users most favourite tracks(among other features).
*Multiple Engine support
**[[Gstreamer]]
**[[Xine]]
**[[ARts]]
**[[Akode]]
are among the engines available.
*[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audioscrobbler Audioscrobbler]] support
This allows amaroK(if the user choose so), to send information about the songs heard by the user to an internet-based database, which in turn returns information about new songs which matches the taste of the user.(This information is obtained from uploads by other users).
*Integrated [[iPod]] support.
*Lyrics retrieval and display
*Support for themes
*A 10-band graphic equalizer(Only with select engines)
*Automatic album cover retrieval
*Artist/Album/Track details retrieval from [[http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia]](Currently available only in beta versions).
*CD-burning support(Through [[k3b]])

==Association with KDE==
amaroK is a part of [[kdeextragear]], and hence has an independent release cycle to that of KDE, but however, it is expected to join [[kdemultimedia]] replacing [[Noatun]].

==The Name==

*The name amaroK is an adaptation of an album of Mike Oldfields' with the same name.

*The word ''amarok'' also means wolf in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut Inuktitut], a language spoken by the Inuit people, mostly in northern North America and northern Europe. As a result many of amaroK's logos and splashscreens contain a depiction of a howling wolf.

==External Links==
[[http://amarok.kde.org Official amaroK Home page]]
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmaroK amaroK@Wikipedia]]

AmaroK

2005-07-29T12:48:05Z

Abattoir:

amaroK, is a GUI multimedia player for [[KDE]](But it also can be run successfully from other environments).
==History==
Mark Kretschmann, the founder of amaroK, was frustrated by the missing 1x1 pixel target in popular mediaplayer [[XMMS]] and decided to create amaroK(This was because, he was hitting the stop button instead of the play button in XMMS).

See [http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/index.php/History The official amaroK History wiki] for more information.

==Features==
amaroK is arguably the most feature-rich multimedia player for KDE.
It has a practical and well-designed layout.
There is also the option to choose between a single-window jukebox-like interface or a multi-window interface.

It's Important Features include
*First-run wizard:
The user is given the option of setting up a collection of their music, using which amaroK determines the user's most favourite tracks(among other features).
*Multiple Engine support
**[[Gstreamer]]
**[[Xine]]
**[[ARts]]
**[[Akode]]
are among the engines available.
*[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audioscrobbler Audioscrobbler]] support
This allows amaroK(if the user choose so), to send information about the songs heard by the user to an internet-based database, which in turn returns information about new songs which matches the taste of the user.(This information is obtained from uploads by other users).
*Integrated [[iPod]] support.
*Lyrics retrieval and display
*Support for themes
*A 10-band graphic equalizer(Only with select engines)
*Automatic album cover retrieval
*Artist/Album/Track details retrieval from [[http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia]](Currently available only in beta versions).
*CD-burning support(Through [[k3b]])

==Association with KDE==
amaroK is a part of [[kdeextragear]], and hence has an independent release cycle to that of KDE, but however, it is expected to join [[kdemultimedia]] replacing [[Noatun]].

==The Name==

*The name amaroK is an adaptation of an album of Mike Oldfields' with the same name.

*The word ''amarok'' also means wolf in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut Inuktitut], a language spoken by the Inuit people, mostly in northern North America and northern Europe.

As a result many of amaroK's logos and splashscreens contain a depiction of a howling wolf.

Music player

2005-07-29T11:34:32Z

Abattoir: /* GUI/X */

Various programs exist to play music under Linux: audio CDs, [[MP3]] files or [[Ogg Vorbis]] audio. The most well-known is [[XMMS]], a WinAmp-alike music player.

Though the MP3 format still reigns supreme, Ogg support is growing quickly, and even some hardware "MP3 players" can handle Ogg audio.

==Specific applications==

===GUI/X===
* [[XMMS]] -- Media player modeled after Winamp
* [[RhythmBox]] -- A music player and manager for the [[GNOME]] desktop
* [[JuK]] -- an audio jukebox that supports collections of files for [[KDE]]
* [[amaroK]] -- an new audio player/jukebox for [[KDE]] with better useablity and can use the GStreamer backend
* [[grip]] -- can be used for playing and ripping audio CDs with ease
* [[Beep media player]] -- XMMS based media player, uses [[GTK]]2
* [[GQmpeg]] -- [[GTK]]1 based player
* [[Noatun]] - A [[KDE]] music player, although not as elaborate as some of the others

===Console/text-based===
*[[mpg123]] -- Command line MP3 player
*[[mpg321]] -- [[free]] mpg123 clone
*[[ogg123]] -- [[Ogg vorbis]] command line player

==See also==
* [[Multimedia tasks]]
* [[FreeDB]]

URPMI

2005-07-29T05:35:17Z

Abattoir: /* Tips */

==Introduction==
'''urpmi''' is an [[rpm]] wrapper which makes installation of rpm files easier for the user. It is a part of [[Mandriva]]'s [[urpm]] perl tools which make package installation and management hassle-free.
''Note:In most setups, urpmi command only works for [[root]] user.''

==RPMDrake==
The GUI front-end of urpmi is called [[RPMDrake]] and can be accessed on Mandriva/Mandrake systems through the Mandriva/Mandrake Control Centre.

==Sources(Media)==
urpmi maintains the list of rpm packages found in sources, referred to by it as 'media'. Sources (or media), include removable discs(CD/DVD ROMs), http sites, ftp sites, computers in a local network and local directories.
urpmi sources for various Mandriva(or Mandrake) releases can be setup by the following steps:
*Visit [http://easyurpmi.zarb.org EasyURPMI]
*Select the different media which you want to install (main, contrib, jpackage...etc.)
*Select the sources for your media(from various ftp and http mirrors).
*Open a shell and as root enter the commands generated at the last step.

===addmedia===
<pre>urpmi.addmedia [options] <name> <url> [with <relative_path>]</pre>

This adds a medium with the name <name> and location <url>. For ftp and http locations, a '''''hdlist''''' file stores information about the packages present in the location.

eg.
<pre>urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.2 with hdlist.cz</pre>
This command adds a medium 'plf-nonfree' with ftp://ftp.free.fr as the source.

See urpmi man page
<pre> man urpmi</pre>
for more information regarding the options.

===update===
<pre>urpmi.update <media></pre>

This command updates the <media> specified.
eg.
<pre>urpmi.update main contrib</pre>

This updates the media main and contrib. i.e. It downloads the latest packages list.
===removemedia===
<pre>urpmi.removemedia <media></pre>

The command removes the packagelist of <media>.

eg.
<pre>urpmi.removemedia plf-nonfree</pre>

This removes the media plf-nonfree(and its package list), from the list of its sources.
==Running URPMI==
<pre>urpmi [options] <nameofpackage></pre>

urpmi, when no options are given, searches the package lists of various media for <nameofpackage> and finds if the package is installed, and if installed, checks if it is the latest version(as available in the package list of sources). If the version of the <nameofpackage> is the latest(as per package list records), then a message similar to "The package(s) are already installed" is displayed.

If there is a newer version of <nameofpackage> to be installed, urpmi then finds the dependencies for <nameofpackage> and then finds if ''they'' are installed and if they are, it finds if they are the latest version. If the dependencies are not installed (or if they are not the latest version), urpmi then presents the dependencies along with <nameofpackage> and their total size to the user and asks if they want to continue, installing <nameofpackage>(and its dependencies).

[options] include
* --media (which installs from particular media,separated by comma(s)).
eg.

<pre>urpmi --media main,update amarok</pre>
This searches for the package amarok in the media main and update.

* --update (which uses only the update medium).

* --excludemedia (which excludes particular media,separated by comma(s)).

* --auto-select (which automatically selects packages and upgrades the system).

See urpmi man page
<pre> man urpmi</pre>
for more information regarding the options.

==urpmf==
urpmf is a tool(part of urpm) which is used to find files within packages. This works by scanning a summary of the headers of the rpms in the hdlist file.

==urpmq==
urpmq is a tool(part of urpm) which queries the urpmi database for packages.

==urpme==
<pre>urpme <packagename></pre>
urpme is a tool(part of urpm) which is used to remove rpm packages installed in the system.
eg.
<pre>urpme amarok</pre>

This command removes the package 'amarok' from the system.

See urpme man page
<pre> man urpme</pre>
for more information regarding the options.

==Tips==
'''Backup RPMs'''
Urpmi automatically deletes the rpms downloaded from media after successful installation. If you want to save the RPMs for future use you can use the --noclean option
eg.
<pre>urpmi --noclean amarok</pre>

''Note:The RPMs are stored in "/var/cache/urpmi/rpms" in most cases.

'''Installation from local directory'''
Local directories, unlike ftp and http sites, do not require a hdlist file.
So you can move to the folder and do
<pre>urpmi *</pre>
to install all the packages in the directory
eg. If you have newer KDE binary rpms in the folder "/opt/kde/" and want to upgrade to them from an older version, you can 'cd' to "/opt/kde/" and then do
<pre>urpmi *</pre>
to install the newer version of KDE.

'''Avoid Prompts'''
<pre>urpmi --force <packagename></pre>

This option forces urpmi to continue without asking the user for his opinion. i.e it assumes yes on all prompts.

'''Remove all media'''
To remove all the media and their package lists do
<pre>urpmi.removemedia -a</pre>

==See also==
*[[Yum]]
*[[Apt]]

==External links==
*[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1041774#post1041774 Motub's instructions from the LQ Forum]
*[http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Easy URPMI] - You can select your mirrors here.

User:Abattoir

2005-07-28T20:53:30Z

Abattoir:

I have been pretty jobless this weekend(29-07-05), and when i saw how neglected the wiki was decided that i must contribute. Tomorrow, i plan to give [[Linus]] (a) life ;).

Talk:Mandriva

2005-07-28T20:49:39Z

Abattoir: /* Article modified */

I didn't want to do pro-Debian FUD...I'm a Mandrake user and a Debian user, and I'm not a Linux expert. It's probably easier to see me make pro-Mandrake FUD! :) I just wanted to report there's debate about using Mandrake for a server, for example (there's debate about using Linux or *BSD,for example,about this). Therefore, don' crucifix me. Thanks. Cyclop.

----

I think Mandrake's okay but somebody needs to mention the 'Community'/Business split, the advertisements in the installation and in the browsers, and the LG CDROM incident (which was the hardware maker's fault, but still Mandrake users got to discover it due to the conjunction with Mandrake patching). I'm not saying Mandrake's bad - I'm just saying that article sounds like Mandrake paid to have it written. But I'm not the one to make those changes. I just tried to make it more readable and less redundant.

[[User:Digiot|Digiot]] 19:50, Mar 18, 2004 (EST)

----

Someone must explain me why almost all distro entries *look like plain advertisement*. This is ridicolous at best. I had fun in rewriting the [[VectorLinux]] page, for example, that was just (masked) website blurb. I remember the Mandrake page was among the first I browsed and modified in this wiki. And now, almost a year later, is exactly the same advertisement it is. I love mdk, but this is *not* information.

[[User:Cyclop|Cyclop]] Sep 14, 2004

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Sheer laziness. There isn't a whole lot to say about individual distros, most of the stuff we contribs know is distro-generic. Thanks for the rewrite Cyclop! [[User:Crazyeddie|Crazyeddie]] 19:13, Sep 14, 2004 (EDT)

After further thought (mopping floors is good for something!): Also it's too low level. Most linux users beyond the complete noob stage know what the pros and cons of Fedora, Mandrake, Suse, Slackware, and Debian are, so they don't bother reading those articles because they don't need that information. And they don't bother going there and edit because they figure someone has already done it. The article on [[Linus Torvalds]] is in a similar shape. On the other hand, the articles on other distros than the big 5 aren't maintained too well because hardly anybody uses them. So it's not just laziness. [[User:Crazyeddie|Crazyeddie]] 01:26, Sep 15, 2004 (EDT)

----

Yes, most people run Gentoo/Mandrake/Debian/SuSE/Red Hat/Slackware/Knoppix. But I also know of friends that are "distribution-addicts"-they just try any available distribution in this world. If this is statistically relevant, the distribution-addict guys could make a better work here than copying-and-pasting promotional websites. Copying and pasting *reviews* would be much better, for example.

The non-noob of us of course know about Mandrake/Fedora/Debian etc...That's exactly why they should write about them. Like anyone,I was a complete n00b once. And there are a LOT of noobs out there. I would have felt much better with a site like this with *serious* info in it.
[[User:Cyclop|Cyclop]] Sep 15, 2004

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I'm not saying that those articles don't ''need'' more information, I'm just trying to explain why that isn't being done automatically. If an article doesn't get read, it doesn't get edited. I think our contributor community is currently too small to have a good representation of distro-addicts - maybe you could invite some to come help out? Also, without explicit permission from the owners of a website, any copying and pasting is a no-no, regardless of whether it's a review or project website. We need to either ask for permission, and give attribution with a link to the original, or roll our own. Maybe we need some people to go out of their way to flesh out the distro articles? And the Linus article while their at it? Any volunteers? [[User:Crazyeddie|Crazyeddie]] 13:33, Sep 15, 2004 (EDT)

== mandrake ==

Before jumping into linux did lots of reading
to acquire knowledge of i would need to know what to expect amd do at time of installing any linux. reading cleared the confusion of which distro to choose; hence mdk # 1 reason
RH geared for corp. business, debian academic
& development, the rest fall some where in between. apology not acceptable being that was
spoiled and dependant on BG w. my regret that
was not exposed to linux at inception time i may have different outlook now which is still better now that am exposed to mdk, life is challenging now that mdk is making a impact on this retch life better! LINUX FOR EVER!

----

==Article modified==
I was surprised to find that the info posted in this post were very brief and more than a year old, so I spent a generous part of the day researching and modifying it appropriately.
In some areas i have referred to the product and the company as Mandrake and Mandrakesoft respectively. This is because it sounds awkward to rename everything from version 1 as mandriva, even though it was called mandrake then.

The history section is more company-oriented than distro-oriented as i could not find info regarding the distro history.(It'd be nice if someone who knows added it).

Most of the quotes in italic are from Mr. Duval's LQ interviews.
All the factual info posted here are easily available online(a google search should get you there).
The table regarding the product history has been extracted from wikipedia.
that's all!!!

And...

I was not paid by Mandriva to write this wiki :( . But i definitely wouldn't mind if they did ;) :D.

[http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/User:Abattoir The Abattoir] ->28th July 2005.

Talk:URPMI

2005-07-28T20:48:43Z

Abattoir:

This too was neglected like the mandriva wiki, and being jobless the weekend, i have set out modifying them.
[http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/User:Abattoir The Abattoir] 29-07-05

Talk:URPMI

2005-07-28T20:47:17Z

Abattoir:

This too was neglected like the mandriva wiki, and being jobless the weekend, i have set out modifying them.
The Abattoir 29-07-05

Talk:URPMI

2005-07-28T20:46:41Z

Abattoir: More Comprehensive Urpmi!

This too was neglected like the mandriva wiki, and being jobless the weekend, i have set out modifying them.

URPMI

2005-07-28T20:44:39Z

Abattoir:

==Introduction==
'''urpmi''' is an [[rpm]] wrapper which makes installation of rpm files easier for the user. It is a part of [[Mandriva]]'s [[urpm]] perl tools which make package installation and management hassle-free.
''Note:In most setups, urpmi command only works for [[root]] user.''

==RPMDrake==
The GUI front-end of urpmi is called [[RPMDrake]] and can be accessed on Mandriva/Mandrake systems through the Mandriva/Mandrake Control Centre.

==Sources(Media)==
urpmi maintains the list of rpm packages found in sources, referred to by it as 'media'. Sources (or media), include removable discs(CD/DVD ROMs), http sites, ftp sites, computers in a local network and local directories.
urpmi sources for various Mandriva(or Mandrake) releases can be setup by the following steps:
*Visit [http://easyurpmi.zarb.org EasyURPMI]
*Select the different media which you want to install (main, contrib, jpackage...etc.)
*Select the sources for your media(from various ftp and http mirrors).
*Open a shell and as root enter the commands generated at the last step.

===addmedia===
<pre>urpmi.addmedia [options] <name> <url> [with <relative_path>]</pre>

This adds a medium with the name <name> and location <url>. For ftp and http locations, a '''''hdlist''''' file stores information about the packages present in the location.

eg.
<pre>urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandrake/non-free/10.2 with hdlist.cz</pre>
This command adds a medium 'plf-nonfree' with ftp://ftp.free.fr as the source.

See urpmi man page
<pre> man urpmi</pre>
for more information regarding the options.

===update===
<pre>urpmi.update <media></pre>

This command updates the <media> specified.
eg.
<pre>urpmi.update main contrib</pre>

This updates the media main and contrib. i.e. It downloads the latest packages list.
===removemedia===
<pre>urpmi.removemedia <media></pre>

The command removes the packagelist of <media>.

eg.
<pre>urpmi.removemedia plf-nonfree</pre>

This removes the media plf-nonfree(and its package list), from the list of its sources.
==Running URPMI==
<pre>urpmi [options] <nameofpackage></pre>

urpmi, when no options are given, searches the package lists of various media for <nameofpackage> and finds if the package is installed, and if installed, checks if it is the latest version(as available in the package list of sources). If the version of the <nameofpackage> is the latest(as per package list records), then a message similar to "The package(s) are already installed" is displayed.

If there is a newer version of <nameofpackage> to be installed, urpmi then finds the dependencies for <nameofpackage> and then finds if ''they'' are installed and if they are, it finds if they are the latest version. If the dependencies are not installed (or if they are not the latest version), urpmi then presents the dependencies along with <nameofpackage> and their total size to the user and asks if they want to continue, installing <nameofpackage>(and its dependencies).

[options] include
* --media (which installs from particular media,separated by comma(s)).
eg.

<pre>urpmi --media main,update amarok</pre>
This searches for the package amarok in the media main and update.

* --update (which uses only the update medium).

* --excludemedia (which excludes particular media,separated by comma(s)).

* --auto-select (which automatically selects packages and upgrades the system).

See urpmi man page
<pre> man urpmi</pre>
for more information regarding the options.

==urpmf==
urpmf is a tool(part of urpm) which is used to find files within packages. This works by scanning a summary of the headers of the rpms in the hdlist file.

==urpmq==
urpmq is a tool(part of urpm) which queries the urpmi database for packages.

==urpme==
<pre>urpme <packagename></pre>
urpme is a tool(part of urpm) which is used to remove rpm packages installed in the system.
eg.
<pre>urpme amarok</pre>

This command removes the package 'amarok' from the system.

See urpme man page
<pre> man urpme</pre>
for more information regarding the options.

==Tips==
'''Backup RPMs'''
Urpmi automatically deletes the rpms downloaded from media after successful installation. If you want to save the RPMs for future use you can use the --noclean option
eg.
<pre>urpmi --noclean amarok</pre>

''Note:The RPMs are stored in "/var/cache/urpmi/rpms" in most cases.

'''Installation from local directory'''
Local directories, unlike ftp and http sites, do not require a hdlist file.
So you can move to the folder and do
<pre>urpmi *</pre>
to install all the packages in the directory
eg. If you have newer KDE binary rpms in the folder "/opt/kde/" and want to upgrade to them from an older version, you can 'cd' to "/opt/kde/" and then do
<pre>urpmi *</pre>
to install the newer version of KDE.

'''Avoid Prompts'''
<pre>urpmi --force <packagename></pre>

This option forces urpmi to continue without asking the user for his opinion. i.e it assumes yes on all prompts.

==See also==
*[[Yum]]
*[[Apt]]

==External links==
*[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=1041774#post1041774 Motub's instructions from the LQ Forum]
*[http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Easy URPMI] - You can select your mirrors here.

Mandriva

2005-07-28T18:26:28Z

Abattoir: /* Highlights */

'''Mandrake''' Linux (now called '''Mandriva Linux''' after its merger with [[Conectiva]]) was created in 1998 with the goal of making [[Linux]] easier to use for everyone. At that time, Linux was still a developer's [[operating system]] and sound knowledge of the [[CLI]] was a must.

''Note: The Operating System now known as 'Mandriva Linux' and its makers, "Mandriva", have been referred to by their former names, 'Mandrakelinux' and "Mandrakesoft" respectively, in certain sections below for historical accuracy.''

==History==
[http://www.mandrivalinux.com Mandrake] was created by Gaël Duval. He realised that ''"Linux had the potential to be an excellent alternative to Windows, or maybe even a full replacement"'' He created Mandrake with the aim of providing ''"a Linux distribution that would be as easy to use as Windows"'' In July 1998 the first version of Mandrake was released (The first distribution to ship with KDE 1.0 as the default graphical environment). It was based on the popular Linux distribution [[Red Hat]] as it offered a robust package management system, [[RPM]] or '''R'''ed '''H'''at '''P'''ackage '''M'''anager (Now called '''R'''PM '''P'''ackage '''M'''anager).
In November 1998, "several young Linux enthusiasts" created Mandrake (the company).

In 2001, the company decided to go public and announced an IPO (Initial Public Offering) of 688,480 shares which at that time represented 20.28% of the company's capital. Trading of the stock began in August 2001 in the ''Marche Libre'' exchange in Paris.

In late 2002, MandrakeSoft announced that it faced a "big short-term cash issue" and requested users to join Mandrakeclub (a paid service that offers certain extra benefits, now called Mandrivaclub), and existing members to upgrade.

Subsequently, in January 2003, MandrakeSoft filed for ''"declaration de cessation des paiements"'', the French equivalent of Bankruptcy Protection. By the end of 2003, MandrakeSoft declared its first quarterly profit in five years. In March 2003, a French court approved of MandrakeSoft's plan to emerge out of bankruptcy and enabled the company to return to normal operations. The company has since made a remarkable recovery.

Hearst Corporation, trademark owners of the comic-book character "Mandrake the Magician" sued MandrakeSoft for trademark infringement. The contention was heard in February 2004 and MandrakeSoft lost the case. MandrakeSoft decided to concatenate Mandrake and linux (as in Mandrake linux) to Mandrakelinux and change its logo as a direct result.

In April 2005, MandrakeSoft merged with Brazilian Linux vendor [[Conectiva]], and the company name was subsequently changed to its current name, Mandriva.

In mid-June 2005 Mandriva announced its acquisition of North American Linux distributor [[Lycoris]].

The company after emerging from bankruptcy has posted strong gains and is surging ahead in popularity and dominates the European, North American and South American (through Conectiva) markets.

==Highlights==
Mandriva Linux features an elegant and user-friendly interface right from installation, hence is recommended for people who are new to Linux.
It is renowned for having excellent hardware detection and support. It primarily dominates the Desktop arena but is now trying to tap into the Server market too.

Mandriva Linux features a versatile configuration utility called the '''Mandriva Control Centre''' (often abbreviated as '''MCC'''). It features a set of tools that ease the configuration of various aspects of the Operating System.

Mandrake linux was the first rpm-based distribution to provide automatic resolution of dependencies with [[URPMI]] (which debuted in version 7.2), and its Graphical frontend, '''RPMDrake'''. URPMI can easily be setup to download and install binary RPMs (which include security updates) from local and web sources without the user having to interfere much.'' (See [[URPMI]] for more information)''.

Almost all popular Linux applications are available in either binary form for the user to install, or can be compiled from source.

[[KDE]] is the default Desktop Environment, but other popular Environments like [[Gnome]] are either included, or can be installed easily.

Mandrake Linux was one of the first distributions to be optimized for [[i586]] [[processor]]s (and superior). Mandriva Linux is currently available for x86, x86-64 and PowerPC architectures.

==Installation==
Mandrake developed a graphical installation process recognized by many as one of the best available, with advanced and efficient hardware detection (although today, other distributions like [[SuSE]] and [[Fedora]] provide similar tools). The Mandriva installation usually needs no more than booting from the first distribution CD-ROM and following instructions.

==Development process==
As of today, Mandriva follows a [[Debian]]-like three-step development process for every release (although much faster than Debian). Every new release begins simply as being [[Mandriva Cooker]], that is the continuously changing current development line, and can be roughly seen as the analogue of Debian unstable. When the packages and set up of Cooker begin to reach reasonable stability, the [[Mandriva Community]] is released (often preceded by a couple of release candidates). Mandrake Community normally still contains bugs and unstable packages, and it is intended as a fairly usable but testing release. After months of testing, feedback and improvements on the Community release, the [[Official]] version is released. [[Mandriva Official]] is intended to be the stable version.

The [[GPL]] (General Public License) governs the development and redistribution of Mandrivalinux and it is community-driven to a large degree. Non-Mandriva contributors have write access to packages in the main distribution, commit access to Mandriva's own tools in [[CVS]], full bug tracking rights in [http://qa.mandriva.com Mandriva's bugzilla] and the [http://qa.mandriva.com/wiki Mandriva Development wiki]. Over half the packages in the entire distribution (combining "main" and "contrib") are maintained by the community. For non-developers, support is available from the unofficial [http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca Mandriva community wiki] and the [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=30 LinuxQuestions' Mandriva forum].

==Criticism==
Although Mandrake is one of the best distributions available, especially for linux beginners and for the desktop, is (like any other distribution) far from being perfect. Mandrake is well known for heavy customization of [[kernel]] and packages. While this often is a plus by adding new functionality, it can also lead to inferior stability (especially in the Community releases) when confronted with other distributions like [[Slackware]] or [[Debian]]. The large hardware support by default Mandrake Linux provides also means installation of a large and heavy kernel. Also many [[kernel module|kernel modules]] are active by default after the installation, weighing on the system. Even with a lightweight [[GUI]] like [[Fluxbox]] Mandrake is noticeably slow on old computers, and cannot be seriously advised as a desktop on a PC with less than 128 Mbyte of RAM and 400 MHz clock rate. These are fairly low requirements (lower than that of [[Windows XP]] for example), but [[Slackware]],for example, can run a reasonably fast graphical desktop on a 150 MHz Pentium with 64 Mbyte of RAM. However Slackware is much harder to install and configure, and has less hardware support by default.

==Distributions similar to Mandrake==
*[[Red Hat]]
*[[SuSE]]
*[[Lorma]]
*[[Libranet]]

==Products==
The latest stable release of Mandriva Linux is '''Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005'''. For more information and links to download this, see the [http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3 Mandriva Linux download page].
An unstable beta version of '''Mandriva Linux 2006''' is also available.

'''''Home Products'''''
*'''Mandriva Linux''' It is the mainstream Linux desktop product.
*'''Globetrotter''' It is a version pre-installed in a portable hard-drive which can be connected to a computer with a [[USB]] port (and be booted with).
*'''Move''' is a version which is pre-installed in a [[USB]] pen-drive, from which it can be booted. It is based on Live-CD technology similar to [[KNOPPIX]] or [[DSL]].

'''''Corporate Products'''''
*'''Mandriva Linux Corporate Server''' It is the "Mandriva Linux Server Solution"
*'''Mandriva Linux Corporate Desktop'''Aimed at Office Productivity.
*'''Multi Network Firewall''' a "Security solution dedicated to the business world".
*'''Mandriva Linux Clustering''' It is a version suited for "heavy calculations" and "risk analysis", aimed at research organisations.

==Product History==
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
<caption>'''Product History'''</caption>
! style="background:#abcdef;" | Year
! style="background:#abcdef;" | Number
! style="background:#abcdef;" | Name
|-
|1998
|5.1
|Venice
|-
|1998
|5.2
|Leeloo
|-
|1999
|5.3
|Festen
|-
|1999
|6.0
|Venus
|-
|1999
|6.1
|Helios
|-
|2000
|7.0
|Air
|-
|2000
|7.1
|Helium
|-
|2000
|7.2
|Odyssey (called Ulysses during beta)
|-
|2001
|8.0
|Traktopel
|-
|2001
|8.1
|Vitamin
|-
|2002
|8.2
|Bluebird
|-
|2002
|9.0
|Dolphin
|-
|2003
|9.1
|Bamboo
|-
|2003
|9.2
|FiveStar
|-
|2004
|10.0
|Community and Official
|-
|2004
|10.1
|Community
|-
|2004
|10.1
|Official
|-
|2005
|10.2
|Limited Edition 2005
|-
|N/A
|N/A
|Cooker
|}

==External links==
*[http://www.mandriva.com Official website]
*[http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3 Mandriva Linux download page]
*[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=30 LinuxQuestions' Mandriva Forum]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux Mandriva @ Wikipedia]
*[http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Easy URPMI]

Talk:Mandriva

2005-07-28T18:17:17Z

Abattoir: /* Article modified (28/07/05)*/

Talk:Mandriva

2005-07-28T15:47:16Z

Abattoir: /* Article modified */

Talk:Mandriva

2005-07-28T15:46:04Z

Abattoir: /* mandrake */

Talk:Mandriva

2005-07-28T15:45:09Z

Abattoir: /* mandrake */

I didn't want to do pro-Debian FUD...I'm a Mandrake user and a Debian user, and I'm not a Linux expert. It's probably easier to see me make pro-Mandrake FUD! :) I just wanted to report there's debate about using Mandrake for a server, for example (there's debate about using Linux or *BSD,for example,about this). Therefore, don' crucifix me. Thanks. Cyclop.

----

I think Mandrake's okay but somebody needs to mention the 'Community'/Business split, the advertisements in the installation and in the browsers, and the LG CDROM incident (which was the hardware maker's fault, but still Mandrake users got to discover it due to the conjunction with Mandrake patching). I'm not saying Mandrake's bad - I'm just saying that article sounds like Mandrake paid to have it written. But I'm not the one to make those changes. I just tried to make it more readable and less redundant.

[[User:Digiot|Digiot]] 19:50, Mar 18, 2004 (EST)

----

Someone must explain me why almost all distro entries *look like plain advertisement*. This is ridicolous at best. I had fun in rewriting the [[VectorLinux]] page, for example, that was just (masked) website blurb. I remember the Mandrake page was among the first I browsed and modified in this wiki. And now, almost a year later, is exactly the same advertisement it is. I love mdk, but this is *not* information.

[[User:Cyclop|Cyclop]] Sep 14, 2004

----
Sheer laziness. There isn't a whole lot to say about individual distros, most of the stuff we contribs know is distro-generic. Thanks for the rewrite Cyclop! [[User:Crazyeddie|Crazyeddie]] 19:13, Sep 14, 2004 (EDT)

After further thought (mopping floors is good for something!): Also it's too low level. Most linux users beyond the complete noob stage know what the pros and cons of Fedora, Mandrake, Suse, Slackware, and Debian are, so they don't bother reading those articles because they don't need that information. And they don't bother going there and edit because they figure someone has already done it. The article on [[Linus Torvalds]] is in a similar shape. On the other hand, the articles on other distros than the big 5 aren't maintained too well because hardly anybody uses them. So it's not just laziness. [[User:Crazyeddie|Crazyeddie]] 01:26, Sep 15, 2004 (EDT)

----

Yes, most people run Gentoo/Mandrake/Debian/SuSE/Red Hat/Slackware/Knoppix. But I also know of friends that are "distribution-addicts"-they just try any available distribution in this world. If this is statistically relevant, the distribution-addict guys could make a better work here than copying-and-pasting promotional websites. Copying and pasting *reviews* would be much better, for example.

The non-noob of us of course know about Mandrake/Fedora/Debian etc...That's exactly why they should write about them. Like anyone,I was a complete n00b once. And there are a LOT of noobs out there. I would have felt much better with a site like this with *serious* info in it.
[[User:Cyclop|Cyclop]] Sep 15, 2004

----
I'm not saying that those articles don't ''need'' more information, I'm just trying to explain why that isn't being done automatically. If an article doesn't get read, it doesn't get edited. I think our contributor community is currently too small to have a good representation of distro-addicts - maybe you could invite some to come help out? Also, without explicit permission from the owners of a website, any copying and pasting is a no-no, regardless of whether it's a review or project website. We need to either ask for permission, and give attribution with a link to the original, or roll our own. Maybe we need some people to go out of their way to flesh out the distro articles? And the Linus article while their at it? Any volunteers? [[User:Crazyeddie|Crazyeddie]] 13:33, Sep 15, 2004 (EDT)

== mandrake ==

Before jumping into linux did lots of reading
to acquire knowledge of i would need to know what to expect amd do at time of installing any linux. reading cleared the confusion of which distro to choose; hence mdk # 1 reason
RH geared for corp. business, debian academic
& development, the rest fall some where in between. apology not acceptable being that was
spoiled and dependant on BG w. my regret that
was not exposed to linux at inception time i may have different outlook now which is still better now that am exposed to mdk, life is challenging now that mdk is making a impact on this retch life better! LINUX FOR EVER!

''Article modified''
I was surprised to find that the info posted in this post were very brief and more than a year old, so I spent a generous part of the day researching and modifying it appropriately.
In some areas i have referred to the product and the company as Mandrake and Mandrakesoft respectively. This is because it sounds awkward to rename everything from version 1 as mandriva, even though it was called mandrake then.

The history section is more company-oriented than distro-oriented as i could not find info regarding the distro history.(It'd be nice if someone who knows added it).

Most of the quotes in italic are from Mr. Duval's LQ interviews.
All the factual info posted here are easily available online(a google search should get you there).
The table regarding the product history has been extracted from wikipedia.
that's all!!!

And...

I was not paid by Mandriva to write this wiki :( . But i definitely wouldn't mind if they did ;D.

The ABattoir

Talk:Mandriva

2005-07-28T15:43:18Z

Abattoir:

I didn't want to do pro-Debian FUD...I'm a Mandrake user and a Debian user, and I'm not a Linux expert. It's probably easier to see me make pro-Mandrake FUD! :) I just wanted to report there's debate about using Mandrake for a server, for example (there's debate about using Linux or *BSD,for example,about this). Therefore, don' crucifix me. Thanks. Cyclop.

----

I think Mandrake's okay but somebody needs to mention the 'Community'/Business split, the advertisements in the installation and in the browsers, and the LG CDROM incident (which was the hardware maker's fault, but still Mandrake users got to discover it due to the conjunction with Mandrake patching). I'm not saying Mandrake's bad - I'm just saying that article sounds like Mandrake paid to have it written. But I'm not the one to make those changes. I just tried to make it more readable and less redundant.

[[User:Digiot|Digiot]] 19:50, Mar 18, 2004 (EST)

----

Someone must explain me why almost all distro entries *look like plain advertisement*. This is ridicolous at best. I had fun in rewriting the [[VectorLinux]] page, for example, that was just (masked) website blurb. I remember the Mandrake page was among the first I browsed and modified in this wiki. And now, almost a year later, is exactly the same advertisement it is. I love mdk, but this is *not* information.

[[User:Cyclop|Cyclop]] Sep 14, 2004

----
Sheer laziness. There isn't a whole lot to say about individual distros, most of the stuff we contribs know is distro-generic. Thanks for the rewrite Cyclop! [[User:Crazyeddie|Crazyeddie]] 19:13, Sep 14, 2004 (EDT)

After further thought (mopping floors is good for something!): Also it's too low level. Most linux users beyond the complete noob stage know what the pros and cons of Fedora, Mandrake, Suse, Slackware, and Debian are, so they don't bother reading those articles because they don't need that information. And they don't bother going there and edit because they figure someone has already done it. The article on [[Linus Torvalds]] is in a similar shape. On the other hand, the articles on other distros than the big 5 aren't maintained too well because hardly anybody uses them. So it's not just laziness. [[User:Crazyeddie|Crazyeddie]] 01:26, Sep 15, 2004 (EDT)

----

Yes, most people run Gentoo/Mandrake/Debian/SuSE/Red Hat/Slackware/Knoppix. But I also know of friends that are "distribution-addicts"-they just try any available distribution in this world. If this is statistically relevant, the distribution-addict guys could make a better work here than copying-and-pasting promotional websites. Copying and pasting *reviews* would be much better, for example.

The non-noob of us of course know about Mandrake/Fedora/Debian etc...That's exactly why they should write about them. Like anyone,I was a complete n00b once. And there are a LOT of noobs out there. I would have felt much better with a site like this with *serious* info in it.
[[User:Cyclop|Cyclop]] Sep 15, 2004

----
I'm not saying that those articles don't ''need'' more information, I'm just trying to explain why that isn't being done automatically. If an article doesn't get read, it doesn't get edited. I think our contributor community is currently too small to have a good representation of distro-addicts - maybe you could invite some to come help out? Also, without explicit permission from the owners of a website, any copying and pasting is a no-no, regardless of whether it's a review or project website. We need to either ask for permission, and give attribution with a link to the original, or roll our own. Maybe we need some people to go out of their way to flesh out the distro articles? And the Linus article while their at it? Any volunteers? [[User:Crazyeddie|Crazyeddie]] 13:33, Sep 15, 2004 (EDT)

== mandrake ==

Before jumping into linux did lots of reading
to acquire knowledge of i would need to know what to expect amd do at time of installing any linux. reading cleared the confusion of which distro to choose; hence mdk # 1 reason
RH geared for corp. business, debian academic
& development, the rest fall some where in between. apology not acceptable being that was
spoiled and dependant on BG w. my regret that
was not exposed to linux at inception time i may have different outlook now which is still better now that am exposed to mdk, life is challenging now that mdk is making a impact on this retch life better! LINUX FOR EVER!

I was surprised to find that the info posted in this post were very brief and more than a year old, so I spent a generous part of the day researching and modifying it appropriately.
In some areas i have referred to the product and the company as Mandrake and Mandrakesoft respectively. This is because it sounds awkward to rename everything from version 1 as mandriva, even though it was called mandrake then.

The history section is more company-oriented than distro-oriented as i could not find info regarding the distro history.(It'd be nice if someone who knows added it).

Most of the quotes in italic are from Mr. Duval's LQ interviews.
All the factual info posted here are easily available online(a google search should get you there).
The table regarding the product history has been extracted from wikipedia.
that's all!!!

And...

I was not paid by Mandriva to write this wiki :( . But i definitely wouldn't mind if they did ;D.

Mandriva

2005-07-28T15:30:07Z

Abattoir:

'''Mandrake''' Linux (Now called Mandriva Linux after its merger with Conectiva) was created in 1998 with the goal of making [[Linux]] easier to use for everyone. At that time, Linux was still a developer's [[operating system]] and sound knowledge of the [[CLI]] was a must.

''Note: The Operating System now known as 'Mandriva Linux' and its makers, "Mandriva", have been referred to by their former names, 'Mandrakelinux' and "Mandrakesoft",respectively in certain sections below for historical accuracy.''

==History==
[http://www.mandrivalinux.com Mandrake] was created by Gaël Duval. He realised that ''"Linux had the potential to be an excellent alternative to Windows, or maybe even a full replacement".'' He created Mandrake with the aim of providing ''"a Linux distribution that would be as easy to use as Windows".'' In July 1998 the first version of Mandrake was released (The first distribution to ship with KDE 1.0 as the default graphical environment.). It was based on the popular linux distribution [[Red Hat]] as it offered a robust package management system, [[RPM]] or '''R'''ed '''H'''at '''P'''ackage '''M'''anager (Now called '''R'''PM '''P'''ackage '''M'''anager).
In November 1998, "several young Linux enthusiasts" created Mandrake(the company).

In 2001, the company decided to go public and announced an IPO(Initial Public Offering) of 688,480 shares which at that time represented 20.28% of the company's capital. Trading of the stock began on August 2001 in the ''Marche Libre'' exchange in Paris.

In late 2002, MandrakeSoft announced that it faced a "big short-term cash issue" and requested users to join Mandrakeclub (a paid service that offers certain extra benefits, now called Mandrivaclub), and existing members to upgrade.

Subsequently, in January 2003, MandrakeSoft filed for ''"declaration de cessation des paiements"'', the french equivalent of Bankruptcy Protection.
By the end of 2003, MandrakeSoft declared its first quarterly profit in five years.
In March 2003, a french court approved of MandrakeSoft's plan to emerge out of bankruptcy and enabled the company to return to normal operations.
The company has since made a remarkable recovery.

Hearst Corporation, trademark owners of the comic-book character "Mandrake the Magician" sued MandrakeSoft for trademark infringement. The contention was heard in February 2004 and MandrakeSoft lost the case.
MandrakeSoft decided to concatenate Mandrake and linux(as in Mandrake linux) to Mandrakelinux and change its logo as a direct result.

In April 2005, MandrakeSoft merged with Brazilian linux vendor [[Conectiva]], and the company name was subsequently changed to its current name, Mandriva.

In mid-June 2005 Mandriva announced its acquisition of North American linux distributor [[Lycoris]].

The company after emerging from bankruptcy has posted strong gains and is surging ahead in popularity and dominates the European, North American and South American(through Conectiva) markets.

==Highlights==
Mandrivalinux features an elegant and user-friendly interface, right from installation and hence is recommended for people who are new to Linux.
It is renowned for having wide hardware detection and support.
It primarily dominates the Desktop arena but is now trying to tap into the Server market too.

Mandrivalinux features a versatile configuration utility called '''Mandriva Control Centre''' often abbreviated as '''MCC'''.
It features a set of tools that ease the configuration of various aspects of the Operating System.

Mandrake linux was the first rpm-based distribution to provide automatic resolution of dependencies with '''[[URPMI]]'''(which debuted in version 7.2), and its Graphical frontend, '''RPMDrake'''.
URPMI can easily be setup to download and install binary RPMs(which include security updates) from local and web sources without the user having to interfere much.''(See [[URPMI]] for more information)''.

Almost all popular linux applications are available in either binary form for the user to install, or can be compiled from source.

[[KDE]] is the default Desktop Environment, but other popular Environments like [[Gnome]] are either included, or can be installed easily.

Mandrake Linux was one of the first distributions to be optimized for [[i586]] [[processor]]s (and superior).
Mandrivalinux is currently available for x86, x86-64 and PowerPC architectures.

==Installation==
Mandrake developed a graphical installation process recognized by many as one of the best available, with advanced and efficient hardware detection (although today other distributions, like [[SuSE]] and [[Fedora]] provide similar tools).
Mandriva installation usually needs no more than booting from the first distribution CD-ROM and following instructions.

==Development process==
As of today Mandriva follows a [[Debian]]-like three-step development process for every release (although much faster than Debian). Every new release begins simply as being [[Mandriva Cooker]], that is the continuously changing current development line, and can be roughly seen as the analogue of Debian unstable. When the packages and set up of Cooker begins to reach reasonable stability, the [[Mandriva Community]] is released (often preceded by a couple of release candidates). Mandrake Community normally still contains bugs and unstable packages, and it is intended as a fairly usable but testing release. After months of testing, feedback and improvements on the Community release, the [[Official]] version is released. [[Mandriva Official]] is intended to be the stable version.

The [[GPL]] (General Public License) governs the development and redistribution of Mandrivalinux and it is community-driven to a large degree. Non-Mandriva contributors have write access to packages in the main distribution, commit access to Mandriva's own tools in [[CVS]], full bug tracking rights in [http://qa.mandriva.com Mandriva's bugzilla] and the [http://qa.mandriva.com/wiki Mandriva Development wiki]. Over half the packages in the entire distribution (combining "main" and "contrib") are maintained by the community. For non-developers, support is available from the unofficial [http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca Mandriva community wiki] and the [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=30 LinuxQuestions' Mandriva forum].

==Criticism==
Although Mandrake is one of the best distributions available, especially for linux beginners and for the desktop, is (like any other distribution) far from being perfect. Mandrake is well known for heavy customization of [[kernel]] and packages. While this often is a plus by adding new functionality, it can also lead to inferior stability (especially in the Community releases) when confronted with other distributions like [[Slackware]] or [[Debian]]. The large hardware support by default Mandrake Linux provides also means installation of a large and heavy kernel. Also many [[kernel module|kernel modules]] are active by default after the installation, weighing on the system. Even with a lightweight [[GUI]] like [[Fluxbox]] Mandrake is noticeably slow on old computers, and cannot be seriously advised as a desktop on a PC with less than 128 Mbyte of RAM and 400 MHz clock rate. These are fairly low requirements (lower than that of [[Windows XP]] for example), but [[Slackware]],for example, can run a reasonably fast graphical desktop on a 150 MHz Pentium with 64 Mbyte of RAM. However Slackware is much harder to install and configure, and has less hardware support by default.

==Distributions similar to Mandrake==
*[[Red Hat]]
*[[SuSE]]
*[[Lorma]]
*[[Libranet]]

==Products==
The latest stable release of Mandriva Linux is '''Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005'''.
An unstable beta version of '''Mandriva Linux 2006''' is also available.

'''''Home Products'''''
*'''Mandriva Linux''' It is the mainstream linux desktop product.
*'''Globetrotter''' It is a version pre-installed in a portable hard-drive which can be connected to a computer with a [[USB]] port(and be booted with).
*'''Move''' is a version which is pre-installed in a [[USB]] pen-drive, from which it can be booted. It is based on Live-CD technology similar to [[KNOPPIX]] or [[DSL]].

'''''Corporate Products'''''
*'''Mandriva Linux Corporate Server''' It is the "Mandriva Linux Server Solution"
*'''Mandriva Linux Corporate Desktop'''Aimed at Office Productivity.
*'''Multi Network Firewall''' a "Security solution dedicated to the business world".
*'''Mandriva Linux Clustering''' It is a version suited for "heavy calculations" and "risk analysis", aimed at research organisations.

==Product History==
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
<caption>'''Product History'''</caption>
! style="background:#abcdef;" | Year
! style="background:#abcdef;" | Number
! style="background:#abcdef;" | Name
|-
|1998
|5.1
|Venice
|-
|1998
|5.2
|Leeloo
|-
|1999
|5.3
|Festen
|-
|1999
|6.0
|Venus
|-
|1999
|6.1
|Helios
|-
|2000
|7.0
|Air
|-
|2000
|7.1
|Helium
|-
|2000
|7.2
|Odyssey (called Ulysses during beta)
|-
|2001
|8.0
|Traktopel
|-
|2001
|8.1
|Vitamin
|-
|2002
|8.2
|Bluebird
|-
|2002
|9.0
|Dolphin
|-
|2003
|9.1
|Bamboo
|-
|2003
|9.2
|FiveStar
|-
|2004
|10.0
|Community and Official
|-
|2004
|10.1
|Community
|-
|2004
|10.1
|Official
|-
|2005
|10.2
|Limited Edition 2005
|-
|N/A
|N/A
|Cooker
|}
==External links==
*[http://www.mandriva.com Official website]
*[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=30 LinuxQuestions' Mandriva Forum]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux Mandriva @ Wikipedia]
*[http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Easy URPMI]

Mandriva

2005-07-28T15:28:42Z

Abattoir:

'''Mandrake''' Linux (Now called Mandriva Linux after its merger with Conectiva) was created in 1998 with the goal of making [[Linux]] easier to use for everyone. At that time, Linux was still a developer's [[operating system]] and sound knowledge of the [[CLI]] was a must.

''Note: The Operating System now known as 'Mandriva Linux' and its makers, "Mandriva", have been referred to by their former names, 'Mandrakelinux' and "Mandrakesoft" in certain sections below for historical accuracy.''

==History==
[http://www.mandrivalinux.com Mandrake] was created by Gaël Duval. He realised that ''"Linux had the potential to be an excellent alternative to Windows, or maybe even a full replacement".'' He created Mandrake with the aim of providing ''"a Linux distribution that would be as easy to use as Windows".'' In July 1998 the first version of Mandrake was released (The first distribution to ship with KDE 1.0 as the default graphical environment.). It was based on the popular linux distribution [[Red Hat]] as it offered a robust package management system, [[RPM]] or '''R'''ed '''H'''at '''P'''ackage '''M'''anager (Now called '''R'''PM '''P'''ackage '''M'''anager).
In November 1998, "several young Linux enthusiasts" created Mandrake(the company).

In 2001, the company decided to go public and announced an IPO(Initial Public Offering) of 688,480 shares which at that time represented 20.28% of the company's capital. Trading of the stock began on August 2001 in the ''Marche Libre'' exchange in Paris.

In late 2002, MandrakeSoft announced that it faced a "big short-term cash issue" and requested users to join Mandrakeclub (a paid service that offers certain extra benefits, now called Mandrivaclub), and existing members to upgrade.

Subsequently, in January 2003, MandrakeSoft filed for ''"declaration de cessation des paiements"'', the french equivalent of Bankruptcy Protection.
By the end of 2003, MandrakeSoft declared its first quarterly profit in five years.
In March 2003, a french court approved of MandrakeSoft's plan to emerge out of bankruptcy and enabled the company to return to normal operations.
The company has since made a remarkable recovery.

Hearst Corporation, trademark owners of the comic-book character "Mandrake the Magician" sued MandrakeSoft for trademark infringement. The contention was heard in February 2004 and MandrakeSoft lost the case.
MandrakeSoft decided to concatenate Mandrake and linux(as in Mandrake linux) to Mandrakelinux and change its logo as a direct result.

In April 2005, MandrakeSoft merged with Brazilian linux vendor [[Conectiva]], and the company name was subsequently changed to its current name, Mandriva.

In mid-June 2005 Mandriva announced its acquisition of North American linux distributor [[Lycoris]].

The company after emerging from bankruptcy has posted strong gains and is surging ahead in popularity and dominates the European, North American and South American(through Conectiva) markets.

==Highlights==
Mandrivalinux features an elegant and user-friendly interface, right from installation and hence is recommended for people who are new to Linux.
It is renowned for having wide hardware detection and support.
It primarily dominates the Desktop arena but is now trying to tap into the Server market too.

Mandrivalinux features a versatile configuration utility called '''Mandriva Control Centre''' often abbreviated as '''MCC'''.
It features a set of tools that ease the configuration of various aspects of the Operating System.

Mandrake linux was the first rpm-based distribution to provide automatic resolution of dependencies with '''[[URPMI]]'''(which debuted in version 7.2), and its Graphical frontend, '''RPMDrake'''.
URPMI can easily be setup to download and install binary RPMs(which include security updates) from local and web sources without the user having to interfere much.''(See [[URPMI]] for more information)''.

Almost all popular linux applications are available in either binary form for the user to install, or can be compiled from source.

[[KDE]] is the default Desktop Environment, but other popular Environments like [[Gnome]] are either included, or can be installed easily.

Mandrake Linux was one of the first distributions to be optimized for [[i586]] [[processor]]s (and superior).
Mandrivalinux is currently available for x86, x86-64 and PowerPC architectures.

==Installation==
Mandrake developed a graphical installation process recognized by many as one of the best available, with advanced and efficient hardware detection (although today other distributions, like [[SuSE]] and [[Fedora]] provide similar tools).
Mandriva installation usually needs no more than booting from the first distribution CD-ROM and following instructions.

==Development process==
As of today Mandriva follows a [[Debian]]-like three-step development process for every release (although much faster than Debian). Every new release begins simply as being [[Mandriva Cooker]], that is the continuously changing current development line, and can be roughly seen as the analogue of Debian unstable. When the packages and set up of Cooker begins to reach reasonable stability, the [[Mandriva Community]] is released (often preceded by a couple of release candidates). Mandrake Community normally still contains bugs and unstable packages, and it is intended as a fairly usable but testing release. After months of testing, feedback and improvements on the Community release, the [[Official]] version is released. [[Mandriva Official]] is intended to be the stable version.

The [[GPL]] (General Public License) governs the development and redistribution of Mandrivalinux and it is community-driven to a large degree. Non-Mandriva contributors have write access to packages in the main distribution, commit access to Mandriva's own tools in [[CVS]], full bug tracking rights in [http://qa.mandriva.com Mandriva's bugzilla] and the [http://qa.mandriva.com/wiki Mandriva Development wiki]. Over half the packages in the entire distribution (combining "main" and "contrib") are maintained by the community. For non-developers, support is available from the unofficial [http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca Mandriva community wiki] and the [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=30 LinuxQuestions' Mandriva forum].

==Criticism==
Although Mandrake is one of the best distributions available, especially for linux beginners and for the desktop, is (like any other distribution) far from being perfect. Mandrake is well known for heavy customization of [[kernel]] and packages. While this often is a plus by adding new functionality, it can also lead to inferior stability (especially in the Community releases) when confronted with other distributions like [[Slackware]] or [[Debian]]. The large hardware support by default Mandrake Linux provides also means installation of a large and heavy kernel. Also many [[kernel module|kernel modules]] are active by default after the installation, weighing on the system. Even with a lightweight [[GUI]] like [[Fluxbox]] Mandrake is noticeably slow on old computers, and cannot be seriously advised as a desktop on a PC with less than 128 Mbyte of RAM and 400 MHz clock rate. These are fairly low requirements (lower than that of [[Windows XP]] for example), but [[Slackware]],for example, can run a reasonably fast graphical desktop on a 150 MHz Pentium with 64 Mbyte of RAM. However Slackware is much harder to install and configure, and has less hardware support by default.

==Distributions similar to Mandrake==
*[[Red Hat]]
*[[SuSE]]
*[[Lorma]]
*[[Libranet]]

==Products==
The latest stable release of Mandriva Linux is '''Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005'''.
An unstable beta version of '''Mandriva Linux 2006''' is also available.

'''''Home Products'''''
*'''Mandriva Linux''' It is the mainstream linux desktop product.
*'''Globetrotter''' It is a version pre-installed in a portable hard-drive which can be connected to a computer with a [[USB]] port(and be booted with).
*'''Move''' is a version which is pre-installed in a [[USB]] pen-drive, from which it can be booted. It is based on Live-CD technology similar to [[KNOPPIX]] or [[DSL]].

'''''Corporate Products'''''
*'''Mandriva Linux Corporate Server''' It is the "Mandriva Linux Server Solution"
*'''Mandriva Linux Corporate Desktop'''Aimed at Office Productivity.
*'''Multi Network Firewall''' a "Security solution dedicated to the business world".
*'''Mandriva Linux Clustering''' It is a version suited for "heavy calculations" and "risk analysis", aimed at research organisations.

==Product History==
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
<caption>'''Product History'''</caption>
! style="background:#abcdef;" | Year
! style="background:#abcdef;" | Number
! style="background:#abcdef;" | Name
|-
|1998
|5.1
|Venice
|-
|1998
|5.2
|Leeloo
|-
|1999
|5.3
|Festen
|-
|1999
|6.0
|Venus
|-
|1999
|6.1
|Helios
|-
|2000
|7.0
|Air
|-
|2000
|7.1
|Helium
|-
|2000
|7.2
|Odyssey (called Ulysses during beta)
|-
|2001
|8.0
|Traktopel
|-
|2001
|8.1
|Vitamin
|-
|2002
|8.2
|Bluebird
|-
|2002
|9.0
|Dolphin
|-
|2003
|9.1
|Bamboo
|-
|2003
|9.2
|FiveStar
|-
|2004
|10.0
|Community and Official
|-
|2004
|10.1
|Community
|-
|2004
|10.1
|Official
|-
|2005
|10.2
|Limited Edition 2005
|-
|N/A
|N/A
|Cooker
|}
==External links==
*[http://www.mandriva.com Official website]
*[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=30 LinuxQuestions' Mandriva Forum]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux Mandriva @ Wikipedia]
*[http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Easy URPMI]

Talk:Mandrake

2005-07-28T05:50:28Z

Abattoir: Talk:Mandrake moved to Talk:Mandriva

#REDIRECT [[Talk:Mandriva]]

Mandrake

2005-07-28T05:50:28Z

Abattoir: Mandrake moved to Mandriva

#REDIRECT [[Mandriva]]

List of Linux distributions

2005-07-28T05:49:20Z

Abattoir: /* Alphabetical distribution listing */

[http://kernel.org Linux] is a [[kernel]], in itself not an extremely useful piece of software to the user, but very important: it provides hardware resources management, and access to the hardware is necessary to get anything done, of course. To have a fully functional [[operating system]], some basic software is needed as well. A [[GNU/Linux]] [[distribution]] is the complete package. Most modern distributions also come with graphical installers to help with the initial setup.

==Special categories==
*[[Live CD distributions]]
*[[Source distributions]]
*[[Firewall distributions]]
*[[Embedded Linux]]
*[[ISO CD Vendors]]

==Alphabetical distribution listing==
*[http://www.altlinux.ru ALTLinux]
*[[AMSEL]]
*[[Amigo Linux]]
*[[Arch Linux]]
*[[Ark linux]]
*[[ASPLinux]]
*[[Aurox]]
*[[BasicLinux]]
*[[BioKnoppix]]
*[[BLAG]]
*[[Buffalo]]
*[[cAos]]
*[[CentOS]]
*[[ClusterKnoppix]]
*[[CollegeLinux]]
*[[Conectiva]]
*[[Core Linux]]
*[[Crux]]
*[[DamnSmallLinux]]
*[[Debian]]
*[[DeLi Linux]]
*[[Devil-Linux]]
*[[DragonLinux]]
*[[Dyne:Bolic]]
*[[Feather]]
*[[Fedora]]
*[[Floppix]]
*[[FloppyFW]]
*[[Fnord Linux]]
*[[Foresight]]
*[[Freesco]]
*[[Frugalware]]
*[[Gentoo]]
*[[Goppex]]
*[[Gnoppix]]
*[[GoboLinux]]
*[[IPCop]]
*[[IpodLinux]]
*[[Kanotix]]
*[[Kate OS]]
*[[KnopILS]]
*[[Knoppix]]
*[[Kubuntu]]
*[[Kurumin]]
*[[Libranet]]
*[[Linspire]], formerly [[LindowsOS]]
*[[Linux From Scratch]]
*[[LNX-BBC]]
*[[Lorma]]
*[[Lunar Linux]]
*[[Lycoris]]
*[[Mandriva]], formerly [[Mandrake]]
*[[Mandows]]
*[[MEPIS]]
*[[MiniSlack]]
*[[Morphix]]
*[[muLinux]]
*[[Peanut]]
*[[PCLinuxOS]]
*[[PHLAK]]
*[[Red Hat]]
*[[Rifai Linux]]
*[[Rinux]]
*[[RiOZ]]
*[[ROCK Linux]]
*[[Rubyx]]
*[[Skole Linux]]
*[[Slackware]]
*[[SLAX]]
*[[SmoothWall]]
*[[SOL (Server Optimized Linux)]]
*[[SOT Linux]]
*[[Source Mage]]
*[[SPB-Linux]]
*[[Sun JDS]]
*[[SuSE]]
*[[SystemRescue]]
*[[Thiz]]
*[[tinysofa]]
*[[TopologiLinux]]
*[[Trustix Secure Linux]]
*[[TurboLinux]]
*[[Turkix]]
*[[Ubuntu Linux]]
*[[Underground Desktop]]
*[[VectorLinux]]
*[[Vida Linux]]
*[[WHAX]]
*[[Whitebox Linux]]
*[[Yellow Dog Linux]]
*[[Yoper]]
*[[Xandros]]

==Family-Tree distribution listing==
*[[AMSEL]]
*[[Arch Linux]]
*[[Core Linux]]
*[[Crux]]
*[[Debian]]
*#[[Corel Linux]]
*##[[Xandros]]
*#[[DamnSmallLinux]]
*#[[Floppix]]
*#[[Knoppix]]
*##[[BioKnoppix]]
*##[[ClusterKnoppix]]
*##[[Feather]]
*##[[Gnoppix]]
*##[[Kanotix]]
*##[[KnopILS]]
*##[[Kurumin]]
*##[[MEPIS]]
*##[[Morphix]]
*###[[PHLAK]]
*#[[Libranet]]
*#[[Linspire]], formerly [[LindowsOS]]
*#[[Ubuntu]]
*##[[Kubuntu]]
*#[[Underground Desktop]]
*[[Devil-Linux]]
*[[Dyne:Bolic]]
*[[Gentoo]]
*#[[SystemRescue]]
*#[[Vida Linux]]
*#[[Goppex]]
*[[GoboLinux]]
*[[IPCop]]
*[[IpodLinux]]
*[[Linux From Scratch]]
*[[LNX-BBC]]
*[[Lunar Linux]]
*[[Lycoris]]
*#[[Mandows]]
*[[muLinux]]
*[[Red Hat]]
*#[[Ark linux]]
*#[[Aurox]]
*#[[BLAG]]
*#[[cAos]]
*#[[Conectiva]]
*#[[Fedora]]
*##[[ASPLinux]]
*##[[tinysofa]]
*#[[Lorma]]
*#[[Mandrake]]
*##[[PCLinuxOS]]
*##[[ALTLinux]]
*##[[Turkix]]
*#[[Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)]]
*##[[CentOS]]
*##[[Whitebox_Linux]]
*#[[SOT Linux]]
*#[[Thiz]]
*#[[Trustix Secure Linux]]
*#[[TurboLinux]]
*#[[Whitebox Linux]]
*#[[Yellow Dog Linux]]
*[[ROCK Linux]]
*[[Rubyx]]
*[[Skole Linux]]
*[[Slackware]]
*#[[Amigo Linux]]
*#[[BasicLinux]]
*#[[CollegeLinux]]
*#[[DeLi Linux]]
*#[[DragonLinux]] -- currently inactive
*#[[Peanut]]
*#[[Slax]]
*#[[VectorLinux]]
*##[[Buffalo]]
*[[SmoothWall]]
*[[SOL (Server Optimized Linux)]]
*[[Source Mage]]
*[[SPB-Linux]]
*[[SuSE]]
*#[[Sun JDS]]
*[[Yoper]]

Don't know what distribution is right for you? See [[Choosing a Linux distribution]].

==Sites with distro lists==
*http://www.distromania.com
*http://www.linux.com
*http://www.linux.org
*http://www.linuxiso.org
*http://www.distrowatch.org
*[http://www.confederatelinux.com/linux/index.htm www.confederatelinux.com]
*[http://perso.wanadoo.es/xose/linux/linux_ports.html Ports of Linux]