Mandrake9.2 is out!

[Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique)]

Le Samedi 18 Octobre 2003 16:10, aacton a écrit :
> On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 15:25, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > Can you give us a blurb about your contributions?  I'm sure TLUG
> > members would like to know about local developments.
>
> Sure, I'd be glad to.
>
> I've been a Mandrake developer for about two years.  I started when the
> organization was very 'corporate', i.e. the company decided everything,
> and we sent them contributions, and they accepted them or not.  I was
> part of the 'big turn over' last year, when about half the staff was
> laid off, and the development model had to be redesigned.  Mandrake went
> from 25% volunteer to about 75% volunteer in those two years, and it's
> working very well.  See the new community wiki for details:
> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/wiki
>
> I'm now the maintainer of most scientific and audio/video production
> applications in Mandrake, as well as some extra GTK/GNOME2 stuff.  You
> can see a list of my work at:
> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux?topic=AustinAc
>ton
>
> At present, I'm working on two personal projects:
> 1. FreeChem, a live-CD of scientific software, mostly chemistry/biochem
> related stuff, that runs from a CD
> 2. FreeJam, a live-CD of audio production software that runs from a CD
>
> Both are Mandrake based, but run live, from a CD, so that Windows users
> can try them out without repartitioning or similar annoyances.  Neither
> are endorsed or supported by Mandrake in any way... they are my own
> creations.  FreeChem will be ready this week, and FreeJam should be
> ready in a month or so.  I hope to do a video editing CD soon as well.
>
> I'll be giving out copies of FreeChem at the Seneca Open Source
> Symposium this Friday:
> http://cs.senecac.on.ca/sos2/
> as I'm a part-time chemistry professor at the Seneca at York campus.
>
> Other than that, it's very cool to be a new member of TLUG.  I've never
> attended a meeting, but I hope to in their near future.
>
> Austin

I recompiled gaim-.71 from source in my new Mandrake 9.2.
Interested by the rpm? (nothing original though)


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