The Mandriva community is small, yes, but tight-knit. This can be evidenced by the comments in my previous blog entry and the many emails I received privately, and the many chats initiated on IRC. It has been my honor and privilege to work with you guys, and I sincerely appreciate …

Well, I received some horrid news today.

As of December 31st, my contract with Mandriva will be terminated and I will no longer be working for Mandriva. We've got a new CEO now, and he's determined there is to be no remote contractors, and as a result I've been booted …

Well, after some discussion on cooker and, quite frankly, needing a resource myself to speed up security update testing (particularly looking for regressions), we've re-implemented "Testzilla". Sorta.

Instead of integrating with bugzilla, we've used the mediawiki framework. The reasons for this many. The biggest reason is to make the "Testzilla …

Today marks the release of Mandriva Linux 2009.0 (the 23rd Mandriva release!) and for the first time in probably 5 years, I was actually involved with it's development. =) The last few years I've stepped away from any sort of a developers role simply due to lack of time (security …

I've spent the entire day yesterday and another day last week working on migrating the current Mandriva bugzilla 3.0.5 to the new 3.2rc1. You won't see it anywhere official until 2009.0 is released most likely, but having (some) spare time, I wouldn't to put it through …

This week's TechMail is entitled Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC, which, as the name implies, discusses Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC.

When I wrote it, I had installed Mandriva onto an SDHC card, but I've since replaced Xandros with Mandriva on the SSD …

We got a really really nice review of Mandriva 2008.1 over on Linux.com. Good stuff. It's nice to see the kind words for all the hard work the developers and community have put into this release.

At the end of the month Mandriva is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary. I didn't think I was going to be able to get to come, but it turns out that I am (thanks Anne!). This is very cool for me because in June I'll be celebrating two anniversaries of …

Well, I'm no longer a virgin to the Mandriva build system. I've been using some tools, like iurt, on the secteam buildbox for a while now, but I've not had the need to use repsys or mdvsys. So I started playing with them yesterday. For starters, someone needs to make …

Well, it's official: Mandriva 2008.1 is now out and available. Time to start gearing up for the barrage of bugfix updates. =) On a similar note, 2007.0 is almost EOL.. you've got a few days left to upgrade to something newer before being left without security updates. April 13 …