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  1. Re:Probably a good thing by synthespian · · Score: 0, Troll · on GNOME 3.0 Delayed Until March 2011

    I fully agree. This GNOME thing is moronic. Like so many of their stuff, it reveals utter lack of clue wrt to usability. Yes, I hate GNOME. They are so Mac OS 8 interface guidelines...

    Mandriva's Smart Desktop looks way....smarter.

    This ain't free-as-in-Shuttleworth-candybar software, though. Mandriva being a company, and people actually having to work for a living to feed the kids, they reserved this for their paying customers (me, for instance). Those who oppose such model can grow a beard and use a notebook with a lame Linux and no GUI (i.e., emulate Stallman) or seek to hit the jackpot and become an instant millionaire (such as Shuttleworth). PS: How such people manage to not pay for their actual hardware is beyond my comprehension? Using their shirts? Large pants?

  2. Mandriva Pulse 2 by cdelfosse · · Score: 1 · on Best Tools For Network Inventory Management?

    Quoting the Pulse 2 website at http://pulse2.mandriva.org/ :

    Pulse 2 - Open Source Computer System Management for medium and large organizations.

    Pulse 2 helps organizations ranging from dozens to 100 000+ heterogeneous computers to inventory, maintain, update and take full control on their IT assets. It has been designed to handle 100 000+ computers spread on many sites.
    It supports heterogeneous platforms such as MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Mandriva, Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu., etc.), Mac OSX, HP-UX, IBM AIX and Solaris systems.

  3. Re:That depends...... by narrowhouse · · Score: 1 · on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative?

    You may want to take a look at the pulse2 link from a little earlier in the thread.

    http://pulse2.mandriva.org/

  4. Re:Mandriva by flydpnkrtn · · Score: 4, Informative · on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative?

    Wow MDS and Pulse look pretty cool... but the documentation for Pulse 2 is lacking. For example, one of my first questions would be "Do the Windows machines need to run an 'agent' first for pushing software installs?"

    "English documentation will soon be available, stay tuned."

    http://pulse2.mandriva.org/wiki/Documentation

  5. Mandriva by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative?

    Mandriva Directory Server + Pulse 2

  6. Mandriva by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative?

    Mandriva Directory Server + Pulse 2

  7. linbox/mandriva MDS by higuita · · Score: 1 · on Linux Authentication Against Active Directory

    Linbox had several packages to add to a debian to turn it a easy to manage ldap/AD system... they were aquired by mandriva, but IIRC, you can still install in in other OS other than mandriva

    http://mds.mandriva.org/

    take a look over it, it cant replace all AD, but if you dont need group policies and only want a central pointo to authenticate windows and mac/linux systems, check it out

  8. Re:Those were the days... by ReinoutS · · Score: 1 · on OpenSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 Has Been Released

    Speaking of which. Mandriva (it's not called Mandrake any more since years) has released their 2008 Spring distribution two weeks ago and Slashdot didn't even mention it. Yet it's easily as good or better than OpenSUSE or any other distro having a release around this timeframe...