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Mandriva Appeals to Users for Bookend Audio Bits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-klaxons-are-all-they-need dept.

Mandriva announced it is holding a contest for the best startup and logoff music for Mandriva 2007. The winner gets to have their sound as part of the new release. Technical lead Romain D'Alverny told Newsforge some of the philosophy behind the contest.

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  1. Yes Prize by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 3, Informative

    At LEAST 1k Euros worth... http://corp.mandriva.com/webteam/soundsubmit/rules / Prize The winner may choose one of the following two prizes: A life membership of the Mandriva Club, Silver level; A copy of Mandriva Linux PowerPack+ 2007, a GlobeTrotter 2.0, and an Archos Pocket Media Assistant PMA400.

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  2. Re:As a long-time Mandriva user... by Ash-Fox · · Score: 2, Informative
    Takes Linux just as much time to shutdown as Windows (even a little more in some cases). The difference is, Linux shuts down the sound and graphics early, while Windows waits on them.

    On my laptop:

    Fresh install of Windows XP SP2:
    Hangs on 'closing network connections' for quite a while, the entire shutdown was timed to take (mm:ss), 02:14.

    Fresh install of Mandriva Linux with SoS, PLF repositories:
    Shutting down the system from KDE. There was no visible hanging anywhere, it took (mm:ss) 00:11.
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