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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. As a long-time Mandriva user... by Leomania · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... I just want to know if they're going to finally fix the cutting off of the shutdown sound. As either Gnome or KDE exits, it seems no effort was made to be sure the sound had finished playing before turning off the sound service. Somehow that was never an issue in Knoppix, which always managed to finish that longish "Initiating shutdown sequence" clip during KDE shutdown.

    Such a minor thing, but so noticeable.

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    1. Re:As a long-time Mandriva user... by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're used to waiting for Windows to shut down, which is enough time to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

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  2. No Prize by tkg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    FTFA:
    "There will be no cash or any other kind of prize for the winners, except for a hearty thanks from Mandriva..."

    Why not at least offer a lifetime Gold club membership for the winner and a Tee shirt or something for the runners up. A "hearty thanks", for someone's creative work, even if it is only a couple of 5 second clips, seems almost insulting.

  3. I'm gonna win... by goodEvans · · Score: 4, Funny

    Father Jack style!

    Login: Arse! Drink! Girls! Feck!
    Shutdown: Feck off!

  4. Thats great by matt328 · · Score: 5, Funny

    now if I could only get my damn sound card to work in linux.

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