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		<title>Lame rumours</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago there was a post with a following discussion on linuxfr.org that speculated about a merger between Mandriva Linux &#38; Mageia Linux and also about that rpm5.org were about to be abandoned.. As rumours of an actual merge of the Mageia &#38; Mandriva communities has already been put to rest, I don&#8217;t want ]]></description>
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		<title>Mandriva Linux 2012 Tech Preview (Bernie Lomax;) officially released</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first prerelease of Mandriva Linux 2012 has just been made official! :o) Some of the highlights of this release are: KDE 4.8.4, Gnome 3.4.1, rpm 5.4.9, kernel 3.4.1, updated drakx tools (merging all latest changes from Mageia), libreoffice 3.5.2, GIMP 2.8.0, mplayer 1.1 and a bunch of new versions and bug fixes for tons of other ]]></description>
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		<title>Unity Linux cooker snapshot released!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been exactly one year since I last blogged and as Matthew Dawkins of the Unity Linux project has just released a new Unity Linux shapshot of cooker, I figured that it was about time for me to make a quick blog entry about it. :) As it&#8217;s been a while since we last made ]]></description>
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		<title>another update on upgrading from 2010.1 to cooker (please help test)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>proyvind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phew, been a couple of hectic months on rpm, not only switching to another version, but also introducing the new distepoch tag and started on doing a whole lot of cleaning for rpm stuff otherwise in distro as well, with over a decades worth of various hacks and what not the pains involved certainly turned ]]></description>
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		<title>Some funky fresh news on Mandriva Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>proyvind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are starting to look really nice now, cooker activity seems to have gotten back to previous levels and even then some and interest from new contributors seems to have increased as well, really nice to see!

Also one of my favourite news is Eugeni Dodonov now being appointed cooker project leader, being one of my favs since ever I had my first chats with him, I knew he was *the* right guy that Mandriva *desperatly*  needed and had been in lack of for the last three years now, awesome, Eugeni has done a great job so far and is proving himself to exceed new expectations everyday being proactive and being really good at discussing and listening to input and technical matters and suggestions. For me, this is awesome as I personally have been missing this all the time since Flepied, Warly &#038; Gwenole left us *sigh*.

Beyond that, the defintive most interesting and "controversial"/intrusive thing of my biggest focus these days is taking over rpm  maintenance and now working with great assistance from Jeff &#038; Ric on preparing and getting the final bits and pieces in place for getting some of the biggest and neatest changes wrt. rpm in Mandriva since probably forever, not only technically, but community-wise, influence, r&#038;d and simply being able to make packaging way easier and maintenance work way less demanding. A lot of new things will now come  now that we're not only maintaining obsolete versions of rpm with no interaction and participation in upstream, but we actually help drive it now and will be able to satisfy more user requests, distro interest, credibility and more. In the end, I think we will end up being able to be the awesome alternative in the forked world, hoping for interest of other distros, actively inviting their participation and offering to help merge, clean up and help them adapt and get onboard and satisfy their requests as well..

I'll be joining Mandiva again within a short period to work on rpm, urpmi and git with cross-distro collaboration in mind now as well. So things are certainly gonna be happening from now on!

I expect to upload a new release of rpm5 to main/testing by tomorrow hopefully ironing out the last remaining rpmdb conversion issues and related, then ported the few remaining rpm related packages requiring so (perl-URPM has already been rewritten to pure rpm5 native api, with a lot of refactorization, improvements++, even caixa's apt branch has gone through much of the same for rpm5 now ;).

If everything goes to plan, I hope for rpm5 to hit main/release by the end of next week with less rough introduction this time than as was the case for main/testing earlier.. (thx to rindolf and especially Ric for patience, helpfulness and eagerness in helping out in the process, some day later I¨lll make it wortwhile in one way or the other! ;).
I'm curious about what stance Mageia will take on this though, I'm certainly hoping they will adopt our work and allow for us to help them and contribute back and forth, if not I fear they'll miss out on several changes in just perl-URPM done recently during rpm5 rewrite, and even more so those planned when rpm5 upgrade situtation settles..

Oh well, just thought I'd give an update, I'm more excited about the situation of cooker and copmany than I've been for ages, I just hope the same will rub on to others as well! :D
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		<title>The rumours of our demise has been greatly exaggerated.. ;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>proyvind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoa, I haven't blogged for almost a year now, but with everything going on in the Mandriva Linux community lately, I've felt like as if I should..

As the discussions around this all gets way too subjective and just isn't worthwhile no matter how wrong you know others might be on various details, I've tried restrain myself from getting into most of the discussions and I'll pretty much refrain from going into it much further in public..

With the trend over the last couple of days being people announcing themself leaving  Mandriva Linux in favor of Mageia, I'd rather like to announce that I won't and throughout the next decade I plan on continuing my the past decade's involvement with the pretty darn best Linux distribution there is, Mandriva Linux!

There's been a lot of rumours lately, today Arnaud finally <a href="http://blog.mandriva.com/2010/09/20/mandriva-news-by-the-board/">announced official news and an update on the situation</a> dismissing most of these, it also had some nice surprises such as the continuation of Powerpack, something which the more plausible speculations and rumours circulating around suggested would be cancelled.
The increased focus on KDE and ambition of becoming the best KDE distribution in the world is certainly something I find very nice as well, not only as a KDE user, but also as it will set us apart from other competitor such as Fedora &#038; Ubuntu, giving us more appeal offering something different, improve the integration and streamlining of tools in the distribution, and also finally, it will bring us back to and focus on what originally gave life to Mandrake back in 1998, KDE! :D

While I wish the best for Mageia, I hope that this will help convince people in staying involved with Mandriva Linux and also on improving relations, I certainly hope to be able to collaborate and share efforts as much as possible with our differences set aside, and perhaps for the projects to eventually complement eachother directly. At least I hope for us to be friends and encourage people in both camps to focus on this and improving relations rather than tarnishing 

Finally, I'd just like to say: Long live Mandriva Linux! Hopefully we can finally make you live up to your full potential now! \o/ :o)


Kiss&#038;hugziez
Your luv, 
Per Øyvind
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		<title>Poor review with heartwarming community response</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>proyvind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoa, been quite a long time since I&#8217;ve blogged last time now and the longer it&#8217;s been, I&#8217;ve felt that I&#8217;ve needed to come up with something of more interest to blog about once I finally do some blogging again&#8230; ;) Well, I read this poor review of Mandriva Linux 2010 (the only poor review ]]></description>
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		<title>Desperately looking for a job</title>
		<link>http://proyvind.net/wordpress/?p=41</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>proyvind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I broke up with my girlfriend over four years..

Considering that I'm unemployed student, she'll be moving out soon and that I don't get any scolarship for the summer, this leaves me in a pretty desperate situation.

So these days I'm looking for a job, but the job marked isn't all that great right now, I've spent today applying for several jobs, but not much promising nor interesting so far..

I figure that I might as well announce my search here as well in hope of someone picking it up and offering me some cool (or at least not too crappy;) job after reading it. :D

So short about me, I'm at the end of my master degree in computer science with only my master thesis left to complete (thus no other courses occupying my time, leaving me available for near full time employment) and I've been heavily involved in the development of Mandriva Linux (in about every aspect at various stages) since 2001 and several other free software projects since.

My favourite programming languages are C, C++ and Python, I'm also experienced with Assembly, Java, PHP and Perl. (Some of the projects I'm currently involved in might give some idea about my background and fields of interest.)

While I'm preferably looking for a local job, I'm open for remote jobs as well, so feel free to get in touch wherever you might be if you have a possible job available for me. :D

I'm also maintaing a LinkedIn profile for anyone who'd like to see, feel free to connect, for anyone who'd like I'd be happy to provide you with a more complete CV, grades and any other info you'd like as well.

So if you're a hot chick eager to pay my rent or a potential new employer, be cool and send me a mail!]]></description>
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		<title>Interviewed by MAGNUM</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>proyvind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The french Mandriva Linux community magazine MAGNUM has just published their 06 issue where they&#8217;ve started a series of interviews with open source developers, and at the end of last year I had the honour of being their first to interview for this. :) The interview were conducted by mail, and since I was running ]]></description>
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		<title>PylibLZMA 0.5.2 &amp; some Gdium / mips cooker work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>proyvind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had it lying around without no changes taking place for almost a month now, so I figured that I&#8217;d just go on and release pyliblzma 0.5.2 as I never updated the cooker package to 0.5.1 (which fixes some nasty bugs) because I was planning on releasing 0.5.2 right away anyways.. I never got that ]]></description>
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