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The GNOME developers, through Lucas Rocha, have announced early this morning in a press release that the last maintenance release of the popular GNOME 2.26 desktop environment is now available for download. Just like the previous maintenance releases, GNOME 2.26.3 is here mainly to fix many of the remaining bugs, but to also introduce a few interesting features. “This is the last update to GNOME 2.26. It contains many fixes for important bugs that directly affect our users, documentation updates and also a large number of updated translations. Many thanks to all the contributors who worked hard on delivering those changes in time. We hope it will help people feel better in their daily use of computers!” – said Lucas Rocha in the press release. It’s easy to argue that Ubuntu’s success is because there’s an unlimited supply of investment from its super-rich parent company, Canonical. But Linux isn’t like any ordinary software stack. People aren’t forced to use it, and we can all choose something else at no extra cost. Ubuntu has to be doing something right. Ubuntu’s biggest, and earliest, success has been in marketing itself. It’s become a recognisable brand, not only in the Linux community, but in the wider non-technical world. If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are completely compatible and legal with WordPress’s license. There have been some questions in the community about whether the GPL applies to themes like we’ve always assumed. To help clarify this point, I reached out to the Software Freedom Law Center, the world’s preeminent experts on the GPL, which spent time with WordPress’s code, community, and provided us with an official legal opinion. One sentence summary: PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required. Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE (London Stock Exchange)’s Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day. While the LSE denied that the collapse was TradElect’s fault, they also refused to explain what the problem really wa. Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect. Since then, the CEO that brought TradElect to the LSE, Clara Furse, has left without saying why she was leaving. Sources in the City-London’s equivalent of New York City’s Wall Street–tell me that TradElect’s failure was the final straw for her tenure. The new CEO, Xavier Rolet, is reported to have immediately decided to put an end to TradElect. With nearly no explanation, Microsoft sent out an alert notifying customers that it was removing download information for 10 security patches “because Microsoft Java Virtual Machine is no longer available for distribution from Microsoft.” The revised bulletins are rated as critical and affect patches from the years 1999 through 2003. The affected patches are: MS03-011, MS02-069, MS02-052, MS02-013, MS00-081, MS00-075, MS00-059, MS00-011, MS99-045, MS99-031. But the timing is odd. The Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM) was a technology included in some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows that let Java applets run in the browser or on a Windows machine. It was the subject of a giant legal battle between Microsoft and Sun, with Sun accusing Microsoft of altering its virtual machine so that Java applets couldn’t properly function on Microsoft’s platforms (and rightly so). Eschalon is a turn-based RPG (role-playing game), which tries to reproduce the feeling of classic RPG games. It’s closed-source, available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, and it comes with a demo too. The full version is available as a download for $19.95. The currently available version is Eschalon Book I, and you can download the demo from the official website. To start the game, uncompress the tarball and run it as ./Eschalon\ Book\ I\ Demo from a terminal or just double-click the Eschalon Book I Demo executable. The game uses OpenGL and a native resolution of 800×600, which is also the only resolution available. It can be run in either windowed mode or fullscreen. Patrick Volkerding has announced that Slackware “Current”, the distribution’s development branch, has reached release candidate status: “The to-do isn’t entirely empty here, but it’s pretty much down to minor nits, and so we’re going to call this release candidate 1 and (mostly) freeze further updates unless they happen to fix problems. Regarding the kernel, 2.6.29.x has been well tested with this userspace and seems like the best choice to ship for production use. In June of 2007, after many months delay, the Free Software Software Foundation released GPLv3. Since that time, the license has been gaining an increased following, but without much threat to GPLv2 in first place. Open source knowledge base provider Black Duck Software confirms in a study of most commonly used open source licenses that GNU General PUblic License (GPL) 3.0 is in fifth place overall, with a little over five percent usage. A while ago I put up this article, reviewing 5 so-called ‘essential’ add-ons for Firefox. To continue in the same manner in this second part, here are 5 add-ons updated for Firefox 3.5 which can prove useful. Maybe not the most popular, but they definitely deserve a try. StumbleUpon Linux is famous for its stability and for having computers which have been online without being rebooted for years at a time. Indeed, among the geek community the longer your computer has been online the more “respect” you get. It’s called “uptime”, the amount of time your computer has been up for without needing a reboot. Due to its open source nature, new security holes are found and fixed constantly on Linux distributions. Many of these updates are for user space applications such as web servers, databases, office programs and the wider desktop environment. Distributions will package these fixes and distribute them via the standard package management system, however via this method applications and daemons need to be restarted in order to load the new safe program. You may already have the new Firefox 3.5 browser, but now, courtesy of the folks at PortableApps, you can get the portable version of Firefox 3.5 as well. It’s downloadable here, and, like the other portable versions of popular open source applications that PortableApps offers, it’s perfect as a lightweight app that you can keep on a USB thumb drive or other portable device. It comes bundled with a PortableApps launcher, so you can launch it directly from a USB thumb drive and have Firefox available with your customizations no matter where you are. It is that time of the year again. Akademy 2009 is about to begin in only a few days. Held in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium close to the beautiful beaches of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this event is shaping up to be a special conference. There is an excellent program in place, featuring tracks about Beauty, Business, Community, Methods and Applications. As special highlights there will be keynotes by Glyn Moody talking about how hackers will save the world and Sebastian Kügler, showing the Momentum of KDE. Akademy this year is a part of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, which provides more keynotes, a series of lightning talks, a full cross-desktop track, and the entire program of GUADEC for an unprecedented richness of talks about free desktop topics at the same event. The 2nd Edition of the International Conference on LDAP (LDAPCon 2009[1]) will be held on September 20-21, 2009 in Portland, Oregon, USA. The event is being co-hosted by LinuxCon[2] (same place and overlapping time). The 1st International Conference on LDAP[3] was held in September 2007 in Germany. A Call For Papers[5] has been raised and the Program Committee asks you to submit abstracts by July 8th. So if you’re involved with LDAP in interesting projects and you want to share your experiences, please check the Call For Papers and submit a proposal. 1: http://www.symas.com/ldapcon2009/ A new version of PrestaShop, v1.2 beta 3 is now available!
Download 1.2 beta 3: http://www.prestashop.com/en/downloads/ Bugs tracking: Please test this version and report us ALL bugs you’ll find in bug-tracker section, in order to release a final and stable 1.2. http://www.prestashop.com/bug_tracker/ Thanks for your help ! Stay tuned for the next version ! Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform for x86, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 is in development and therefore the While anaconda’s “upgrade” option will perform an upgrade from As much as I’ve railed against quickie distro reviews, I find myself trying a new version of Ubuntu in live CD form and writing just such a piece. I apologize in advance for not running Ubuntu 9.04 longer, but in this evaluation, which has everything to do with the hardware I’m using, I’ll explain why this is a wham-bam distro evaluation: I’ve been sticking with Ubuntu 8.04 — the LTS version of the distro — on my main Toshiba 1100-S101 laptop for a number of reasons. For one thing, just about everything works (with exceptions being suspend/resume and some rare-but-troublesome crashes when running a USB Wifi stick), and as a production machine, I need it to continue to work. And both of my identical Toshiba laptops have extremely flaky CD/DVD-ROM drives that don’t like most CD-R discs. I managed to burn a Ubuntu 8.04 CD that did boot and install the OS to get me started on this laptop. Since then, I’ve discovered that commercially produced CD-ROM discs always boot fine. So does DVD+R media; I managed to burn a huge Debian Lenny DVD+R that I’ve used to set up the other Toshiba. While it may be a completely philosophical debate whether the universe is turtles all the way down, it’s a lot less existential to imagine that the internet is clouds all the way up. In April, Canonical previewed its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (affectionately known as UEC), a system designed to simplify the creation, optimization, and management of cloud environments for private organizations. The interface and functionality of UEC is similar to the Amazon EC2 infrastructure, uses in-house hardware running Ubuntu Server Edition 9.04, and is powered by Eucalyptus Systems cloud computing tools. CNet’s Matt Asay beat The VAR Guy to the punch — writing a blog about potential Oracle-Ubuntu Linux synergies. Still, the potential Oracle-Ubuntu partnership gets a little sexier when you throw OpenOffice into the mix. Not even Jack, Janet and Chrissy looked this good together in their prime. Here’s why. First, some background: Ubuntu certainly has momentum on the desktop. But Canonical is evangelizing Ubuntu on servers as well. And that effort requires enterprise software partners, as Matt Asay points out. Magento version 1.3.2.2 is now available for download and upgrade. This release includes issue resolution for Magento version 1.3.x. To see a full list of changes please visit the release notes page. A diff file is available here. Important Note: If the Magento Compilation Module is enabled it must be disabled before attempting to upgrade. After upgrading is done click on “Run Compilation Process” to process and enable it again. Please Note: We do NOT recommend upgrading a production installation of Magento directly. Please backup database and all files before upgrading. Please make sure to check file permission before trying to upgrade through your Magento Connect Manager. Drupal 6.13 and 5.19, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Both releases fix some other smaller issues as well. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement. |
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