eBox 1.4-1 installer released

Hi fellow eBox users,
I just wanted to let you know that we’ve done a lot of bugfixing and small improvements since the release of the first 1.4 release. Those all enhancements have now been included on a new installer.
You can download it as usual in our Download page.
The installer itself contains some bugfixes [...]

Come Out as Part of KDE

Part of the repositioning of the KDE brands was choosing an appropriate ‘KDE Software Label’ for developers working on applications outside the main KDE Software Compilation. Technology developed by KDE is used far and wide, as can be witnessed on kde-apps.org and other sites. Some of these applications are developed by people closely entrenched in [...]

KDE OBS Generator Builds KDE Packages for Various Distros

Building distro-specific packages is not one of the strengths of most developers. The KDE OBS Generator should solve this problem with the help of openSUSE Build Services.
The idea for kde-obs-generator emerged from CampKDE and FOSDEM. Since then, Novell employee Lubo Lunák has uploaded its first developer version on kde-apps.org. The program creates RPM and Debian [...]

Time For Ubuntu to Fork Evolution

No one can deny the current face of Linux to the masses is Ubuntu. It’s massively more popular than any other distro which makes it the flagship for breaking existing market strangleholds.
Take the Enterprise server OS market for instance, a traditionally strong area for Linux anyway, Canonical (the controlling company of Ubuntu) have rightly seen [...]

ISPConfig 3.0.2 final released

ISPConfig 3.0.2 is available for download. This release is a major release of the ISPConfig 3 Hosting Control panel which brings many new features, improves the functionality and contains fixes for several bugs.
Download
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The software can be downloaded here:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ispconfig/ISPConfig-3.0.2.tar.gz?use_mirror=
Changelog and list of new features
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http://bugtracker.ispconfig.org/index.php?do=index&tasks=&project=3&due=21&status[]=
Known Issues:
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Please take a look at the bugtracker:
http://bugtracker.ispconfig.org
BUG Reporting
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Please report bugs to the [...]

Unified network administration using eBox

Linux is an excellent choice for a server operating system, no matter what the size of business. However, it is still not very easy to administrate. Recently many distributions have launched their own interface to configure these server components (like Apache and Samba), but really failed at delivering an easy-to-use interface to configure it. That [...]

Top 10 Addictive Games on Linux

For millions of users who are hooked onto that square-rectangular box for most part of their day, passing time becomes almost imperative sometimes. And if the source of this entertainment is addictive enough, then we are definitely talking about Computer games and especially if the games are played on an Open source platform like that [...]

Akademy-es 2010

The KDE España association is organizing Akademy-es 2010 in collaboration with Itsas (the Free Software group of the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU) and the Department of Culture of the Basque Goverment. This event gathers contributors to and users of KDE software and will be held in the Engineering Technical School of Bilbao from [...]

PrestaShop 1.3 beta 1 is now available!

The first beta version of PrestaShop v.1.3 is now available.
This new version includes the latest corrections made to PrestaShop since last week, including:
- Significant corrections on CSV import feature
- Ability to add javascript in text fields via TinyMCE
- Fixed search by tags
- Corrections on PaypalAPI and Moneybookers modules
- Stock management for products packs
- Display of the [...]

Wesnoth 1.7.14 aka 1.8-beta7: Development Release

The seventh beta for 1.8 is ready. Please note that due to a critical bug fix only versions >=1.7.14 are allowed on the development multiplayer server. For more details about this and celebrating the new release please visit this forum thread.
As with the last releases, we continue to offer two versions of changelogs: a rather [...]

Glom 1.13.8

*** Glom
With Glom you can design table definitions and the relationships between
them, plus arrange the fields on the screen. You can edit and search the
data in those tables, and specify field values in terms of other fields.
It’s as easy as it should be.
More information and screenshots are at
http://www.glom.org
Glom 1.13 will become stable Glom 1.14, around [...]

PostgreSQL Weekly News – March 07 2010

== PostgreSQL Weekly News – March 07 2010 ==
Bug fix updates for PostgreSQL 7.4 through 8.4 will be out soon. Get
ready to upgrade!
The San Francisco PostgreSQL Users’ Group will be having a Test Fest
Saturday April 3, 11am to 6pm. There will be live video. Help make
this a world-wide event!
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SFPUG_Beta_Test_Day
== PostgreSQL Product News [...]

Webmin 1.510 and Usermin 1.440 released

Hi everyone,
Webmin version 1.510 is now available for download from
http://www.webmin.com/ . This release includes the following
major changes :
– Package updates are now fetched more efficiently from
YUM and APT.
– Czech and Brazillian Portuguese updates, thanks to Karel
Hudan and Djavan Fagundes respectively.
– The Webmin RPM now preserves the [...]

Security problem with Samba on Linux – affects 3.5.0, 3.4.6 and 3.3.11

Security problem with Samba on Linux
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In Samba releases 3.5.0, 3.4.6 and 3.3.11 new code
was added to fix a problem with Linux asynchronous IO handling.
This code introduced a severe security flaw which was undetected until
now.
We are releasing new binaries and fixed source code as release numbers:
3.5.1, 3.4.7 and 3.3.12 with this fix included. This will be [...]

GParted 0.5.2 Released

GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.
This GParted 0.5.2 release includes bug fixes, and language translation updates.
Key changes include:
- Fix bug when copying huge (> 100 GB) NTFS partition never finishes
- Disable extended partition option for GPT disks
Visit http://gparted.sourceforge.net for more details.

eBox Platform Virtual Machine images available!

Hi fellow eBox users,
The eBox team is glad to announce that a new way of testing eBox is available. We have prepared disk images for VirtualBox and VMware. This way you can create a Virtual Machine and start testing eBox in a few seconds, skipping all the installation process and saving a [...]

OpenShot 1.1 Video Editor Released

OpenShot and PiTiVi have been capturing a lot of interest lately among those Linux users wishing for a reliable non-linear video editing application that is open-source and comparable in terms of features to those multi-media applications on other platforms. Yesterday the OpenShot crew announced their release of OpenShot 1.1, which moves this free software project [...]

OpenSSH 5.4 released

OpenSSH 5.4 has just been released. It will be available from the
mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.
OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0
implementation and includes sftp client and server support.
Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their
continued support of the project, especially those who contributed code
or patches, [...]

Kate, KDevelop and Okteta Developers Meet in Berlin

Berlin, probably one of the most frequented KDE hacking locations in the world, saw another hack sprint from 13th to 21st of February. This time four of the KDevelop and five of the Kate developers shared a week of very productive programming. Additionally team members from Okteta and KDE on Windows joined the meeting.
Read more [...]

Bull Migrates Desktops to OpenOffice.org, Munich Succeeds With Migration as Well

Summary: More migrations to Free software are seen in Germany and setbacks are spotted elsewhere in Europe
OpenOffice.org continues to evolve under Oracle’s guard, which is good news. According to the following article, OpenOffice.org also continues to gain greater adoption in Germany. Here is Bull speaking about its migrations to OpenOffice.org
Read more at Boycott Novell