The phpPgAdmin team has released a 4.1-Beta-1 package for your immediate use and testing. You can download it from our website at http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net. Translators are encouraged to send in updates, and any bug reports should be logged in our project tracker at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppgadmin/. Thanks for your support!
Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for example), … Partitions can be saved across the network since version 0.6.0.When using Partimage, the partitions must be unmounted.
Partimage is veryuseful in the following situations
First you can restore your linux partition if there is a problem (virus, file system errors, manipulation error) . When you have a problem, you just have to restore the partition, and after 10 minutes, you have the original partition. You can write the image to a CD-R if you don’t want the image to use hard-disk space.
Revelation is a password manager for the GNOME 2 desktop, released under
the GNU GPL license. It stores all your accounts and passwords in a
single, secure place, and gives you access to it through a user-friendly
graphical interface.
This release adds support for translations, including 4 new
translations. It is also a port to GTK 2.8 / GNOME 2.10, adds support
for LUKS-encrypted files and SplashID data files, and fixes quite a few
bugs including issues with icon loading, file saving, and more.
New features:
- translation support
- ported to gtk+ 2.8 and gnome 2.10
- added LUKS file import/export [John Lenz]
- added SplashID CSV file import [Devan Goodwin]
- cleaned up preferences dialog
- only show Revelation files by default in open and save dialogs
Bugfixes:
- improved error detection during file saving
- handle errors while loading icons [Wade Berrier]
- scale icons with improper sizes
As the New Year swiftly approaches, it’s time to write those resolutions. From exercising more, eating fewer snacks, or remembering to call your mother on her birthday, we all think of various ways we can improve our lives, by starting good habits or ending bad ones. I’d like to suggest some resolutions that will assist you in your pursuit of free software.
Contribute to a free software project
Support comes in many forms; while monetary donations are always welcome, constructive feedback in the form of comments or bug reports help make a project improve. If you like or dislike a particular feature, tell the developers! Many projects utilize testimonials when marketing their services. It’s also a confidence booster for the people toiling innumerable hours to know that someone supports their efforts; behind every great product is a team of people.
“These days, Linux has come a long way, and it has become far more visually attractive, as well as much easier to install. The ease of installation became apparent to me when I booted an Ubuntu Live CD on a computer that had a wireless networking PCI card as its only networking interface; it had taken me great pains to get the networking interface to work under Windows XP (I had to install a driver that Windows considered “possibly incompatible with your hardware” -and that I cannot possibly remember how I found it-in order to get it up and running). Naturally, I assumed that, if even Windows XP had great trouble with the card, then, surely with Linux, it would be next to impossible to use.
“Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Ubuntu had not only correctly identified the hardware, but even installed working drivers for it-all without any help from me! To get it connected, I only had to specify my network name and my WEP key, and off I went.”
This tutorial is intended to give a very basic introduction to using the Zend Framework to write a very basic database driven application.
Zend Framework is a new open source effort aimed at producing a high-quality framework for developing modern, robust, secure web applications and web services in PHP 5.
The Jakarta Commons community is pleased to announce the availability of Jakarta Commons VFS 1.0.
Commons VFS provides a single API for accessing various different file systems. It presents a uniform view of the files from various different sources, such as the files on local disk, on an HTTP server, or inside a Zip archive. For example, you can use filenames like “tar:gz:http://anyhost/dir/mytar.tar.gz!/mytar.tar!/path/in/tar/README.txt” to access a compressed tar file located on a web server.
Commons VFS 1.0 is the first release.
The Jakarta Commons community is pleased to announce the availability of Jakarta Commons Betwixt 0.8.
Commons Betwixt is a customizable, flexible, dynamic, reflective bean-centric object-xml mapper.
0.8 is a feature release. Improvements have been made to suppression strategies. Enhancements have been made to mapping formats. Mixed collections are now handled more completely. For full details see the release notes and release documentation.
Finally, it’s done. Just in the past couple of months, there has been quite a lot of new and exciting development in the GNU/Linux world, which of course should also be present in the current Knoppix version. Even that some of the new and optional features (like the 3d-desktop beryl) are still in experimental stage. Repeatedly, new Kernel-/KDE-/OpenOffice releases have spoilt our planned release dates, but on the other hand, now all these are available in the new release as well (2GB of software on CD, 10GB on DVD).
Returning to a biannual release cycle, the developers of Mandriva released a few days ago an initial alpha build of what will eventually become Mandriva Linux 2007.1: “Mandriva Linux 2007 Alpha1 (Hangzhou). This alpha version is available via two means. Firstly via the public FTP and HTTP sites mirroring the Mandriva Linux repository. Second, the preferred way, via either the provided One CDs (installable live CDs), or the installation mini CD i586 and x86_64.”
“The current Linux kernel, version 2.6.19, was released at the end of November and work is ongoing for an early 2007 release of the 2.6.20 kernel. But that’s not stopping developers from putting out releases of older Linux kernels.
“Currently both the 2.4.x Linux kernel and the 2.6.16.y kernel are being actively maintained, and both legacy kernels have recently released new updates.”
Microsoft Corp. has two years in which to convince Amsterdam city authorities that it can offer better value for money on the desktop than open source alternatives.
The city will conduct tests of open source software on desktops in two departments in the first half of 2007
It doesn’t intend to phase out the use of proprietary software completely, but expects the tests to lead to a reduction in the scope of its contract with Microsoft, its current desktop software supplier, the city said. That contract expires at the end of 2008, according to a statement from the city.
Programmers have released a new version of Xen with a graphics feature that makes the virtualization software more useful on desktop computers.
…By including what’s called a virtual frame buffer, Xen’s controlling “host” operating system can capture video data written to a specific part of memory and then send it to the display. The technology lets users see virtual machines through a graphical interface, a feat competitors such as EMC’s VMware can already accomplish, rather than the text-based command line suitable chiefly for the technically proficient.
Hi,
The challenge period has ended. And it is time to officially declare the
*Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election*
Here goes:
Quim Gil
Dave Neary
Jeff Waugh
Glynn Foster
Vincent Untz
Anne Østergaard
Behdad Esfahbod
The results can be found at
http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=3
The Committee would like to thank all the voters and all the candidates.
And to the elected members - congratulations.
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee
In case any of you are not aware, the Fedora Legacy project is in the
process of shutting down.
The current model for supporting maintenance distributions is being
re-examined. In the meantime, we are unable to extend support to older
Fedora Core releases as we had planned. As of now, Fedora Core 4 and
earlier distributions are no longer being maintained.
Discussions last night on the #Fedora-Legacy channel have brought to light the fact that certain Fedora Legacy properties (servers) may be going away soon, such as the repository at and the build server. Legacy folks need to let us know what they want to be done with the content in the repository mirrors. If you don’t speak up, we may find ourselves in a place where ‘yum update’ commands will fail in the near future for the Red Hat and Fedora Core releases that Legacy has supported in the past.
If there are any issues you need to discuss regarding these events, you
are welcome to discuss them on our IRC channel (channel #Fedora-Legacy
on the freenode IRC network ), or on the Fedora
Legacy discussion list:
Sincerely,
Jesse Keating
and
David Eisenstein
of the Legacy Team.
Hi folks,
The end of the year draw near and K3b 1.0 is still not final yet. I just did
not have enough time for K3b and there are still open issues. But it gets
more stable day by day and hopefully this will be the last release candidate
before the final.
Please help by downloading K3b from http://www.k3b.org/download and test the
hell out of it.
Have a nice new years everybody.
Cheers,
Sebastian
“Gwangju was designated as OSS City by Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) to bring up its economy and competitiveness through IT industry using open source to construct improved infrastructures in city’s key industries like opto-electronics, automobile, mobile, and semiconductor.
“The project with total cost of $45.7 million in three phases will run from 2006 to 2010.”
Read more at ZDNet
Last week I read a couple of interesting articles on copying the Windows interface into Linux. Especially I liked reading the comments to those articles – indeed there were many disputes around this. The interesting thing here is that projects like ‘Look Win XP Desktop’ are needed for both Linux and Windows users. You ask why? Well, there are some reasonable ideas for this:
MEPIS LLC has released Beta1 of SimplyMEPIS-64 Version 6.0-4. SimplyMEPIS is a complete and safe desktop computing environment designed to meet the needs of everyday computer users and software professionals alike. Warren Woodford of MEPIS said “We have tried to make the 64 bit edition of SimplyMEPIS look, feel and function the same as the 32 bit edition. There are only a few differences, for example 32 bit users can choose to download some extra multimedia codecs that are not yet available in 64 bit versions.”
The 64 bit version of SimplyMEPIS offer the same advanced hardware autodetection, multimedia integration, and easy to use installer that is included with the 32 bit edition. This release includes Firefox 2.0.0.1, Flashplayer 9, OpenOffice 2.0.2, the very stable 3.5.3 build of KDE desktop, and a rock solid, security patched 2.6.15 Linux kernel with support for the newest sound chips and Apple hardware.
The ISO image is available for download in the ‘testing’ subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber’s Site and at MEPIS public mirrors. Satisfied users are encouraged to make a contribution or make a purchase at the MEPIS store. Your support helps offset the costs of producing SimplyMEPIS 6.0 and funds further development of MEPIS Linux.
While 64-bit support is now considered common for both Intel and AMD processors, many Linux (as well as Windows) users are uncertain whether to use a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system with there being advantages for both paths. With this being the last Phoronix article for 2006, we decided to take this opportunity to look at this common question of whether to use 32-bit or 64-bit software. In this article, we will be comparing the i386 and x86_64 performance with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft and Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 1 to see how the numbers truly stack up.