Linux Mint 3.0, code name “Cassandra”, has been released: “This is Linux Mint 3.0 based on Linux Mint 2.2 ‘Bianca’ and compatible with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty and its repositories. Important new features: the brand new mintInstall and the Linux Mint Software Portal; GNOME 2.18; kernel 2.6.20; OpenOffice.org 2.2;….
Robert Kaiser writes: “Yesterday, the SeaMonkey project released a new version of its all-in-one Internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.2 closes several security vulnerabilities and fixes several smaller problems found in previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey stays at the same level of security as its siblings Firefox and Thunderbird, which are issuing updates for the same problems this week as well.
“Despite a simultaneous release of a last update to the SeaMonkey 1.0 series, SeaMonkey 1.0.9, the project team strongly urges users to upgrade to SeaMonkey 1.1.2, as the old 1.0 series will not be maintained further. The 1.1 series, on the other hand, is being actively maintained and also features some new functionality such as spell checking in web forms and mail tags.
“In addition to users of older SeaMonkey versions, the SeaMonkey team strongly urges users of the old Mozilla Suite and Netscape 4, 6 or 7 to upgrade to SeaMonkey 1.1.2. Those software packages suffer from a large and rising number of security vulnerabilities because they are no longer being maintained. SeaMonkey 1.1.2 is a drop-in replacement, providing the same basic suite functionality plus additional features, without known security problems but with current updates.
This is the third in our series of video segments from our interview with Professor Eben Moglen. The way he tells it, there are lots of reasons to feel sympathy for Microsoft.
Fedora 7 isn’t even a day old but there’s already preparations beginning for Fedora 8. The release of Fedora 8 is very tentatively planned for October 31, 2008 while the first test release is planned for July 1. According to the Fedora 8 release schedule there will be four test releases (like we saw with Fedora 7). Some of the features for Fedora 8 that were proposed very early include an improved startup experience, Bigboard as an alternative to the GNOME panel, completing Codec Buddy, Network Manager improvements, implementing PolicyKit, and use pulseaudio as the default audio server…
Google is using its first worldwide Developer Day to launch Google Gears, an open source technology for building Web applications that can work offline.
In addition the company will unveil plans to work with other vendors to mold standards that would provide developers with consistent APIs for building offline functionality into Web-based applications.
The free Google Gears technology built on the existing programming models for the Web, and added new JavaScript APIs for data storage, application caching and multi-threading features, the company said. The Gears tool would work with all browsers that ran on the Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems, it added.
An early version of Google Gears was now available, the company said.
Palm has used Linux to build what it’s calling a “new class” of mobile device. The Foleo is designed to expand the e-mail, Internet and productivity application capabilities of mobile phones such as the Palm Treo by adding a full-size keyboard and a larger screen.
Very few details about the Foleo are known at this point. Opera, which supplied its Opera 9 browser for the device, has confirmed the Foleo will be based on Linux. For its part, Palm has published a few photos and brief videos of the device, while promising to release more details May 31.
In one video, Palm founder Jeff Hawkins said Palm plans to ship a complete line of Foleo devices supporting a wide variety of mobile phones. He predicts that the Foleo will be more successful than Palm’s original Palm Pilot, which he designed, and more successful than its current Treo smart phones, which he helped design.
To read the rest of this LinuxDevices.com article by Henry Kingman, go here.
Not since SCO has there been a company so reviled by the open source community as Novell following its deal with Microsoft. Already there are some clear signs of the negative effects of that anger: senior coders have left the company; Novell has posted a loss for the most recent quarter; and there are calls for a boycott of Novell products – to say nothing of imminent changes to the GNU GPL that might well nullify the entire Novell-Microsoft deal. Some people are rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of Novell crashing and burning completely, but such a development could actually turn out to be one of the worst things to happen to free software.
Feisty has a terrible boot time on laptops compared to server (roughly 3x as long) even though it is a faster computer. You can speedup your boot time from over a minute to roughly 30 seconds by doing the following
Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file using the following command
sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
Now you need to comment out the wireless card (in this case eth1)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Fetchmail is a program for retrieving emails from remote servers. Imagine you have five email accounts on five different servers. Of course, you don’t want to connect to each of them to get your emails. This is where fetchmail comes into play. If you have a user account on a Linux server, you can make fetchmail download emails from remote servers and put them into just one mailbox (the one of your Linux user), from where you can retrieve them with your email client (e.g. Thunderbird or Outlook).
Hi,
All freshrpms add-on packages are now available for Fedora 7.
http://freshrpms.net/ - “click here” to import yum configuration
http://moonshine.freshrpms.net/ for the complete package listing
Have fun!
Matthias
ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 7 support for i386, x86_64 and
ppc.
o The packages will be available at `date -d “Thu May 31 14:00 UTC”‘,
which is Fedora’s release. I usually wait for the official release
announcement of Fedora to announce ATrpms’ support, but due to
LinuxTag activities I’ll be afk for about 24h.
Microsoft promised that Windows Vista would usher in a new era for PC gaming as a part of “The WOW Starts Now” marketing campaign. After spending several weeks with a complimentary copy of Microsoft’s new operating system (Ultimate version), we say: “WOW, what was Microsoft thinking?”
1. Announcements
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* Reminder: OOoCon 2007 Call for Papers Deadline is June 1st
* Press reports regarding “SB/BadBunny-A” virus
2. Success Stories
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* OpenOffice.org on Dell PC’s
3. Featured News
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* Hot Topics for Draw/Impress
* New Chart Module is Integrated
* Developer Snapshot of the new ReportDesigner
* On the way to a native Mac OS X OpenOffice.org
* Sun and Redflag Chinese 2000 to Collaborate on OpenOffice.org Projects
* Sun Microsystems joins porting effort for OpenOffice.org for Mac
* Weekend of the German OpenOffice.org QA team
* Forming better Japanese QA team
4. Tips & Tricks
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* Dmitri Popov: Extend OpenOffice.org
* The OpenOffice.org API Plugin for NetBeans
* Does program logic embedded in documents make sense?
* The quality of OpenOffice.org is not a miracle
5. OpenDocument News Roundup
6. Clippings
All news for this month can be found at:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_ooonewsletter_archive.html
As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security
update process, Firefox 1.5.0.12 and Firefox 2.0.0.4 are now
available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://
getfirefox.com.
Due to the security fixes, we strongly recommend that all Firefox
users upgrade to these latest releases.
Note: We anticipate this to be the last release in the Firefox
1.5.0.x series. Mozilla typically maintains support for previous
releases for six months after a major release. Mozilla has previously
extended the planned end of life for the 1.5.0.x series in order to
accommodate some recent changes in update functionality. Firefox
1.5.0.12 is available for download from http://www.mozilla.com/
firefox/all-older.html but all users are encouraged to upgrade to
Firefox 2.
If you already have Firefox 1.5.0.x or Firefox 2.0.0.x, you will
receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This
update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…”
from the Help menu starting later today.
For a list of changes and more information, please review the Firefox
1.5.0.12 Release Notes (http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
releases/1.5.0.12.html) and the Firefox 2.0.0.4 Release Notes (http://
en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.4/releasenotes/).
Over the coming weeks, Mozilla will be presenting 1.5.0.12 users with
a notification message that will offer users a “major update” to
Firefox 2. Upon confirmation, a user’s browser will be upgraded from
1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.4.
–
Basil Hashem
basil@mozilla.com
Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we’ve
brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment.
Here, I’ll help you pour that … and some for me … *cough, cough*
Smoooooth … sure does taste good. It’s been sitting here in the jug
for almost a whole month now! Go ahead and help yourself to some
more:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html
What’s the most important thing to do if you are upgrading your Fedora
version? Why, that’s easy! Read the release notes, it prevents
hangovers:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes
“While Firefox is very customizable, many of its settings aren’t in the Options. Each setting is named and stored as a string, integer, or Boolean in a file called prefs.js and accessed via about:config from the nav bar. Computerworld provides instructions on 20 tweaks for speeding up page loads, making tabs behave, reducing memory drain, and generally making the interface act the way you want it to. Customization also comes through the must-have FF extensions (but be sure to skip these).”
The server market is back, and Linux is helping, IDC reports. Linux servers posted their second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth and now represent 12.7 percent of the overall server market, or $1.6 billion for the first quarter of 2007.
PostgreSQL may not be the most popular open source database but that hasn’t stopped social networking site hi5.com from building a scalable architecture to serve 60 million members worldwide.
After several delays, Gentoo finally released version 2007.0, code-named Secret Sauce. Despite the extended period of development, the installable live CD and DVD versions didn’t work as they should, thanks to obvious bugs with display drivers. That…
In this segment of our week-long series of video excerpts from our interview with Professor Eben Moglen at last week’s Red Hat Summit in San Diego, he explains why it could be disastrous for Microsoft to continue the patent aggression that is part…