The 2008.0 beta is roughly a month behind the original tentative schedule. A number of factors contributed to this, including the migration to new release processes, the usual delays that affect most open-source projects, and the death of a close relative of our developers Chris Gianelloni and Chrissy Fullam.
Work on the first beta is still underway, and we expect to release it soon.
I have been blogging for many years. During that time I have used many other platforms including hosted software from BlogCity. TypePad, and Blogger. I also used Moveable Type briefly and a highly customized version of Joomla! (before that MamboCMS). Last fall I switched to WordPress as my primary blog platform. Though I haven’t been bowled over by WordPress I have come to the conclusion that it is the best blogging platform for me because it’s easy-to-use, has the widest variety of features, extensible, and it’s open source (with a thriving community of developers– over 90 developers were credited with contributing to this release).
Yesterday the long awaited and somewhat delayed WordPress 2.5 was released. Today, I updated my installation today and though I had a few problems the upgrade to the new version was definitely worth it.
Public embarrassment at a hacking contest and vulnerability disclosures for a new browser made for a discouraging week for Mac security folks.
It was one security embarrassment after another for Apple the week of March 24.
It began at the CanSecWest show, where the annual hacker contest challenged attendees to compromise a Vista system, a Ubuntu Linux system and a MacBook Air. The first day was reserved for preauthentication attacks and would have netted $20,000, but nobody took the prize.
On the second day, attackers were allowed to use default-installed client applications. Within minutes of the opening of the second day, the Mac was hijacked by security researcher Charlie Miller, who won the machine and a $10,000 prize for his efforts. Miller attacked the brand new Safari 3.1 browser through a new vulnerability, the details of which he declined to provide. The Vista and Ubuntu boxes survived the day.
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 News: Interview with Arch’s Aaron Griffin, end of Automatix, installing Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 Released last week: KNOPPIX 5.3.1, Zenwalk Live 5.0 Upcoming releases: sidux 2008-01 New addition: Myrinix, SliTaz GNU/Linux New distributions: Hellix/Linux, PC/OS, RTK GNU/Linux….
SystemRescueCd 1.0.1 has been released. From the changelog: “Using JWM 2.0.1 as default window manager instead of WindowMaker; using Unionfs 2.2.4 as the root file system; updated GParted to 0.3.6 (add support for the labels), Squashfs to 3.3 (with LZMA compression) to save space, ntfsprogs to 2.0.0, NTFS-3G….
The deadline for submitting travel grant applications for BSDCan 2008 through The FreeBSD Foundation is tomorrow, April 1.
The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel
grants to individuals requesting assistance to attend BSDCan 2008. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application at
www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/ by April 1, 2008 to apply for this
grant.
We have increased our travel grant budget for 2008! Now we have the
resources to help send more FreeBSD developers to conferences. We still
ask you to look to your employers first for sponsorship or cost-splitting.
Also, to be considered for the grant, you must provide a detailed
justification for attending this conference in the application. Please
describe, not only your purpose for attending, but how the FreeBSD
project and community will benefit from you attending this conference.
Please include only costs that you would like the Foundation to reimburse in the application. If there are other sponsors covering some portion of your expenses, please include that in your application, too.
We will not accept applications after April 1, 2008.
Thank You,
The FreeBSD Foundation
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 126 for the week of March 24th, 2008.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue126
In Announcements, we have “F9 Beta release announcement”, “Rawhide
20080328 Snapshot”, “FUDCon Lodging”, “Fedora Python SIG” and “Fedora
Updates System”
In Planet Fedora, we have “OS Wrangler and Server Developers still
needed”, “Reviewing toolchains — publican and /cvs/docs”,
“NetworkManager and mobile broadband”, “Persistence of vision” and
“Seek ye students”
We are always looking for more writers to help us deliver timely
information to the Fedora community.
== Postgres Weekly News - March 30 2008 ==
Summer of Code closes for applications Really Soon(TM). Get your
application in ASAP! http://code.google.com/soc
The first commit fest is ending soon, and lots of new features have
come in. Kudos to all on the hard work.
PostgreSQL Conference East is over. Kudos to all the organizers,
presenters and participants.
== Postgres Product News ==
check_postgres 1.3.1 released.
http://bucardo.org/nagios/
PostgreSQL Maestro 8.3 released.
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/products/postgresql/maestro/
PL/Lua 0.3 released.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pllua/
pg_snapclone 1.0 Beta released.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/snapclone/
== Postgres Jobs for March ==
1. Announcements
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* OpenOffice.org 2.4 is released
* New License and Contributor Agreement
* The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference goes to Beijing
2. Success Stories
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* “MAMPU Migrates to OpenOffice.org”
* More Open Source at the European Commission
* German county adopts OpenOffice.org
* Laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed becoming popular
3. Featured News
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* Reminder: “A maximum total of $175,000 USD may be awarded”
* OpenOffice.org 3.0’s new features, an early look
* Error Bars from Cell Ranges in OOo 3.0
* The Multiple Page View
* First OpenOffice.org extension crossed 100,000 downloads
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, DragonFlyBSD, PC-BSD, DesktopBSD: Are you
doing interesting things with one of these BSD based operating system?
Anything hot you are working on? Come to Strasbourg and talk about it!
EuroBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. We
are looking for papers about all aspects of BSD based operating systems
especially if you can tell our audience something new about:
* Products embedding BSD systems
* Desktop computing with BSD systems
* BSD based products, how, why, what
* How you are reworking ports pkgsrc
* What are the BSD developers working on now
* Virtualizing BSD based systems
* Installing BSD system on your coffee machine
* File systems, networking, security, and general kernel hacking
* Tools for monitoring, measuring, debugging, and optimizing BSD systems
* The science and art of open source programming
Have you ever wondered what are the reasons behind Windows Vista crashes? I’m sure you did! Now the folks from Ars Tehnica revealed that in the 158 page pack of emails that was released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit, there is information indicating that sometime in 2007, 30% of Vista crashes happened due to Nvidia drivers. More specifically, Nvidia caused 479,000 crashes out of a total of 1,663,748 logged by Microsoft last year on an unspecified period of time.
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 84 for the weeks March
23rd - March 29th, 2008. In this issue we cover: new MOTUs, Ubuntu
6.10 End-of-Life, Xubuntu refocuses, Ubuntu countdown graphics,
Launchpad 1.2.3, Launchpad logo contest closing, Ubuntu UK Podcast #2,
Reside@HOME: Linux Health Care, PWN To OWN (Ubuntu wins), and much,
much more!
== In This Issue ==
* MOTU Team news
* Ubuntu Stats
* Launchpad news
* Ubuntu Forum news
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu UK Podcast #2
* Reside@HOME: Linux for Elderly Health Care
* Automatix discontinued
* Full circle Magazine #11
* CanSecWest PWN2OWN 2008 - Ubuntu Wins!
* Meeting & Events
* Updates & Security
(more…)
I’m no graphics professional, but like probably most of you, I do need to edit photos from time to time. I used Adobe Photoshop before since it is the most widely used image manipulating software. But when I started using Linux, things changed.
Since GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is included by default in most Linux distros, I had no other choice but to try it. I then became more and more comfortable using it that I completely forgot about Photoshop. I know that I can still install Photoshop in Linux through software virtualization, but no thanks.
I know a lot of people who use open source every day, from OpenOffice to the GIMP and Linux, open source has something for everyone. Recently I was asked how could someone give back to the developers of Free Software?
There are projects which need your help now!
Extensions are one of the major selling points for Firefox. No other browser can match the sheer volume of third-party mini applications and enhancements.
Most Firefox users are aware of the concept of extensions, but not as many people know that Extensions (and Themes) are available for its email client cousin Thunderbird as well.
First of all, head over to the Thunderbird Add-ons site in your web browser. It is almost exactly the same as the Firefox Add-ons site and works in largely the same way.
This guide explains how to integrate XCache into PHP5 on a Mandriva 2008.0 system (with Apache2). From the XCache project page: “XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load.” It’s similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and APC.
SafeSquid - Content Filtering Internet Proxy, has many content
filtering features that can be used to decide who is allowed what, when
and how much on the net. In this tutorial I will describe how to create
user profiles, and give them access to specific websites only, while
blocking access to all other websites.
This document describes how to set up ImpressCMS 1.0 Final On Debian
Etch. Taken from the ImpressCMS page: “ImpressCMS is a community
developed Content Management System for easily building and maintaining
a dynamic web site. Keep your web site up to date with this easy to
use, secure and flexible system.”
This mini-howto explains how to set up an SSH server on Debian Etch
with public-key authorization (and optionally with disabled password
logins). SSH is a great tool to control Linux-based computers remotely.
It’s safe and secure.
Vlogger is a little piece of code borned to handle dealing with large amounts of virtualhost logs. It’s bad news that apache can’t do this on its own. Vlogger takes piped input from apache, splits it off to separate files based on the first field. It uses a file handle cache so it can’t run out of file descriptors. It will also start a new logfile every night at midnight, and maintain a symlink to the most recent file. For security, it can drop privileges and do a chroot to the logs directory.
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