== PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 29 2008 ==
July’s commit-fest is starting soon.
== PostgreSQL Product News ==
pgsnap 0.4 released.
http://pgsnap.projects.postgresql.org/
PL/Proxy 2.0.6 released.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/plproxy/
OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER
Volume 05 - Issue 12 - 06/2008
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Contents
1. Announcements
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* PDF import extension is now online
* OpenOffice.org Annual Conference Update
* OpenOffice 2.4.1 is released
* Addition of Japanese language support to its Users’ Community Forum
2. Success Stories
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* OpenOffice.org being distributed to Portuguese schools
* Polish retailer selling laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
* French hospital migrates [...]
We are proud to a announce another alpha release of Samba 4.
What’s new in Samba 4 alpha5
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Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and [...]
I fell a little behind on the weather forecast pages, sorry for that. I plead that I was vacationing with the in-laws and would have gotten into serious trouble had I gone too near a keyboard. Anyway, things are caught up now.
The current prepatch is 2.6.26-rc8; when he posted it, Linus said that it might [...]
One of the perennial jibes about open source is that it never innovates. This conveniently forgets that the World Wide Web was released as free software (Tim Berners-Lee contemplated using the GNU GPL before he decided to release it into the public domain). Despite the ludicrousness of the accusation, it is nonetheless always good to [...]
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Package management News: openSUSE defends KDE 4, Mandriva cancels alpha release, Debian completes Lenny’s security support, Ubuntu unveils MID edition, Zenwalk’s J.-P. Guillemin, Acer Aspire One, Linux rescue CDs Released last week: CentOS 5.2, Pardus Linux 2008, Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 Upcoming releases:….
Read more at DistroWatch
A lot of us are focused on Microsoft and Bill Gates this month as Bill’s last day at the company he founded and ran to dominance passed last Friday. I’ve met Bill several times but only really once spoken to him. From a personal aspect, he has mostly been cordial, and he once personally came [...]
There is no dearth of software that can help you run that indispensable Windows app over Linux. Win4Lin has managed to survive through the years as an inexpensive tool for people who like to pay for support. The recently released Win4Lin 5, available for $30 a pop, has shrugged off the shortcomings of its predecessor [...]
Mozilla’s Firefox 3.0 browser uses memory much more efficiently than its rivals, according to an independent tester who wrote a memory-monitoring utility to track usage by Firefox, Internet Explorer (IE), Flock, Opera and Safari.
Read more at LinuxWorld
The development cycle for X.Org 7.4 has stretched on for months longer than anticipated, and earlier this month it sounded like X.Org 7.4 would end with a quick release, but still it’s being dragged out longer. This morning the release manager for X.Org 7.4, Adam Jackson, had announced the release of X Server 1.4.99.904…
Read more [...]
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 96 for the weeks June 22nd - June 28th, 2008 is now available. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 8.04.1 freeze proposed, Intrepid Alpha 1 released, a new Universe contributor, Brainstorm updates, Ubuntu Women project status, new Ubuntu members, LoCo news, Launchpad news, Ubuntu Forums news, Full Circle Magazine #14, [...]
Good news for all hackers.
NETGEAR launches Open Source edition of wireless-G router enabling Linux developers, geeks, hackers and enthusiasts to create Firmware for specialized applications
Open Source Wireless-G Router (WGR614L) delivers higher processing power and more memory for a Wide Variety of customized applications. The product is supported by a dedicated and responsive open source community.
Read [...]
SystemRescueCd, a small Gentoo-based live CD designed for hard disk partitioning and data rescue tasks, has been updated to version 1.0.4. What’s new? “Updated the default kernel to Linux 2.6.25.7 with Reiser4fs; fixed problem with Samba due to bad case in the UTF8 character set; fixed the LVM….
Read more at DistroWatch
Network Security Toolkit NST is a Fedora-based live CD designed to provide easy access to open source network security applications. A new release, version 1.8.0, was announced yesterday: “We are pleased to announce the latest NST release: v1.8.0. This release is based on Fedora 8 using the Linux….
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A lot of software users I meet seem to feel they are not using their software as efficiently as they could. If that includes you, then listen up. Here is my list of the ten, lesser-known, OpenOffice.org Writer keyboard shortcuts that will help you improve your productivity.
When I say “lesser known†I should really say [...]
The guide will take you through the setup of the pfSense firewall with one WAN interface, one LAN interface and one Opt1-WiFi Interface.
This guide was written for Linksys, Netgear, and D-link users with no firewall or router experience. No experience is needed with FreeBSD or GNU/Linux to install and run pfSense. When you are finished, [...]
Motorola has quietly started shipping three new Linux-based “PDA” phones. Available now in China, and also approved by the FCC for use in the U.S., the MotoMing a1600 and a1800 are higher-end versions of the popular a1200, while the a810 adds a lower-end Ming model.
The new Ming phones succeed Motorola’s highly popular Ming a1200 (pictured [...]
Although computers are yet to take over the business of language translation, they have become an essential part of the translation process. Many professional translators use computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools such as SDLX, TRADOS, Déjà Vu and WordFast. But since integrate tightly with Microsoft Word, you can’t use them with OpenOffice.org Writer. The Anaphraseus extension [...]
MythTV is an open source DVR solution that supports recording of live video broadcast and playback of recorded material. It also supports the direct import of DVD content. But if you’ve got multiple DVD players spread across different computer systems and a need to control disk space usage on your MythTV backend, AcidRip offers a [...]
Last week we learned a bit about the chaotic jumble that is audio on Linux, and about the new PulseAudio sound server that just may create bit of order, and perhaps some more user-friendliness. Several Linux distributions default to using PulseAudio, such as Fedora, Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and Mandriva. Many others now include it in [...]