Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Mythbuntu 7.10 Public Alpha 3 Released

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

With this release, we introduce an AMD64 built image as well a standard x86 build. Should there be enough demand for a PPC build, we will do one of this for the next alpha. Release announcement

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“One-Click-Install” Gets Supported by openSUSE Build Service

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

The openSUSE Build Service generates .ymp files from now on, which can be used with Benjamin Weber’s One Click Install YaST Module.

This module takes care that all required repositories get used for installation and installs a predefined set of packages. You need no root permissions just to browse the content of a .ymp file.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 Beta Released

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

“Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the *beta* release of 5.1 (kernel-2.6.18-36.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family of products including” more…

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DEBIAN Lenny will include KDE4

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Luke Claes presents the development goals for the upcoming DEBIAN release “Lenny” on the DEBIAN development mailinglist. DEBIAN Lenny will support IPv6, NFSv4, LFS and include the KDE4 desktop.

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PDF-Import for OpenOffice

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

OpenOffice programmer Kai Ahrens talks in his blog about plans from SUN to integrate a PDF import filter in OpenOffice.

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Email Classification (Incl. Spam Classification) With POPFile On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

This article shows how you can install and use POPFile to classify incoming emails on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop. It is a POP3 proxy that fetches your mails from your mail server, classifies them and passes them on to your email client. Of course, POPFile must be trained to properly classify emails.

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SimplyMepis to switch from Ubuntu to Debian

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

The well known Desktop Linux Distribution SimplyMepis is about to switch from Ubuntu LTS to Debian. Read the full story at DesktopLinux.com

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Thunderbird’s future

Monday, July 30th, 2007

The Mozilla developer Asa Dotzler comments in his blog on the latest rumors that Thunderbird will be discontinued by the Mozilla foundation.

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UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue50

Monday, July 30th, 2007

“In this issue we cover Canonical seeking help with training courses, last call for Software Freedom Day registrations, a call to arms for US LoCo teams, new Drag & Drop Gnome tabs, new Launchpad features, and much much more.”

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Linux-Kernel 2.4.35 Released

Friday, July 27th, 2007

“This one contains the same fixes as 2.4.34.6, plus a small set of add-ons, among which some new PCI IDs, more usb-storage unusual devs, support for high-speed USB HID, updated e1000 driver, a few watchdog updates, support for systems with no keyboard controller (mainly blades), backport of the skge and sky2 drivers from 2.6, support for the “notsc” boot option for some broken dual-core x86_64 systems with no HPET, and a the latest fixes from the LVM package.”

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