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GoblinX Project Distributions Changes

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:36 No Comments

THIS IS IMPORTANT NEWS: For the next series the GoblinX distributions will be different. First of all the GoblinX Premium will be abandoned, the G:Standard will not have anymore five windows managers and each distribution will have a single windows manager. The G:Standard will be our KDE distribution and G:Noblin the GNOME distribution. The Premium [...]

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Pidgin: Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book

Monday, January 12, 2009 7:35 No Comments

Today I found the error “Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book” when I tried to connect to a MSN account using Pidgin. The error can be solved for some users by installing Msn-pecan plugin. You can download the Msn-pecan plugin here:
http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/goblinx/goblinx-current/goblinx/extra/
The Msn-pecan website is http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan.
You can find source code and other distributions packages there. In [...]

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Slackware 12.2 is only a 0.1 Version Bump…

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 6:23 1 Comment

Slackware 12.2 release is almost here. Patrick Volkerding posted yesterday new packages and the following annoucement in Slackware current changelog:
“While there are still some docs that need updating and probably a few more tweaks and updates here and there, everything is mostly in place for the next stable release, Slackware 12.2. The versions of [...]

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