GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 216 (09/06/2009)

Editor’s Note

Slackware is our present and future. Slackware is the most stable and well organized project we can use as base and without any question it is one of the best distribution. KDE inside Slackware is fantastic and we intend add, as we already are doing, more features and facilities to KDE4. We also use XFCE, sometimes from Slackware sometimes we spead up the release process to let our users have a more upgraded version of XFCE and also we add several goodies and applications. And we have GNOME, abandoned by Slackware but part of our day. GoblinX will continue offer the best of Slackware and something more.

Old Format Newsletter: HERE

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Linux News & Articles

Interview with Eric Hameleers: Why You Should Try Slackware

“Slackware is one of the first Linux distributions ever and the oldest surviving. With the recent release of version 13.0, the project has announced official support for 64-bit systems. Linux Magazine talks to Eric Hameleers, the man behind the port, about what motivated him to create it and what Slackware has to offer you.”

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7502/1.html

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Preview: GIMP 2.8 – the new features

“Most probably, GIMP 2.8 will yet be released 2009, so it has been time to have a look at the current developer version. There are many cool new features, but the most important thing for us are the layer groups.”

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp-2-8-new-features.html

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Opera 10 – A first look at this fabulous web browser

“Opera 10 has been released. This release of Opera sports a number of alluring, new features, many of them not seen in any of its contenders. The enhancements to look out for in Opera 10 are as follows.”

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2009/09/

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Kernel 2.6.31 to speed up Linux desktop

“With the next version of the Linux kernel, 2.6.31, due for release soon, Linux desktop users can look forward to a faster experience in addition to USB 3.0 support and new Firewire drivers… The kernel developers have been working on improvements to desktop interactivity, particularly when it’s under memory pressure since the last release, version 2.6.30, in June.”

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/317416

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More News & Articles (Just Links)

Uzbl and uzbl_tabbed.py: a browser that adheres to the unix philosophy
Amarok 2.2 – Reloaded, revamped, rethinked, reeverything!
Flexbooks – a Non-Braindead way to produce textbooks
Open Source Photo Processing Comes of Age
Frankencamera is open source, runs on Linux
Best Google Desktop Applications for Linux
GNOME 3 Launchers Change Behaviour
8 Useful and Interesting Bash Prompts
How to convert non-techies to Linux
KDE 4.3.1 Release Announcement

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Development News

G:Noblin 3.0

We will release GNoblin 3.0 final probably tomorrow. There is only an importante bug – may I say not really a bug but a problem – with a Xorg driver. XF86 Intel driver does not work propertly with kernels below 2.6.28 and we cannot upgrade the livecd kernel right now because some issues with AuFS and the missing LZMA compression for Squashfs. Anyone with an Intel videocard must rebuild the ISO and use the old a.NX11 module we will reupload as a.NX11-3.0-i486-2.lzm. This solution will also be adopted for G:Standard as we decided not downgrade the Xorg only because of this driver.

G:Noblin can be described as our less stable distribution. GNOME is not part of Slackware and we have to build everything by ourselves using borrowed builds from other projects. GoblinX is not used as much Slackware is and the we receive only few reports about issues. For these reasons G:Noblin is problably less stable. Personally, I am using G:Noblin for the past months without problems and I think it is a good distribution, specially for netbook owners.

G:Noblin is going to be release using GNOME 2.24 because upgrade right now will take at least two months for testing. We will upgrade GNOME after 2.28 is released in the end of this month.

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Updates

Some packages upgraded and added last week.

Mirror#1: http://goblinx.linuxish.net/goblinx-current/
Mirror#2: http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/goblinx/goblinx-current/
Mirror#3: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/goblinx/goblinx-current/
Mirror#4: http://www.uoc.lkams.kernel.org/pub/dist/goblinx/

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Tutors & Howtos

How To: Use A Screensaver As Desktop Wallpaper
Record screencasts to animated GIF files
Graudit – Code Audit Tool Using Grep
Normalizing Path Names with Bash