GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 217 (09/13/2009)

Editor’s Note

The last development of GoblinX is probable starting today because after the G:Standard release we will close this beloved and almost famous project and start a new one as I already let you know. Most of the ideas behind GoblinX will continue be used in our brand new project and other suggestions. The next project will bring some unique and innovative works inside the development process and distribution method. I have a date in mind for the first release of the new project, december eight, but I will wait GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3 inside Slackware.

Old Format Newsletter: HERE

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Linux News & Articles

Third Plasma Summit Lifts KDE Desktop To Higher Grounds

“Last week, the third Plasma developers meeting was held in the Swiss Alps. 15 developers from 3 continents came to Randa, Canton Wallis to work on Plasma’s code, design new ideas and concepts and to strengthen their bonds as a sub-community within KDE. Topics of this third Plasma sprint, which is named after a plasma fusion reactor, included but were not limited to Plasma on mobile devices, network-enabled Plasma widgets and a richer user interface thanks to a new animation framework. Furthermore deeper integration of web services in the Plasma shell, semantic awareness of Plasma components, secure privilege elevation and polishing of the existing functionality, among many other things, were on the agenda.”

http://www.kdenews.org/2009/09/08/

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Do thes Linux “CAD” applications stand up to the standards?

“Often, when I ask why users don’t adopt Linux, I am met with the response “There are no CAD (Computer Aided Design) applications. Now I will confess that I know next to nothing about CAD, so I thought I would take a moment to highlight some of the CAD applications available for the Linux operating system, show how they are installed and started, highlight their features, and then let those that know CAD well report on how successful (or not) they are. Sort of a user-generated showdown if you will.”

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

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Go-oo – OpenOffice with a twist

“OpenOffice is a wonderful, useful, free office suite for Windows, Linux and Mac users worldwide. It is rich in features, quite secure, extensible, and can even run from external storage devices, offering you portability and flexibility. It is definitely a viable alternative to Microsoft Office, if you don’t mind doing things a little differently from what you’re used to.”

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/go-oo.html

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Openbox: A fun and lightweight window manager

“I am always on the lookout for a new way of doing things when it comes to personal computing, and one of the best ways to do so is to experiment with different window managers for Linux.”

http://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/

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More News & Articles (Just Links)

GNOME 2.28.0 Release Candidate (2.27.92) Released!
VIA Technologies, Inc. Joins Linux Foundation
Palm unveils its Pixi WebOS smartphone
Top 5 Firefox Add-Ons For Soccer Fans
Love Twitter and Firefox? Plug Them In!
Opera 10 tops 10 million downloads
Intel P55 Chipset Preview On Linux
Get Decked: A Look at TweetDeck
IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office
Thunderbird Quick Folders

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More News & Articles (Kernel 2.6.31)

Linux 2.6.31 kernel released on 9 September, 2009
Linux 2.6.31 Accelerates Performance
The new features of Linux 2.6.31

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Development News

G:Noblin 3.0

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the release of the new stable G:Noblin distribution. The G:Noblin 3.0 is Released. The G:Noblin is the GoblinX Gnome and GTK/GTK2 based distribution. The edition is ideal for those users whose are fan of the Gnome desktop environment. This distribution is an old desire of GoblinX users.

The G:Noblin brings to you two kinds of desktop environment inside the same ISO (cdrom). The first is the default Gnome desktop and the second is a special prepared interface for Netbooks, using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix model and some ideas provided by Foresight.

The G:Noblin is available as an ISO image of the CD, you just need to download and burn it with your favorite cd-writing software and then boot from cd-rom. For USB is distributed as a ZIP archive. Simply unzip it to your USB device and run bootinst.bat (for Windows users) or bootinst.sh (for Linux users) to make it bootable. It is lso available the source code repository.

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G:Standard 3.0

The next and last release of GoblinX 3.0 series will be G:Standard and we are already working on it.

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New Kernel

We need to upgrade but the new ones do not work well with latest Linuxlive scripts. We will start to work with new Kernel after we close the series.

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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

Protect Your Network With an Open-Source Firewall
How To: Change The GNOME Menu Bar Icon
HOWTO: Place programs on LXDE Desktop
cpulimit – Limit the cpu usage of a process