GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 220 (10/04/2009)

Editor’s Note

The G:Standard 3.0 is the last GoblinX Project release. We will maintain our repository, websites, forum and everything else till we start the new project. Everything about GoblinX is now frozen as we started to work with new builds and package for the next project. We will work in several fronts: build packages, move everything, prepare the new place, new website, new logo, new design. The first step is to upgrade packages and build (move) to a new repository.

Old Format Newsletter: http://www.goblinx.com.br/en/newsletter_220.htm

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Linux News & Articles

40 years of Unix

“Unix is 40 years old. 1969, the summer of love for most, was the summer of not having enough computer resources for AT&T Bell Lab employees Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. After the failure of time-sharing system Multics, the two gentlemen needed a computer and an operating system to run Space Travel, an early computer game.”

http://blogs.computerworld.com/14819/40_years_of_unix

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Invisible Locked-Up Linux and Crippled Linux

“Last year Ken Starks asked a penetrating and simple question at the Second Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.”

http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/2009100300135OSBZOO

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Understanding the Linux File System

“The way Linux organizes its files on the hard drive is vastly different from how Windows handles this task. New Linux users coming from Windows sometime have a hard time maneuvering though directories or come with notions that Linux should manage its files in the same vain as Windows.”

http://linux.bihlman.com/2009/09/29/understanding-the-linux-file-system/

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Akonadi, Nepomuk and Strigi explained

“Tobias recently blogged about Nepomuk, and from the comments it seems that people are a bit in the dark about what Akonadi, Nepomuk and Strigi actually do and how they interact with each other. So if you want to understand those technologies, read on! This blog post is an attempt to clear things up a bit.”

http://thomasmcguire.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/

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More News & Articles (Just Links)

Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages
The Next Generation Application Store: Now, With Developers!
Amarok 2.2 Has a Completely New Look and Feel
Five Really Fun Open Source Video Games
Lightweight Arora web browser turns 0.10.0
3 great educational apps for Linux newbies
How Will Users React to GNOME 3.0?
Top Video Editing Apps for Linux
Linux Games: OpenArena

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Development News

The G:Standard 3.0 is Released

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the released of the new stable G:Standard. The G:Standard 3.0 is Released. The G:Standard is the original edition first released in the end of October 2004. In the past it was called as GoblinX and later as GoblinX Standard. In order to dismiss doubt about the releases and follow the same criteria used for all distributions (editions) of the GoblinX Project it became simply G:Standard.

Read More:  http://www.goblinx.com.br/en/?p=1195

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Compilation of Gnome 2.28

We started to compile Gnome 2.28. We are compiling and upgrading all necessary libraries and dependencies first. After everything is compiled we intend to let anyone test the next GNOME distribution but probably without a public release because we need first to prepare the future project to receive everything from GoblinX.

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Updates

No package 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

The Kernel Newbie Corner: “initrd” and “initramfs”–What’s Up With That?

Use IMDB Art For Video Thumbnails In Nautilus

Improve Your Battery Life With PowerTOP