GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 221 (10/11/2009)

Editor’s Note

The GoblinX Project is migrating its resources to another project, but as the new project is not already prepared to be visit by you I will continue publishing this newsletter and other news using GoblinX website. In the future everything will be changed.

Old Format Newsletter: http://www.goblinx.com.br/en/newsletter_221.htm

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Linux News & Articles

Learn Linux, 101: File and directory management

“…In this article, we will practice the commands using the files created in the article “Learn Linux 101: Text streams and filters.” If you followed along in that article, you created a directory, lpi103-2, in your home directory. If you didn’t, then you can use another directory on your system to practice the commands discussed in this article…”

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lpic1-v3-103-3/index.html

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Managing change during KDE’s evolution

“KDE has gone through an impressive evolution of organizational, procedural and community related changes over its lifespan. What started out as a “in-our-spare-time” project became a critical component in many F/OSS operating systems. As the various KDE projects grew, matured and in some cases retired the number of distinct teams and sub-communities grew in both number and diversity. An ever growing number of companies from small to large grew out of or joined the KDE community along the way. Our non-profit, KDE e.V., has gone through a similar evolution in complexity, transparency and professionalism.”

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/10/managing-change-during-kdes-evolution.html

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Gnome 3.0 Reviews – Coming on Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 13

“Gnome 3, which will be available to install in Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 13 will mark the first radical change to the Gnome Desktop since it’s inception, thanks to it’s “new” interface ‘Gnome-Shell’.”

http://icewalkerz.blogspot.com/2009/10/gnome-30-reviews-coming-on-ubuntu-1004.html

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KDE 4.3: Boom baby!

“… Stability has gradually improved to the point where I no longer have any problems at all. KDE boots fast and without issue. Applications don’t crash, except for the printer applet after one update, which was immediately remedied in the next. Kwin effects are fast and leave no artifacts. KDE 4 is stable…”

http://celettu.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/kde-4-3-boom-baby/

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More News & Articles (Just Links)

Linux users: frag your online enemies without installing an application!

25 Awesome GIMP Brush Sets (Download 1000+ FREE Brushes)

Are Linux distros downplaying the Gnome 3.0 preview?

Make Linux faster, lighter and more powerful

K3b 2.0 Alpha 2: Review and Screenshots

Developers Plans To Break GTK 3.0 API

10 Reasons You Need to Look at ZFS

Single-window mode progress report

Hulu Desktop Comes to Linux

Desktop Linux doing fine

Desktop Environments

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Development News

Current Gnome 2.28 Dependencies

In order to make possible compile GNOME applications we must started upgrading some libraries. This was the first step of compiling GNOME. Udev, gtk+2, glib2 and several libraries needed to be upgraded. Some other libraries and applications are now dependencies of GNOME and some other are deprecated.

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Deprecated Gnome 2.28 Dependencies

The GNOME developers are trying eliminate some dependencies. In their list we can find libgnome, libonoboui, gnome-vfs and more. Some of these libraries are still been used by some applications and I am startint compile the applications without these dependencies. These libraries will be deprecated when GNOME 3.0 is release, but nowadays there are some packages using them. The idea I am applying in the compiling process is remove all of these future deprecated libraries. I cannot remove them but I am trying compile all packages without using these libraries before start compile those package that still depends on them.

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Gnome 2.28 First Beta

I have compiled already one hundred and ten packages. After everything is compiled I intend to build a module for tests.

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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

Free Disk Space by Reducing Reserved Blocks PercentageFive Super Simple Photo Fixes with the GIMPHowto Benchmark Linux System – HardInfo Beautify the Terminal