GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 223 (10/25/2009)

Editor’s Note

During next weekand I will be travellling and without the possibility of writing the newsletter it will be published on monday. There is no much to add about the development right now, I am just working on compiling applications and build packages with few tests. I can say I am adding more applications and libraries for GNOME.

Old Format Newsletter: http://www.goblinx.com.br/en/newsletter_223.htm

Attention: Next week newsletter will be published on monday.

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Linux News & Articles

Who Needs Windows 7 When You’ve Got KDE?

“As a devoted free software user, I’m almost as likely to stick my hand down a running garbarator as buy a copy of Windows 7. In fact, so far, I haven’t tried Windows 7. But if its features list is any indication, I’m missing little that I don’t already have with the latest version of the KDE desktop.”

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/

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Boosting Linux: Maybe we’re going about it the wrong way?

“For years I’ve been one who’s run up and down the halls stomping for Linux, advising people to switch to a better OS because of any of a hundred different reasons.  But a recent article by Sam Varghese of ITWire may have changed my mind, and my focus, on what’s needed to make Linux king of the OS’s.”

http://www.raiden.net/articles/

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Akonadi goes Web2.0

“Lots of people are posting about implementing functionality in web browsers to do what we do today in rich clients… I don’t know what’s going on, but I didn’t want Akonadi to miss the party. At the recent Akonadi sprint, I decided to spend some time putting together a proof of concept for a web client for Akonadi…”

http://steveire.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/akonadi-goes-web2-0/

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KDE4 Demonstrates Choice Is Not A Usability Problem

“A few days ago we found a nice blog post on the usability approach taken by the KDE community for the KDE 4 series. We have contacted the author to see if he was interested in doing a guest article for the dot expanding on his blog post. So without further ado, I present a writing by Daniel Memenode, web publisher and designer… KDE always stood out as a desktop environment that doesn’t shy away from giving you lots of options and features. It is no wonder that one of its flagship products, Konqueror, was often compared to a swiss army knife. It could be used as a file manager for both local and remote files, an image viewer and a fairly powerful web browser shifting from one role to the other as needed.”

http://www.kdenews.org/2009/10/21/

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More News & Articles (Just Links)

Avant Window Navigator (AWN) 0.4 Beta Available – See What’s New

Two simple things to improve the user experience

Mozilla confirms Firefox updates and beta delayed

A sneak preview of new OpenOffice 3.2 part 1

Comparing 10 free media center apps

Why Adobe likes open source

Five Power Tools for Pidgin

Linux Friendly Audiobooks

Audio Production in Linux

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Games News & Articles (Just Links)

Cedega vs Crossover Games – Hands on Review

Game of the Day – Neverball

Nexuiz – Looking good!

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Development News

Preparing Gnome 2.28

I continue building all packages for GNOME 2.28 and its dependencies. The work is just about this. Just building packages including libraries and applications. Also during this weeks I am trying increase our repository by building more and more new packages and libraries, including few new applications I did not test before. Some of these applications are GTK+2 related and not part of GNOME and can be used by XFCE and KDE, allthough I will continue try build a KDE gtk+2 free distribution.

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KDE 4.3 on Slackware

Patrick uploaded a new KDE series for Slackware, any GoblinX user can try download and test. As I am migrating our resources to a new project I will probably not upgrade our repository right now.

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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

Wget commands you diden’t hear about before

Asset scanning with nmap and ndiff

Stress Testing Linux System