GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 227 (11/22/2009)

Editor’s Note

Last week I mentioned the possibility of waiting KDE 4.4, but it will take to long to be release and now the idea is preparing everything for KDE 4.3.4 and GNOME 2.28.1. I amfor now just building packages and test only few applications. I am also searching for new applications to be added and also starting to build Moblin libraries.

Old Format Newsletter: http://www.goblinx.com.br/en/newsletter_227.htm

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Linux News & Articles

KDE 4.4 aims to take free desktop skyward

“The final release of KDE 4.4 is due in early 2010, and not since the arrival of KDE 4.0 two years ago has an open source desktop environment been so highly anticipated by the free desktop community. Unlike the anti-climax that was the first KDE 4 release, however, KDE 4.4’s developers say this new version will actually deliver on many of the original promises of this next-generation desktop environment — and then some.”

http://www.cio.com.au/article/326573/kde_4_4_aims_take_free_desktop_skyward

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The Problem With The Linux Community

“I wrote a less than stellar review of openSUSE 11.2 this week for DistroWatch. Why? Well.. because this particular release really has issues: the installer choosing the wrong driver causing it to hang, serious instability in KDE on my two month old netbook in a release that touted itself for netbooks, and numerous smaller issues. It’s a shame because, in general, I’ve always liked openSUSE. It was never my true favorite, but that was because of some personal preferences, not because of faults in the distro.”

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/the-problem-with-the-linux-com.html

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What’s GNU in Virtualization

“Taking a new operating system for a spin is easier than ever before with virtualization software but when that software is free, it’s even better. There are virtualization choices for all tastes listed here. For those of you who prefer hypervisor-based virtualization, I urge you to try Xen or Proxmox.”

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7614/

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Time to compile the naughty list: Who isn’t playing nice with Linux?

“TechRepublic readers are taking organizations to task for not providing good accessibility and service to users of Linux and open-source browsers. Help us put together a complete “naughty list” for Santa.”

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1068

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More News & Articles (Just Links)

EU extends review of Oracle plan to buy Sun

Amarok Refreshed: Better, Stronger, Faster!

Intel Divulges Information on TRIM for Linux

Flinders University gives open source the boot

Command line tricks for smart geeks

Kismet – vital Linux wifi security tool

10 Years of SourceForge.net

Gaming boards run Linux

Trust Linux!

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Development News

Packages and Upgrades

The development work is just about building packages and nothing else. For now no upgrades will be made in our repository, but anyone can continue upgrading Slackware packages. Just after I rebuilt every package and some more I will start to recreate our main repository under the name of our next project. During this time it is important upgrade some packages from Slackware because of the security issues.

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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

Tweaking GNOME power-saving settings

More Fun With Bash Quoting

IRC Chats with Pidgin!