Interview with
Eric Hameleers: Why You Should Try Slackware
"Slackware
is one of the first Linux distributions ever and the oldest surviving.
With the recent release of version 13.0, the project has announced
official support for 64-bit systems. Linux Magazine talks to Eric
Hameleers, the man behind the port, about what motivated him to create
it and what Slackware has to offer you."
Read
More: http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7502/1.html
Preview: GIMP
2.8 - the new features
"Most probably,
GIMP 2.8 will yet be released 2009, so it has been time to have a look
at the current developer version. There are many cool new features, but
the most important thing for us are the layer groups."
Read
More: http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp-2-8-new-features.html
Opera 10 - A
first look at this fabulous web browser
"Opera 10 has been
released. This release of Opera sports a number of alluring, new
features, many of them not seen in any of its contenders. The
enhancements to look out for in Opera 10 are as follows."
Read
More: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2009/09/opera-10-first-look-at-this-fabulous.html
Kernel 2.6.31
to speed up Linux desktop
"With
the next version of the Linux kernel, 2.6.31, due for release soon,
Linux desktop users can look forward to a faster experience in addition
to USB 3.0 support and new Firewire drivers... The kernel developers
have been working on improvements to desktop interactivity,
particularly when it's under memory pressure since the last release,
version 2.6.30, in June."
Read
More: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/317416/kernel_2_6_31_speed_up_linux_desktop?rid=-219
More News
& Articles
(Just Links)
Development
News
G:Noblin
3.0
We will release
GNoblin 3.0 final probably tomorrow. There is only an importante bug -
may I say not really a bug but a problem - with a Xorg driver. XF86
Intel driver does not work propertly with kernels below 2.6.28 and we
cannot upgrade the livecd kernel right now because some issues with
AuFS and the missing LZMA compression for Squashfs. Anyone with an
Intel videocard must rebuild the ISO and use the old a.NX11 module we
will reupload as a.NX11-3.0-i486-2.lzm. This solution will also be
adopted for G:Standard as we decided not downgrade the Xorg only
because of this driver.
G:Noblin can be
described as our less stable distribution. GNOME is not part of
Slackware and we have to build everything by ourselves using borrowed
builds from other projects. GoblinX is not used as much Slackware is
and the we receive only
few reports
about issues. For these reasons G:Noblin is problably less stable.
Personally, I am using G:Noblin for the past months without problems
and I think it is a good distribution, specially for netbook owners.
G:Noblin is going
to be release using GNOME 2.24 because upgrade right now will take at
least two months for testing. We will upgrade GNOME after 2.28 is
released in the end of this month.
Tutors
& Howtos
Updates
No modules added.
Module
Repository: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/goblinx/modules
Mirror#1: http://goblinx.linuxish.net/modules/
Mirror#2:
http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/goblinx/
Mirror#3: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/goblinx/modules/
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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