Third Plasma
Summit Lifts KDE Desktop To Higher Grounds
"Last
week, the third Plasma developers meeting was held in the Swiss Alps.
15 developers from 3 continents came to Randa, Canton Wallis to work on
Plasma's code, design new ideas and concepts and to strengthen their
bonds as a sub-community within KDE. Topics of this third Plasma
sprint, which is named after a plasma fusion reactor, included but were
not limited to Plasma on mobile devices, network-enabled Plasma widgets
and a richer user interface thanks to a new animation framework.
Furthermore deeper integration of web services in the Plasma shell,
semantic awareness of Plasma components, secure privilege elevation and
polishing of the existing functionality, among many other things, were
on the agenda."
Read
More: http://www.kdenews.org/2009/09/08/third-plasma-summit-lifts-kde-desktop-higher-grounds
Do thes Linux
“CAD” applications stand up to the standards?
"Often, when I ask
why users don’t adopt Linux, I am met with the response “There are no
CAD (Computer Aided Design) applications. Now I will confess that I
know next to nothing about CAD, so I thought I would take a moment to
highlight some of the CAD applications available for the Linux
operating system, show how they are installed and started, highlight
their features, and then let those that know CAD well report on how
successful (or not) they are. Sort of a user-generated showdown if you
will."
Read
More: http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp-2-8-new-features.html
Go-oo -
OpenOffice with a twist
"OpenOffice is a
wonderful, useful, free office suite for Windows, Linux and Mac users
worldwide. It is rich in features, quite secure, extensible, and can
even run from external storage devices, offering you portability and
flexibility. It is definitely a viable alternative to Microsoft Office,
if you don't mind doing things a little differently from what you're
used to."
Read
More: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/go-oo.html
Openbox: A fun
and lightweight window manager
"I
am always on the lookout for a new way of doing things when it comes to
personal computing, and one of the best ways to do so is to experiment
with different window managers for Linux."
Read
More: http://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/openbox-a-fun-and-lightweight-window-manager/
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G:Noblin
3.0
The GoblinX
Project is proud to announce the release of the new stable G:Noblin
distribution. The G:Noblin 3.0 is Released. The G:Noblin is the GoblinX
Gnome and GTK/GTK2 based distribution. The edition is ideal for those
users whose are fan of the Gnome desktop environment. This distribution
is an old desire of GoblinX users.
The G:Noblin
brings to you two kinds of desktop environment inside the same ISO
(cdrom). The first is the default Gnome desktop and the second is a
special prepared interface for Netbooks, using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix
model and some ideas provided by Foresight.
The G:Noblin is
available as an ISO image of the CD, you just need to download and burn
it with your favorite cd-writing software and then boot from cd-rom.
For USB is distributed as a ZIP archive. Simply unzip it to your USB
device and run bootinst.bat (for Windows users) or bootinst.sh (for
Linux users) to make it bootable. It is lso available the source code
repository.
G:Standard
3.0
The
next and last release of GoblinX 3.0 series will be G:Standard and we
are already working on it.
New
Kernel
We
need to upgrade but the new ones do not work well with latest Linuxlive
scripts. We will start to work with new Kernel after we close the
series.
Tutors
& Howtos
Updates
We uploaded the
a.NX11-3.0-i486-2.lzm, a module containing a better Xorg for Intel
videocards users.
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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