GoblinX – An
Alternative OS With 4 Different Flavors
"In
today’s Ubuntu dominated Linux landscape, it’s refreshing to stumble
upon an alternative linux software distribution choosing to follow its
own path. GoblinX is one of these. After five years of
development, they are still basing their distribution on Slackware and
trying to ease the use of keeping it simple without assuming they know
everything every user might want."
Read
More: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/goblinx-an-alternative-os-with-4-different-flavors/
Matthias
Ettrich Receives German Federal Cross of Merit
"Today at 4pm CET
at the Center for Economics, Technology and Women’s Issues at the
Berlin Senate, KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated with the
German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software.
Matthias was awarded the medal in recognition of his work spurring
innovation and spreading knowledge for the common good. The award was
presented by state secretary Almuth Nehring-Venus. She mentioned that
not only is Matthias among the younger recipients of the award but also
that this is the first award ceremony where young children of the
family were present. Also attending was Eberhard Gienger, member of the
Bundestag for the county Matthias grew up in."
Read
More: http://dot.kde.org/2009/11/06/matthias-ettrich-receives-german-federal-cross-merit
Could
Microsoft switch to Linux?
"You'd expect, as
my friend Preston Gralla did, that when someone says "proprietary
software is eventually going to be doomed," and that Microsoft's future
might best be served in releasing its own version of Linux, that he'd
be a Linux fan. Wrong: this prophet of Windows doom and gloom was Keith
Curtis, a former Microsoft Research staffer. Could he be right? I think
the answer is yes and no."
Read
More: http://blogs.computerworld.com/15053/could_microsoft_switch_to_linux
GNOME 3.0 May
Not Come Until September 2010
"Back
in July of 2008 we learned of GNOME 3.0 as plans were laid out during
the GUADEC '08 conference to make the GNOME 2.30 release their "3.0"
version. A art and user-interface followed months later and then this
April the GNOME 3.0 road-map was laid out that put this release, which
will overhaul the GNOME desktop in comparison to the usual incremental
releases, to come in March of 2010."
Read
More: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzY3MQ
More News
& Articles
(Just Links)
Development
News
Packages
and Upgrades
Last week because
a hollyday here I worked less, but I continue day-by-day preparing
around twenty packages for our next release and migration, starting
with GNOME, Libraries X applications, later I will start to build
Moblin and XFCE packages.
GoblinX
Reviewed
The
GoblinX distributions received a nice review. You can see link above.
Tutors
& Howtos
Updates
No module upgraded.
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/
No
package upgraded or added last week. We are compiling several
applications.
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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