Fedora Project released Fedora 7.0 today. Here is the list of new features in Fedora 7.0:
- For the first time, Fedora includes several different spins, which are variations of Fedora built from a specific set of software packages. This includes GNOME and KDE desktop environment based bootable Live images that can be installed to a hard disk, a regular image for desktops, workstations, and server users and a set of DVD images that includes all software available in the Fedora repository.
- This release features GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5.6.
- Display devices can be hot plugged and work automatically.
- This release provides a number of firmware packages for enhanced wireless networking.
- Fedora 7 includes a new “Flying High” theme.
- Firefox 2.
- A new comprehensive graphical administration tool for SELinux, system-config-selinux is available by default in this release.
- This release features integration of a new FireWire stack in the kernel for more robust device handling.
- Fedora now includes improved power management through implementation of dynamic ticks in the kernel.
- Fedora now integrates the experimental nouveau driver within Xorg and the kernel. The nouveau driver, which is disabled by default in this release, aims to provide free and open source 3D drivers for nVidia cards.
- This release integrates Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology with Fedora’s graphical virt-manager and command-line
virsh tools.
- In this release, all hard disk partitions follow a
/dev/sd* naming convention due to a new libata driver interface in the kernel.
- Smolt, an opt-in tool that sends anonymous hardware profile information to the Fedora Project, is integrated with firstboot in the installer.
- Python 2.5 is included in this release.
Source: Fedora Project.
Technorati Tags: Fedora 7.0, KDE, GNOME, Firefox, Wireless, Network, Spins, SELinux, Firewire
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Mozilla calendar team has released the first release candidate for Sunbird and Lightning 0.5. You can grab a copy of Lightning 0.5 from here and Sunbird from here.
Technorati Tags: Mozilla, Sunbird. Lightning, Release candidate
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Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.4, which contains security updates and Windows Vista support fixes.
The following security vulnerabilities are fixed:
MFSA 2007-17 – XUL Popup Spoofing
MFSA 2007-16 – XSS using addEventListener
MFSA 2007-14 – Path Abuse in Cookies
MFSA 2007-13 – Persistent Autocomplete Denial of Service
MFSA 2007-12 – Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.12/1.8.1.4)
More enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista are included along with Afrikaans (af) and Belarusian (be) language support.
Technorati Tags: Firefox 2.0.0.4, Security, Vista, Windows, XUL, Spoofing
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KWin, KDE’s window manager received a huge graphical upgrade, with composite and GL support in KDE 4. KWin has implemented effects in a way that allows a number of different rendering methods to be used, depending on your specific combination of hardware and drivers.
Effects are disabled by default at the moment, although that may change before KDE 4 ships, and distributions may decide to alter this setting anyway. When enabled, the effects are designed to degrade gracefully. If GL is not available, KWin disables GL effects but still allows Composite effects where possible via XRender. If XRender is not available, it falls back to plain X, running in the same fashion as the present KDE 3 version. To get the full array of effects, you need to have a video card (and driver) that supports AIGLX, XGL or use the proprietary Nvidia driver.
Check the screenshot below to configure window effects:
Click here to watch different videos showing KWin’s liquid effect, blur effect etc.
Source: KDE
Technorati Tags: KDE 4, KWin, Composite, XGL, AIGLX, ATI, NVidia, GL
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Posted 29 May 2007 — by Arun
Category Time Pass
MSNBC reports that New Zealand scientists are breeding a herd of cows that produce lower-fat milk after the chance discovery of a natural gene mutation in one animal.
Milk from the cows is also high in health-boosting omega-3 fatty acids and makes butter that spreads as easily as margarine even when chilled.
Vialactia, a subsidiary of the Fonterra Cooperative Group, one of the world’s largest milk companies, bought the cow for $218 and moved it to a research site.
Scientists have yet to isolate the exact chemical pathway responsible for the naturally produced low-fat milk. The company expects the first commercial herd of cows supplying natural low-fat milk and spreadable butter for the market by 2011.
Interesting!!!!
Technorati Tags: Cow, Low Fat, Milk, Gene, Mutation
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Posted 24 May 2007 — by Arun
Category Ubuntu
As announced earlier, Dell is planning to offer E520n desktop and the E1505n notebook for $599and the XPS 410n starting at
According to Direct2Dell blog, hardware support will come from Dell. Beyond that, users can turn to the Linux section of the Dell Community Forum for help and also get the latest updates from the Linux team at http://linux.dell.com. Users also have fee-based options for operating system support through Canonical, including 30-day Get Started, One-year Basic and One-year Standard.
Another news regarding Dell. Walmart is going to sell Dell Dimension E521 in more than 3,000 retail locations in the United States. Read more at CNet.
Technorati Tags: Dell, Ubuntu, Desktop, Laptop, E520n, E1505n, XPS 410n
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Posted 23 May 2007 — by Arun
Category Ubuntu
Jokosher is a powerful multi-track studio to create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment. Jokosher provides a complete application for recording, editing, mixing and exporting audio.
According to Jokosher,
- Jokosher offers easy to use interface
- Simple editing with splitting, trimming and moving tools
- Multi-track volume mixing with VU sliders
- Import audio (Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, WAV and anything else supported by GStreamer) into your projects.
- A range of instruments can be added to a project, and instruments can
be renamed. Instruments can also be muted and soloed easily.
- Export to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV and anything else GStreamer supports.
Click here to download the source tarball or deb package for Ubuntu.
Technorati Tags: Jokosher, Music, Editiing, Ogg, MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ubuntu
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Posted 22 May 2007 — by Arun
Category Ubuntu
Dell released the software and hardware details in their Direct2Dell blog for their Ubuntu offering. According to Dell, their initial offering includes
- The default software from the Ubuntu will be installed on the system, including kernel and applications.
- The peripheral options offered with Ubuntu will be a subset of what is offered with other operating systems. These hardware options have been thoroughly tested by the Linux team at Dell.
- Open source drivers are installed when possible. If unavailable, Dell installs restricted drivers. This includes Intel wireless cards and Conexant modems.
- A wiki page will be created to give technical details of the supported systems, information on the device drivers used for system peripherals, details of our Ubuntu factory-installation, and information on the problems found during the testing, with their fixes/workarounds.
- Dell recommends Linux users buy Dell printers that have PostScript engines in them.
Dell is working with the hardware vendors who don’t offer good Linux drivers, to improve the maturity and stability of their associated Linux drivers. While this may not happen overnight, Dell expects to have a broader range of hardware support with Linux over time. This is a wonderful move. This is a good chance to persuade all hardware vendors to offer Linux support.
At this time, Dell is not including any support for proprietary audio or video codecs that are not already distributed with Ubuntu 7.04. These include MPEG 1/2/3/4, WMA, WMV, DVD, Quicktime, etc.
Technorati Tags: Dell, Ubuntu, Linux, Support, Direct2Dell, Hardware, Software
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KDE has announced the release of KDE 3.5.7 today. KDE 3.5.7 features translations in 65 languages, improvements to KDE PIM suite and other applications.
This release has a renewed focus on KDE PIM applications. KAddressBook, KOrganizer and KAlarm received attention with bugfixes, while KMail additionally witnessed new features and improvements with both interface work and IMAP handling: it can manage IMAP quota and copy and move all folders.
KPDF shows tooltips for links when hovering on them, displays correctly more complex PDF files and reacts to the commands for opening the Table of Contents pane.
Umbrello now can generate and export C# Code and has added Java 5 generics support.
KDevelop got a major version upgrade to version 3.4.1. New features include much improved Code Completion and Navigation, a more reliable debugger interface, Qt4 support and better Ruby and KDE4 development support.
In addition to the new features there were many bug fixes across the board, especially in the Edutainment and Games packages and Kopete. Besides bugfixes Kopete also got a major performance improvement on chat rendering.
For more detailed list, refer KDE 3.5.7 changelog.
Source: KDE.
Update: If you want to upgrade your Kubuntu Feisty to 3.5.7, follow the steps below:
- Right click here and save the file to your local disk
- Launch Adept Manager from K-Menu->System
- Choose from the menu Adept->Manage Repositories
- Click the Authentication tab
- Click Import Key File… and select the file you saved above
- Click the Third Party Software tab
- Add one of the deb lines from the list below
- deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-357 feisty main
- deb ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/kde/stable/3.5.7/kubuntu feisty main
- deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.7/kubuntu feisty main
- deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/kde/stable/3.5.7/kubuntu feisty main
- Close and click Reload
- From the Adept toolbar click Full Upgrade then Apply Changes
- Log out of KDE and back in again once the new version is installed
Source: Kubuntu.
Technorati Tags: KDE 3.5.7, Firefox, KPDF, Umbrello, KDevelop, Kopete, KAlarm
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