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 [...]
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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As announced earlier, Dell is planning to offer E520n desktop and the E1505n notebook for $599and the XPS 410n starting at $849 with Ubuntu as the OS, starting today.
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 [...]
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 [...]
GMail has increased it’s attachment size to 20MB.
Through Google System Blog.
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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 [...]
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 [...]