Novell lay off AppArmor programmers

« 12 October 2007 | 6:23 | News | No Comments »

Novell laid off AppArmor founder and developers on September 28th. Novell acquired Immunix, the company that developed AppArmor software for Linux. The layoff announcement was a surprise for Crispin Cowan, the founder of Immunix. However he and two other laid off developers launched an AppArmor consulting company called Mercenary Linux to support AppArmor development.
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(K)Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Release Candidate available

« 11 October 2007 | 16:52 | Announcement, Ubuntu | No Comments »

Ubuntu team has release the RC for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. The release candidate is mostly stable. Here is a brief list of what is new in Gutsy Gibbon.

GNOME 2.20
Compiz Fusion (by default)
Tracker desktop search
Fast User Switching
Firefox Plugins
GUI for X
Automatic Printer installation
Read/Write access to NTFS
AppArmor Security
Hard disk encryption

Download Ubuntu 7.10 RC from here.
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