Archive for December, 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.
Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
The recent 10.3 version of openSUSE has a great 1-click installer. But getting those 1-click installer packages can be very hard. Fear not, Dr. Neville from our Mangalore Linux Users Group found something very useful: A search engine for openSUSE 1-click Installer search packages! This will be very useful. All ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Due to the licensing restrictions, like most distros, openSUSE don't have the codecs bundled along with the installation DVD. But thanks to their 1-click installer, it isn't hard to get the Green Chameleon to start playing all those mp3's/videos of yours.
It involves just 2 steps!
First, get the Restricted Format 1-click ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
In a surprise move, Red Hat said Thursday that Matthew Szulik is as president and chief executive on January 1, to be replaced by James Whitehurst, 40, Delta Air Lines' former chief operating officer.
Szulik, who took over as CEO from Bob Young in 1999 just a few months after ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Hardy Heron Alpha 2 is the second alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features.
Note: This ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Couple of days ago, Mozilla released the second Beta for the third version of their immensely popular browser, Firefox. Now generally I stay away from beta versions of software, but when Subbu told me it'simproved a lot over the first beta, I just rushed to download it & try it ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
NVIDIA has released a new Linux display driver, which is a stable version of their previous 169.04 beta last month. In addition, the new NVIDIA 169.07 Linux driver has a few changes, while most of the release highlights were already found in the 169.04 release. We are preparing additional Linux ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
LDP is a loosely knit team of volunteers who provide documentation for many aspects of Linux. There are several forms of documentation: Guides, HOWTOs, man pages, and FAQs.You can browse it at http://tldp.org/
A member of Mangalore LUG, Dr. Neville has uploaded this and was kind enough allow me to post ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Contrary to what most people think, it is possible to get all those effects on their Intel based onboard graphics. Now I've helped a few friends to get Compiz Fusion running on their Intel cards, and I was requested by them to post this tutorial, so here it goes.
First up, ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Wine 0.9.51 was released today, with the following main changes:
A bunch of WinHelp improvements.
Better Japanese font support.
A ton of rpcrt4 fixes.
Several Alsa capture fixes.
Improved support for screen resolution changes.
Lots of bug fixes.
Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to ...
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