Welcome to the 24th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
Last week was a really busy one, as it brought us many new distributions and applications that had been expected for years, such as Amarok 2.0. The weekly starts with the improvements/bugfixes brought by the new version of Clonezilla LiveCD, announced by Steven Shiau. Guardian Digital presents its latest release of the EnGarde Secure Community 3.0 operating system. Marcos Guglielmetti released a new revision of the Musix GNU/Linux, a Linux distribution that is used daily in music schools. The weekly continues with the latest drivers for ATI Radeon video cards released by AMD, which intr... [read more >>] None other than Patrick Volkerding, father of Slackware Linux, announced a new and greatly improved release of his Linux distribution, Slackware 12.2, now powered by version 2.6.27.7 of the Linux kernel, which offers features such as encrypted and journaling filesystems, support for RAID (ATA and S-ATA) volumes, Software RAID, support for S-ATA drives and LVM (Logical Volume Manager)."This Slackware edition combines Slackware's legendary simplicity (and close tracking of original sources), stability, and security with some of the latest advances in Linux technology. Expect no less than the best Slackware yet." - said Volkerding on the ... [read more >>] Welcome to the 23rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
This week, we've added yet another new section in our weekly, called "Development Releases," in order to separate the stable Linux distribution releases from the unstable ones, the latter being addressed only to testers. This week's newsletter for our esteemed Linux readers starts with a sad announcement for the users of Fedora 8, which will reach its end-of-life on January 7, 2009. The weekly continues with the new features/improvements brought by grml 2008.11, a Debian-based Live CD designed for system administrators. Even if it is not a Linux distribution, the new release o... [read more >>] Welcome to the 22nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
We'll start this week's newsletter by letting you know that we've added a new section called "Video Clip of the Week," in which we will present some of the most interesting videos about Linux and other Open Source projects. The week starts with Amarok 2's first release candidate, which brought new features and improvements. Fedora announced its 10th release, with bleeding edge technologies. Ubuntu Privacy Remix brings advanced data-protection into a Live CD based, of course, on Ubuntu. Elive's new development version introduces an improved kernel, new bookmarks,... [read more >>] On November 27th, the Ubuntu developers announced the availability of a major security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04 LTS and 8.10 (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). The update patches nine security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packages. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to update your system as soon as possible!The following Linux kernel vulnerabilities have been discovered:1. The Xen hypervisor block driver couldn't accurately validate incoming requests. Therefore, a user with root privileges could crash a system and cause a DoS (Denial of Service... [read more >>] Welcome to our 21st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
Here’s what you can read about in this edition: Adobe decides to release a 64-bit version of its marvelous Flash Player for Linux users; Ubuntu 8.10 has a new unofficial edition, Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.10, which brings updated software and Quarn recitations; The KOffice team releases another development version of the upcoming KOffice 2.0 suite, with full ODF support; Playstation 3 users have a greatly improved Yellow Dog Linux to play with; First alpha of Ubuntu 9.04 arrives and we have the first screenshot tour! Also, don't forget to check out the latest Linux distributions... [read more >>] Today is a historical day for Linux users, as Adobe has finally decided to listen to them and released a 64-bit version of its Flash Player. Until today, 64-bit Linux users had to install the 32-bit version of the Flash Player, which was forced to work with the help of the NSPlugin wrapper package and the 32-bit libraries. However, this could cause some issues, and I'm pretty sure that users of the 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) operating system know about the "grey box" problem of the Flash Player plugin, and are aware of the fact that you had to reload the page to see a flash movie, or even restart your browser... which was very ... [read more >>] Welcome to our 20th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!Here’s what you can read about in this edition: Clement Lefebvre announces the first release candidate of the upcoming Linux Mint 6, dubbed Felicia; Elive 1.9.15 improves the support for Apple MacBooks by fixing the installation and webcam; SystemRescueCD 1.1.1 brings support for Wireless USB adaptors powered by the Ralink chipset; TheeMahn releases Ultimate Edition 2.0, based on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), but with more themes, more software and new tools; Nvidia and ATI release new and improved video drivers for Linux users; the openSUSE team releases an unexpected fifth beta vers... [read more >>] Welcome to our 19th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!Here’s what you can read about in this edition: the openSUSE team releases the fourth beta of the upcoming openSUSE 11.1 Linux distribution; Jesse Keating announces the Preview release of the Fedora 10 Linux; the third beta version of Amarok 2.0 arrives with a few important fixes and new functions; the third maintenance release of the K Desktop Environment brings enhancements to KHTML, Kopete and Dolphin. Also, you can check out our step by step tutorial on how to install the Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) operating system, and don't forget the latest Linux distributions released/u... [read more >>] Welcome to our 18th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
Here’s what you can read about in this edition: Jeremy White loses a bet and gives CrossOver for free (for one day); Robert Shingledecker releases yet another minor bugfix version of Damn Small Linux 4.4; the most awaited Linux distribution arrives, Ubuntu 8.10 (dubbed Intrepid Ibex); Linux kernel regression found in Ubuntu 8.10 kernel packages, right after the official release; Ubuntu developers announce the release schedule for the next release, Ubuntu 9.04 (dubbed Jaunty Jackalope); Barry Kauler announces the first maintenance release of Puppy Linux 4.4. Also, don't forget ... [read more >>] | 
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