Archive for April, 2008

Ubuntu 8, Fedora 9 package OpenJDK

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Sun says the open source version of its Java development kit has been picked up by two popular Linux distros. Canonical's Ubuntu 8.04 LTS distribution and Red Hat's forthcoming ... Read more..

KDE Project Ships First Alpha of KDE 4.1

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

KDE.org: "With the soft feature freeze in effect, KDE 4.1 provides a first preview of what can be expected from KDE 4.1, due in late July this year..." Read more..

First Word from Day 1 of the Novell v. SCO Trial

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Groklaw: "Michael Jacobs made the opening comments for Novell stating that they seek the recovery of $19,979,561 from SCO based on its licenses to Microsoft, Sun, and others..." Read more..

Recycling computers with Free Geek

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Free Geek is a group of people who reuse computers so that others may benefit from them. They’re based in Portland, Oregon. The nice thing about their group ... Read more..

New SymphonyOne distro plays a different tune

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

After several years of development, SymphonyOS this month released SymphonyOne 2008.1, the first stable version of its distribution. When SymphonyOS first emerged three years ago, it offered a Linux desktop ... Read more..

Wednesday’s security advisories

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Debian has updated asterisk (denial of service). Fedora has updated moin (F7, F8: multiple vulnerabilities), poppler (F7: arbitrary code execution), wordpress (F7, F8: unspecified vulnerability), xine-lib (F7, F8: ... Read more..

Goggles Music Manager 0.9.2 (Default branch)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, MP4, ASF, and Musepack files based on genre, artist, album, and song. It supports gapless playback and ... Read more..

Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory - vorbis-tools (MDVSA-2008 … - Help Net Security

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory - vorbis-tools (MDVSA-2008 ...Help Net Security, Croatia - 9 hours agoUpdated Packages: Mandriva Linux 2008.0: a4331899942b05ebd3909c13148b74ef 2008.0/i586/vorbis-tools-1.1.1-5.3mdv2008.0.i586.rpm ... Read more..

Six Twitter clients for the Linux desktop and one for the road

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Twitter is a popular social networking utility that's gaining popularity as a micro-blogging tool. Registered users can post messages -- also called Tweets -- via the Web interface, but many ... Read more..

Mandriva: Updated gstreamer-plugins-good packages fix

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in the Speex library was found where it did not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a ... Read more..

Mandriva: Updated vorbis-tools packages fix vulnerabilities

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability in the Speex library was found where it did not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a ... Read more..

Ulteo–My Digital Life Made Simple

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

PolishLinux: "The purpose of the Beta1 Ulteo Application System is to feature what it can develop into in the nearest future, especially considering the Ulteo Online Desktop..." Read more..

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory - KDE start_kdeinit: Multiple … - Help Net Security

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory - KDE start_kdeinit: Multiple ...Help Net Security, Croatia - 18 minutes agoSecurity is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users ... Read more..

CDlinux 0.6.1 (Default branch)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

CDlinux is a compact Linux distribution. It is small in size, yet rich in features. It ships with an up-to-date version of the Linux kernel, Xorg, Xfce, and many popular ... Read more..

Mp3 Database 6.92 (Release branch)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

MP3 Database uses Apache/PHP/MySQL to work as an MP3/OGG Jukebox. Users select songs from a client machine; the program will pull from a CD on the server and play (using ... Read more..