FoO Iskandar Weblog » Linux http://foo.iskandar.web.id Just and Jussie Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:53:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Release: KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5 Released! http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-kde-software-compilation-4-4-5-released.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-kde-software-compilation-4-4-5-released.html#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:53:40 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3224 A few minutes ago, the KDE developers announced the fifth maintenance release of KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.4 branch. Dubbed ceilidh, KDE SC 4.4.5 brings fixes to applications such as Konsole, KMouseTool, KHangMan, KolourPaint, Okular, JuK, KGet, Comic applet, KAlarm, Ark and KFloppy.

KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5 is composed of the KDE Plasma Workspace, the KDE Applications and the KDE Development Platform. It includes web-development applications, educational tools, administrative programs, and more, all of which are available in over 50 languages.

Highlights of KDE SC 4.4.5:

  • · Various refreshing and encoding bugs in Konsole were fixed;
  • · Fixed some Okular crash issues;
  • · KDE PIM’s KAlarm tool received some fixes;
  • · KMouseTool can now send the right mouse buttons when used in “left handed” mode;
  • · Fixed an issue with the Desert theme of KHangMan;
  • · Fixed an Undo crash bug in KolourPaint;
  • · Fixed a couple of bugs in JuK and KGet;
  • · Ark and KFloppy also received various fixes.

For more details about KDE SC 4.4.5, you can check out the official changelog. Also, don’t miss the upcoming features of KDE SC 4.5.0.

]]> http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-kde-software-compilation-4-4-5-released.html/feed 0 Release: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 Released! http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-opensuse-11-3-milestone-5-released.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-opensuse-11-3-milestone-5-released.html#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:26:40 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3184 openSUSE 11.3: “Milestone 5 (M5), a snapshot of the Factory ‘work in progress’ build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M5 was marked by significant contributions from both the openSUSE community, and the larger Linux community.

We’ve added some interesting new packages, made some updates to core processes, and participated in a coordinated multi-distribution upgrade of a major multimedia component. Over 50 bugs were fixed and 8 new features were implemented. Release news: update to Perl 5.12; update to parted 2.2; KMS integration for Intel and NVIDIA (via nouveau driver) graphics.

Here is the full release announcement.

]]> http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-opensuse-11-3-milestone-5-released.html/feed 0 Release: Fedora 13 Beta Released! http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-fedora-13-beta-released.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-fedora-13-beta-released.html#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:13:44 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3173 The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 13. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 13, scheduled to be released in the middle of May.

A universe of new features for end users: automatic print driver installation; desktop enhancements – the Shotwell photo manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca / Twitter client, and Simple Scan scanning utility; NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband, Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities; color management; enhanced iPod functionality; experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards.

Read the release announcement and see feature list for more information.

]]> http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-fedora-13-beta-released.html/feed 0 News: Translucent Ubuntu Users 12 Million http://foo.iskandar.web.id/news-translucent-ubuntu-users-12-million.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/news-translucent-ubuntu-users-12-million.html#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:54:45 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3159 Linux vendors, Canonical claim the number of users who install Ubuntu to reach 12 million users. Number of Ubuntu users will continue to soar until the end of next April.

Based on data from Planet Linux, the Ubuntu presence known with a 10:04 or code name ‘Lucid Lynx’ will further boost the number of users later.

As is known, the number of Ubuntu users in the year 2008, only approximately 8 million users. “Based on the same methodology as in the year 2008, we believe that the current number of users reached 12 million,” said Chris Kenyon, Canonical’s vice president for OEM as reported by the Inquirer, Monday (12/4/2010).

Lucid Lynx Desktop will be the first Long-Term Supported (LTS) Ubuntu along duang year. Lucid Lynx will support the Ubuntu Desktop for three years and five years for the Ubuntu Server. Lynx Linux ditwarkan interface is quite easy. So that a user can easily connect to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Identica, Google Talk, MSN and IRC.

10:04 Lucid Lynx or Ubuntu will be released on April 29, 2010. Ubuntu previously issued a final version in 2009, namely Ubuntu 10 Karmic codenamed Koala.

]]> http://foo.iskandar.web.id/news-translucent-ubuntu-users-12-million.html/feed 0 Release: Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 Released! http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-ubuntu-10-04-beta-2-released.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-ubuntu-10-04-beta-2-released.html#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:18:44 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3121 The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the second beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon’s EC2, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook edition.”

The release announcement is almost an exact copy of the beta 1 announcement, while the release notes are also largely identical except for a few resolved known issues and one new known bug: “Activating a RAID 1 array in degraded mode is reported to lead to RAID disks being reported as in sync when they are not, resulting in data loss.

]]> http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-ubuntu-10-04-beta-2-released.html/feed 0 Release: Wine 1.1.39 Released! http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-wine-1-1-39-released.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-wine-1-1-39-released.html#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:16:24 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3092 Two weeks have passed since the release of Wine 1.1.38 and so now the 1.1.39 release is available to provide more fixes and improvements. This bi-weekly development update delivers on support for registry symbolic links, many MSI fixes, build process improvements, MSXML clean-ups and fixes, many MSHTML improvements, and various bug-fixes.

The Wine 1.1.39 release announcement with change-log is to be found at WineHQ.org.

]]> http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-wine-1-1-39-released.html/feed 2 News: Ubuntu 10.04 May Backport More Kernel DRM http://foo.iskandar.web.id/news-ubuntu-10-04-may-backport-more-kernel-drm.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/news-ubuntu-10-04-may-backport-more-kernel-drm.html#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:02:46 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3088 The decision to stick with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel rather than the soon to be released Linux 2.6.33 kernel for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS that will be released in April is leading to a few more headaches for those involved with packing X.Org and the graphics components for the Lucid Lynx release.

Developers have already had to back-port the Nouveau DRM that went mainline during the Linux 2.6.33 cycle in order to gain kernel mode-setting support for NVIDIA hardware in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but now it looks like they may end up back-porting even more of this Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code for improved graphics support atop the Linux 2.6.32 kernel.

More details available at phoronix.com

]]> http://foo.iskandar.web.id/news-ubuntu-10-04-may-backport-more-kernel-drm.html/feed 0 Release: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 Released! http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-opensuse-11-3-milestone-2-released.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-opensuse-11-3-milestone-2-released.html#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:20:08 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3078 Milestone 2 is part of the milestones where we track new releases in the open source universe and test the building of our various distribution images with them. While milestone 1 introduced various pre-release versions of free and open source projects (KDE 4.4 RC1, OpenOffice 3.2 Beta4 or VirtualBox 3.1 beta 1) into our development distribution openSUSE Factory, this milestone is characterized by final releases of those projects. We are also preparing everything to switch to GCC 4.5.0 as the default compiler. Currently our staging version of Factory already builds with it and our compiler people document/fix the most serious issues. They aim at milestone 3 for the switch.

Check the release announcement to read about the detailed changes that happened in the various areas.

]]> http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-opensuse-11-3-milestone-2-released.html/feed 0 Release: Linux Mint 8 Released! http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-linux-mint-8-released-2.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-linux-mint-8-released-2.html#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:40:44 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3056 The Linux Mint team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’ KDE Community edition. The KDE Community edition aims to provide a version of Linux Mint which uses the KDE desktop. This edition is based on Kubuntu 9.10, Linux 2.6.31, X.Org 7.4 and it comes with the latest KDE 4.3.4 and Amarok 2.2.1. Featured improvements in this release: OEM installation, possibility to ignore updates, multiple selection in Software Manager. Software Manager’s graphical interface is now easier to use and it shows more content. The layout was changed and by putting the screenshots in the corner of the application you can now see more software and more reviews at once. You don’t need to manually refresh Software Manager anymore. When new data is available you get notified by Update Manager.

Read more details at release announcement, release notes and what’s new pages for further details.

]]> http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-linux-mint-8-released-2.html/feed 0 Release: Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2 Released! http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-mandriva-linux-2010-1-alpha-2-released.html http://foo.iskandar.web.id/release-mandriva-linux-2010-1-alpha-2-released.html#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:27:55 +0000 FoO Iskandar http://foo.iskandar.web.id/?p=3048 The time has came for the second alpha release for the 2010.1 version of Mandriva Linux. As this is an early pre-release, major changes are mostly in the area of included third-party software. Planned changes to Mandriva’s own tools and systems are not ready for inclusion in this public pre-release. Major new features: many improvements in guest account management – use of restricted shell, restricted access to other user’s files, prevent access to most of Mandriva administration tools; desktop environments – GNOME 2.29.6, KDE 4.4 RC3; desktop applications – Firefox 3.6, OpenOffice.org 3.2 beta 3, Google Chromium; X Server – Nouveau driver is now used as a free driver for NVIDIA graphics cards instead of nv …

More details available at release announcement and release notes for a detailed list of changes.

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