Estobuntu 8.09 is released. New version is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS release and uses as default KDE desktop. Main features are special Estonain ID card modules, Estonian internet provider Kou support. Also all needed multimedia codecs etc.
100+ Beautiful Free Fonts for Ubuntu
If you are a graphic and web designer, the default fonts that came with Ubuntu will surely be not enough for your needs. However, if you know where to look, you can find plenty of additional fonts that can help get the job done. If you don’t believe me, let me share to you a hundred or so good-looking free fonts, and then I’ll show you how to easily install them on Ubuntu:
* Dustismo Fonts
This is my favorite. Why? Just see the screenshots below (Click on image to view full size):
* News about Mint
Elyssa x64 RC1 released
If any of you have ideas for how we can make Mint more known please feel free to leave a comment.
* News about Linux
Gnome 2.24 released
Released final versions lately
Pardus Linux 2008.1 ; Vector Linux 5.9.1 ; sidux 2008-3
Gentoo is having problems and cancels the 2008.1 release. They state “we overstretched our human resources during the prolonged 2008.0 release process” To bad…
An alternative to MS Exchange on Linux
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about IT
The Netherlands Patent Office changes to open source software. The entire Netherlands public sector is to change in the long term
The European Parliament adopts a legislative report about telecom. It’s supposed to stop some attempts to block filesharing - however I can’t find that in the report linked to. More about it
Mozilla Releases 9 Updates To Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Zend Teams With Adobe to Marry PHP and Flex
Greenpeace ‘Guide to Greener Electronics’
Users fail to spot fake pop-ups
‘Uncloneable’ biometric passports pass the test
Wikileaks posts a hack of Palin’s e-mail account on Yahoo
Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail all vulnerable to Palin-style password-reset hack
‘Password Recovery’ Services may be crackers that gets you in deep trouble
Researchers discover PDF exploit packs
In-depth manual and automated assessments found nearly 97 percent of sites carry a severe vulnerability.
The notorious service provider Intercage is (was) a severe vulnerability in itself and got cut off from the internet
* Hardware news
First True 3D Processor Created, Runs at 1.4 GHz
New ‘On/Off Switch’ Protects RFID Cards From Hacks
Asus ships software cracker on recovery DVD
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #110 for the week of September 21st - September 27th, 2008 is now available.
In this Issue:
* Potential hardware-damaging e1000e driver: Intrepid
* Ubuntu 8.10 beta freeze now in effect
* Ubuntu 8.10 beta approaching
* Ubuntu 7.04 reaches end-of-life, October 19, 2008
* Intrepid Release Parties
* Ubuntu Upstream report
* Ubuntu Server survey launched
* Introducing the Ubuntu Wanted project
* Progress of Romanian Translation Team
* Ubuntu Stats
* Regular Bug Jams in Berlin kicked off
* ABLEconf co-hosted by Ubuntu Arizona LoCo
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Mark Shuttleworth named “IT Community Hero of the Year”
* Full Circle Magazine #17
* Ubuntu-UK podcast #15
* Ubuntu Community interview with John Crawford(johnc4510)
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!
This month:
* Command and Conquer - Nano & Vim.
* How-To : Program in C - Part 1, Connect to IRC, Using GIMP - Part 6 and Scan & Convert to PDF.
* My Story - …When I Was Two
* My Opinion - Is This The Year?
* MOTU Interview - Harald Sitter
* Top 5 - Email Notifiers
Ubuntu announced the release of 7.04 almost 18 months ago, on April
19, 2007. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing
security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support
period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 7.04 will reach end of life
on Sunday, October 19th, 2008. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will
no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 7.04.
The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 7.04 is via Ubuntu 7.10.
Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades. Note that upgrades
to version 8.04 LTS and beyond are only supported in multiple steps, via
an upgrade first to 7.10, then to 8.04 LTS. Both Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04
LTS continue to be actively supported with security updates and select
high-impact bug fixes. All announcements of official security updates for
Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list,
information about which may be found at
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce.
Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most
highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes,
schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open
Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to
customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs.
The Ubuntu Server community wants to ask a broad set of users to share just exactly how they are using Ubuntu Server and in what kind of organisations. A previous shorter survey from Canonical was completed by those requesting free server CDs, but this is the first time the Ubuntu server team is requesting information from the community worldwide.
Co-sponsored by RedMonk Research, the survey [http://survey.ubuntu.com/] will gather more detailed knowledge in order to:
The anonymous survey takes 10 to 20 minutes to complete and is open to anyone deploying Linux servers today, whether or not they use Ubuntu. The Ubuntu Server Community Team will present the results in the beginning of December.
“Our survey earlier this year provided insight into the diversity and global reach of the Ubuntu Server customer base,” said Nick Barcet, Ubuntu Server product manager. “With this survey, we hope to understand more about them – including how they are using our software in their businesses – in order to better serve them in the future.”
gOS gadgets version 3.0 is out and available for download. Based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, gOS Gadgets provides a unique spin off that could be useful especially for netbook and netTops which is what gOS gadgets seems to be geared towards. gOS lets you use the provided gadgets, code your own or install a 3rd party widget on your desktop. The new gOS brings users the choice of over 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets after loading the desktop with some of the more popular on startup.
In this article I’ll briefly review ten of my favourite CLI (command-line interface), not necessarily the most popular or most powerful of them. So if you don’t find your personal favourite, (e.g. Midnight Commander or mp3blaster), it’s because the article includes the tools I use more often. So here it goes:
Irssi This is definitely one of my top 10 favourites. Irssi is a powerful IRC client with a user-friendly interface and support for Perl scripting. Irssi can be customised in any way I like and documentation on the official website helps to learn it at a fast pace.
Helix 2008R1 (2.0) has officially been released and is available for download! This is a major update to the bootable side of Helix, as it is based on Ubuntu rather than Knoppix. There are a number of other changes that you can review by looking at the changelog.
The MD5 hash value of the iso is 93a285bfa8ab93d664d508e5b12446d3.
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