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Calculate Linux 11.15 Released

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:28:07 +0000

Developers are pleased to announce the release of Calculate Linux 11.15, a Gentoo-based distribution fully compatible with the original Gentoo, but using its own installer, configuring your system with Calculate Utilities and providing an all-ready heterogeneous client-server solution for rapid deployment in corporate environment.

New Features -
>> The major change in CL 11.15 is the migration to GNOME 3 and to GNOME-Shell, while the desktop interface of Calculate Linux remains visually the same; you will still be able to manage domain hosts under Calculate Directory Server.
>> For a more optimized user environment, out team have developed a set of new extensions. To switch between windows, hit Alt+Tab (nothing new here).
>> The launch panel is at the bottom of the screen, as is the tradition with CL.
>> In the default configuration, the top panel features the Applications menu, the desktop switcher, the taskbar, the trash bin, the system tray, the Lock button and the Exit button .
>> System notifications were moved to the top right of the screen, below the system tray . Activities are disabled by default.

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Chrome Hacked in 5 Minutes at Pwn2Own

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:23:15 +0000

After offering a total prize fund of up to $1M for a successful Chrome hack, it seems Google got what it wanted (or not!). No more than 5 minutes into the Pwn2Own cracking contest team Vupen exploited 2 Chrome bugs to demonstrate a total break of Google's browser.

They will win at least 60k USD out of Google's prize fund, as well as taking a strong option on winning the overall Pwn2Own prize. It also illustrates that Chrome's much lauded sandboxing is not a silver bullet for browser security.

Source - Slashdot.org

HALO 4 : First Impressions

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:10:07 +0000

Halo 4 has been at the center of quite a few leaks in the last few days, some of them fake, like a teaser trailer with a release date, while some were true, like yesterday’s first screenshots. Now, 343 Industries, the game’s developer, and Microsoft, its publisher, have presented the first actual gameplay video from Halo 4, after the cinematic one we got to see last year at E3 2011. Besides footage from inside the game, you can also admire plenty of commentary from the staff of 343 Industries, who share quite a few details about the upcoming shooter, including its multiplayer mode and the return of older items, like the Battle Rifle. Besides these details, the video also focuses on the new look of protagonist Master Chief and on his voice. 343 Industries’ Creative Director Josh Holmes also talked about the game’s overall feeling, saying that it’s faster-paced and more similar to Halo 3 than the most recent Halo: Reach title.

"It's faster paced and more intense in terms of the immersiveness of the experience and just the overall visceral-ness of the experience - that's been a real focus for our team," he said.

"When you look at Halo games throughout the series they've changed pretty substantially in terms of the pace of play. Halo Reach is much slower and more methodical than Halo 3. What we wanted to do is push the balance back towards a faster paced combat feel."

As of yet, not a lot of other details are known about Halo 4, but you can expect Microsoft to begin sharing more pieces of information in the near future with the legions of Halo fans. Until then, check out the actual video below.

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Released

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:47:50 +0000

Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO images

Quote:Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO files (.iso) are provided as an alternative to using Windows 8 Consumer Preview Setup. If you are on a PC running Windows and want to install the consumer preview on another partition, another PC, or a virtual machine, we recommend you download Windows 8 Consumer Preview Setup and use the built-in tools for converting an ISO image into installation media, such as a DVD or USB bootable flash drive. You can find additional information, including a list of supported upgrades, in the FAQ.

Note before you download: Windows 8 Consumer Preview is prerelease software that may be substantially modified before it’s commercially released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information provided here. Some product features and functionality may require additional hardware or software. If you decide to go back to your previous operating system, you'll need to reinstall it from the recovery or installation media that came with your PC.

System Requirements

Windows 8 Consumer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows 7 :

>Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
>RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
>Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
>Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device or higher

->To use touch, you need a tablet or monitor that supports multitouch

->To access Windows Store and to download and run apps, you need an active Internet connection and a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768

->To snap apps, you need a screen resolution of at least 1366 x 768

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Minix 3.2 Released

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:26:16 +0000

MINIX is a UNIX-like computer operating system based on a microkernel architecture & its latest version i.e. MINIX 3.2.0 has been released. It is extremely small, with the part that runs in kernel mode in about 5,000 lines of source code.

Features

Clang is the default compiler (GCC is also supported)
NetBSD C library
ELF is the default executable format
Asynchronous, multithreaded virtual filesystem (VFS) server
Experimental SMP support
FUSE support
NetBSD password file format
NetBSD bootloader
Smaller boot images (using gzip)
ProcFS: /proc file system
Multithreading and NCQ support in the AHCI driver
Debugging Improvements Better reliability Better virtualization support.

Read more here.

Fedora 16 Beta Released

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:47:49 +0000

Fedora 16 codenamed "Verne" got its first beta released yesterday. It is based GNOME 3.2, the latest version of the GNOME 3 shell Ubuntu ditched for Unity, includes the Linux 3.0 kernel & also includes the latest version of Blender, a 3D imaging tool, the latest Firefox beta and the usual updates for Perl and Python. It's also worth noting that Fedora has not followed Ubuntu's lead in moving to Mozilla's Thunderbird for email. Fedora 16 is sticking with the Evolution email client.

Quote:Download Fedora 16 Beta

Features

Cloud Updates Fedora now includes a number of new and improved features to support cloud computing, including HekaFS, a "cloud ready" version of GlusterFS, including additional auth*/crypto/multi-tenancy; pacemaker-cloud, application service high availability in a cloud environment; and IaaS implementations such as Aeolus and OpenStack.

Virtualization Once again Fedora raises the bar on virtualization support, including expanded virtual network support, an improved Spice for managing virtual machines, restored Xen support, a new virtual machine lock manager, and improved ability to browse guest file systems.

System Boot Fedora 16 introduces GRUB2, the long-awaited next-generation boot-loader for Linux. GRUB2 automatically recognizes other operating systems, supports LVM2 and LUKS partitions, and is more customizable than the previous version. In this release, only x86 systems with a BIOS uses GRUB2 by default. Work is ongoing for making GRUB2 the default for other architectures and systems.

Services Management Fedora 15 introduced the Systemd services management program. This release features better integration of Systemd via conversion to native systemd services from legacy init scripts in many software components -- for desktop users, this means faster boot times; for system administrators it means more powerful management of services.

Desktop Updates The two major desktop environments have been updated to the latest releases: KDE Software Compilation 4.7 and GNOME 3.1 development release. GNOME 3.2 is available in the updates testing repository, enabled by default in this release.

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PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.6 Released

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:05:46 +0000

PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.6 for 32 and 64 bits computers is now available for download. A 64 bit only release will be available in the coming weeks. PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.6 features the following updates.

Download - PCLinuxOS 2011.6 KDE

What’s new:

Kernel – The kernel was updated to version 2.6.38.8. Additional kernels are available from our repositories such as a PAE kernel for computers with more than 4 gigs of memory. A BFS kernel for maximum desktop performance and a standard kernel with group scheduling enabled.

Xorg - Xorg server was updated to version 1.10.2. Mesa updated to 7.10.3 and libdrm to version 2.4.26. This update brings enhancements to the PCLinuxOS desktop including speed, 3D desktop support for most Intel, Nvidia and AMD/ATi video cards, better font rendering, black screen fixes for most Nvidia cards, better Flash playback and more. The most recent versions of Nvidia and AMD/ATi video drivers are included on the LiveCD and automatically configured for you. The bad news is users with older legacy video cards included in most dated computers may not function properly due to many depreciated xorg video drivers.

Toolchain – Gcc software compiler was updated to version 4.5.2 and glibc updated to 2.10.1. Locales were updated to version 2.12.1.

Package Manager – RPM was updated to version 4.8.1. apt-get and the Synaptic Package Manager were also updated to work with the updated rpm packages. yum and yumex will be available in the coming weeks as an alternative package manager.

Theme Update – The 2011 release received a full makeover. PCLinuxOS features a new brush metal theme including updates to grub, plymouth, kdm, kdesplash and application splash screens. Additional themes are available as well as our previous theme from our software repository.

Theme screenshots located here: http://goo.gl/il3CG

Remastering Tools – mylivecd was updated to work with the latest release. mylivecd added the ability to install PCLinuxOS from the boot menu without having to go to the desktop first. There are 3 compression schemes available now for remastering your installation. xz maximum compression, xz normal compression and gzip for fast compression. xz max takes longer to generate the LiveCD but produces the most compressed image where as gzip will create a LiveCD fairly quick but the compressed image will be larger. mylivecd can also generate a LiveDVD with up to 4 gigs of compressed data. Usually a 10-12 gig installation will compress into a 4 gig DVD.

Software – PCLinuxOS 2011 LiveCD come with the latest versions of most popular programs such as KDE 4.6.4, Firefox 5.0, Thunderbird 3.1.11, Pidgin 2.9.0, VLC 1.10.0 and Clementine 0.7.1 just to name a few. OpenOffice Manager has been replaced with LibreOffice Manager. Due to the limited size of the LiveCD the office suite is not included but can be installed through the LibreOffice Manager either in LiveCD mode (3 gigs memory required) or preferably after hard drive installation. Addlocale has updated translations and can convert a PCLinuxOS installation into over 70 different languages. The software included on the LiveCD was based on community feedback as to what the PCLinuxOS users wanted to be included by default.

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Linux Mint 11 LXDE RC released!

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:26:57 +0000

To Read More Click Here

For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 11 LXDE“.

VLC 1.1.10 Released

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:21:45 +0000

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.10, a minor release of the 1.1 branch.
This release, 2 months after 1.1.9, was necessary because some security issues were found (see SA 1104), and the VLC development team cares about security.
This release brings a rewritten pulseaudio output, an important number of small Mac OS X fixes, the removal of the font-cache building for the freetype module on Windows and updates of codecs.
Source and binaries builds for Windows and Mac are available.
See the release notes for more information on 1.1.10.
For installation use :

Quote:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/vlc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc-plugin-pulse

Everything You Wanted To Know About Unity

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:15:01 +0000

Linux wannabe could use guidance!

Sun, 29 May 2011 00:12:40 +0000

Hi & thanks for this site & forum! I've used both Mac & Windows computers for years, & consider myself fairly proficient. As in, I know how & why to disk-clean, defrag, etc. But never learned dos or basic. So I'm now on an aging pc w/ W-xp3. Can't afford to return to Mac. Looking at buying a barebones kit from tigerdirect, w/ no OS. Researching all things Linux & would like to do a nice clean first install. I'll keep current pc for working out problems, but still not sure...
Sounds like Kubuntu might be easier for me to transition to, but don't know the diff from Ubuntu. Tried to install Wubi, but got a big error message, & now am afraid to try. Yes, I'm chicken!
Anybody up for some hand-holding?
Blueaz, in beautiful Sedona, chillin'

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Meego 1.2 Released

Fri, 20 May 2011 04:39:02 +0000

MeeGo is an open-source Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open-source activity. It includes performance optimisations and features which enable the development of computational and graphically oriented applications and connected services, support for Internet standards, easy-to-use development environment based on Qt, and state-of-the-art Linux stack optimised for the size and capabilities of small footprint platforms and mobile devices. MeeGo currently targets platforms such as netbooks and entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, and media phones.

Today the Meego Developer Team announced the project release of MeeGo 1.2. This release provides a solid baseline for device vendors and developers to start creating software for various device categories on Intel Atom* and ARMv7 architectures. The MeeGo 1.2 Core OS provides a complete set of enabling technologies for mobile computing.

Download Meego 1.2 Here

Some highlights of the MeeGo Core stack include:

-MeeGo Reference Kernels supporting a variety of Intel Atom and ARMv7 platforms.
-QML Application Framework and extended Qt-Mobility APIs, including additional location, system, connectivity, and sensor/haptic capabilities for rapid, rich, application development.
-Enhanced Telephony and Connectivity capabilities, including:
-GSM, GPRS, and HSPA+ network support
-SIM Application Toolkit
-Expanded Bluetooth profiles
-Expanded VPN and wireless authentication methods
-USB, WiFi, and BT-PAN data tethering capability
-Enhance multimedia support, including RTSP streaming with progressive download

This release also includes the following:

-Netbook UX 1.2 complete set of core applications for netbooks.
-In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) UX 1.2 includes a sample IVI Homescreen and speech recognition enabled Application Launcher built with QML, as well as a collection of commonly used applications.
-Tablet Developer Preview
-MeeGo SDK 1.2 for MeeGo Core OS and supported UXs.

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BackTrack 5 Released

Wed, 11 May 2011 09:15:35 +0000

The BackTrack Dev team has worked furiously in the past months on BackTrack 5, code name “revolution”. Today, we are proud to release our work to the public, and then rest for a couple of weeks.

This new revision has been built from scratch, and boasts several major improvements over all our previous releases.

Based on Ubuntu Lucid LTS. Kernel 2.6.38, patched with all relevant wireless injection patches. Fully open source and GPL compliant. Head down to our downloads page to get your copy now!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank several key individuals who have helped make this release possible:
• Offensive-Security who have played a major role in development and funding of our project.
• Devon Kearns – A new member in our BackTrack team who single-handedly covered more packages than the whole team put together. At some stage we considered renaming the release to “dookie-track”.
• Shadz – Master of the dragon and creator of the promo movie. Check him out at http://www.zusedesign.com/
• Digip – Master of our website and dang good artist – http://ticktockcomputers.com
• Elwood – For getting an awesome forensics environment up. Thanks!
• Mister_X – For going through our wireless setup and making sure everything was sparkling.
• Bolexxx – our torrent and download master. Your download is due to him.
I would also like to personally thank each member of the BackTrack Dev team for putting the effort required to make this great release. Stay tuned to our Forums and Wiki for updates, howtos and bug fixes for BackTrack 5. These resources will grow significantly in the next couple of weeks.
[via www.backtrack-linux.org]

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Fedora 15 Beta Released

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:27:35 +0000

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that brings the latest in free and open source software to your desktop, laptop and server, and gives you access to thousands of different open source applications. This helpful, user-friendly operating system is built by people across the globe who work together as a community to create the Fedora Project.

Quote:
Download - Fedora 15 (Torrent link)

Features & Updates -
The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 15. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading to the general release of Fedora 15 in May. You are invited to join the community in making Fedora 15 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback.

Desktop enthusiasts and end users of all sorts can look forward to:

>_# Gnome Shell and the Gnome 3 desktop - Gnome 3 is the next major version of the Gnome desktop. After many years of a largely unchanged Gnome 2.x experience, GNOME 3 brings a fresh look and feel with GNOME Shell.
>_# LibreOffice Productivity Suite - LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, with the support of the OpenOffice.org community. All of the applications you know and love are still there, including apps for spreadsheets, document creation, and presentations.
>_#Desktop environments a-plenty - The Xfce and LXDE spins have been updated, and the Fedora Spins SIG has other offerings tailored to a wide variety of user needs.

Sysadmins will love features such as:-

>_# Appliance building - BoxGrinder creates appliances (virtual machines) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms, and is great for building appliances for use in a Cloud environment.
>_# Dynamic Firewall - The dynamic firewall mode aims to make it possible to change firewall settings without the need to restart the firewall and to make persistent connections possible.

Coders have lots of new development tools to try out, including:-

Updates to popular languages - Python 3.2, Rails 3.0.3, and OCaml 3.12 are all included in Fedora 15.
Project tooling - Maven 3 is a Java project management, project comprehension, and build system tool.
Compiling and debugging - GDB gets an update to 7.3, and GCC 4.6 is included. (Fedora 15 has also been rebuilt using GCC 4.6!)

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Ubuntu 8.04 reaches End-of-life

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:48:48 +0000

Quote:Ubuntu announced its 8.04 Desktop release almost 36 months ago, on April 24, 2008. For the LTS Desktop releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 36 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop will reach end of life on Thursday, May 12, 2011. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop is via Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades. Ubuntu 8.04 Server continues 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/listinf...-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.

Kate Stewart
Ubuntu Release Manager

CentOS 5.6 Released

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:09:47 +0000

CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is free.

CentOS is developed by a small but growing team of core developers. In turn the core developers are supported by an active user community including system administrators, network administrators, enterprise users, managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around the world.

The CentOS team has announced the availability of CentOS 5.6.

Quote:Download - CentOS 5.6

Major changes in CentOS 5.6 compared to CentOS 5.5 include:

-ext4 is now a fully supported file system
-libvirt was updated to 0.8.2
-bind was updated to 9.7 and supports NSEC3 now.
-ebtables was added
-php53 is available as a php replacement.
-System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) has been added.

Other upgrades include newer version of several wireless drivers, Samba3x, ghostscript, LVM, mod_nss, subversion and gcc, plus others.

See release notes for details.

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Canonical Closes UbuntuCD Program

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:54:34 +0000

Quote:Goodbye to Ubuntu on CD. Canonical is killing the free distribution of its Ubuntu Linux on disc, while ramping up cloud trials for penguin-curious Windows fans. On Tuesday, Canonical said it's stopping the six-year-old ShipIt and CD distributor programs, as technology has moved on and they no longer make sense. The move will also save Canonical money on shipping discs. ShipIt dates from 2005, when broadband wasn't as ubiquitous and discs were the best way to put software into the hands of devs and end users. Canonical reckons it has shipped millions to CDs to every country in the world.

The service stops with Ubuntu 11.04 later this month. Once the code, currently in beta, is finished, you'll no longer be able apply for a free CD via Canonical's web site. Canonical is now planning a free online trial for Ubuntu "using the goodness of the cloud" that marketing manager Gerry Carr promised would be a "great first step for Windows users in particular" to wet their toes on the Linux desktop. He promised "much more this year" designed to reach out to mainstream markets during 2011. He did not provide further details on what cloud Canonical will use or what other activities Canonical has planned to reach the mainstream desktop user.

Canonical's online consolidation follows last year's free, 55-minute trial of Ubuntu 10.10 on Amazon's EC2 compute cloud, paid for by Canonical. Users had no need for either an EC2 account or a credit card and got an EC2 instance equivalent to a 1.2GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 160GB disk space with some pre-configured WordPress, MoinMoin, and Drupal 7. Carr said on Tuesday that Canoncial has been slowly easing back on ShipIt over the last two years, limiting the number of CDs per person and the number of times a person could apply for a CD. As for the CE distributor program, Carr said the volume of CDs distributed is relatively low but the administrative burden for the program is "surprisingly high" for Canonical.

For those who still want their penguin served on a disc, Canonical said you can still download and distribute without its specific You don't need Canoncial's specific blessing. Meanwhile, Canonical is asking local communities to "find creative ways to get CDs to those that need them" through what Carr called a "ShipIt-lite" program. ®

So, this is my last Ubuntu CD :|

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Google Chrome 11 Beta

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:03:45 +0000

Google Chrome 11 is in testing phase and is undergoing some great changes in the matters of Security and usability. Chrome 11 gets a new Icon and even Chromium icon got updated.

Download - 32bit.deb / 64bit.deb
Simple double click the file to open with USC and click Install button.

Features and Updates -

HTML Video Codec Support in Chrome - Chrome developers have improved the support for google chrome with HTML5 making it a better browser for the new generation internet. These changes will occur in the next couple months but we are announcing them now to give content publishers and developers using HTML an opportunity to make any necessary changes to their sites.
Getting smoother animated web content while reducing CPU usage - The web is becoming more interactive and animated day by day. Many web pages use the Canvas element to draw rich 2D content via the 2D context or modify DOM elements on the fly. These pages generally use the setTimeout or setInterval APIs to receive frequent callbacks, allowing them to redraw their content periodically, or use DHTML to move elements on the page. As 3D content drawn using the WebGL API increases in popularity, it will use similar animation techniques. In the forthcoming Chrome 11 release, developers plan to reduce CPU consumption even for pages that are using setTimeout and setInterval
GPU Accelaration - Over the last few months, devs made a lot of progress using graphics hardware (commonly referred to as the GPU) to make Chrome faster and more power-efficient. However, as they rolled out features like WebGL and GPU-accelerated HTML5 video, it was noticed a troubling trend: users with old graphics drivers experienced a significant increase in crashes when using these features. So they will be working it to get it right for old hardware users.
Working with ChromeLite - The extension which brings you the web as it was originally conceived: nothing but pure text, presented in an aesthetically pleasing monochrome palette.
New experimental APIs for Chrome extensions - The Web Navigation Extension API allows extension developers to observe browser navigation events. These events fire both for top-level navigation and in-page navigation. The API therefore allows an extension to keep track of exactly what page (or section thereof) the tab is showing, and how the user got there. The Proxy Extension API closes one of our most popular feature requests, allowing users to configure Chrome’s proxy settings via extensions. Proxies can be configured for the entire browser or independently for regular and incognito windows. Configuration options range from setting a single proxy server to installing remote or even local PAC scripts. A sample extension demonstrates these capabilities.
Protecting users from malicious downloads - For the past five years Google has been offering protection to users against websites that attempt to distribute malware via drive-by downloads — that is, infections that harm users’ computers when they simply visit a vulnerable site. The data produced by our systems and published via the Safe Browsing API is used by Google search and browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to warn users who may attempt to visit these dangerous webpages.

Google is initially making download protection available to Chrome dev channel users, and you'll likely see it in Canary and Chromium snapshot builds as well. After thorough testing, beta and stable users will be next in line.

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Puppy Linux 5.2.5 Released

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:56:45 +0000

Lucid Puppy is our official flagship Puppy Linux release. Version 5.2 was released on January 6th, (see blog announcement) and since then the team has been feverishly developing the next version -- and it has now arrived!

Lucid 5.2.5 is the most leading-edge Lucid ever and a Five Digit Update from Lucid 5.2. It has Bash 4.1.0, an upgrade from Bash 3, Syslinux 4.03, an upgrade from Syslinux 3, and e2fsprogs 1.41.14, the latest from Ubuntu Natty Narwhal. Quickpet will also open the Puppy Package Manager which is chock full of even more programs tested and configured for Lucid Puppy, including language packs for 11 different languages. PPM has other window managers ready to install, XFCE and Fluxbox, but Lucid even has JWM built in as an alternate--and of course a WM Switcher to make it all simple. Puppy is still a compact distro, fast and lean, but with all of these resources there is virtually nothing it cannot do.

Team Coordinator Larry Short has put together this brief announcement -:

Quote:Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 is the most leading-edge Lucid ever. It has Bash 4.1.0, Syslinux 4.03, and e2fsprogs 1.41.14, the latest from Ubuntu Natty. It now has JWM 500, up from 493. Gnumeric 1.10.13 is a necessity because our forum member yarddog had posted a bug to Gnumeric that is corrected in 1.0.13. Lucid 5.2.5 uses the Woof of FEB 28 replacing the Woof of NOV 28 for 3 months of progress in Woof development. All of the favorite Puppy programs are there in their latest versions. Check out Pburn by zigbert which now compares favorably with Nero Linux. Gnome-mplayer 1.02 compiled by forum member ttuuxxx is a substantial improvement and now works well with both the Openbox and JWM window managers. All this and the low overhead that makes Puppy fast, friendly and fun.

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Linux Mint Xfce RC (201104) released!

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:47:51 +0000

Linux Mint Xfce is rolling on top of a Debian Testing package base and uses the same repositories as LMDE. The Linux Mint team has announced the release of Linux Mint XFCE 201104 RC two days ago !

Quote:
Download Linux Mint XFCE 201104 32-bit / 64-bit

Features

- A huge performance boost
- A continuous flow of updates which allows users to keep their system up to date without waiting for new releases
- A more mainstream desktop and software selection
- An easier maintenance for the team which makes it easier to release in both 32-bit and 64-bit with every LMDE release

Performance boost

One of the most significant improvements is the performance boost given to this edition. Here are a few figures comparing the memory consumption in the 32-bit live sessions of Linux Mint Xfce and Linux Mint 9 Xfce:

Mint Xfce: 107 MB RAM (Mint 9 Xfce: 153 MB RAM)
Mint Xfce + OO Writer + OO Calc + Firefox: 162 MB RAM (Mint 9 Xfce + OO Writer + OO Calc + Firefox: 212 MB RAM)
Mint Xfce + OO Writer + OO Calc + Firefox + Thunderbird + VLC + Rhythmbox: 207 MB RAM (Mint 9 Xfce + OO Writer + OO Calc + Firefox + Thunderbird + Gnome MPlayer + Exaile: 256 MB RAM)

Mainstream Edition

This performance boost allowed us to give Xfce a more mainstream software selection, replacing Exaile with Rhythmox, adding VLC and giving Xfce almost the same software selection as Gnome.

With KDE 4 and Gnome 3 bringing drastic changes to their environments, and with the emergence of Fluxbox and LXDE on the lightweight scene, Xfce represents a nice alternative for PC desktop users who are looking for a light yet full-featured desktop solution. Its relevance is becoming more significant and this is another reason for us to support it in both 32-bit and 64-bit and to give it a mainstream software selection.

Mintmenu has also been added to this edition as an alternative menu. Be aware that it was designed for Gnome and that it uses an additional 30MB RAM. You can add it easily by right-clicking on the panel and selecting “Add new Items”->”XfApplet”->”mintMenu”. Don’t hesitate to report bugs on mintMenu in Xfce as it will eventually support both desktop environments.

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