Fossnews 24
Fossnews 24
Fossnews 24
FossNews Weekly
Issue : 24
Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )
Date : 30062009
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Contents
1. fedora 11 released
2. Building Customized Ubuntu LiveCDs With UCK On Ubuntu 9.04
3. Belgium Makes Election Software Open to the Public
4. Screen – Manages multiple sessions on one terminal
5. Firefox 3.5 Allows Watch Videos Without Adobe Flash Plugin
6. Great themes for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope
7. Ubuntu aims for even quicker startup times in 10.04: Just 10 seconds
8. 10 mistakes new Linux administrators make
9. How to run KDE on Windows
10. Finding GIMP – Image Manipulation Tutorials
1. fedora 11 released
The popular Linux distribution Fedora (you know, the one that isn't Ubuntu) has just released a new
major version, Fedora 11, around sixandahalf months after the release of Fedora 10. The
changelog is extensive, but the
screenshot tour shows an alluring
operating system.
You can read the entire Fedora 11
changelog here, but it's rather unwieldy.
For changes more likely to concern
you, hit the Changes in Fedora for
Desktop Users page for specifics on
desktop, network, printing, multimedia,
games, and other tweaks. In the
meantime, hit up the gallery below for
a closer look at the Fedora 11 desktop.
http://lifehacker.com/5284785/fedora11releasedandreadyfordownload
Review:
http://ondisk.com/cms/index.php?wiki=ReviewFedora_11_page1
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2. Building Customized Ubuntu LiveCDs With UCK On Ubuntu 9.04
This guide explains how you can build customized Ubuntu (as well as Kubuntu/Xubuntu and
Edubuntu) LiveCDs with the help of UCK (Ubuntu Customization Kit) on Ubuntu 9.04. UCK
allows you to customize the language and the applications on the LiveCD.
http://www.howtoforge.com/buildingcustomizedubuntulivecdswithuckonubuntu9.04
3. Belgium Makes Election Software Open to the Public
The Department of the Interioroccupied voting agency has released the source code from its
European election software.
The software packages Digivote and Jites have already been put to use for community elections as
well as the European election which took place on June 7th. These voting software packages are
also expected to remain in application in the future. The Belgian Department of the Interior released
this information for transparency, as an introduction for documents pertaining to the Belgian
election in December 2008 stated. The software is at present to go online (after the European
election) because the Belgian government feared tampering would occur during the election.
The Belgian voting agency offers the source code for download in the form of a zip archive. Upon
inspection, it is revealed that documentation and license information is not present. It is apparently
not possible to disclose the software licensing information in the Belgian agencies, according to the
European Information Service (OSOR).
http://www.linux
magazine.com/online/news/belgium_makes_election_software_open_to_the_public
4. Screen – Manages multiple sessions on one terminal
This tutorial explain how to use screen and screen profiles in your ubuntu server.
Screen is a program that allows you to have multiple logins on one terminal. It is useful in situations
where you are telnetted into a machine or connected via a dumb terminal and want more than just
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one login.
screenprofiles includes a set of profiles for the GNU screen window manager. These profiles are
quite useful on server machines which are not running a graphical desktop. The ’screen’ command
provides a number of advanced features are not necessarily exposed in the default profile. These
profiles provide features such as status bars, clocks, notifiers (rebootrequired, updatesavailable),
etc. The profileswitcher allows users to quickly switch their .screenrc to any of the available
profiles.
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/screenmanagesmultiplesessionsononeterminal.html
5. Firefox 3.5 Allows Watch Videos Without Adobe Flash Plugin
Wait a second! Web videos... without Adobe Flash plugin?
Firefox 3.5, which is now a very stable beta, is faster than earlier versions, and most importantly, it
embraces opensource video standards and treats videos like web pages (you can’t do any of that
with Flash). If this takes off, Flash video could become history.
Built into the Firefox 3.5 browser is a video player based on the opensource video formats Ogg
Vorbis and Theora. The video player supports HTML5, which means that links and other interactive
elements can easily be placed inside videos. Ogg Vorbis format makes video programmable.
Videos today are still for the most part siloed off from the rest of the Web in their Flash players as a
separate experience. Same expert proclaim that “it is time to break down those walls.”
Already, DailyMotion offers videos in the Ogg Theora format. Its platform is located at
openvideo.dailymotion.com.
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http://iblnews.com/story.php?id=48371
6. Great themes for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope
This is a collection of great themes for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, these themes are from
zgegblog a blog of François Vogelweith,
on the blog exist a collection of wonderful gnome themes for Ubuntu.
The installation is easy because can be done after adding a repository, so with sudo aptget install
themename you can have the theme installed,
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http://www.unixmen.com/linuxdistributions/ubuntu/265greatthemesforubuntu904jaunty
jackalope
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7. Ubuntu aims for even quicker startup times in 10.04: Just 10 seconds
The upcoming Linux distribution from Ubuntu, codenamed for the time being 'Karmic Koala+1',
aims to beat the currently pretty zippy startup speed of the current release 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) in
less than 1 year. Currently 9.04 boots in approximately 25 seconds depending upon your hardware,
but Ubuntu wants to aggressively push the envelope and get to a 10 second start up time from cold.
Ubuntu were recently praised for significantly reducing startup times in 9.04, after a bit of a feeling
of creeping bloat was felt by Ubuntu developers and users alike.
http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org/content/ubuntuaimsevenquickerstartuptimes1004just10
seconds
8. 10 mistakes new Linux administrators make
#1: Installing applications from various types
#2: Neglecting updates
#3: Poor root password choice
#4: Avoiding the command line
#5: Not keeping a working kernel installed
#6: Not backing up critical configuration files
#7: Booting a server to X
#8: Not understanding permissions
#9: Logging in as root user
#10: Ignoring log files
Read in detail at
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=455
9. How to run KDE on Windows
KDE is one of the two most frequently used Linux desktop environments, and it includes desktop
widgets, an instant messenger client, multipaned file and web browsing, the Amarok music player
and the Digikam photo manager – some of the best that open source has to offer.
Now, you can install and use entire KDE Environment in wondows.
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operatingsystems/howtorunkdeonwindows611178
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10. Finding GIMP – Image Manipulation Tutorials
Let’s start with the basics. What is GIMP?
GIMP is
• an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program
• Free Software
• a highend photo manipulation application that supports creating original art from images;
• a highend application for producing icons, graphical elements of web pages, and art for user
interface elements;
• a platform for programming cutting edge image processing algorithms, by scientists and
artists;
• userconfigurable to automate repetitive tasks;
• easily userextend able, by simple installation of plugins
http://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=173
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