Linux news

After one year of the release of Debian Etch the Security support for Sarge is going to be terminated as previously announced, as informed three days ago in the Debian page.

Here is part of the announcement.

Two days ago in a Release Update Marc Brockschmidt announced that Debian Lenny will be released under the number of 5.0, he also announced that it could be shipped with KDE 4, as he says

There may be a possibility to include KDE4 in lenny. The efforts on KDE4.1 have been quite promising and seem to be leading to a desktop environment which can fully replace KDE3.

Maybe a lot of you already know about this, but for those who do not know, Drupal has released almost a week ago the stable version of Drupal 6.0, they have worked on this for almost a year, and now it is focused on PHP5.

If you use Drupal on your site, check that all your modules have been ported before you do the upgrade, otherwise, you will have to disable that module not ported from 5 to 6.

Yesterday at the KDE developer conferences, Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord announced that the QT cross-platform developer toolkit is going to be released under GPL 3, this are really good news for KDE developers, and also for any developer who uses QT toolkit.

So maybe we will soon will be able to see the "buy" button for QT disappear, and it will be easier for developers to release its job.

OK friends, KDE 4.0 is ready, as you can read here, and it can be downloaded from KDE FTP mirrors, but some distributions have already include it in their testing or something branches, or as Live CDs, if you want to see if yours is included check the bottom of this page

In two more days we will finally have KDE 4 stable with us, this has really create a lot of buzz, I am a Gnome user, I will install it as KDE was my first Desktop manager.

I am not going to write a review because a lot of reviews have been written so far about KDE, here are some good ones.

Two days ago, Firefox 3 beta 2 has been released, it includes fixes to 900 bugs found on Beta 1, great job, 900 bugs fixed in one month, I think it is great!

You can download Firefox Beta and start working with it in 25 languages.

ulteo who claim to be the the easiest Linux in the world is now offering for beta tester users, the possibility to run Ulteo online on your web-browser, and also use Open Office online, with collaboration tools, so you can send invitations via email to people to collaborate with you while working on a document, Like Google Docs but with the well know Open Office.

Yesterday and after some months of beta testing the Sourceforge.net marketplace has been officially opened.

But, what is that?, well is a place where both people selling support for specific Open Source projects can meet the people demanding for those services.

This December 3rd Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS has been released in its Alpha 1 version.

This is only intended for testing purposes, and to help the developers find bugs, is not intended for production machines, so do not download to install it as you main system, and back-up your data before installing it.

The post I am going to partially translate here was originally written by an 11 years old girl from Gijon Spain.

The equipments installed this year in my classroom let us surf the web, and they are also useful to take notes. They do not have Windows but Xubuntu which is a similar operating system. The word "Xubuntu" comes from Africa. There are also Mac, Mac is usually used on design and press companies.

In few more days we will have Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 1 released, this is the LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu (One of the major Linux distros) since 6.06 Dapper Drake.

Long Term Support releases are intended to be stable releases, for those who need a really stable OS either because they do not like to be experimenting or just because they need the OS for server applications.

So on November 29th we will have Alpha 1 ready and on April 24th 2008 the final release is scheduled.

At Mozilla's blog it is announced that Firefox 3 Beta 1 has been released for testing.

But like they say, it is not recommended to install this in your working system, you can download and install in a testing PC, or Virtual Machine, because it may have a lot of bugs yet.

These are some of its new features according to the same site.

I have extracted this section of this Linus Torvalds interview.

As you can see, from the creator of Linux point of view, there is no reason to start a battle (or sustain it) against Microsoft, we (Linux Community) Should focus on how to do the things, and to teach other users, how to use Linux better and maybe stop doing comparisons. (I also did them a lot).

I am just thinking that maybe is better to focus in how good we are, and also on improving the things we are not too good yet.

Yesterday, The Fedora Project has released F8 (code name "Werewolf").

You probably already know about gOS, it is everywhere

gOS (Green Operating System), comes with lots of web 2.0 applications, and Google applications like:

• Gmail
• Meebo
• Google News
• Google Calendar
• Google maps
• Google Docs
• Google Product Search
• Facebook
• Youtube
• Wikipedia
• Blogger
• Skype

AMD has released the new 7.10 version of ATI drivers for Linux.

It is good to know that AMD is taken seriously Linux users, this time Linux boxes will have support for AIXGL so, 3D acceleration will work now better and therefore Compiz and 3D games will have better performance on Linux.

According to AMD the supported cards by this new version are:

ATI Radeon X1000, X800, X700, X550/X300, 9800, 9700, 9600 y 9500 Series.

Finally,

After days or better said months of waiting Gutsy Gibbon is released, by the moment I am upgrading my Gutsy Beta to the recently released stable version.

Features

Some of its better features:

I like that on Firefox now is really easy to install applications, like Flash, Java, Video plugins check here

Linux keep growing and growing, you see it not only on Hard Disk, but on USB keys, powering Smart Phones, handhelds, and lots of other devices.

Asus launched to the market a motherboard with Linux embedded, also containing Firefox and Skype.

So imagine you can launch your PC in seconds and be ready to surf the web and talk with your pals, no need to wait until an operating system launch on your PC.

Every day are appearing more and more ways to convert people from Windows to Linux, if this should be our goal as Linux users or not, is another discussion, but on its way to make Linux more and more user Friendly for those Windows users it comes Vixta.

Vixta is a project with this in mind.

• Absolutly free, in every sense
• Spread linux to the "masses".
• ABN - Absolutly No Config
• User-Frendly.
• Eye-catching.
• Familiar look and Feel