Released: FreeBSD 4.4-RC

Posted by DarkElf on 24/09/2001

Yes my friend 4.4 is under development. Currently it's in test, but 4.4-RELEASE/STABLE should be out in 2-3 weeks. I'm part of the FreeBSD 5.0 UltraSPARC project. Bare with me on the news, I'll be very busy! By the way, IPFilter is still available in FreeBSD 4.x tree, I'm not sure what they'll do about FBSD 5.x tree.

Released: Mozilla 0.9.3

Posted by Wells on 09/03/2001

Well, it has been a while since anyone posted anything here, so I figured I may as well do so. It seems that everyone that used to post here has been entirely too busy playing Planetarion to attempt things like submitting stories to the page or anything like that. Mozilla 0.9.3 has been released, and it is said to actually be better and more stable than Netscape 4.78. I wouldn't know, since I use the CVS version of Mozilla myself. You can get Mozilla from mozilla.org.

Released: Mozilla 0.9.1

Posted by Wells on 08/06/2001

Well, a new release of Mozilla is out now. The changelog can be seen here. Briefly, the changes include greater stability, a complete overhaul of the Modern skin, a change to the look with a combination of two toolbars into one, some changes to the LDAP capabilities, and various other changes that can be seen in the Changelog.

Linux kernel version 2.4.5 out.

Posted by Wells on 28/05/2001

How mdew managed to miss this one for so long is beyond me, considering that the 3rd Alan Cox revision is already out on this particular kernel version. Yes, I know we are very late on announcing this, but better late and making fun of mdew than never, I always say. Anyway, the kernel and patches can be found at the regular places, namely www.kernel.org. You can also find the Changelog there. Included in this kernel is a larger merge from Alan Cox that has managed to drop his kernel patch down to a measly 1.5 meg in size. I guess that playing Planetarion has reduced the awareness of a lot of people that maintain what is going on here.

GNOME 1.4 now in slackware-current.

Posted by Moribundo on 10/05/2001

Not to be put off by little obstacles like getting sacked, the good ol' Slackware Linux team have been hard at work updating slackware-current - a pretty big upgrade apparently, most notably the addition of GNOME 1.4. Mozilla and Nautilus have also had packages added -- things aren't looking too gruesome for the Slackware desktop bunnies out there yet... Hell, take a look at the ChangeLog and make up your own mind.

Released: Mozilla 0.9

Posted by Wells on 08/05/2001

Yes, another release of Mozilla is out. You can get the latest release here. Looks like there are improvements to the Automatic Proxy Configuration, Personal Security Manager, and a brand new image rendering library. Please send me comments on this version compared to konquerer, and also let me know if you know of any other web browsers that have a nice small footprint the way that Windowmaker has.

Released: Linux 2.4.4

Posted by mdew on 27/04/2001

When you all thought it was over...another new release, of another product *grin* Linux 2.4.4 has been unleashed by Linus, containing mainly bug fixes, the changelog is available here, and yes its official Jon is a little slow updating for this release ;P *awaits all the ph33rs* , anyway heres the kernel.org mirrors to download this new release.

Released: FreeBSD 4.3

Posted by Wells on 22/04/2001

Yes, along with all of the new distributions of linux, along comes a new distribution of FreeBSD as well. Release notes can be found here. I know that there are a number of people out there using FreeBSD, so if you know any more about it please give me a holler and I will see what I can do about adding more information about it here.

Mandrake 8.0 Released: Will it never end?

Posted by Wells on 19/04/2001

As seems to always be the case, when Redhat comes out with a release, the rest of the bunch need to come out with a release to show that they are with the program as well. As is the case here...improvements include the kernel going to 2.4.2, KDE to 2.1, and Gnome to 1.4. XFree86 is also at the 4.0.2 level. Disk images are out there now on some of the mirrors. For more information on this, go to Linux Mandrake.

Samba 2.2.0 Released: Goodbye Windows?

Posted by Wells on 18/04/2001

With the release of Samba 2.2.0, a large number of additions have been added to the software that is furthering the complete removal of Windows servers. This is not going to help in the workstation world, as Microsoft Office is still a very popular piece of software, but on the server end it is now capable of handling the operations of most small servers and workgroups, including authentication and profile serving. Although it is not able to handle replication or BDC traffic, nor Active Directory from Windows 2000, it is certainly a big jump on the free software front. See Slashdot and The Register for more details.

RedHat 7.1 Released

Posted by Wells on 16/04/2001

Yes, the long-awaited .1 release of RedHat is finally out. They seem to be keeping to their six-month release track pretty well, and 7.1 should have the much-needed updates to gcc and X. Also included is a 2.4 kernel as default. Check out Redhat's website for more details. Updated 18/04/2001: One of the nice changes on the full install is that there is now an option to set security levels on your system during the install so that you don't have to worry about having an open system on the network immediately after the install. It always sucks to have your box hacked before you can even log in. A warning though: you almost need to have both CD's to do a proper install. My install decided it wanted the second CD when it wanted to install emacs, which is certainly a better editor than any of those other ones (pokes to mdew).

Debian 2.2r3 Released

Posted by mdew on 16/04/2001

Another round of updates for 2.2x potato, this is mainly security and stability updates rather than new features, so if you're running the latest woody or sid, dont worry about this release, just apt-get update if youre got a previous debian version, or else download the full thing. You can grab the changelog - changelog-nonUS for all the changes.

GNOME 1.4 Released

Posted by mdew on 03/04/2001

Finally here it is, after pre-releases, and one release Candidate, gnome.org releases Gnome 1.4, currently there isnt much information other than one linuxtoday story. We'll keep ya updated on any mirror info/Ximian Packages available, stop by news.gnome for the latest gnome release info.

Released: Linux 2.4.3

Posted by mdew on 30/03/2001

Well here it is..after 8 prereleases, Linus unleashed 2.4.3, fixes many problems in 2.4.2...improved VM performance, massive USB, networking, reiserfs updates and other Misc errors in 2.4.2. This is a Major update, lets hope 2.4.x can finally stabilise a little now, heres the Changelog ...get the patch or the tarball. Or If you're daring'n'brave'n'stupid enough try Alan Cox's devel-patches...here, Theres plenty of patches Linus has left out..

FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE status

Posted by DarkElf on 27/03/2001

FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE schedule changed, it supposed to be out April 15th. No information is currently available. CVSup your tree source weekly if you like to be up to date. Do not go for the 5.x tree, it's for major development and seriously broken.

Mozilla 0.8.1 released

Posted by mdew on 26/03/2001

Well another bugfix for mozilla has takin place, 0.8.1 is actually very usable, infact many of us have seen a big changes in stability in mozilla in the last few months. Hey who needs Netscape 6, or even the very outdated NS4. Mozilla is shaping up very nicely. wmaker@orcon has been designed for Moz, or NS6, Mainly for transparient PNG's..hey if you dont like it, time to upgrade that darn browser. Linux   -   Windows   -   Mac

Slashdot: GNUstep On LinuxFocus

Posted by mdew on 21/03/2001

"Linux focus has a very good article on GNUstep and it's status. It might have been a long time in the making, but they seem to pull it off." GNUstep doesn't get the attention that some of the window managers' get, but I think the diversity of the desktop interface is one of the more fun aspects of open source. "Quoted from slashdot, note: GNUstep is NOT a windowmanager.

GNOME 1.4 Release Candidate 1

Posted by mdew on 20/03/2001

Another pre-release from the folk at gnome, some info regarding this release should emerge on news.gnome.org soon. Atleast they got rid of the famous beta1/2 britney spears themes, this release is named 'Entropy'. It is available at http://download.gnome.org. This has pointers to all of the mirrors. This release is available in the GNOME/stable/betas/gnome-1.4rc1 subdirectory. More information is available here.

FreeBSD 4.3-BETA released

Posted by DarkElf on 27/03/2001

FreeBSD 4.3-BETA is out only by CVSup of the source tree. FreeBSD 4.3 release is scheduled to get out march 25th. Quite soon, but will be fine. All information for updates, releases, stable releases are over FreeBSD main website.

XFree86 4.0.3 released

Posted by Moribundo (Cynic) on 19/03/2001

The first update to XFree86 4.0.2 has been released -- read the documentation here or get it here. Mainly bug fixes and driver updates, but still a useful update to have (note: if you don't already have XFree86 4.0.2 installed, you'll need to get it. NB: Cynic here, trying out a new /nick.. it might stick, it might not.

WMakerconf 2.8 released - update

Posted by mdew on 15/03/2001

Yup the long awaited release of WmakerConf - The Unofficial Windowmaker Configure Util Its a relatively a small update, includes new translations and support for interwoven gradients anyways heres the changelog, or you can grab the whole tarball. Update: 2.8.1 was released, 2.8 had a small compile bug if libwmfun is not installed, grab the tarball or patch here

Big Gnome-related Releases

Posted by mdew on 14/03/2001

Some Gnome updates have occured, With the release of Nautilus 1.0, Redcarpet 0.92, the long testing Email app Evolution 0.9 Platypus and various libraries associated with them... Plenty of talkback about these apps in news.gnome.org and a linuxplanet review of nautilus.

CVS Instructions have changed

Posted by Wells on 06/03/2001

In case no one noticed, the CVS repository for WindowMaker has been down for the past couple of days. I received word today that this has been remedied. There is a new site for the CVS repository now, and you can read instructions about how to connect to it here.

GNOME 1.4 Beta 2 is released

Posted by mdew on 01/03/2001

Well this is the second beta release, named "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" hmm sounds like the britney spears theme is corrupting the gnome developers , oh well..(yes Im waiting for the .debs *grin*) heres the usually informative links, here and here.