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| Sylpheed 0.7.6 released |
| The ever impressive email client, Sylpheed sees an update. Here's what's changed: The manual and FAQ have been updated, and German and Italian FAQ have been added; IMAP shared folder has been supported; 'Create filter rule' has been added to the context menu; Only newsgroup names longer than specified length are abbreviated; 'Get all' doesn't check for new messages on IMAP or News account by default; Minor improvements to the folder property dialog have been made; Special characters like parentheses can be used in password for IMAP accounts now; Some crash bugs and other minor bugs have been fixed. |
| May 14, 2002, 6:52 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Interview with Gentoo's Daniel Robbins |
| OSNews conducts an interview with Gentoo's creator, Daniel Robbins. Worth a read for anyone interested in learning more about this distribution and its future plans. |
| May 14, 2002, 6:46 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| VMWare 3.1: Solid upgrade to an already solid package |
| Linux Orbit looks at VMWare 3.1, "First, VMWare Workstation is darn expensive. At $299 US for the electronic download version and 329 for the CD and documentation, the average Linux user probably won't be buying it in the near future. Granted, this is probably not the market the product is aimed at. My second problem is minor compared to the price. When will VMWare Workstation support 3D graphics for guest operating systems? If I spent this much money for the software, I shouldn't have to buy something else to run my Windows games. Currently, VMWare Workstation 3.1 doesn't support Direct X or other Windows 3D gaming technologies in a virtual machine." |
| May 14, 2002, 6:42 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| NASA resort to eBay for parts |
| Slashdot reports, "The New York Times is running this article about NASA using ebay and other web resources to find for sale stock piles of old hardware it needs to keep the Space Shuttle fleet up and running -- things like 8086 chips from pre-PC days!" ''Houston we have a problem, we've been outbid!'' :) |
| May 12, 2002, 8:32 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Mozilla 1.0 Release Candiate 2 released |
| The release of Mozilla 1.0 draws ever closer, "Fifteen of our most frequently encountered crashes have been fixed." ... "Ten of our most frequently encountered application freezes have been fixed..." |
| May 12, 2002, 8:15 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux 2.5.15 kernel released |
| The latest release in the development series, sees an update to the NFS server code, further IDE work, and the usual many more updates and fixes. |
| May 12, 2002, 8:08 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Ximian Evolution 1.0.4 released |
| A minor update with a handful of bug-fixes. |
| May 8, 2002, 10:58 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| 2002 Linux Web browser review |
| An interesting comparison of the main Linux Web browsers, with comparison screenshots of tabbed browsing and preference pages, and a table of load times, showing Opera to be the fastest. |
| May 8, 2002, 7:09 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Star Trek season 2 will be released on DVD on June the 10th.Amazon are currently accepting pre-orders. As the proud owner of a new digital widescreen telly with DVD player, this boxed set will be adoring my shelf 'round about June the 11th! |
| May 7, 2002, 10:15 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| GNU/Linux DVD player review |
| Linux Journal takes a look at Xine, VideoLAN Client, MPlayer and Ogle--four GNU/Linux DVD playback applications. |
| May 7, 2002, 6:22 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux 2.5.14 kernel released |
| Further IDE work has gone into this release, a major NTFS bug-fix, and notably: "This updates 2.5.x Bluetooth subsystem and removes the EXPERIMENTAL status of Bluetooth support." |
| May 7, 2002, 7:11 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| AbiWord 1.0.1 released |
| Strange things occuring at AbiWord's site lately. No mention of the biggest release they'll ever make, AbiWord 1.0. Which I waited for before mentioning. Which means I didn't mention it. And now a delay in providing the 1.0.1 release notes, still not released, but at least now there's a changelog. Interesting improvements are the start of a StarOffice importer, and a format painter. |
| May 6, 2002, 7:28 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Red Hat Linux 7.3 released |
| Out now, featuring Evolution 1.0.3, Mr Project 0.5.1, Mozilla 0.9.9, Apache 1.3.23, KDE 3.0 and GNOME 1.4, the 2.4.18 kernel, glibc 2.2.4, Perl 5.6.1, GCC 2.96, and XFree86 4.2.0. |
| May 6, 2002, 7:02 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Mandrake 8.2 Pro first look |
| The Register reports, "So to sum up, just in case my characteristic subtlety and mildness of expression went over your head, Mandrake 8.2 is a fucking disaster. But that's OK, because I'll be fdisking this image tomorrow. It's absolutely not making me happy the way Mandrake 8.1 did." |
| May 6, 2002, 6:40 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| MS disappears claim that Windows is legal requirement |
| The Register reports with this worthwhile read, "Microsoft has backed away from its bizarre claim that it is a legal requirement that preinstalled operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine - but only slightly. The Register drew attention to this on Tuesday, and the Microsoft site spreading this disinformation was mysteriously updated on Wednesday." |
| May 4, 2002, 2:20 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Samba 2.2.4 released |
| "This is the latest stable release of Samba [2.2.3 was released exactly 3 months prior]. This is the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes." |
| May 3, 2002, 8:02 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Sun Linux boss quits |
| The Register reports, "Stephen DeWitt, who joined with the Cobalt acquisition, has left the company. He was responsible for Sun's Linux strategy, and is the seventh senior executive to leave in the past week." |
| May 3, 2002, 7:21 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Gartner: Microsoft licensing could push users to StarOffice |
| "Gartner is estimating that StarOffice has a slightly better than 50-50 chance of taking 10% of the office productivity suite market -- at Microsoft's expense -- by the end of 2004." |
| May 3, 2002, 4:39 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| MS' MIT prof witness gets toasted over KDE, GNOME |
| Worth the read, for a chuckle. According to this MIT professor Windows isn't the only operating system to ''commingle'' the web browser, there's also KDE and GNOME?! He then proceeds to agree KDE and GNOME are not in fact operating systems... oh dear. |
| May 3, 2002, 4:26 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux 2.5.13 kernel released |
| Faster than a speeding bullet, comes yet another update to the Linux development kernel. |
| May 3, 2002, 3:46 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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