Archive for March, 2007

Kernel 2.4.34.2 Released

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Kernel 2.4.34.2 has been released today.

Kernel 2.6.20.4 Released

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Kernel 2.6.20.3 has been released.

Debian Installer etch RC2 released

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the second release
candidate (RC2) of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch. Unless
release critical issues are discovered, this will be the version of the
installer that will be included in the release of Etch.
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Sun Hires Debian Founder

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

I’m delighted to be able to welcome a new colleague who’s starting with Sun today. He is starting a newly-defined role as Chief Operating Platforms Officer at Sun, and is responsible for building a new strategy to evolve both Sun’s Solaris and GNU/Linux strategies. The appointment is at the same time both brilliant and controversial, […]

Two useful little console apps.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Two useful little console applications that I don’t really think about but use a fair amount are dict and cal.
dict
dict is a client for the Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT), a TCP transaction based query/response protocol that provides access to dictionary definitions from a […]

Linux Journal: FSlint

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Version 2.20 of FSlint is a program whose functionality is at odds with its design. On the one hand, a program for — as the name suggests — locating and removing unnecessary or useless material (”lint”) from a filesystem is a handy one to install. On the other hand, a rough interface with cryptic buttons […]

Debian Etch Release Schedule

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

The Debian Release team announced the plans for the next stable release of Debian (Etch). From the posting here, it looks like they are hoping for a early April release.

The Office Format Wars

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Being that I rarely ever use a office suite or even a word processor the whole file format thing has never been high on my personal list of issues. Any writing I do on a computer is mostly email, irc, or in a simple text editor (aee, vim, gedit).
For those of you plagued with dependency […]

Media Players Available for Ubuntu Linux

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. Most software media players support an array of media formats, including both audio and video files.Some media players focus only on audio or video and are known as audio players and video players respectively. The producers of these players […]

Kernel 2.6.20.3 Released

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Kernel 2.6.20.3 has been released today.