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Linux and Open Source News for 14th December 2008

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Scott Ullrich has announced the third release candidate for pfSense 1.2.1, a FreeBSD-based firewall system: "pfSense 1.2.1-RC3 is here! Changes since RC2 include: do not accept backslash8 in alias field names; fix setup wizard WAN configuration page since removal of BIGPond; replace route get default with netstat -rn .


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Stefan Lippers-Hollmann has announced the availability of the first pre-release of sidux 2008-04, a distribution and live CD based on Debian's unstable branch: "After some infrastructural changes. sidux 2008-04 is now ready to enter the preview season. It concentrates on integrating the changes caused by kernel 2.6.27, init .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The second beta release of GeeXboX 1.2, a bootable Linux-based multimedia centre, is ready for testing: "Here comes the second beta release of GeeXboX 1.2. There are no major changes in terms of features, but the distribution is now much more stable. Most of the corrections took place .



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Source: Linux Today

DistroWatch Weekly: "VectorLinux (VL) is a decade-old Slackware derivative and VL 6.0 is loosely based on Slackware 12.1. I say loosely because most of the packages have been upgraded or rebuilt. VectorLinux developers seem to have two goals in mind: to create a distro that is very user-friendly and to optimize it for speed and performance wherever possible, all while retaining the reliability of Slackware."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source From Bohol: "As some of you may know, Beranger, a long-time FOSS-lover/'harsh critic' has ended his love-hate relationship with Linux by announcing to the whole world that he has jumped ship."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "It was just eleven days ago that NVIDIA had released the 180.11 Beta Linux Driver, but in the wee hours of Saturday morning NVIDIA has pushed out a new beta driver. This driver contains a few fixes, support for new GPUs, and an updated implementation of the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "In fact, the GPL has grown in importance, until today it is probably fair to say that it underpins most of the free software world, including enterprise applications. This makes any violation of its terms particularly worrying, because if left unchallenged, it threatens to undermine the entire ecosystem."


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Source: Linux Today

Ken Hess' Linux Blog: "Trying to find something for your gelibte this year? Look no further, my Linux Geek's Guide to Hanukkah will help you make the right decisions."


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Linux.com: "While I'm a die-hard Google user -- especially the PIM apps -- I still appreciate offline applications for the integration with the desktop, speed, and features they sport. The Evolution contact and calendaring application is a great example: it's as feature-packed as Microsoft Outlook, but with GNOME integration, and it's fast. Gmail, by comparison, is slow and lacks any desktop integration. In a perfect world, Evolution would sync with Google's PIM apps. Unfortunately, there aren't any good, easy-to-use, comprehensive guides for setting up Evolution to sync with all of these apps -- until now."


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ZDNet: "The laptops will be available in the US from early 2009 and will come with the latest version of OpenSolaris: 2008.11. "Toshiba and Sun are announcing that we're going to pre-configure and optimise OpenSolaris for certain Toshiba models," said Jim McHugh, Sun's vice president of datacentre software, in a promotional video."



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