The Mozilla Thunderbird email client has been udated to 2.0.0.23. This is a security update to close a reported a mismatch in the treatment of domain names in SSL certificates between SSL clients and the Certificate Authorities (CA) which issue server certificates.
This update will be part of your normal updates from the Synaptic Software Manager. More information about this security update can be found on the Mozilla website.
Another exciting week has past already! Can you believe it? Well here’s the latest updates to the PCLinuxOS repository over the past week.
The Enlightenment (E-17) desktop packages got a full update this week bringing in the latest snapshot from the E-17 developers. If you are wanting a nice eye candy desktop without the bloat then install task-enlightenment from the Synaptic Software Manager. Log out to the KDE or GDM log in manager, click on session, change to E17 then log in as usual.
Notable New Packages this week include:
gadmin- A suite of administrator tools written in GTK2 were imported into the repository including gadmin-dhcpd, gadmin-squid, gadmin-sendmail, gadmin-samba, gadmin-rsync, gadmin-proftpd, gadmin-httpd and gadmin-bind.
Bluemindo – a really simple but powerful audio player in Python/PyGTK, using Gstreamer. It can downloads albums or artists pictures and lyrics as doing desktop notifications or sending music to your Last.fm profile or on your Jabber account (via PEP).
Chromium-browser – the new browser from Google. Chromium replaces the google-chrome package as we now have a native port to PCLinuxOS instead of a transplanted deb package.
Gevice – a tool for the administration of a network device. It is designed for being used in the GNOME Desktop.
Jpcap – a Java library for capturing and sending network packets from Java applications.
Monosim – a simple application that can be used to read, write, update, delete and backup your sim card contacts.
OpenCPN – a concise ChartPlotter/Navigator program.
Osmo – a handy personal organizer which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.
Stuffkeeper – a generic catalog program.
TeamSpeak – as flexible, powerful, scalable software which enables people to speak with one another over the Internet.
Ihatethecashew – get rid of the cashew on your KDE 4 desktop
plasma-desktop-themes – added 9 plasma desktop themes for the KDE 4 desktop
In testing this week:
MadWifi – updated driver from svn for the Atheros Wireless devices.
Kernel- 2.6.27.31 – Updated to 2.6.27.31 kernel with many updates such as lirc support, hdpvr support, ndiswrapper, eeepc-laptop support, and much much more.
Scribus- 1.3.5.1 – a DTP (Desktop Publishing) application in the tradition of Xpress, Pagemaker or similar.
X11 driver updates – including nv, ati and openchrome xorg drivers.
Notable package updates this week include:
GIMP – updated to 2.6.7 – an image manipulation program suitable for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
HardInfo – updated to 0.5.1 – a system profiler for Linux systems. It can display information about the hardware and software.
Impro-Visor – updated to 4.06 – a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose.
Midori – updated to 0.1.9 – a lightweight GTK+ 2 web browser based on WebKitGtk
Pidgin – updated to 2.6.1 - allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!,
Pinky-Tagger – updated to 2.3.3 - a mass tagger for Linux written in C++ using the Qt4 widget set.
Wine doors – updated to 0.1.3 is an application designed to assist users in obtaining, installing, uninstalling and working around the caveats associated with wine applications.
That’s all for now. See ya next week. Same bat channel. Same bat time.
There were a lot of updates to the PCLinuxOS repository last week. Here is a list of interesting updates and new packages.
We continue to fill out the KDE 4 repository by adding/updating the following KDE 4 ports. DoAsRoot – Service menu, Kdenlive – Video editor, Krename – File rename, Choqok – micro blogging client, Kding – Dictionary application, Konversation – Irc client, Krusader – File manager, Rekonq - a webkit based Web broswer and Quassel – Irc client. Those who have converted from KDE 3 and testing KDE 4 generally have had a positive experience. The debate however continues as to why such a radical change in the way the new desktop operates as opposed to the previous 3.x version.
Packages new to the repository include:
Notable package updates this week include:
In testing this week:
There were a lot of updates to the PCLinuxOS repository last week. Here is a list of interesting updates and new packages.
Packages new to the repository include:
In testing this week:
The New PCLinuxOS Magazine, which comprises volunteers from the
PCLinuxOS community, is proud to announce the release of it’s August
2009 edition. This edition continues the magazine crew’s commitment to
a monthly release schedule for the magazine. The magazine is also
pleased to announce that Andrew Strick (Stricktoo) has accepted the
position of PCLinuxOS Magazine Assistant Editor.
This issue includes…
PCLXDE: The PCLinuxOS LXDE 2009 Remaster
Master The Remaster
Repo Spotlight: addlocale and GetOpenOffice
Behind The Scenes: Up Close With Old-Polack
Through The Lens: Scanners With PCLinuxOS
PCLinuxOS International Community Update
Audio File Formats Comparison
Georgetoon
Wiki Wicket: Setup checkgmail in PCLinuxOS
ms_meme’s little nook
Forum Foibles
Using Bookmarks in Konqueror
PCLinuxOS Mascot Competition Winner
And Lots more!
You can download the PDF version here.
You can view the HTML version here.