As the Holiday Season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and on those who have helped to shape our distribution in a most significant way. We value the PCLinuxOS community and look forward to the year to come. We wish each of you a very happy Holiday Season and a New Year filled with peace and prosperity.
Happy Holidays!
Hot from the coders desk comes Firefox 3.5.6 with numerous bug fixes and performance improvements. 62 bug fixes have been applied to Firefox 3.5.6 of including 11 critical and 6 major ones.
Firefox 3.5.6 is currently available on our premium server and shipping to the public servers shortly.
If you like Firefox’s tabbed browsing, you’re going to love tabbed email. Thunderbird 3’s tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Search results open in a new tab too. New tools like timeline and filtering tools will help you pinpoint the email you’re looking for, whether it’s the one from yesterday, last month, or several years ago.
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 is currently available on our premium server and shipping to our public servers shortly.
The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2009 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.
In the December 2009 issue:
2009 Holiday Gift & Stocking Stuffer Guide
Game Zone: Quake III Arena Linux Client
Behind The Scenes: Linuxera
Constructing Panoramas Using Hugin
Command Line Interface Intro: Part 3
Double Take & Mark’s Quick Gimp Tip
Forum Foibles
Ms_meme’s nook Holiday Songbook
Multimedia Mean Machine: ffmpeg
Winff: ffmpeg’s Happy Face
Wireless USB: The Next Frontier?
Gadgets & Gear: Samsung N510 Netbook
Dropbox: File Synchronization Made Easy
Screenshot Showcase
and much, much more!
This month’s cover celebrates the spirit of the winter holiday season, and was created by Timeth, a member of the PCLinuxOS Beautification Team.
Click here to download the PDF (14.4 MB)
Click here to visit the HTML version
Just in time for the holidays! Get your favorite PCLinuxOS swag for yourself, your family or your favorite PCLinuxOS friend. Coffee mugs, T-shirts, mouse pads , caps and much more now available through our official PCLinuxOS Cafe Press online store.
Not only will you look good but you will be supporting your favorite Linux Distribution!
KDE has released a new version of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC). This month’s edition of KDE SC is a bugfix and translation update to KDE SC 4.3. KDE SC 4.3.4 is a recommended upgrade for everyone running KDE 4.3.3 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. Users around the world will appreciate that KDE SC 4.3.4 is more completely translated. KDE 4 is already translated into more than 50 languages, with more to come.
KDE SC 4.3.4 has a number of improvements:
KDE 4.3.4 is currently shipping to the PCLinuxOS servers.