Only a few days ago, we ran an article on the future of KDE and GNOME, and which of the two had the brighter future based on their developmental processes. Barely has that discussion ended, or the GNOME engineering team comes with a pretty daunting plan to introduce a fairly massive reworking of the GNOME interface for GNOME 3.0 (2.30). Read on for the details.

 

The proposed plan encompasses quite a few aspects of the GNOME platform, but the most user-visible one is of course the reworking of the interface, thanks to a project called GNOME Shell, developed by Red Hat employee Owen Taylor. It's more than just a replacement for the window manager and panel, though.

 

more > http://www.osnews.com/story/21242/GNOME_3_...Shell_Zeitgeist

The Fedora team has announced the Fedora 11 beta release. It comes packed with new features, such as Ext4 as the default filesystem, Nouveau driver by default, kernel mode setting on Intel, ATI and Nvidia drivers, many virtualization improvements, IBus input method, GCC 4.4, and much more.

 

Fedora 11 comes with a load of upstream improvements, thanks to the inclusion of the latest GNOME (2.26) and KDE (4.2.1) releases. It also has experimental support for the Btrfs file system, which may become the default file system for most Linux distributions in the future. Note, though, that Btrfs is really, really volatile at this point. For more information on new features, please read the release notes.

 

Fedora 11 is scheduled for release on May 26. You can download the beta using Bittorrent (preferred), or you can use the mirror list.

 

via osnews.com > http://www.osnews.com/story/21232/Fedora...a_Released

Just now, both the server and desktop editions of the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope beta have been released. It comes with a boatload of new features, some of which come courtesy of upstream. A new GNOME release, a new X.org release, a new notification system, they're all in there.

 

via < http://www.osnews.com/story/21214/Ubuntu...a_Released

I see it in my man pages sometimes but it's REALLY nasty right here:

 



 

 

Any ideas how to fix?

 

 

Rob

Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.29. The new features include the inclusion of kernel graphics modesetting, WiMAX and AP wifi support, inclusion of squashfs and a preliminary version of btrfs, a more scalable version of RCU, ecryptfs filename encryption, ext4 no journal mode, support for filesystem freeze and other improvements. Here's a full list of changes

 

linked from http://osnews.com/story/21187/Linux_Kern...9_Released

"Novell today is rolling out the newest edition of its flagship enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11. The new releases are the first major updates since the SLES and SLED 10 releases in July of 2006. With SLES 11, Novell is also providing a baseline image so software vendors can easily build appliances. The concept is something know as a JeOS (Just enough Operating System) and has been trumpeted by Novell as the future of operating systems."

 

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linked via http://osnews.com/story/21191/Novell_Relea...prise_Server_11

 

side note: time permitting I will release a review of SLED 11.

 

download SLED 11 here > http://www.novell.com/linux/download_linux.html

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Eric S. Raymond is one of the three big figures in open source, together with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. During a talk for the Long Island Linux User Group, he made some interesting statements about the GPL, namely that the GPL is no longer needed due to the way the open source movement works.

 

linked from http://osnews.com/story/21192/ESR_GPL_No_Longer_Needed

I've sent a mail in the last few weeks to all admins of the site www.linux-noob.com asking them did they want to retain that status,

 

i got zero replies to that email, as a result of that and the very public insult to me here on the site by a now former moderator, i've taken steps to remove all admins except one, in addition I've removed some moderators who have not contributed in a long time,

 

I will continue to review these changes over the coming weeks and I'm always looking for new ideas to make this site better, thanks for your support.

 

if you feel something needs changing in relation to this then let me know,

 

cheers

anyweb

I want to create a custom repo containing the complete dependency tree for a set of packages. I want to this so as to able to install it on a computer using yum that does not have an internet connection. Most of the what I have come across describe the process to recreate whole repository, while I want a repo containing a small list of packages I can carry on a 512mb pen drive etc.

Any pointers for how to go about this?

 

TIA

-Sch

Hello,

 

I just hit my 2 year anniversary as a noob with Linux.

I want to apologize in advance since this post may be a bit long, I have been at this for a week and am at a stalemate. I hope the Moderators don't mind all this detail in my question.

I am working with a HTPC (Home Theater PC) box using GenToo. This is not MythTV but a system using GenToo mainly for home theater use and is a bit stripped down. The folks that designed the system and package feel that TwinView cannot be done properly on their system and do not give technical support for TwinView. They were surprised I got this far with it.

 

The motherboard is a MSI K9MGM3 v1 with a Nvidia 6150 chipset for the video. The MB has HDMI out which I am using and it has Component(RGB) and S-Video out. The TV sizes are a Vizio 42 inch fed via HDMI and the Samsung 19 inch is fed video from a 2.4GHz A/V transmitter/receiver setup to another room of the house, S-Video is used for this.

What I am trying to accomplish is to have S-Video and HDMI out at the same time. At this time I have it working but the S-Video out is not correct. The first two images are showing the Option "MetaModes" "1920x1080 , 720x480". The second set of images is using a suggested setting of "MetaModes" "1080i , 1080i" which seems not to be the normal option. Using this setting got it a bit closer on the S-Video out. The main reason I am going through all this is that I would like to send the A/V throughout the house to different TVs. I am not worried about HD when watching this system. I have been in kind of a hurry to set all this up since I may soon be stuck in a wheelchair here and setting this up at a later time may be out of the question. I will place the xorg code in the post below. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.

 

"MetaModes" "1920x1080 , 720x480"

Vizio



Samsung



 

"MetaModes" "1080i , 1080i"

Vizio



Samsung