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USN-796-1: Pidgin vulnerabilityview story

http://www.ubuntu.com – A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases Details follow: Yuriy Kaminskiy discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain messages in the ICQ protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash. (Distributions)

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USN-797-1: tiff vulnerabilityview story

http://www.ubuntu.com – A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.04 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: (Distributions)

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PCLinuxOS Quarterly ISO updates available.view story

http://www.pclinuxonline.com – There has been an explosion of activity going on over here at PCLinuxOS. The quarterly ISO updates for PCLinuxOS 2009.2 and PCLinuxOS Gnome 2009.2 are now available featuring a fully updated iso with the latest applications from the PCLinuxOS repositories. (Distributions)

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Open Suse 11.1 Reviewview story

http://osrevolution.com – Open Suse’s system administration suite YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) provides all of the standard configuration options and system administration options all in one place (something users of some other popular distributions bemoan, with Debian-based distributions generally being the biggest offenders in this department). (Distributions)

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Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” KDE RC1 released!view story

http://www.linuxmint.com – The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” KDE Community Edition RC1. Quick steps: (Distributions)

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Donations - improvementsview story

http://www.linuxmint.com – The number of donations raised to 88 last months for a total amount of $2402 given by the community. This is brilliant, as this money helps us work on Linux Mint but it also gives us the luxury to focus solely on the distribution itself without the need to engage in a support-centric business model or in other Linux-related commercial activities. (Distributions)

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Fight Club: Windows 7 vs Mandriva 2009.1view story

http://www.linuxforu.com – Both Windows 7 RC and Mandriva 2009.1 Spring (Free) come on single-layer DVDs. Windows 7 is a smaller download at 2.35 GB, whereas Mandriva weighs in at 4.34 GB, or 1.99 GB more. Both are ISO images, and have to be burned onto a disk. (Distributions)

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Monthly Stats - June 2009view story

http://www.linuxmint.com – Donations & Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: (Distributions)

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Arch Linux Newsletter July 2009view story

http://www.archlinux.org – The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the Newsletter for July 2009. To discuss this newsletter, click here. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, here they are. (Distributions)

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Canonical Delves Deeper into the Cloud – Launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Servicesview story

http://www.ubuntu.com – Canonical Delves Deeper into the Cloud – Launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services Partners with Eucalyptus to offer 'private cloud' assessment, proof-of-concept and support services (Distributions)

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openFATE - Adding New Features Now Open for Everybodyview story

http://news.opensuse.org – From openFATE’s launch in January ‘09 the addition of a new feature was limited to openSUSE members. Due and thanks to several requests out of the openSUSE community we changed this and are happy to announce today that openFATE now allows feature requests for non-members as well. (Distributions)

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Reinstalling Ubuntu vs Vistaview story

http://profarius.com – I recently upgraded to 9.10 and then decided to drop back to stable. This involves reinstalling the base system and reinstalling all the packages. My sister complained about her system being incredibly slow. I decided to reinstall both at the same time to compare the time it takes to do them at the same time. (Distributions)