http://ubuntuforums.org – http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 289 for the week October 22 - 28, 2012. Links to UWN Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue289 In This Issue Ubuntu Core On The Nexus 7 Raring Ringtail Ubuntu Developer Summit Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) end-of-life reached on October 28, 2012 Welcome New Members and Deve (Hardware)
Email this pagehttp://forums.fedoraforum.org – I upgraded to FC17 and I cannot update glib2. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://unix.stackexchange.com – I noticed after running a sudo command in terminal or running a administrative application that uses gksudo, it won't ask again for the password for a time (something like 5 minutes). Now let's assume one of the programs (not running as root) I'm using has a zero day exploit (like the web browser or its plugins). (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://news.softpedia.com – FreeNAS, a free implementation of a minimal FreeBSD distribution, has just reached version 8.3.0.FreeNAS 8.3.0 has introduced a large number of functional changes in comparison with the 8.0.x branch.Highlights of FreeNAS 8.3.0:• ZFS can be manipulated from the CLI, and changes for supported items tracked by FreeNAS will be reflected in the GUI;• The GUI now supports active-passive multip (General)
Email this pagehttp://ubuntuforums.org – Hi. OK, that upgrade (from 12.04 64-bit) didn't go so smoothly, hehe. Besides not being able to log in after the next reboot - due to, of all things, not being able to mount an NTFS partition (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...6?comments=all) - I found my system was without a file manager. (Hardware)
Email this pagehttp://crunchbanglinux.org – Hello Forum !Since a while Openbox sometimes opens up with an error message,complaining about the unexpected end of its rc.xml (always at line 721 of more than 1500).Checking the rc.xml shows that it really ends at that line!I only use Geany for text editing/scripting and have never had any corrupted files,eighter instantly saved or saved as... (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://forums.fedoraforum.org – I compile a short Icon program and have a linking problem. I already installed glibc.686, which fixed an earlier libX11.so.2 problem. Now I have yet another problem with libX11.so.6. I tried a couple of thing (see below). (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://news.softpedia.com – Eye of GNOME, the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment which can support a variety of image file formats, has reached version 3.7.1. Eye of GNOME 3.7.1 can be used to view single image files, as well as large image collections and if the appropriate plugins are installed on the system, the application will be able to open even more image formats. Highlights of Eye of GNOME 3.7 (General)
Email this pagehttp://gstreamer.freedesktop.org – The GStreamer team announces a new bug-fix release for the new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. Check out the release notes for GStreamer core, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, or gst-libav, or download tarballs for gstreamer, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, or gst-libav, (Software)
Email this pagehttp://forums.cpanel.net – Would it be possible for cpanel to also make E_STRICT warnings silent in the deprecated patch for PHP 5.4 ? We went to PHP 5.4 today with the newest easyapache and it went surprisingly smoothly. Biggest problem was all the strict warnings so we had to hop around to all the running code and manually change the error_reporting. ---- Just to help others looking at 5.4, the biggest annoyan (HowTos)
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