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With the release of Fedora 8 on the immediate horizon, Bill Nottingham of the Fedora Project announced the End of Life date for Fedora Core 6 as Friday, December 7, 2007.
As a reminder, the Fedora Project supports a release for a full month following the second successive release. So …
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I spent a fair amount of time earlier this week contemplating the fate of the BlogRush widget on Slaptijack. The fact of the matter is that after running the widget for two weeks, I haven't received a single visitor from it. Not only that, I haven't even seen any of …
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Sometimes I feel I'm a little late to the party.
The Camino Project announced the release of version 1.5.2 of their popular Camino web browser on Friday. The Camino browser is a Mozilla-based web browser designed to integrate smoothly with Mac OS X. It sports a more OS …
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The main advantage of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux over something more cutting-edge like Fedora is the length of time Red Hat supports their Enterprise product.
The Fedora Project only supports the current and previous versions of Fedora (formerly Fedora Core). Since Fedora utilizes a six month release cycle, you …
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Wietse Venema has announced the availability of Postfix version 2.4.6, as well as versions 2.3.13 and 2.2.12. These releases are only bugfixes and do not include any new features. The new releases include the following bugfixes:
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Sam Varshavchik announced a new release of Courier and Courier IMAP yesterday. The new version includes the following bug fixes:
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Jesse Vincent of Best Practical Solutions announced the release of version 3.6.5 of their popular trouble ticketing system, RT: Request Tracker. Although this release is mainly a bugfix over RT 3.6.4, there are a few performance improvements.
In my own RT instances, I use a saved …
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Two more updates for applications based on the Horde Application Framework were released today. Once again, the product descriptions are from Jan Schneider of The Horde Project.
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The Fedora Unity Project has announced updated re-spins of Fedora 7 current with all updates as of September 12th, 2007.
Re-spins are updated ISOs that contain all updates up to the date of the re-spin. This has the benefit of saving the user from large downloads to bring a newly …
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Building on yesterday's release announcement of Courier 20070921, Sam Varshavchik announced new releases of several Courier packages today. According to the Courier website, the "Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols". All packages may be downloaded from the Courier download site …
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Jan Schneider of The Horde Project announced several new releases of the Horde Application Framework and the suite of web applications that use it. I'll list the new releases below. You can find all release information, including application and patch downloads, on The Horde Project website. The short product descriptions …
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Sam Varshavchik has announced an updated release of the Courier Mail Server and Courier IMAP Server (Courier 20070921). Changes since the last release include
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Evan Hunt of Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (ISC) has just sent an email announcing the release of <acronym title="Berkeley Internet Name Domain">BIND</acronym> 9.2.9. The BIND DNS Server is a popular domain name server implementation.
This release will be the last maintenance release of BIND 9 …
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In a recent article on Read/WriteWeb about Online Office Apps, Josh Catone mentioned off-hand that he didn't like the Gmail user interface. Since I've been using the Gmail interface exclusively for quite a while, I decided it might be time to talk about the problems I have with the …
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This site has been upgraded to WordPress 2.2.3. This is a security and bug fix that addresses several issues in WordPress 2.2.2. There are two high priority updates in this release:
