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Oct 30
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The pass server will be offline for 24 hours and will return online on Sunday Nov 1st 2009. Please hold off trying to update until then or you may switch to another server for the time being.
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Oct 29
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VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See “About VirtualBox” for an introduction.
Currently available on our premium server and will be available on our public mirrors shortly.
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Oct 28
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Opera 10.01 QT3 and Opera 10.01 QT4 versions are now available for PCLinuxOS Pass members. This release is a bug fix update fixing small niggles the were brought to light after the 10.00 release.
Opera 10.01 is currently available on our premium server and shipping to the public servers shortly.
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Oct 27
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Mozilla Firefox has been updated to 3.5.4 which provides many stability updates.
The 11 critical Firefox 3.5 vulnerabilities were located in a variety of components, including Web worker calls, the GIF color map parser, the string-to-number converter, a trio of third-party media libraries, and both the JavaScript and browser engines. Fireofox 3.5.4 is currently available on our premium server and shipping to the public servers shortly.
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Oct 25
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PCLinuxOS now on identi.caNews Comments Off
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If you are interested in following the development of PCLinuxOS and you don’t use twitter, you can follow us now on Identi.ca.
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Oct 23
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Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug and Bing images. It runs under Linux, Win32, and MacOSX, and it’s available in many languages.
Supported Window Managers:
- Win32
- MacOSX (using OSA scripts)
- KDE3
- KDE4 (using WallyPlugin)
- Gnome
- XFCE4
- Fluxbox
- Blackbox
- FVWM (unstable)
- WindowMaker
More information here. Download available through our Synaptic Software Manager.
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Oct 23
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The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce a monster release of the October 2009 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.
The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. The magazine is lead by Paul Arnote, Chief Editor, and Andrew Strick, Assistant Editor. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license, and some rights are reserved.
In the October 2009 issue:
- Phoenix: PCLinuxOS XFCE 2009.4 Released
- A User’s KDE 4.3 Experience in PCLinuxOS
- The Gutsy Geeks Speak Linux
- Scanner Saga
- Command Line Interface Intro
- Scripts-R-Us: GTKDialog
- Top Seven Reasons to Use PCLinuxOS Over Window 7
- Double Take
- Through The Lens: Gimp Basics
- System Secrets
- Game Zone: Second Life
- Gadgets & Gear: SanDisk SansaClip
- Ms_meme’s Nook & Forum Foibles
- and much, much more!
This month’s cover celebrates Halloween, and was created by Timeth, a member of the PCLinuxOS Beautificaiton Team.
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Oct 23
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Gnome 2.28 has been tagged and packaged for PCLinuxOS. Gnome 2.28 provides bugfix and translation updates and is a recommended update for everybody running Gnome 2.26 or earlier versions.
Gnome core packages are currently shipping to the public mirrors and are already available on our premium server.
How to properly update PCLinuxOS.
Open Synaptic
Press Reload To get current file list
Click Mark All Upgrades
CLick Apply
DO NOT USE apt-get update and apt-get upgrade from the command line. This has never been recommended. If you insist on using the command line, the correct procedure is apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. If for any reason the system says it is not able to retrieve a package do you wish to continue always say no, report it to the forum and try to update again later.
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Oct 23
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Hulu Desktop is a standalone multimedia application that allows you to navigate and watch the contents of the Hulu network without using a web browser. Mouse and keyboard support is enabled allowing your to Scan Hulu’s lineup of TV shows and movies, which you can browse in alphabetical order, by network or studio, or by Hulu channel.
Hulu Desktop 0.9.2 beta package is currently shipping to the public mirrors and is already available on our premium server.
Minimum requirements: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz At least 2.0 GB of RAM
Update: Now updated to version 0.9.3 beta.
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Oct 23
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PClinuxOS toolchain has been updated and shipping to the repositories. This brings in gcc 4.4.1 and glibc 2.10.1. Glibc is the core library in which all other progrrams are built upon. Please note the correct procedures for updating your PCLinuxOS system.
How to properly update PCLinuxOS.
Open Synaptic
Press Reload To get current file list
Click Mark All Upgrades
CLick Apply
DO NOT USE apt-get update and apt-get upgrade from the command line. This has never been recommended. If you insist on using the command line, the correct procedure is apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. If for any reason the system says it is not able to retrieve a package do you wish to continue always say no, report it to the forum and try to update again later.