2005 News archive
2005 News archive
KDE 3.5 Released
The K Desktop Environment just got better. MSN/Yahoo webcam support, more features and a lot more eye-candy are among the new highlights. And Konqueror's CSS support is again ahead of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software
Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP have told Free Software authors: "You will be required to change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill proposal pass in the Parliament.
Opera users must upgrade to 8.51
Insufficient quoting of shell meta characters in the opera start script allowed to execute arbitrary commands if URLs with such characters were passed to the script
Coolest code ever: TinyP2P - A 15 line long Python P2P Application
The US Congress have, in their wisdom (or lack of it), suggested to outlaw all P2P programs. Edward Felten of Princeton University in New Jersey wrote TinyP2P as a response to demonstrate that such an attempt would be futile- Bitlbee 0.99 released
As promised, here's the 0.99 release. Pretty soon indeed, and if nothing bad happens with this one, there will be 1.0 soon. - Mandriva offers installation support on IRC
IRC is almost essential for learning Linux since it requires learning a lot of tricks who are obvious to experienced uses and there are chat-rooms for most distributions. But some of the people on IRC are just rude to n00bs. Mandriva now offers professional expert IRC support for their club members. - Firefox owned by most serious flaw ever
Mozilla Firefox versions up to 1.0.6 has the most serious security risk ever: Websites can now run shell commands on your computer. Version 1.0.7 is available, but packages are not yet available for Linux distributions. - New exam prep tutorials from New Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
LPI allows you to take exams in order to get proof of your Linux skills. Now 8 new tutorials are available to help you prepare for the system administrator certification Exam 201. Taking this exam can give you proof of your Linux wisdom so you have something concrete to put on your CV rather than just I am a big geek who knows Linux so please hire me. - OpenSSH 4.2 released
OpenSSH allows you to login to remote systems and use them as if they were your local system, easily copy files to one place to another and is probably the best thing since sliced bread. The new version has some security fixes, the default key size is now 2048 bits and now supports X11 forwarding over multiplexed connetions. - Kaffeine Player 0.7.1 released
A new version of the KDE media player Kaffeine is now available. Kaffeine a good GUI for the popular Xine video player backend because of the great playlist function. - KDE Web Dev gets it's own site
A dedicated site for the KDE Web Dev package (Quanta Plus, Kommander, KXSL Debug, KImageMapEditor, KFileReplace, KLinkStatus and Kallery) is one of the good things to come out of aKademy. - New chat-service from Google called Google Talk
Google has new launched a new chat-service called Google Talk which uses the open XMPP format to communicate between clients. Linux users can use Google Talk using existing open-source applications like PSI and Gaim even though only a Windows-version of their official client is available. - aKademy 2005 promises a bright future for KDE uses
The news from the KDE developer conference KDE is beaming in and shows a great bright future for KDE-users everywhere. Novell svore loyalty to Linux, the Kolab Groupware Solution and the long-awaited Kiosk desktop management framework was presented and the shape of KDE 4.0 determined. - Mupper v3.0 Rescue-CD for pegasos computers available
Mupper is a rescue live-CD project for PegasosPPC based on Gentoo Linux. It has all the important tools like parted and midnight-commander and it supports all common filesystems like FAT, VFAT, ReiserFS, XFS and EXT3 (but not SFS). - SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS Beta 2 has been released
- MAMBO developers leave to start their own branch of the project after hostile disbute
- Gentoo-Wiki to hit 10 million page-views
- Gentoo Linux 2005.1 Experimental Live CD available with GUI installer
- OpenSUSE project pages now available
- Novell has now revelaed to their future plans for SuSE Linux and they are excellent.
- What seems like a million new blogs are added to the Internet by the second now that everybody with half a brain can sign up at a free blog service and publicly humiliate themselves forever. You can even cheaply hire people to write blogs for you. Now mobile-blogging has made a adult entertainer Norways most popular celebrity blogger.
- 100.000 bugs found in Gentoo
- KDE 3.4.2 Released
- LinuxWorld Conference and Expo goes off 5-6 October 2005 at Olympia, London.
- The MP3 format fundamentally changed the way we enjoyed music shortly after researches at [Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits ISS http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/] released it in 1995. The format suddenly gave anyone the ability to store huge amounts of music on their computers and share it with their friends on the net.
- Opera Internet Browser embeds BitTorrent protocol
- City of Vienna Chooses KDE for 18,000 PCs
- Qt 4.0 released by Trolltech
- GIMP 2.2.8 Released
- KOffice 1.4 available
- External hard-drive sold bundled with pornography
- Gaim 1.3.1 fixes holes who allow evil people to remotely crash Gaim using the MSN and Yahoo networks
- Get ready for LinuxTag in Germany 21-25 June, 2005
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released
- Linux Kernel test matrix made available within 15 minutes of a new version being released
- Worlds biggest BitTorrent TV channel has 1,5 million viewers
- Last chance to prevent US-style Software Patents in EU
- Get ready to grab .xxx domains
- Google awards students to completes open source projects this summer with $4500
- The Pirate Bay fools the press
- KDE 3.4.1 released
- Phishing Howto by Honeynet Project
- Rhapsody IRC 0.25b released
- Only 1% of councils and organizations say their use of Open Source Software will decrese
- Fluxbox 0.9.13 released
- Linux 2.6.11.9 available
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 Released
- Gaim version 1.3.0 released with two important security updates
- Firefox users should disable software extension installation.
- Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide v.3.4 released
- KDE Switches from CVS to Subversion
- CommunityCode in Australian are trying to get Open Source work to count as a mutual obligation requirement for unemployment welfare.
- Norwegian technology corporations warn against new DRM-law
- Norwegian school demand the right to full access to students private computers.
- Do NOT upgrade to Opera 8
- Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla 1.7.7 released, features important security updates
- Adobe PDF reader for Linux released
- GIMP 2.2.6 Released
- Wordpress p0wned by Google for Spamming
- Gecko based browsers now have 32.28% market share
- Gentoo 2005.0 released
- Firefox 1.02 Released
- Wikipedia now has more than half a million articles
- KDE 3.4 released
- KDE deveoper Aaron Seigo Interviewed on LugRadio
- Learning Touch can be fun with KTouch
- GnomeMeeting 1.2.1 available!
- GNOME Ignoring its Own Users?
- Valknut 0.3.7 available
- fe3d v0.8-2 available
- Apache Web server 10 years
- EFN gives the Norwegian law makers a MP3 player in protest against a new proposed Copyright law.
- Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released
- Professional Anti-spam software available to Linux users free of charge
- Mail server administrators should seriously consider upgrading their servers
- XMAME 0.92 Available for Linux, 0.93 released for Windows
- KDE 3.4 Release Candidate 1 is available
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 released, fixes security issues and some bugs.
- GIMP 2.2.4 released, mainly a bug fix release
- FFII plans anti-patent demo in Brussels 17. th February 2005
- Norwegian Proposal for Now Digital Copyright Law is even worse than feared, yet the same laws mark the end of Copyright area and the beginning of true freedom.
- EFNET IPv6 Server down due to power failue
- IPv6 POP for Norway and Sweden
- KDE 3.4 Beta 2 ("Keinstein") Released
- New Swedish law closes The Pirate Bay and prohibits Linux-distributions from 1st July 2005
- Software Patents Showdown in Brussels 2005-02-17: European democracy needs your help - again
- All Linux Browsers are vulnerable to web site address spoofing
- FFII (re)Starts advertisement complain against Patents
- Solaris-user arrested by British Police for using Lynx
- Solaris DTrace Source code available at OpenSolaris.org
- Gentoo Linux plans to add OpenSolaris to Portage
- KDE SVG Wallpaper Contest winner impresses heavily
