What's New in Fedora Core 3 SE Linux
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A number of changes have been made to Security Enhanced Linux in Fedora Core 3--here's what you should know.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Image_GraphViz 1.3.0RC3Services_SharedBook 0.2.4HTTP_Session2 0.7.0Net_UserAgent_Mobile 0.31.0Log 1.10.0FSM 1.3.0
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Latest PECL Releases:pecl_http 1.4.0oci8 1.2.3cairo_wrapper 0.2.2pecl_http 1.4.1zip 1.8.5
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Pierre-Alain Joye has three different posts to his blog about the releases of new versions (or new software) he's posted recently - a new release candidate for GD, the new Hidef extension in PECL, and a bug release for the zip extension.    The first post concerns the Zip extension release and which of the provided libraries you should use with your PHP installation (he recommends the latest PECL version over the included version). There's also a link to the new release - 1.8.6 The second post is an announcement about the publishing of the Hidef extension into the PECL library. It can be used to do a "one time declare" of constants in your application, working with a configuration file to only load them the first time the browser hits the site/application. Finally, in the newest of the posts, Pierre points out a brand new release candidate for GD 2.0.35 to two possible correct race conditions. You can download this new release here: tar.gz file, tar.bz2 file
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Red Hat Inc. has announced the general release of the third update to its Enterprise Linux operating system, as well as a new partnership with recent Linux convert Unisys Corp.
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The past month has introduced an interesting new distribution that is based on the Gnome and Debian projects. &nbsp;Ubuntu Linux is the end-user-oriented distribution funded by Mark Shuttleworth's company Canonical. &nbsp;
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(InfoWorld) - Red HatÂ has scheduled a March release for RHEL5 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5), the latest version of its open-source operating system, while it tries to fend off new competitive threats from OracleÂ and the Microsoft-NovellÂ partnership. Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens discussed the RHEL5, the competition, the Fedora Project, and other issues with IDG News Service. Following is an edited transcript of the interview, conducted this week at the InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum in San Francisco: IDGNS:Â RHEL5 comes out in March. What are some of the features that will move virtualization forward and keep Red Hat competitive? Stevens: RHEL5 is a scalable, full native 64-bit platform. In the second quarter of 2005, there was a crossover point where more 64-bit x86 systems were sold than 32-bit systems. So there is this untapped (64-bit) capability within the IT shops as many systems are still running 32-bit applications on 64-bit systems. With RHEL5, we aim to help allow IT and independent software vendorsÂ to realize the power of 64-bit computing on these multicore architectures. There is a lot of untapped capability in performance there, so we aim to help that. As to virtualization, it comes as an integrated feature set for RHEL5. IDGNS: How has the move by Oracle to undercut you on the price for its Linux support and the partnership between MicrosoftÂ and NovellÂ affected the direction you are taking Red Hat as CTO? Stevens: It hasn't really affected the day-to-day activities because Red Hat is focused on creating value for customers. We have developed really close relationships to understand where we need to drive technology to make a meaningful impact on their businesses. We focus on the fundamentals, not on something else. If you start to think about what is going to create revenue for the company versus what's going to create value for the customer, you're thinking about it the wrong way. Our results for the last quarter show that we are largely unaffected. We look at the vibrancy of the Fedora Project, our open-source community. Fedora is Red Hat's vehicle for bringing advanced technology really quickly to end-users. The last release of Fedora has been out for about four months, and we are averaging more than 100,000 downloads a week and 1.5 million downloads total. Compare that 100,000 a week to Oracle with their release of Oracle Linux. We reach in seven hours what they reached in their very first month of releasing that source code. With the Novell-Microsoft deal, we continue to believe interoperability is important. We didn't see anything new and meaningful in that interoperability agreement. With RHEL5, we're going to show rich compatibility between Windows and Linux. We already have that. We are absolutely open to and willing to work with Microsoft under an interoperability agreement but one that does not require our customers to pay anÂ intellectual property tax on Linux. IDGNS: What are your projects for the coming year besides RHEL5? Stevens: We'll continue an initiative we started last year around AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). It's going to transform how you manage messaging systems in grid environments. We'll be bringing that to a bunch of (test) customers this year. AMQP is about allowing you to have data sources and data feeds that can scale across grid environments. IDGNS: What else? Stevens: We're leading the work in Linux around predictability with a project called Real Time. It's not just about dropping latency, even though it does that. It's around how we get determinism. It's really critical that the workloads you're running, whether its multimedia playback or transactions, know that there is a sort of boundary on the completion of transactions. Real Time is basically a rearchitecture of how the Linux kernel does locking and scheduling. We've had a team working on this for the past year and a half and we will be working with customers under a proof of concept through the course of this year.
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Antony Dovgal has pointed out the updated packages that have been released to the snaps.php.net website by Derick Rethans.   He also includes a list of things that will be included in this upcoming release like:   Namespaces Late static binding Accessing static members through $foo::myFunc() Improved OpenSSL extension PCRE 7.4   Grab your copy of these latest snapshots from the snaps website and get to testing them on your system to see what happens before the release.
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A major KDE overhaul gives a leading Linux interface a new look and new apps. Some features will be familiar to Windows and Mac OS X users.
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The Zend Developer Zone quickly points out that the latest eZ Systems newsletter has been released and it includes details on version 3.8.4, updated documentation, and a few other things.   This week's newsletter brings news about an updated distribution package for eZ publish 3.8.4, new documentation for eZ publish upgrades and new information about eZ platform development. The newsletter also includes the weekly forum watch and an update about the current bug fix status.   They cover the update to eZ publish, the "Upgrade" section in the documentation, new advancements concerning eZ platform, and some interesting discussions going on over in their forums.
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Linux Desktop KDE Plans Google Style Search  Open-source Linux desktop environment KDE developers have announced plans to make searching for files on the KDE desktop more simple by adding a Google-style search feature. CNet reports that the next version of KDE, which will either be called 3.4 or 4, and is ...
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Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) is likely to release a major upgrade to its enterprise operating system in the next two weeks, according to news reports. The software is expected to fully support the Linux 2.6 kernel for the first time.
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A NEW version of the open Sauce desktop Gnome is on the net for Linux users to play with. Gnome 2.8 includes Evolution 2.0, the open-source e-mail and groupware client that looks like Microsoft Outlook if
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It's a long-standing joke in the free software world that this will be the year when we see GNU/Linux make its breakthrough on the desktop - just like last year, and the year before that.  What's really funny is that all the key GNU/Linux desktop apps are already being widely deployed, but not in the way that people have long assumed.
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MORENO VALLEY, Calif., and PARIS, Oct. 28 - Mandrakesoft has released Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official, the latest version of its Linux operating system.
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Today we released version 1.6.3 of Streamline, a stream-based network subsystem for Linux.   This first release in over a half year has been thorougly stress-tested, so it should be more stable. New features include support for named and unnamed pipes, the full POSIX file IO interface, a write-after-read optimization similar to splicing, a method for catching HTTP GET requests and self-resizing (based on load) ringbuffer designs. Please read the changelog for more details.
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So communal it hurts Fedora developers have performed a catch and release with their beloved operating system, unleashing today the final cut of Fedora 7.â¦