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Entries for August, 2010

Thunderbird 3.1.2 on Fedora

Thunderbird 3.1.2 has been released, adding fixes to improve stability and the user interface. I’m using Fedora 13 and the update isn’t available yet in the official repositories. I could use an unofficial repo, such as Remi, to get the updates more quickly, but the easiest way for me is to use the precompiled binaries [...]

Fedora 13 update issues

Fedora Project announced two “unexpected bugs” that affect Fedora 13. It looks like some users can no longer see the package update notification in the main panel or apply the updates using the update applet. Updated packages to fix these bugs were released 2 weeks ago, but the users were not prompted to install them, [...]

New recovery OS updates

Yesterday, August 3rd, two Linux recovery operating systems received minor updates: my favorite, RIPLinuX (10.7) and another OS which I wrote about a while ago, Parted Magic (5.2). The changelog files show these new releases include bug fixes, minor enhancements and updated versions for the main packages (e.g. partitioning tools). Changelog for RIP LinuX: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/Changelog [...]

What’s the fuss about the new Ubuntu font?

Cannonical Design announced new fonts that will available in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Merrkat. Then, they said the fonts will be made public on August 8th. Meanwhile, the Kubuntu-users mailing list gives notice that members of the ~kubuntu-users team on launchpad can now test the Ubuntu font which is currently in beta. Ubuntu users go crazy. [...]