Tag Archive for ‘Open Source’ at T. Longren

Tag Archive for 'Open Source'

Slackware Blog Changes

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on August 16, 2006

. 1 Comment Tags: blog, bloggging, Linux, Open Source, slackware, slackware-blog.

On Monday, I made a post on the Slackware Blog, asking for volunteers to help me with posting. I got two emails and two comments to the post offering assistance, much better turnout than I expected.

Anyway, I’ve added three new bloggers so far: James Bowling, lssantaanna, and some guy whose name I don’t exactly know yet.

James has already started posting, which is totally awesome. I was trying to find some time to post about the recent changelog updates but James beat me to it. I think the four of us should be able to generate some pretty good content, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Traffic to the Slackware Blog has been growing steadily. Especially since the release of Slackware 11.0 Release Candidate 1. The site gets pretty good placement on Google for a number of slackware related terms.

Popularity: 3% [?]

Performancing For Firefox 1.3

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Tyler

on August 9, 2006

in Internet, Open Source and Personal

. 0 Comments Tags: blog, blogs, firefox, mozilla, mozilla-firefox, Open Source, opensource, performancing, performancing-for-firefox, web.

Performancing For Firefox 1.3 has been released. Lots and lots of changes are included in this release. There’s now support for themes and addons. The performancing team has also open sourced Performancing For Firefox, which means anyone can get the source code and modify it as they please.

Some of the new features are listed below:

Addons API

Themes API

Localizations - We expect to be announcing PFF in other languages shortly!

Windows Live Spaces support

Firefox 2.0b1 support

Firefox 2.0b1 Spellcheck support via hidden pref

Sidebar collapser for added posting real-estate

Added Window icon for “Pff in window” mode.

Bug fixes and stability fixes

CSS/HTML editing bug fix

Clear content when in Preview mode

Fixed Extra Publishing resize bug.

Fixed a resize window limitation bug.

Made a few stability fixes and speen optimizations.

Fixed some strict JS warnings

I’m writing this post with this new version of Performancing. So far nothing unusual. The addons and themes API additions are sweet, hopefully some worthy developers will hack together some neat addons. I’m excited about this new version, it’s opened a lot more doors for Performancing.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Slackware 11 Beta

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Tyler

on July 31, 2006

in Linux, Open Source and Personal

. 0 Comments Tags: Linux, Open Source, opensource, operating-systems, slackware, slackware-11, tech, technology.

Isn’t it about time for Beta 1 of Slackware 11 to be released? I’d surely think so, especially with all the updates being made to the slackware-current changelog lately. I was thinking that Patrick would take a chance and make 2.6 the default kernel in Slackware 11, I don’t think that’ll happen now. 2.4.32 or 2.4.33 will most likely be the default kernel found in Slackware 11. I say this due to the changes that have been made to the kernel 2.4.32 packages in -current.

I’ll continue waiting patiently for Slackware 11 Beta 1…

Popularity: 4% [?]

WordPress 2.0.4 Released

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Tyler

on July 29, 2006

in Internet, Personal, Security and WordPress

. 0 Comments Tags: blog, blogs, Open Source, opensource, Security, upgrade, WordPress, wordpress-2.0.4.

WordPress 2.0.4 has been released.

WordPress 2.0.4, the latest stable release in our Duke series, is available for immediate download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it’s a pretty solid release across the board.

I can’t find any documentation stating the user registration vulnerability has been fixed, but Kelson is reporting it has been taken care of in WordPress 2.0.4. I believe this WordPress release was pushed out quickly due to some information revealed by Dr. Dave earlier in the week.

I’m still not 100% sure that the problems pointed out by Dr. Dave have been fixed. Can anyone confirm that it has been? For those interested, here’s a list of bugs that have been closed as of the 2.0.4 release [via Dougal Campbell].

UPDATE: WordPress 2.0.4 does indeed fix the user registration vulnerability. Dr. Dave has done some testing of his own and seems pretty sure this vuln is fixed. It’s still probably a good idea to disable user registration just to be safe:

As for the “users can register” option: enabling it back should be OK.
I personally will leave it off on my blogs, as I just don’t feel like entrusting strangers with access to wp-admin in the current state of the code (I insist that the aforementioned exploit has been fixed now, I am only being paranoid here).

Popularity: 3% [?]

Looking Ahead: Slackware 11

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Tyler

on June 13, 2006

in Linux, Open Source and Personal

. 1 Comment Tags: development, hardware, kernel, Linux, networking, Open Source, programming, redhat, servers, slackware, slackware-11, ubuntu, unix.

Crossposted from Slackware Blog.

Well, we’re getting closer to a Slackware 11 release. What kind of software goodies can we expect from this release? On May 31st, KDE released KDE 3.5.3, which has since been included in slackware-current. Unless KDE makes another release soon, I expect we’ll see KDE 3.5.3 included in Slackware 11.

Slackware 11 is still using a 2.4 kernel by default, with the 2.6.16.20 kernel in “testing”. Chess Griffin is guessing Slackware 11 will be released on June 25th. I don’t think that’s gonna happen, but Chess made that guess back in May. I am guessing that Slackware 11 will be released around August 11th. I say that because we haven’t even seen Slackware 11 Beta 1 yet.

I would expect to see a 2.6 kernel as the default kernel in Slackware 11. Having a 2.4 kernel as the default is something people like to poke fun at Slackware for. Now that kernel 2.6 has been around for a few years, I expect Patrick will set it as the default. Patrick will make the right decision, as he always has, no matter which kernel he chooses to set as the default.

Other new software that will be included in Slackware 11 is MySQL 5.0, Apache 1.3.36, PHP 4.4.2, Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, and X11 6.9.0. Now, this is software that’s currently included in slackware-current, so the version numbers may change slightly before Slackware 11 is actually released.

So far, it looks like we can expect a nicely polished release of Slackware 11, as usual. I’m just hoping Patrick decides to go with a 2.6 kernel by default.

On a somewhat releated note, this guy here at wordpress.com seems to be addicted to his Slackware box. Apparently it’s caused him to miss a few lunches, he’s having trouble dragging himself away from the beauty that is Slackware.

Somebody should drag me away from my PC. Ever since I installed Slackware on it, I could not get myself to stay away from the damn thing. My eyes are hurting, and my stomach is grumbling from missed lunches.

Popularity: 4% [?]