Submission Summary: 0 pending, 8 declined, 4 accepted (12 total, 33.33% accepted)
Submission + - Fedora 17 Released
ekimd writes: Fedora 17 aka "Beefy Miracle" is released. Some of the major features include: ext4 with >16TB filesystems, dynamic firewall configuration, automatic multi-seat, and more. Major software updates include Gnome 3.4, GIMP 2.8, and GCC 4.7. The full feature list can be found here.
Personally, I still find Gnome 3 to be an "unholy mess" so I'm loving XFCE with Openbox.
Personally, I still find Gnome 3 to be an "unholy mess" so I'm loving XFCE with Openbox.
Submission + - Adobe to Abandon Flash Player on Linux (adobe.com) 1
ekimd writes: Adobe has anounced their plans to abandon future updates of their Flash player for Linux. Partnering with Google, after the release of 11.2, "the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the 'Pepper' API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe." Viva la HTML 5!
Submission + - Fedora 10 Released
ekimd writes: Fedora 10 aka Cambridge was released today. Some of the major features include: 'wireless connection sharing enables ad hoc network sharing, better setup and use of printers through improved management tools, virtualization storage provisioning for local and remote connections now simplified, SecTool is a new security audit and intrusion detection system.' Versions of major software include: Gnome 2.24, Eclipse 3.4 and RPM 4.6. A features list can be found here.
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