Speedlinks - 29 December, 2008

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1. Linux kernel 2.6.28 was officially released at 28 Dec, 2008: ext4, graphics execution manager (GEM), TAINTed_CRAP. See First Look by arstechnica.com.

P.S. Linus “almost Santa” Torvalds’ announcement is definitely worth reading:

Listen to the cheerful grinding of your harddisk as you reboot into an all-new kernel - and I’m sure that if your computer could smile, it would have a big silly grin on its non-existent face. So as you sit there in your basement, give your computer the holiday cheer too.

2. Top 10 Coolest Open Source Applications in 2008. Well, good reading in New Year Eve.

3. Bootable FSF membership cards: USB flash drive comes with pre-installed gNewSense 2.1.

4. Sabayon Linux 4.0 is realeased (smart Gentoo based distro): 25% boot speed gain, 8500 applications, ext4, KDE 4.1.3, Gnome 2.24.2, OpenOffice.org 3.0, Firefox 3.0 and more…

5. Pidgin 2.5.3 is out. Best GTK based instant messenger is ready for downloading. Changelog.

 
 
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7 Responses to “Speedlinks - 29 December, 2008”


  1. 1 Jadu Saikia

    I have to try Pidgin 2.5.3 , nice links, thanks.

  2. 2 Robbyh

    It appears your RSS feed has quit working

  3. 3 Buy Signals

    i try to Pidgin 2.5.3 too and works very fine.

  4. 4 artiomix

    Thanks, Robbyh — it seems to be fixed now…

  5. 5 ONLINECASINOPAYOUT

    Thank for the list!

  6. 6 tessa

    I really liked your blog! i read 4 others that are on similar subjets, but they domt update very often, thanks.

  7. 7 anne

    Can you provide more information on this? i have read other websites that are on similar subjects.

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