Linus Torvalds has announced the release of kernel 3.0. There do not seem to be any major changes with this new release. I believe most of us can quite safely wait for our distributions to build this one for us. To learn more about the linux kernel, you could read through their frequently asked questions. …
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Jul 13
Releases – Distributions
A couple of the lesser known distributions have been rather busy lately. Superb Mini Server (SMS) has released version 1.6.1. This distribution is based on Slackware and is configurable via Webmin. The new release was done on 2011-07-12. Sabayon also release their latest version on 2011-07-12. They are based on Gentoo and are at version …
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Jul 11
Release – CentOS 6.0
CentOS 6.0 has been released. A Light Weight Server Variant is being planned. Details have not yet been released, but it seems as though it will be a stripped down install cd as opposed to the usual dvd release. It has also been recommended that this new release be installed from fresh rather than doing …
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Jul 09
Releases – Something For Your Server?
I see that this week has been quite a busy one for some prominent server packages. Here I have made a collection of some of them which you may want / need to upgrade on your server or development environment. Squid 3.1.14 released 2011-07-04 WordPress 3.2 released on 2011-07-04 Mysql 5.5.14 released on 2011-07-05 Postfix …
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Jul 07
Ubuntu 11.10
I see that there are some very nice changes in store for us when Ubuntu 11.10 hits the streets in October 2011. Of greatest interest to me is the fact that Thunderbird 5 will become the default email client.
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