Tag Archive: open source

Jul 09

Releases – Something For Your Server?

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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

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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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Jul 02

LinBMD version 0.8c released

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I have just released version 0.8c. It is exactly the same as version 0.8b, just recompiled for newer distributions. If you are currently using LinBMD without any problems on your distribution then you will not need to download this version. Let me know how it goes. Happy transcribing.

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Jul 02

PHP 5.4 alpha 1 released

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The PHP development team announced on 28 June 2001 that PHP 5.4alpha1 has been released. While this is a development release, we are encouraged to download, test and report bugs. This release should not be used in production. For more details be sure to check out php.net.

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Jun 30

Release – Thunderbird 5

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Mozilla has released Thunderbird 5. It is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine and has quite a number of speed and interface improvements. Amongst these are: Faster start up times Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to other windows A new add-ons manager More responsive interface There have been more than 390 …

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