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Issue : 24Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )Date : 30-06-2009Join Mailing List athttp://groups.google.com/group/fossnews/

Contents

1. fedora 11 released2. Building Customized Ubuntu Live-CDs With UCK On Ubuntu 9.043. Belgium Makes Election Software Open to the Public4. Screen – Manages multiple sessions on one terminal5. Firefox 3.5 Allows Watch Videos Without Adobe Flash Plugin6. Great themes for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope7. Ubuntu aims for even quicker startup times in 10.04: Just 10 seconds8. 10 mistakes new Linux administrators make9. How to run KDE on Windows10. Finding GIMP – Image Manipulation Tutorials

1. fedora 11 released

The popular Linux distribution Fedora (you know, the one that isn't Ubuntu) has just released a newmajor version,Fedora 11, around six-and-a-half months after therelease of Fedora 10. The changelog is extensive, but thescreenshot tour shows an alluringoperating system.You can read the entireFedora 11 changelog here,but it's rather unwieldy. For changes more likely to concernyou, hit theChanges in Fedora forDesktop Userspage for specifics ondesktop, network, printing, multimedia,games, and other tweaks. In themeantime, hit up the gallery below fora closer look at the Fedora 11 desktop.http://lifehacker.com/5284785/fedora-11-released-and-ready-for-downloadReview:http://on-disk.com/cms/index.php?wiki=Review-Fedora_11_page1

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2. Building Customized Ubuntu Live-CDs With UCK On Ubuntu 9.04

This guide explains how you can build customized Ubuntu (as well as Kubuntu/Xubuntu andEdubuntu) Live-CDs with the help of UCK(Ubuntu Customization Kit) on Ubuntu 9.04. UCKallows you to customize the language and the applications on the Live-CD.http://www.howtoforge.com/building-customized-ubuntu-live-cds-with-uck-on-ubuntu-9.04

3. Belgium Makes Election Software Open to the Public

The Department of the Interior-occupied voting agency has released the source code from itsEuropean election software.The software packages Digivote and Jites have already been put to use for community elections aswell as the European election which took place on June 7th. These voting software packages arealso expected to remain in application in the future. The Belgian Department of the Interior releasedthis information for transparency, as an introduction for documents pertaining to the Belgianelection in December 2008 stated. The software is at present to go online (after the Europeanelection) because the Belgian government feared tampering would occur during the election.The Belgian voting agency offers the source code fordownload in the form of a zip archive. Upon inspection, it is revealed that documentation and license information is not present. It is apparentlynot possible to disclose the software licensing information in the Belgian agencies, according to theEuropean Information Service (OSOR).http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/belgium_makes_election_software_open_to_the_public

4. Screen – Manages multiple sessions on one terminal

This tutorial explain how to use screen and screen profiles in your ubuntu server.Screen is a program that allows you to have multiple logins on one terminal. It is useful in situationswhere you are telnetted into a machine or connected via a dumb terminal and want more than just

Free Open Source Software News 3one login.screen-profiles includes a set of profiles for the GNU screen window manager. These profiles arequite useful on server machines which are not running a graphical desktop. The ’screen’ commandprovides a number of advanced features are not necessarily exposed in the default profile. Theseprofiles provide features such as status bars, clocks, notifiers (reboot-required, updates-available),etc. The profile-switcher allows users to quickly switch their .screenrc to any of the availableprofiles.http://www.ubuntugeek.com/screen-manages-multiple-sessions-on-one-terminal.html

5. Firefox 3.5 Allows Watch Videos Without Adobe Flash Plugin

Wait a second! Web videos... without Adobe Flash plug-in?Firefox 3.5, which is now a very stable beta, is faster than earlier versions, and most importantly, itembraces open-source video standards and treats videos like web pages (you can’t do any of thatwith Flash). If this takes off, Flash video could become history.Built into the Firefox 3.5 browser is a video player based on the open-source video formats OggVorbis and Theora. The video player supports HTML5, which means that links and other interactiveelements can easily be placed inside videos. Ogg Vorbis format makes video programmable.Videos today are still for the most part siloed off from the rest of the Web in their Flash players as aseparate experience. Same expert proclaim that “it is time to break down those walls.”Already, DailyMotion offers videos in the Ogg Theora format. Its platform is located at openvideo.dailymotion.com.