2.5.9 and 2.6.0 were both released Tuesday, August 18th addressing this security issue (CVE-2009-2694). 2.5.9 is 2.5.8 with only CVE-2009-2694 addressed and an unrelated crash bug fix. 2.6.0 contains CVE-2009-2694 in addition to many other bug fixes and the new Voice and Video support.
Unfortunately, another security issue was discovered with sending URL's over the Yahoo protocol and 2.6.1 was released on Wednesday, August 19th. According to the pidgin developers, 2.5.9 was not affected by separate bug.
Note: The Voice and Video support in pidgin-2.6.1 is a bit fragile. You MUST have the latest version of farsight2 and the stack of libraries it requires. You may also need to open ports on your firewall to allow it to connect.
Have you tried gnote yet? It is a C++ reimplementation of tomboy. gnote's binary package itself is less than 4MB with only a few standard dependencies that you might already have on a GNOME desktop, significantly smaller than Mono. I made the switch fully from tomboy to gnote a few months ago and things are working very nicely.
Tips and workarounds for using Flash (especially on Fedora) and avoiding crashes are updated frequently on this site. I follow all the latest patches of nspluginwrapper and firefox upstream to give people the latest advice. (Note: You need the new nspluginwrapper-1.1.2 in order to avoid the most common crashers of Flash 10.)
http://wtogami.livejournal.com/13663.html (copied from my blog)
On the surface this summary made this look like good news for freedom and the community. But reading the actual linux.com article and technical board decision... they are only refraining from enabling the closed drivers by default.
Ubuntu continues to ship closed source proprietary drivers in potential violation of the GPL.
This is trading long-term liberty for short-term convenience.
The price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. Fortunately in this case however, there is a reasonably comfortable choice. What if Free and Open Source Software communities voted with their dollars and bought video hardware that had libre drivers?
Today with Intel video, you have the convenience of working video out-of-the-box with full 3D acceleration with upstream X.org and kernel support. Perhaps if more people voted with their dollars, the other hardware vendors would take FOSS software more seriously and become a more honest partner in order to compete.
Think about it.
Warren Togami,
Fedora Project
p.s.
Note also the recent news of Intel finally releasing an IPW3945 driver suitable for the upstream kernel, by offloading the regulatory daemon into firmware. Good job Intel. As long as you continue to be a honest partner in the FOSS community, you have my dollar.
I'm soon buying a new laptop with Intel 950 video and IPW3945.
Excerps from my blog post of November 3rd, the day that Novell sold their soul and betrayed the community for a little short-term safety.
As long as I work on the Fedora Project, Fedora will never compromise on the essential liberties of FOSS nor will it betray the community. But the price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. And unfortunately, some "leaders" of our community are willing to compromise liberty for short-term convenience. I am disgusted by people like this, and by Novell's betrayal of the community today.
Novell has effectively traded Long-Term Liberty for Short-Term Safety.
But ultimately, Red Hat cannot change the world alone. That is why the Fedora Project exists. We want to enable the community to work together to improve FOSS at a rapid pace, in partnership with the large and consistent contributions from our engineers. We strongly believe that this is the most effective way for the entire FOSS movement to advance. Yes, we made some big mistakes in our community relationship earlier, but we are learning, and continue to improve at an ever accelerating pace.
For these reasons that I urge the FOSS community to support the Fedora Project through volunteer contributions of time and effort. Or if you lack time to contribute, please consider monetary donations toward any of the shared causes that we are fighting for.
http://wtogami.livejournal.com/11305.html
(Disclaimer: These are my personal feelings and opinions. This is copied verbatim from my blog post of a few minutes ago.)
The Primary Goal of the Fedora Project:
Rapid Progress of Free & Open Source Software.
Red Hat engineering invests millions every year in FOSS development. These developers contribute in a great many ways to stimulate growth in the FOSS ecosystem and the community itself. Red Hat makes this investment for three key reasons:
It makes business sense: A healthy relationship with community builds quality products faster, and with lower expense. It is indeed possible to make money and not compromise on values.
Perhaps the technology leaders who made many of these key FOSS improvements are best able to support business customers.
Many of the people at Red Hat believe in the ethical values of FOSS and the benefit that it brings to society.
As long as I work on the Fedora Project, Fedora will never compromise on the essential liberties of FOSS nor will it betray the community. But the price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. And unfortunately, some "leaders" of our community are willing to compromise liberty for short-term convenience. I am disgusted by people like this, and by Novell's betrayal of the community today.
But ultimately, Red Hat cannot change the world alone. That is why the Fedora Project exists. We want to enable the community to work together to improve FOSS at a rapid pace, in partnership with the large and consistent contributions from our engineers. We strongly believe that this is the most effective way for the entire FOSS movement to advance. Yes, we made some big mistakes in our community relationship earlier, but we are learning, and continue to improve at an ever accelerating pace.
For these reasons that I urge the FOSS community to support the Fedora Project through volunteer contributions of time and effort. Or if you lack time to contribute, please consider monetary donations toward any of the shared causes that we are fighting for.
Contribute to Fedora
The Fedora Project needs your contributions in many ways. If you know how to make RPM packages, you can become a maintainer in Fedora Extras where you can contribute your favorite FOSS software into the central repository for all to benefit. We have many opportunities for even non-developers to get involved. We need help with things like Documentation, Artwork, or promoting Fedora in the Ambassadors team. Even simply using Fedora, responsibly reporting bugs in Bugzilla, and helping each other helps the entire community.
Donations
The Fedora Project does not need your money[1], but I hope that you would consider donating to one of the major charities that fight for your liber
There's a reason why we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the State, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend to become the people.
William Adama from Battlestar Galactica Episode S01E02 "Water"
If you buy and hold a domain name for more than a year before selling it for thousands of dollars, do you pay the U.S. IRS long-term capital gains tax? =)
The reviewer was not prompted to create non-root users because he did a text install, which booted into runlevel 3. Runlevel 5 (graphical mode) runs firstboot, which gives you the option to create users, setup ntp and other stuff.
Intel wireless 2100, 2200 and 2915 are working just fine in FC4 and FC5. You only need to download the firmware for it, because it is not legal to distribute with Fedora.
Even with the reported high cost of the PS3, if they do an excellent job on a FF7 remake using the full capabilities of the new hardware then that alone would be enough reason for me to buy PS3.
Conversion to regular hybrid probably will not be worth it when you consider the cost/benefit ratio. However a conversion to PHEV (plugin hybrid electric vehicle) may be well worth the effort. The above site describes this new type of car that allows you to go 30-40 miles in your daily commute off of electricity charged batteries. If you drive longer than that commute, then it behaves like a regular hybrid burning gasoline.
Their earlier conversions were modifying existing non-hybrid cars for PHEV capability, which would be similar to what you are looking for. Despite the benefit of PHEV, it may turn out to be too expensive to be worth it, but you should still look into it.
Our side may have already lost because it is unlikely that the Supreme Court will take this case under reconsideration. The next step of this battle would be to change the laws themselves at the Congressional level. It will be a long and hard battle, but one that we must fight.
Fedora Core 4 users are advised not to use the Java RPM provided by Sun. It contains Provides that conflict with names used in packages provided as part of Fedora Core 4. Because of this, Sun Java might disappear from an installed system during package upgrade operations.
Fedora Core 4 users should use either the RPM from jpackage.org or manually install the Sun Java tarball into/opt. Sun Java 1.5+ is recommended for stability purposes.
Anybody can spend millions of dollars on flashy CGI graphics, but that will never replace things like "plot writing" and "gameplay" which will remain of high importance.
For example look at the Final Fantasy: The Movie. They spent tens of millions of dollars to do the most sophisticated (of the time) CGI rendering for that movie. But it failed because of the horribly poor plot writing and "acting". Sure this example isn't a game, but it exemplifies that flashy cinematic eyecandy is not what makes something great.
Re:4.0.0 broke backward compatibility big time
on
A Review of GCC 4.0
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Fedora Core 4 has been building everything with gcc4 for several months now. We fixed code in some cases where gcc4 could no longer compile, but cases were fairly rare. FC4 is shipping with KDE 3.4.0.
x86-64 Windows is completely incapable of running 16-bit DOS executbles. While you may think this is unimportant, unfortunately far too many dumb websites still distribute those "self extracting" archives that are 16-bit DOS executables. In many cases these archives containly ONLY a PDF, or other cases 32bit/64bit software. Distributors somehow think self extracting archives are "friendlier" to users and keep using the same old archivers that they used 10 years ago because it wasn't a problem for anyone.
Of course this always was annoying to me because I use nothing but Linux. And the very idea of executing untrusted programs from 3rd parties is somewhat scary...
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Verisign clearly intends on arguing that ICANN has no authority over Unassigned Names and Numbers. Let this be a lesson to us all to be more careful when naming our abusive monopolistic corporations.
20a8ecd2de7b5cd4f18396e80d215746 ifhsetup.exe Confirmed... this is the md5sum from the main site, mirror #4 and this mirror. This guy is a liar. And it is very typical for the moderators to believe it and mod it up without even checking.
Slashdot Mirror
2.5.9 and 2.6.0 were both released Tuesday, August 18th addressing this security issue (CVE-2009-2694). 2.5.9 is 2.5.8 with only CVE-2009-2694 addressed and an unrelated crash bug fix. 2.6.0 contains CVE-2009-2694 in addition to many other bug fixes and the new Voice and Video support.
Unfortunately, another security issue was discovered with sending URL's over the Yahoo protocol and 2.6.1 was released on Wednesday, August 19th. According to the pidgin developers, 2.5.9 was not affected by separate bug.
Note: The Voice and Video support in pidgin-2.6.1 is a bit fragile. You MUST have the latest version of farsight2 and the stack of libraries it requires. You may also need to open ports on your firewall to allow it to connect.
Have you tried gnote yet? It is a C++ reimplementation of tomboy. gnote's binary package itself is less than 4MB with only a few standard dependencies that you might already have on a GNOME desktop, significantly smaller than Mono. I made the switch fully from tomboy to gnote a few months ago and things are working very nicely.
http://macromedia.mplug.org/
Tips and workarounds for using Flash (especially on Fedora) and avoiding crashes are updated frequently on this site. I follow all the latest patches of nspluginwrapper and firefox upstream to give people the latest advice. (Note: You need the new nspluginwrapper-1.1.2 in order to avoid the most common crashers of Flash 10.)
On the surface this summary made this look like good news for freedom and the community. But reading the actual linux.com article and technical board decision... they are only refraining from enabling the closed drivers by default.
Ubuntu continues to ship closed source proprietary drivers in potential violation of the GPL.
This is trading long-term liberty for short-term convenience.
The price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. Fortunately in this case however, there is a reasonably comfortable choice. What if Free and Open Source Software communities voted with their dollars and bought video hardware that had libre drivers?
Today with Intel video, you have the convenience of working video out-of-the-box with full 3D acceleration with upstream X.org and kernel support. Perhaps if more people voted with their dollars, the other hardware vendors would take FOSS software more seriously and become a more honest partner in order to compete.
Think about it.
Warren Togami,
Fedora Project
p.s.
Note also the recent news of Intel finally releasing an IPW3945 driver suitable for the upstream kernel, by offloading the regulatory daemon into firmware. Good job Intel. As long as you continue to be a honest partner in the FOSS community, you have my dollar.
I'm soon buying a new laptop with Intel 950 video and IPW3945.
"with applications ranging from micro UAVs"...
The Diamond Age? =)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/ 2006-April/msg00118.html/ 2006-April/msg00358.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list
Read about ESR's ridiculous attempts to troll the Fedora Project into violating the GPL and shipping proprietary software. ESR continues his irresponsible crusade. This is NOT in the best long-term interest of the community. Please do not give this "leader" any credence.
As long as I work on the Fedora Project, Fedora will never compromise on the essential liberties of FOSS nor will it betray the community. But the price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. And unfortunately, some "leaders" of our community are willing to compromise liberty for short-term convenience. I am disgusted by people like this, and by Novell's betrayal of the community today.
Novell has effectively traded Long-Term Liberty for Short-Term Safety.
Red Hat supports causes that matter like providing the original seed money for Creative Commons. Or being a key partner in the anti-software patent movement during the miraculous last-minute turnaround at the European Parliament last year. I am proud to be part of an organization that demonstrates such moral and ethical commitment.
But ultimately, Red Hat cannot change the world alone. That is why the Fedora Project exists. We want to enable the community to work together to improve FOSS at a rapid pace, in partnership with the large and consistent contributions from our engineers. We strongly believe that this is the most effective way for the entire FOSS movement to advance. Yes, we made some big mistakes in our community relationship earlier, but we are learning, and continue to improve at an ever accelerating pace.
For these reasons that I urge the FOSS community to support the Fedora Project through volunteer contributions of time and effort. Or if you lack time to contribute, please consider monetary donations toward any of the shared causes that we are fighting for.
http://wtogami.livejournal.com/11305.html
Please read more in the original version in this blog entry.
Warren Togami
Founder, Fedora Project
Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
(Disclaimer: These are my personal feelings and opinions. This is copied verbatim from my blog post of a few minutes ago.)
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200611021 75508403
"Novell has effectively traded Long-Term Liberty for Short-Term Safety."
- me 2006/11/02
The Primary Goal of the Fedora Project:
Rapid Progress of Free & Open Source Software.
Red Hat engineering invests millions every year in FOSS development. These developers contribute in a great many ways to stimulate growth in the FOSS ecosystem and the community itself. Red Hat makes this investment for three key reasons:
As long as I work on the Fedora Project, Fedora will never compromise on the essential liberties of FOSS nor will it betray the community. But the price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. And unfortunately, some "leaders" of our community are willing to compromise liberty for short-term convenience. I am disgusted by people like this, and by Novell's betrayal of the community today.
Red Hat supports causes that matter like providing the original seed money for Creative Commons. Or being a key partner in the anti-software patent movement during the miraculous last-minute turnaround at the European Parliament last year. I am proud to be part of an organization that demonstrates such moral and ethical commitment.
But ultimately, Red Hat cannot change the world alone. That is why the Fedora Project exists. We want to enable the community to work together to improve FOSS at a rapid pace, in partnership with the large and consistent contributions from our engineers. We strongly believe that this is the most effective way for the entire FOSS movement to advance. Yes, we made some big mistakes in our community relationship earlier, but we are learning, and continue to improve at an ever accelerating pace.
For these reasons that I urge the FOSS community to support the Fedora Project through volunteer contributions of time and effort. Or if you lack time to contribute, please consider monetary donations toward any of the shared causes that we are fighting for.
Contribute to Fedora
The Fedora Project needs your contributions in many ways. If you know how to make RPM packages, you can become a maintainer in Fedora Extras where you can contribute your favorite FOSS software into the central repository for all to benefit. We have many opportunities for even non-developers to get involved. We need help with things like Documentation, Artwork, or promoting Fedora in the Ambassadors team. Even simply using Fedora, responsibly reporting bugs in Bugzilla, and helping each other helps the entire community.
Donations
The Fedora Project does not need your money[1], but I hope that you would consider donating to one of the major charities that fight for your liber
If you buy and hold a domain name for more than a year before selling it for thousands of dollars, do you pay the U.S. IRS long-term capital gains tax? =)
The reviewer was not prompted to create non-root users because he did a text install, which booted into runlevel 3. Runlevel 5 (graphical mode) runs firstboot, which gives you the option to create users, setup ntp and other stuff.
Intel wireless 2100, 2200 and 2915 are working just fine in FC4 and FC5. You only need to download the firmware for it, because it is not legal to distribute with Fedora.
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
FC5 final release is currently scheduled for late February. It may be delayed a week or two in order to get GNOME 2.12 into the release.
Thanks,
Warren Togami
wtogami@redhat.com
New Hampshire has no sales tax.
Even with the reported high cost of the PS3, if they do an excellent job on a FF7 remake using the full capabilities of the new hardware then that alone would be enough reason for me to buy PS3.
http://calcars.org/
Conversion to regular hybrid probably will not be worth it when you consider the cost/benefit ratio. However a conversion to PHEV (plugin hybrid electric vehicle) may be well worth the effort. The above site describes this new type of car that allows you to go 30-40 miles in your daily commute off of electricity charged batteries. If you drive longer than that commute, then it behaves like a regular hybrid burning gasoline.
Their earlier conversions were modifying existing non-hybrid cars for PHEV capability, which would be similar to what you are looking for. Despite the benefit of PHEV, it may turn out to be too expensive to be worth it, but you should still look into it.
Our side may have already lost because it is unlikely that the Supreme Court will take this case under reconsideration. The next step of this battle would be to change the laws themselves at the Congressional level. It will be a long and hard battle, but one that we must fight.
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/er rata/#id2503640
/opt. Sun Java 1.5+ is recommended for stability purposes.
Fedora Core 4 users are advised not to use the Java RPM provided by Sun. It contains Provides that conflict with names used in packages provided as part of Fedora Core 4. Because of this, Sun Java might disappear from an installed system during package upgrade operations.
Fedora Core 4 users should use either the RPM from jpackage.org or manually install the Sun Java tarball into
Anybody can spend millions of dollars on flashy CGI graphics, but that will never replace things like "plot writing" and "gameplay" which will remain of high importance.
For example look at the Final Fantasy: The Movie. They spent tens of millions of dollars to do the most sophisticated (of the time) CGI rendering for that movie. But it failed because of the horribly poor plot writing and "acting". Sure this example isn't a game, but it exemplifies that flashy cinematic eyecandy is not what makes something great.
Fedora Core 4 has been building everything with gcc4 for several months now. We fixed code in some cases where gcc4 could no longer compile, but cases were fairly rare. FC4 is shipping with KDE 3.4.0.
And it is possible to run if you install the 32bit web browser to use with that 32bit plugin.
x86-64 Windows is completely incapable of running 16-bit DOS executbles. While you may think this is unimportant, unfortunately far too many dumb websites still distribute those "self extracting" archives that are 16-bit DOS executables. In many cases these archives containly ONLY a PDF, or other cases 32bit/64bit software. Distributors somehow think self extracting archives are "friendlier" to users and keep using the same old archivers that they used 10 years ago because it wasn't a problem for anyone.
Of course this always was annoying to me because I use nothing but Linux. And the very idea of executing untrusted programs from 3rd parties is somewhat scary...
On the subject of VOIP, does anyone know if you can transfer land or cell numbers to VOIP just like you can with cell phones?
Verisign clearly intends on arguing that ICANN has no authority over Unassigned Names and Numbers. Let this be a lesson to us all to be more careful when naming our abusive monopolistic corporations.
20a8ecd2de7b5cd4f18396e80d215746 ifhsetup.exe
Confirmed... this is the md5sum from the main site, mirror #4 and this mirror. This guy is a liar. And it is very typical for the moderators to believe it and mod it up without even checking.