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The lightweight Dillo Web browser, in development for eight years, has always been a contender for the fastest browser available on GNU/Linux -- so much so that the Google's Chrome will have to be pretty nimble to outpace it. With last month's release of version 2.0, Dillo is faster than ever. If performance is your main priority, you might find Dillo's minimalistic tools and functional limitations an acceptable tradeoff -- but probably not.
pungi - Distribution compose tool
A tool to create anaconda based installation trees/isos of a set of rpms.
Change Log:
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 GMT - Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.0.8-1 - Set default disc size to 695 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 GMT - Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.0.7-1 - Fix splittree to actually use the iso size defined in kickstarts - Use https url for bugzilla by default. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 GMT - Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.0.6-1 - Handle %packages --default to pick up the default groups. - Set iso name to be the same as --name - Make sure we don't include the 'sha1:' in the iso SHA1SUM file. - Fix .treeinfo to have proper case in file names ...
policycoreutils - SELinux policy core utilities
Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number
of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add
mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux
kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to
improve the security of the Flask operating system. These
architectural components provide general support for the enforcement
of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those
based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.
policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required
for basic operation of a SELinux system. These utilities include
load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems, newrole
to switch roles, and run_init to run /etc/init.d scripts in the proper
context.
Change Log:
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 GMT - Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 2.0.57-11 - Move the usermode-gtk requires to the -gui subpackage. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 GMT - Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> 2.0.57-10 - Fix traceback in audit2why Wed, 29 Oct 2008 GMT - Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> 2.0.57-9 - Make GUI use translations ...
gedit - gEdit is a small but powerful text editor for GNOME
gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for
the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports
extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for
editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text
editor functions.
You'll need to have GNOME and GTK+ installed to use gEdit.
Change Log:
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 GMT - Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 1:2.24.1-1 - Update to 2.24.1 (bug 469934) Wed, 15 Oct 2008 GMT - Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 1:2.24.0-4 - Save some more space Thu, 25 Sep 2008 GMT - Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 1:2.24.0-3 - Save some space ...
Scott Johnson of GNUveau Networks has developed a solar-powered Internet "hub" system (running Ubuntu GNU/Linux) that he builds to order in his Daytona Beach, Florida, home. His objective is to bring computers and the Internet to places that have no connectivity, no phone service, and no electricity. This is no pipe dream. There are real SolarNetOne installations running in Africa right now, providing wireless connectivity and "Internet Cafe" access to hundreds of people. The system uses off-the-shelf hardware that Scott modifies to run on 12V -- and to use a lot less power than the stock versions. As Scott says, in solar-powered computer installations, "The Watt is king."
solar-kde-theme - Solar KDE Theme
Solar KDE Theme based on Solar theme by Samuele Storari. This package
contains KDM Solar Mania theme, KSplash Solar Comet theme and Solar background.
Change Log:
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 GMT - Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 0.1.15-1 - fix bz#469819, Username and password input fields overlaps each other Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@redhat.com> 0.1.14-1 - revert clock label overflows changes (bz#469141) Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@redhat.com> 0.1.13-1 - fixes KDM clock label overflows the login box (bz#469141) ...
perl-Email-Date - Find and format date headers
RFC 2822 defines the "Date:" header. It declares the header a required
part of an email message. The syntax for date headers is clearly laid
out. Stil, even a perfectly planned world has storms. The truth is, many
programs get it wrong. Very wrong. Or, they don't include a "Date:"
header at all. This often forces you to look elsewhere for the date, and
hoping to find something.
For this reason, the tedious process of looking for a valid date has
been encapsulated in this software. Further, the process of creating RFC
compliant date strings is also found in this software.
Change Log:
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 GMT - Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.103-4 - add Requires: perl(Email::Abstract) to fix bz 468716 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 GMT - Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.103-3 - rebuild for new perl Thu, 20 Dec 2007 GMT - Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.103-2 - add BR: Module::Pluggable ...
Each new Ubuntu release has raised the standard by which other Linux distros are judged. With the new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, the focus is on mobility and 3G network support. I found Intrepid to be a fast and stable release, yet I experienced some minor issues that keep it from absolute perfection.
gvfs - Backends for the gio framework in GLib
The gvfs package provides backend implementations for the gio
framework in GLib. It includes ftp, sftp, cifs.
Change Log:
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 GMT - Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0.2-3 - Return an empty array on success when no content type matches (#468946) Fri, 24 Oct 2008 GMT - Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> - 1.0.2-2 - Don't return generic fallback icons for files, as this means custom mimetypes don't work (from svn) Mon, 20 Oct 2008 GMT - Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> - 1.0.2-1 - Update to 1.0.2 ...
System administrators need to keep an eye on their servers to make sure things are running smoothly. If they find a problem, they need to see when it started, so investigations can focus on what happened at that time. That means logging information at regular intervals and having a quick way to analyse this data. Here's a look at several tools that let you monitor one or more servers from a Web interface.
gnome-panel - GNOME panel
The GNOME panel provides the window list, workspace switcher, menus, and other
features for the GNOME desktop.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 2.24.1-3 - Fix up panel slide in patch to work better with empty panels Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 2.24.1-2 - Fix up panel slide in patch to 1) not have odd effects with vertical panels 2) set up struts earlier Wed, 22 Oct 2008 GMT - Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 2.24.0-8 - Don't make nautilus slide down as the panel slides down, instead push nautilus out of the way immediately, and slide in the available space. ...
plymouth - Plymouth Graphical Boot Animation and Logger
Plymouth provides an attractive graphical boot animation in
place of the text messages that normally get shown. Text
messages are instead redirected to a log file for viewing
after boot.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.4 - Allow pre-setting the default plugin when calling plymouth-populate-initrd Fri, 31 Oct 2008 GMT - Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> 0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.3 - Add pango minimum version to buildrequires Thu, 30 Oct 2008 GMT - Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> 0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.2 - Update prompt text colors to be legible on new artwork ...
ktechlab - Development and simulation of microcontrollers and electronic circuits
KTechlab is a development and simulation environment for microcontrollers
and electronic circuits.
KTechlab consists of several well-integrated components:
A circuit simulator, capable of simulating logic, linear devices and some
nonlinear devices.
* Integration with gpsim, allowing PICs to be simulated in circuit.
* A schematic editor, which provides a rich real-time feedback of the
simulation.
* A flowchart editor, allowing PIC programs to be constructed visually.
* MicroBASIC; a BASIC-like compiler for PICs, written as a companion program
to KTechlab.
* An embedded Kate part, which provides a powerful editor for PIC programs.
* Integrated assembler and disassembler via gpasm and gpdasm.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh [AT] fedoraproject DOT org> - 0.3.69-10.20081031svn - added sdcc as Requires Sat, 01 Nov 2008 GMT - Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh [AT] fedoraproject DOT org> - 0.3.69-9.20081031svn - fixed microcontrollers support - fixed Bug 469126 - ktechlab quits when attempting to add a component to a schematic Thu, 17 Jul 2008 GMT - Kevin Kofler <Kevin@tigcc.ticalc.org> - 0.3.69-8 - fix gcc42 patch to actually apply (remove hunk already applied in 0.3.69) - adapt Debian g++ 4.3 patch by Georges Khaznadar ...
Last month, when the National Center for Open Source and Education announced this year's FOSS and K-12 Education Awards, three of the five awards were given for software designed for the Linux Terminal Service Project (LTSP). Two were given to Eric Harrison and Paul Nelson, the founders of the K12LTSP distribution (now called K-12 Linux). The third was given to Robert Arkiletian, the developer of an administration application called Fl_TeacherTool that is designed specifically for K12LTSP. The award was only the latest acclaim for Fl_TeacherTool, which has a small but dedicated group of users in the classroom. Ironically, though, the award comes at a time when the tiny project faces significant challenges if it is to survive.
Backing up data can be difficult, especially when you only want to copy files that changed since the last backup. It can be even more troublesome when you have to remember to start the process manually,or you have to delete old backups to make room for new ones. Because of these difficulties, some people decide not to back up data at all, and feel the pain when they accidentally delete the wrong file or their system crashes. TimeVault is a backup utility for Ubuntu that addresses these problems.
cluster - Red Hat Cluster
Red Hat Cluster
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> - 2.99.12-1 - new upstream release. Fix several security related issues. Mon, 20 Oct 2008 GMT - Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> - 2.99.11-1 - new upstream release. - drop obsoleted patches. - include very important gfs1 bug fix. - include fix for fence_egenera (CVE-2008-4192). Wed, 08 Oct 2008 GMT - Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> - 2.99.10-6 - cman init: add fix from upstream for cman_tool wrong path. ...
cluster - Red Hat Cluster
Red Hat Cluster
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> - 2.99.12-1 - new upstream release. Fix several security related issues. Mon, 20 Oct 2008 GMT - Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> - 2.99.11-1 - new upstream release. - drop obsoleted patches. - include very important gfs1 bug fix. - include fix for fence_egenera (CVE-2008-4192). Wed, 08 Oct 2008 GMT - Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> - 2.99.10-6 - cman init: add fix from upstream for cman_tool wrong path. ...
sectool - A security audit system and intrusion detection system
sectool is a security tool that can be used both as a security audit
and intrusion detection system. It consists of set of tests, library
and command line interface tool. Tests are sorted into groups and security
levels. Admins can run certain tests, groups or whole security levels.
The library and the tools are implemented in python and tests are
language independent.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - 0.9.1-3 - fix getValueFromH() (#469368) - fix GUI: set REFRESH, DEBUG, LEVEL Thu, 23 Oct 2008 GMT - Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - 0.9.1-2 - add missing requirement (468033) - fix deps of cron test (468033) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 GMT - Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - 0.9.1-1 - upgrade, bugfix release ...
sectool - A security audit system and intrusion detection system
sectool is a security tool that can be used both as a security audit
and intrusion detection system. It consists of set of tests, library
and command line interface tool. Tests are sorted into groups and security
levels. Admins can run certain tests, groups or whole security levels.
The library and the tools are implemented in python and tests are
language independent.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - 0.9.1-3 - fix getValueFromH() (#469368) - fix GUI: set REFRESH, DEBUG, LEVEL Thu, 23 Oct 2008 GMT - Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - 0.9.1-2 - add missing requirement (468033) - fix deps of cron test (468033) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 GMT - Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> - 0.9.1-1 - upgrade, bugfix release ...
enscript - A plain ASCII to PostScript converter.
GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's Enscript
program. Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript(TM) and spools
generated PostScript output to the specified printer or saves it to a
file. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and
includes many options for customizing printouts.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 1.6.4-11 - fixed various buffer overflows (CVE-2008-3863, CVE-2008-4306) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 GMT - Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 1.6.4-10 - updated patches due rpm 4.6 - enscript -w is handled well (#457719) - mkafmmap -V is handled well (#457720) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 GMT - Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.4-9 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3 ...
enscript - A plain ASCII to PostScript converter.
GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's Enscript
program. Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript(TM) and spools
generated PostScript output to the specified printer or saves it to a
file. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and
includes many options for customizing printouts.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 1.6.4-11 - fixed various buffer overflows (CVE-2008-3863, CVE-2008-4306) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 GMT - Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 1.6.4-10 - updated patches due rpm 4.6 - enscript -w is handled well (#457719) - mkafmmap -V is handled well (#457720) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 GMT - Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.4-9 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3 ...
groff - A document formatting system
Groff is a document formatting system. Groff takes standard text and
formatting commands as input and produces formatted output. The
created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer.
Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size,
bold type, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and
more.
Groff can also be used to format man pages. If you are going to use
groff with the X Window System, you will also need to install the
groff-gxditview package.
Change Log:
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 GMT - Robert Scheck <robert@fedoraproject.org> - 1.18.1.14-16
- Fixed wrong symlinking of man pages into %{_bindir} after simplifying
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 GMT - Stepan Kasal <skasal@redhat.com> - 1.18.1.14-15
- Replace groff-1.18-nohtml.patch by a code in spec file
- fix groff-1.18-gzip.patch to apply cleanly
- simplify the code for symlinking in %install
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 GMT - Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 1.18.1.4-14
- 175459 warning goes on stderr
...
groff - A document formatting system
Groff is a document formatting system. Groff takes standard text and
formatting commands as input and produces formatted output. The
created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer.
Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size,
bold type, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and
more.
Groff can also be used to format man pages. If you are going to use
groff with the X Window System, you will also need to install the
groff-gxditview package.
Change Log:
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 GMT - Robert Scheck <robert@fedoraproject.org> - 1.18.1.14-16
- Fixed wrong symlinking of man pages into %{_bindir} after simplifying
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 GMT - Stepan Kasal <skasal@redhat.com> - 1.18.1.14-15
- Replace groff-1.18-nohtml.patch by a code in spec file
- fix groff-1.18-gzip.patch to apply cleanly
- simplify the code for symlinking in %install
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 GMT - Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 1.18.1.4-14
- 175459 warning goes on stderr
...
coreutils - The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 6.12-17 - Requires: ncurses (#469277) Tue, 21 Oct 2008 GMT - Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 6.12-16 - make possible to disable capability in ls due to performance impact when not cached(#467508) - do not patch generated manpages - generate them at build time - do not mistakenly display -g and -G runuser option in su --help output Mon, 13 Oct 2008 GMT - Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 6.12-15 - fix several date issues(e.g. countable dayshifts, ignoring some cases of relative offset, locales conversions...) - clarify ls exit statuses documentation (#446294) ...
coreutils - The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 6.12-17 - Requires: ncurses (#469277) Tue, 21 Oct 2008 GMT - Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 6.12-16 - make possible to disable capability in ls due to performance impact when not cached(#467508) - do not patch generated manpages - generate them at build time - do not mistakenly display -g and -G runuser option in su --help output Mon, 13 Oct 2008 GMT - Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 6.12-15 - fix several date issues(e.g. countable dayshifts, ignoring some cases of relative offset, locales conversions...) - clarify ls exit statuses documentation (#446294) ...
Ever wondered what takes your Linux box so long to boot up? You can see for certain with the Bootchart package. Bootchart logs the entire startup process and produces a clean, graphical representation of its results suitable for everything from troubleshooting to good old-fashioned bragging rights.
gwave - GPLed Analog Waveform Viewing Environment
Gwave is a waveform viewer, intended originaly for displaying the output
of analog simulators such as spice, but also useful for other purposes.
Gwave can read tabluar ascii files in addition to the specialized output
files from Spice3, NGSpice, and Hspice. It displays the data as 2-D plots,
and allows for scrolling, zooming, and measuring the waveforms.
Install gwave if you need 2-D interactive display of analog waveforms or
other tabluar data.
gwave is listed among Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) packages.
Change Log:
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 GMT - Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh [AT] fedoraproject DOT org> - 2-10.20070514snap - rebuild due to segmentation fault - F10 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 GMT - Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh [AT] fedoraproject DOT org&