PC request fulfilled
by Ian Young
No more calls please, we have a lender. Ian Stewart has kindly offered
a box on loan.
7 years
Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out
by Peter Reutemann
"The Linux Mint blog today announced the full release of Linux Mint 15
'Olivia.' Here are the release notes and a list of new features. As
before, it's available with either MATE or Cinnamon as a desktop
environment. The included version of MATE has been upgrade to 1.6,
which saw many old and deprecated packages replaced with newer
technologies. Cinnamon has gone to 1.8, which improved the file
manager, added support for 'desklets' (essentially desktop widgets),
and completed the transition away from Gnome Control Center to
Cinnamon's own settings panel. Other new features of Linux Mint 15
include improved login screen applications (one of which is an HTML
greeter that supports HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and WebGL), a tool
developed from the ground up to manage software sources in Mint, and a
vastly improved driver manager. The project's website sums it up
simply: 'Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start
of the project.'"
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/05/29/1749205/linux-mint-15-olivia-is-out
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years
loaner PC please
by Ian Young
Hello all,
Just wondering whether anybody has to hand a going PC with IDE and
SATA I could borrow for a relative's use for a week or so? He is
computer savvy and equipped with live CDs for the mission which
involves checking and blanking sundry hard drives. Alas, I appear to
have gone into a kind of computer Bermuda Triangle where machines that
were working when last run mysteriously pass away, and the couple I
had meeting requirements appear to have become scrap metal. Anybody?
Or perhaps alternatively a working motherboard w/cpu no longer
required.
~ Ian Y
7 years
Drupal.org User Accounts Compromised
by Peter Reutemann
"The Drupal.org team released a bulletin this evening notifying users
of a breach in their infrastructure. From the bulletin: 'The
Drupal.org Security Team and Infrastructure Team has discovered
unauthorized access to account information on Drupal.org and
groups.drupal.org. This access was accomplished via third-party
software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was
not the result of a vulnerability within Drupal itself. This notice
applies specifically to user account data stored on Drupal.org and
groups.drupal.org, and not to sites running Drupal generally.
Information exposed includes usernames, email addresses, and country
information, as well as hashed passwords... All Drupal.org passwords
are both hashed and salted, although some older passwords on some
subsites were not salted.' Users are encouraged to update their
Drupal.org passwords and the passwords of any accounts that could be
linked via the compromised information."
-- source: http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/29/2237230/drupalorg-user-accounts-com...
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years
Live Linux distribution shows off Wayland
by Peter Reutemann
"A Linux distribution that uses Wayland's reference compositor Weston
as the default for handling its graphical user interface has been
released by a developer who is only known by his screen name,
"nerdopolis". Icons in the top menu bar allow users to start a
terminal and Qt 5's demo browser, both of which run as native Wayland
software components. Other icons start programs that are designed for
X11 and use XWayland to run under the Wayland compositor; among these
applications is KDE's Kicker start menu, which can be launched via the
icon at the left side of the top bar."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1872444
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years
Vastly Improved Raspberry Pi Performance With Wayland
by Peter Reutemann
"While Wayland/Weston 1.1 brought support to the Raspberry Pi merely a
month ago, work has recently been done to bring true
hardware-accelerated compositing capabilities to the RPi's graphics
stack using Weston. The Raspberry Pi foundation has made an
announcement about the work that has been done with Collabora to make
this happen. X.org/Wayland developer Daniel Stone has written a blog
post about this, including a video demonstrating the improved
reactivity and performance. Developer Pekka Paalanen also provided
additional technical details about the implementation."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/27/227242
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years
