Linux Kernel 2.6.14 Released!
“Kernel 2.6.14 is out, check it out.”
The changelog on this one is HUGE, definitely worth an upgrade! 
Archive for October, 2005
Nintendo Revolution Worldwide Launch – June 2006
“Following recent hints of a 2006 launch, technology and manufacturing partners have let it slip that Nintendo plans to launch the Revolution in June next year.
More surprising are plans to launch worldwide – within one month; “As of early October this year, we had agreed with all key partners that a global ship date of June 2006 was achievable” “
I knew Nintendo would launch the Revolution with a blast, but I never would have guessed that they might launch it worldwide at one time, if you think about it, that is indeed quite a task to do.
During his speech at E3 this year, Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata, said that from day one it would be possible to play one or two launch titles over the internet, and that title would be Smash Brothers. Personally, this is something I really look forward to because Super Smash Bros. Melee is one of my favourite games for the GameCubes, and with the very innovative Revolution controller that Nintendo has come up with, I think that a Smash Bros. game is gonna be a blast to play! 
Quake 4 released for Linux
“Quake 4 has been released only two days after the WINDOWZ version! And there’s is even a wiki on installation procedures. Great job ID!”
I just love those guys at id software!
If you liked Quake III, go buy Quake IV, a friend of mine says it’s good, he’s been playing it for a few days… so I’m on my way to the store to get it!
Seriously, if you’re a Linux user, buy the games that are available in Linux versions and call the corporation up and say a “thank you” to them for making a Linux version. And that includes you BSD people too, because pretty much all the games available on Linux today, can run on BSD as well through the Linux binary compatibility layer.
Ubuntu/Kubuntu Linux 5.10 (Breezy Badger) Released!
After months of alpha and beta testing Ubuntu, and Kubuntu, 5.10 (Breezy Badger) has been released!!
Ubuntu 5.10 contains the very latest GNOME 2.12, OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta 2, a very very simple “Add/Remove programs” system, and also an improved version of Xorg 6.8.2 with wider hardware support.
Kubuntu 5.10 contains the latest KDE 3.4.3, OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta 2 with KDE intergration, and a brand new KDE apt package manager called Adept. This new one replaces Kynaptic, which kind of sucked big time. I’ve been playing a little bit with the RC1 LiveCD and I’m really pleased with this new KDE package manager.
If you are looking for a nice easy to use Debian-based Linux distribution, I highly recommend you taking a look at Ubuntu (GNOME) or Kubuntu (KDE).
OSdir has made quite a few screenshots of Ubuntu 5.10 available right here: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=469&slide=4
Ubuntu and Kubuntu can be downloaded at either ubuntulinux.org or kubuntu.org, there are LiveCDs of both available.
The Ubuntu Team are not quite done yet, they’ll be releasing Edubuntu very very soon, it might even show up later today, which is a version of Ubuntu optimized for use in a school or for other educational purposes.
Link: Ubuntu 5.10 Released
Nintendo’s Secret Plan!
“On October 03, 2005, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are gearing up for the next round of the ongoing console wars. Conventional wisdom says Nintendo is doomed……”
The N guys of Kyoto, might have a secret plan up their sleeves !
Hacking OpenSUSE
“When you’re done installing OpenSUSE 10.0, your desktop system is not
complete. You still need support for Java programs, MP3 audio files,
and browser plugins for Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer,
and Windows Media Video. You may also want to add support for playing
DVD videos on your computer. Here’s how to effectively make the open
source version of OpenSUSE 10.0 into SUSE Linux 10.0.”
Jem Matzan has written up a very very nice article on how to add the different plugins and codecs to SUSE Linux OSS 10.0, which enables support for Java programs, MP3 audio files, and browser plugins for Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Video playback.
If you’re new to Linux, or just have been taring your hair out while trying to get those freaking Windows Media Video files to play, you should definitely check this little article out.
Jem has made his brilliant article available under a Creative Commons license, which I strongly applaud and encourage anyone else to do. Since allows people to redistribute his article, I’ve added it into the “Articles” section of my blog, in case this is just what you needed, but I REALLY wanna stress that I did not write it, I simply mirrored it for your convenience.
SUSE Linux 10 Final Released!
After two months of public beta testing, and bug reporting, the final version of SUSE Linux 10 is finally available!
You can either download a version that has some proprietary plugins like Flash, RealPlayer and Java included, or you can get the OSS version which is purely open source. I also wanna mention that if you choose to get the OSS version and feel like you need stuff like Flash, you can always add it in, there are YaST repositories for doing that.
SUSE Linux 10 is available for standard x86 machines, AMD64/EM64T and PowerPC. It includes over 4000 software packages, to name a few:
KDE 3.4.2
GNOME 2.12
Linux Kernel 2.6.13
GCC 4.0
glibc 2.3.4
X.Org 6.8.2
XEN 3 for Virtualization
Apache, CUPS, Samba, NFS, DHCP, DNS
Linphone 1.0*, Twinkle, kcall
BitTorrent, Ktorrent
Firefox 1.1, Konqueror
Evolution, Kontact, Thunderbird
Kopete, Gaim
OpenOffice.org 2.0
iFolder 3
GIMP 2.2, ARCAD, Inkscape 0.42
F-spot, gwenview, gthumb
Banshee, CD/DVD burner
Wifi Support, Bluetooth support
AppArmor lite 1.2, snort
SuSE Firewall, Virus scanner, Spam filter
Tellico, PostgreSQL 8.0, YaST module to setup PostgreSQL, MySQL 4.1.13, Derby, sqlite
Mono 1.1.8, KDevelop 3.2, Eclipse 3.1.4
I plan to upgrade to SUSE Linux 10 later today, I have to finish the download of the images. Just as a final note, if you hate bringing down five ISOs, you can also do a network install where you boot the installation from a single CD and it just downloads the packages that you want during the installation, the reason I don’t do that is because I like having the ISOs sitting around in case a friend wants SUSE Linux
You can download SUSE Linux 10 at opensuse.org
Happy Hacking!
Computerworld Singapore – Migrating to OpenOffice.org 90 per cent cheaper than to Microsoft Office 12
The industry’s two major office suites, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, will soon be releasing new versions. Recent research into these versions by large government departments indicates that for many sites, it is now 10 times cheaper to migrate to the new OpenOffice.org 2.0 than upgrading to Microsoft Office 12.
Cybersource, an open source services firm, believes that we have reached a tipping-point of great opportunity for OpenOffice.org and for the IT industry in general.
Thanks to excellent new features and through Microsoft’s poor decisions, OpenOffice.org has suddenly become the de-facto next-generation office suite to move to,” said Cybersource chief executive officer, Con Zymaris. “This is because OpenOffice.org is now more familiar to existing Microsoft Office users than Microsoft Office 12 is.”
What a surprise… not, with the current pricing of Micro$oft’s Office 2003, I don’t think they plan to lower the price for the next version of Office.
Meanwhile OpenOffice is available at openoffice.org for absolutely nothing.
For Your Consideration
Imagine a school purchasing 32 new computers after Office 12 are released, if they don’t go with Micro$oft for the office suite, they save about 200 dollars per machine, t hat’s a hell of money that could be spent on other things. Now let’s say that the school goes one step further and kicks Windows out, that saves them about 80 dollars per machine, include M$ Office in that and you have a saving of 280 dollars per new machine, and say the school purchased 32 new machines, that makes for a total saving of 8960 dollars per machine.
Quake IV will be released for Linux
“Timothee ‘TTimo’ Besset from id Software confirmed officially that the next sequel of the Quake series, Quake IV will be released for the Linux platform.
The dedicated server will be released around the same time as the Windows version. The linux client, might be delayed a week or two. Quake4 will use the Simple Direct Media Layer (SDL) backend for input and OpenGL on Linux.”
I only have one thing to say: I LOVE YOU ID SOFTWARE!!!
I’ve always loved the Quake series, it’s been one of my favourite PC games for years and years. I really enjoy playing Quake 3 at LAN parties, and what I really love about it, is that it has a native Linux version, and I’m very very happy to see that the long awaited Quake 4 will have that as well.
By the way, to you FreeBSD users out there, I think you guys are invited to this party as well!
