An update to the previous post:
http://www.freetechie.com/blog/major-ps3-outage-sony-playstation-3-psn-network-down/
Slim PS3’s are not affected by this outage thus making me believe it’s a local bug on PS3’s that are associated with Feb 28th 2010 (a Y2K like bug).
There is no update or ETA yet on the fix.
Again, confirmation that Slim and some old style PS3’s are not affected (the later bundled ones with different hardware would be [ continue reading... ]

Today I tried to get onto Call of Duty Mordern Warfare 2 and was unable to log onto PSN…
I checked out engadget.com and sure enough they are reporting the following:
Update (1): Affected models seem to be majority of the “Chunky” old style PS3’s. The PS3 slims seem to be functioning correctly thus making me believe it’s a local bug on PS3’s, similar [ continue reading... ]

eWEEK Labs’ Jason Brooks and Andrew Garcia discuss Novell’s latest community-oriented Linux OS, OpenSUSE 11.2.
From www.eweek.com:
You can watch the video here.

From the GNOME Developers Mailing List comes the immediate release of GNOME 2.29.91, which includes the latest GNOME Shell release:

From the Mailing List release:
GTK+ 2.19.6 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/2.19/
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/2.19/
md5 sums:
524021c965a0e1a4ebadd58c576926a5 gtk+-2.19.6.tar.bz2
1311c99903e4dd28bf42a352b05788db gtk+-2.19.6.tar.gz
sha1 sums:
0a42eeee67fe2f3022f39fdf1a2a3817e520c0ff gtk+-2.19.6.tar.bz2
0e1d0329f2aad4d7aa9fd127c9b393db79dc6746 gtk+-2.19.6.tar.gz
This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.20.
Notes:
* This is an unstable development release.
It has had only little testing and there are unfinished
features and plenty of bugs in this release. It should
 [ continue reading... ]

The KDE developers have announced the latest release of the KDE Software Compilation branch. The newest release code named “Caikaku” is the 4th major release under KDE4, and brings in 7293 bug fixes along with a wealth of new features, and application sets, including a new authentication framework.
Here’s some info from their release notes:
You can read about some of my earlier KDE blog [ continue reading... ]

The second release for Parisix 3.0, codenamed “Kev”. This release is an update of all the packages that have been put into the APT repositories since the 3.0 release.
If you don’t know much about Parsix Linux, you can find the following on their home page:
What’s Parsix GNU/Linux?
Parsix GNU/Linux is a live and installation CD derived from KANOTIX and based on Debian. It is a [ continue reading... ]

The X.org development team announced the immediate development release of X.org 7.4.902. Heres’ from the announcement:
The biggest thing to note is the opening comment that the code will most likely be the same for 7.5, which means 7.5 should be out within the next few weeks.

The Linux Mint Developers have released Linux Mine 8 KDE Edition which is based on Kubuntu 9.10.
It’s shipped with the Linux Kernel version 2.6.31, Xorg 7.4 and package with KDE 4.3.4 and Amarok 2.2.1.
Known Issues
Because of compatibility issues between wubi/mint4win and grub2, Linux Mint 8 comes without a Windows installer. The development team is working on the issue and new ISOs will be [ continue reading... ]

Here’s some information about Absolute Linux from their site (note they go through a ton of releases, since the do a release with application updates etc).
Here’s an excerpt from their site of what Absolute Linux is to them:
You can read about the latest release at their website
.You can downoad Absolute Linux 13.0.9 here

If you’re new to Fedora you’ll notice there are a few special cases with Fedora. #1, they do not ship any packages that are not within compliance with GPL and that means Sun Java.
In this tutorial I’ll show how you can install Sun Java (which can replace an openjdk installation).
Q: Why Would You Want Sun Java?
A: Well in my case there are some [ continue reading... ]

Wine HQ has released immediately Wine 1.1.38, which is considered to be a development release.
Here’s also a comprehensive list of fixes from the announcement:

Don’t follow the footsteps of Dorin Lucian Dehelean, 37, an employee of UGA. Ajc.com reported that Dorin, who was an IT Security Employee for the university was arrested Monday Feb. 1st for Criminal Extortion. His extortion plot was to get money from students in
exchange for keeping their computer violations covered up. He accused students of violating copyright laws while using university computer, where he’d then [ continue reading... ]

As I reported earlier the KDE development team opted to release a 3rd out of schedule release candidate for KDE 4.4. This release was initially to test some building issues they ran into in RC2, but the sneaky little developers in their RC3 release announcement note that there were enough fixes post RC2 to warrant RC3.
Here’s an excerpt from their release announcement:

Recently the openSUSE team announced that LXDE (Lightweight Desktop Environment) would be included as an option in the installer on openSUSE 11.3.
In the openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 Release, they tout LXDE as
You can find more about LXDE in general at http://lxde.org.
Being as impatient as I am, I decided to give LXDE a shot prior to waiting for openSUSE 11.3. The LXDE team makes [ continue reading... ]