Also available for PCLinuxOS is the 2.6.33 kernel family, but currently through Software Repositories.

Note: If you already have PCLinuxOS 2010, then you can easily update using the Synaptic Software Manager

Feel free to download the iso.

Release Date: 05-05-10
ISO Size: 692 MB
MD5Sum: d2f8c4068a0d07c3fc4a1dcc252310da

Related posts:

1. KDE SC 4.4.5 Released
2. KDE 4.5 Beta 2 Released
3. KDE Software Compilation 4.4.3 – Released

Recently the PCLinuxOS Magazine staff released a new magazine, which will be used to keep the PCLinuxOS Community “in the know”. Best of all the magazine is for the community by the community.

The January 2010 Episode of the Magazine includes:

And the pdf version can be downloaded here.

Or if you choose you can view the HTML format

I have to admit, I’ve kind of let PCLinuxOS Slide off my Radar, but I think it’s time to pick it back up and write a little bit on it.

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Here’s an excerpt from KDE’s release notes for KDE 4.4 RC1:

To install on openSUSE, we’ll use the openSUSE KDE Factory Build Service.

To add the repository do:

I also recommend adding the community repository by doinig:

If you wish, you can set both repositories to refresh automatically by doing:

Now you can update your installation by doing:

You’ll now have KDE 4.4 RC1, and best of all, if you read my repost of kde repositories explainedyou’ll nove that this repository will have the final KDE 4.4 when it’s released.

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No Effect
Box Switch
Present Windows
Cover Switch
Flip Switch

I found my favorite to be “Cover Switch” for some unknown reason.

Here’s a screenshot of each one (Minus the No Effect):

These are configured in systemsettings under “Effects for window switching as shown below.

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Powered by Blogilo

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However, when I first started listening to the music I realized that my tracks were playing continuously and not randomly. So I went to the menu’s to change this setting (this is where I had previously changed it). But to my surprise there was nothing in any of the menu’s.

So what gave? This surprised me in a major way.

So I poked around a bit and it’s now been moved solely to the playlist module and seems to have been removed from the menu.

With that said this is a pre-release version, and the Track Progression feature may be re-added to the menu’s, but I haven’t added a feature request to ask for this.

With that said everything else with the every advancing Amarok has been quite pleasant.

Here’s a screenshot for those that have their doubts.

(Just the default theme, with slim toolbar and changed playlist groupings).

I’ll talk more about features / fixes in 2.2.2 shortly.

I’ll talk more about installing it on openSUSE 11.2 in one of the following blog postings.

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I’ll be writing a little bit about blogilo, which I have used since it’s inception and find it quite compelling.

Plasma for Netbook is a great step forward, however I do not have a netbook nor the funds to purchase one to give it a shot, therefor I will not be able to comment on that much.

I’ll be talking about some more updates and give more insight of changes .. like the ones done to Krunner (nothing super exciting, but hey.. change is cool).

After the next release (RC) I’ll post on how to upgrade to it, as I don’t like recommending to a large number of people to upgrade to the latest version. Not to mention there is a pretty big regression with QT which keeps global shortcuts from working correctly with KWin.

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The feature I will talk about today is Dolpin and Terminal Integration. First I must admit, I found this feature on accident as usually if I wanted to open a shell while in a directory to do certain tasks, I typically just did a “Shift+F4″, which opened a terminal of my current location. However, one time to my enjoyment I guess I didn’t press the “Shift” key, and went directly to “F4″. This brought up a new panel rightfully named Terminal.

I resized the terminal and was overjoyed to see that I now had a terminal within my dolphin window. How freaking cool was that.

Here’s some screenshots of where you’d configure and how the GUI looks with it integrated.

Now the integration goes as step further. As you change directories and do certain tasks like change directories, your terminal will also change directories and your current working directory will be the same ) ..

For the people who haven’t seen this feature, I hope you enjoy it.

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Today Google has annonced that Google Chrome is now in Beta for Linux thanks to the continued work and testing from the Chromium Project.

You can see a funny comic about the release which was inspired by xkcd.com here:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html

You can download the .deb and .rpm packages from:
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=en&brand=CHFK

And the main google chrome page can be found here:
http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en&platform=linux&brand=CHFK

Here is their official statement via e-mail:

Great job to all those who tested and helped Chrome become what it has, with emphasis on the developers and the continued maintainers of Chromium for Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu.

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There is a bug which has been reported here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216857

To where your Kwin Global Shortcuts will not work when you log on, you can regain the functionality by running:

killall kwin;kwin

Please stand by for an update.

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I have to admit when I first thought or heard of this feature in KDE 4.4, I wasn’t really excited. I thought.. now why the hell would I want that.

Then I started using it.. and found quite a few usage scenario’s for it.

The first one, I realized right after I launched my VirtualBox. I had always hated how VirtualBox had a separate window for each VM and / or the main VirtualBox console, however, now with the Windows Grouping this is no longer an issue.

Here’s a picture of the Virtual Box window open with 2 tabs.

Here’s a close look at the tabs only

After using it with Virtual Box, I realized that there may be other very simple usages of this, which include having 2 browsers open for website compatibility (I primarily use Opera, which some sites are not compatible with, and to combat the second window being open, I grouped my Opera and Firefox).

I’m sure there are many other usages of the tabbed windows, that I’m overlooking. I’ve only used it for about 45 minutes and found those 2 cases. .

I’d be interested in knowing what usability you think it will help you with.

I will later write about adding KDE 4.4 onto openSUSE 11.2, probably when KDE 4.4 hits RC1.

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The major new improvements are: (from nokia’s website)

Here’s a little video of the Hand Gestures:

Do you think QT will be the cross platform IDE of choice in the future? I believe it’s development speed, and improvements could catapult it to being the leading platform in Mobile Devices, and could possibly form Windows to be usable.

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arstechnica.com recently discussed Ubuntu’s decision to remove GIMP (a GNU Image Manipulation Program that is popular among the Linux world) on the next release of Ubuntu slated for April 2010, and dubbed 10.04.

Many people think it’s not the right thing to do, but if you think long and hard about the decision, it’s quite simple to realize, that it’s a niche product for a niche market and its removal from a default installation doesn’t seem like that bad of an idea, since it could be simply installed using aptitude, or apt-get.

This will allow the Ubuntu Installation to add more applications that “normal” users require, and would allow them to continue to stay on a CD and not require the move to a DVD.

My Question is, do you think more distributions will go the route of removing the overly complex GIMP, to try to get people to not be intimidated and leaving the usage of gimp, to those who really want to use it, or do you think that move will in some way hamper and slow the development, or acceptance of such a great tool..

Your comments and thoughts are welcomed

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Release Highlights:
Added support for OpenGL 3.2.
Updated the NVIDIA X driver to allow, on GeForce 8 or greater GPUs, more modes to validate on digital display devices whose EDIDs report very constrained HorizSync or VertRefresh ranges.
Fixed a randomly occurring X server crash caused by the PixmapCache option.
Increased the allowed amount of overscan compensation from 100 to 200.
On GPUs with VDPAU feature set B, VDPAU’s handling of some corrupted or incorrectly formatted H.264 and MPEG streams has been improved.
Fixed a memory allocation problem with pre-GeForce 8 GPUs that caused GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap clients (e.g., Compiz, KDE 4) to display incorrect contents.
Added support for X.Org xserver 1.6.99.901 (also known as 1.7.0 RC1). Add a new OverscanCompensation NV-CONTROL attribute, available on GeForce 8 and higher. This option specifies the amount of overscan compensation to apply to the current mode. It is measured in raster pixels, i.e. pixels as specified in the current mode’s backend timings.
Added GLX support for OpenGL 3.2 context profiles through the extension
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile.
Added support for IgnoreEDIDChecksum X configuration option, which can be used to force the X driver to accept the EDID of a display device even when the checksum is invalid. Please see the README IgnoreEDIDChecksum description for a caution and details of use.
Added support for configuring the GPU’s fan speed; see the “Coolbits” X configuration option in the README.
Fixed a bug in VDPAU that could cause visible corruption near the bottom edge of the picture when decoding VC-1 simple/main profile clips whose heights are not exact multiples of 16 pixels, on GPUs with VDPAU feature set A.
On GPUs with VDPAU feature set C, VDPAU now supports decoding MPEG-4 Part 2, DivX 4, and DivX 5 video. The VDPAU API has been enhanced to expose this feature.
On GPUs with VDPAU feature set C, VDPAU now supports a higher quality video scaling algorithm. The VDPAU API has been enhanced to expose this feature.
Added code to reject screen modes based on available DisplayPort link bandwidth. Fixes display corruption caused by allowing high bandwidth modes on display devices that can’t handle them, such as certain DisplayPort-to-VGA adapters that only support 2 DisplayPort lanes.
Fixed an initialization problem on some mobile GPUs.
Worked around X.Org X server Bugzilla bug #22804. This bug allows X clients to send invalid XGetImage requests to the hardware, leading to screen corruption or hangs. This was most commonly triggered by running JDownloader in KDE 4.
Fixed a crash in nvidia-settings displaying GPU information when in Xinerama.

Get the full release info here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_190.42.html

You can get the x86 here
You can get the x86_64 here

I am going to install it in a few, and i’ll update post if I experience any issues.

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Release notes, changelogs, downloads, etc. are available at http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/

Features Added/Enhanced
Xserver build no longer needs to symlink to Mesa sources
MPX: Multi-Pointer X (PeterHutterer)
E-EDID support (AdamJackson)
Input device properties (PeterHutterer)
predictable pointer acceleration (SimonThum)
xorg-server 1.7.0
Add SELinux security module which uses XACE (EamonWalsh).
RandR 1.3 (KeithPackard)

Features Removed
X server libraries: cfb, afb, mfb/xf1bpp
X server support for obsolete/unused/broken/unmaintained extensions: AppGroup, EVI, MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD, TOG-CUP, XTrap, XFree86-Misc, XEvIE
X server command line flags: -co, -bestrefresh, -showunresolved
X server bundled utilties: xorgconfig, xorgcfg, ioport, kbd_mode
Unmaintained X server variants: Xgl, Xprt (moved to separate xprint git repo)

I haven’t given it a go yet.. but am planning to once 11.2 goes GM..

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But here’s what I had to do:

Add:
66.163.181.173 scs.msg.yahoo.com

into /etc/hosts

have fun, hope it helps someone

UPDATE

Also see the comment below from James, you can also upgrade to Pidgin 2.5.7 which fixes the issue.

You can upgrade using the following repository:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.1/ GNOME\ Community

sudo zypper mr -r GNOME\ Community

sudo zypper up -r GNOME\ Community

Thanks for the update James.. do you know what caused it at all?

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The Wine development release 1.1.23 is now available.

What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Support for registering MIME types with the Linux desktop.
– FBO mode is now the default for Direct3D.
– Support for COM proxy delegation.
– Improved support for the Mingw cross-compile.
– Proper fullscreen mode for the virtual desktop.
– Various bug fixes.

You can upgrade to the newest wine on openSUSE using the following repository:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.1/

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I personally use the browser for Mail (IMAP w/ GMAIL), RSS and ATOM feeds, IRC and Web Browsing. Although there are some room for improvement on future releases (a folders for RSS feeds, more distinct icons for contacts vs non contacts and bigger market share) overall it’s an A+ browser and blows the already superior 9.x out of the water.

Opera 10 has quite a few new features with a sleek new gui that will blow any browser your running right out of the water.

Here’s a quick list of some of the major new features:

You can find all the other features at http://www.opera.com/next

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KDE Community Ships Second Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

April 2nd, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of “Cano”, (a.k.a KDE 4.2.2), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Cano is a monthly update to KDE 4.2. It ships with desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, development tools and more. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.


The KDE 4.2 Desktop

KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.
Enhancements

As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. The most user-visible improvements are:
Stability fixes in KRunner – KRunner’s threaded search for results is now more robust and a possible deadlock condition has been fixed.
Performance enhancements in KMail – Synching email of cached IMAP accounts is now faster, a number of displaying changes makes reading emails smoother experience

Bugfixes, performance improvements and optimization in KHTML – Text rendering has been optimized, support for CSS selectors has further been improved
Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.2.2, you can browse the Subversion log. KDE 4.2.2 also ships a more complete set of translations.

As always this release has been pushed to the openSUSE KDE 4 Factory repository.

To set up this repository using zypper do:

sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1/ KDE 4 Factory

To upgrade the packages from this repository do:

sudo zypper up -t package -r KDE 4 Factory

To make this repository automaticlly update do:

sudo zypper mr -r KDE 4 Factory

Thanks and have fun

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The Wine development release 1.1.17 is now available.

What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Joystick support on Mac OS X.
– Implementation of iphlpapi on Solaris.
– A number of 64-bit improvements.
– Obsolete LinuxThreads support has been removed.
– Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows.
– Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.1.17.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.17.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

http://www.winehq.org/site/download

You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git
repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/site/git for details.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

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Bugs fixed in 1.1.17:

8011 SmartBarXP crashes if you add the Weather Channel pane
9027 No sound for rise of nations – all versions
9615 RPG Maker, Fritz9, Amazon Music Downloader: crash when clicking menu bar. (Screws up Adobe Photoshop CS4 menus, too.)
10831 Guild Wars: “Observe” menu does not display additional information about selected game
12143 Black halos surround NPCs in Fable
12690 Internet Explorer 7 is falling after start on unhandled exception.
14968 DrawPrim.c needs to handle more than 4 vertex shader prims causes crash in everquest and does not allow rendering
15007 The Lost Crown’s menu is no longer accessible in-game
15264 Audio broken under Solaris
15314 winhelp: transition to richedit breaks minigolf1997.hlp file
15616 winecfg does not show *.acm (or other non .dll) overrides, must be typed in manually
15707 winhttp: winhttp.ok test fails in OpenSolaris
15798 3D Game Studio text objects newline characters mistranslated
16023 FreeBSD (PC-BSD) fails to launch majority of applications, ‘Invalid address’
16838 ‘make install’ broken on BSD
16937 Invisible text in Autocad LT 97
17365 AutoCAD: Buttons on the bottom don’t change their graphical state if pressed/released
17384 Naval units in Civilization 4 are drawn incorrectly
17452 Lcms error crashes PowerPoint 2003
17485 Non-windows apps generate an inappropriate dialog
17511 Game pauses when pressing NumLock
17547 Powerpoint 2007: crashes when opening complex .pptx files.
17601 winhlp32: links ceased working
17627 winhlp32: clickable area out of sync with hyperlink text
17636 urlmon: protocol test fails with +heap enabled

As always openSUSE has them in their buildservice repository which can be found here

You can setup the repository using zypper by doing:

sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.1/ Wine

And upgrading to wine 1.1.17 by running:

sudo zypper up wine

Or installing wine with:

sudo zypper in wine

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This release features kernel 2.6.26.8.tex3, KDE 3.5.10, Open Office 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Ktorrent, Frostwire, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D and much more. We decided to use kde3-5-10 as our default desktop as we could not achieve a similar functionality from kde4. We will however offer kde4 as an alternative desktop environment available from the repository once we stabilize it. PCLinuxOS is an rpm based distribution utilizing apt-get with a Synaptic Software Manager frontend. In addition to the above PCLinuxOS comes with mklivecd GUI, a nice utility to build a custom live CD from your install. Install or remove what you want then remaster your own cd. Great for backups or to give to friends. PCLinuxOS is also known as as rolling release distribution. What that means is you install once and update it when new applications become available from our repository.

I hope to have a review within the next few days ..

Need to do something while I’m inbetween openSUSE releases (can’t wait for openSUSE 11.2 Alpha).

Ben

There is also a PCLinuxOS 2009.1 GNOME Version which can be found here

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