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Debian developer Thiemo Seufer died.

Thiemo Seufer, a Debian Developer died on last December 26th in a tragic accident. Seufer made important contributions to the Debian Project. Thiemo Seufer is dead but his contributions will continue through the years in Debian and derivated distributions.

WAHIL.net joins to the feelings of lossing a such important person, friend and Debian developer. Thiemo Seufer mantained several packages and was the main supporter of Debian’s MIPS port. Also, he supported the MIPS emulation of QEMU.

To honour his contributions to Debian, the project decided to dedicate the upcoming release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny to Thiemo.

The funeral service will be held on Monday January 5th 2009, 13:30 at the Dominikanerkirche in Bad Wimpfen. If you want to express your condolences please send mail to ths-condolence@linutronix.de . It will be passed on to Thiemo’s family.

Taken from Debian mourns the loss of Thiemo Seufer

Thiemo Seufer died but we will honour his work by using Debian, by supporting the projects that he builded and contributed to.

Posted on January 2009 in News

Microsoft confirms that any Internet Explorer version is insecure

Microsoft confirms that every Internet Explorer version is insecure because they have a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution (Wed 17th, 2008).

This security hole in Internet Explorer can allow crackers to stole passwords and control the system. By the meantime, Microsoft calls every Internet Explorer user to browse using protected mode.

This vulnerability on Internet Explorer can be highly exploited by crackers to gain access to login credentials used in banks or any other form login.

The such mentioned “protected mode” works only in Windows Vista. Windows user’s using previous versions (Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 2000) must configured their Internet Explorer to use “High Security” to browse.

Microsoft just published an Internet Explorer patch to fix this vulnerability on its browser.

The best solution to browse securely on Internet is to use Mozilla Firefox and to get rid of Internet Explorer.

Posted on December 2008 in News

openSUSE release and download

Download openSUSE to use the openSUSE release 11.1 released today December 18th, 2008.

All we have been waiting to download openSUSE 11.1 and it is finally here. Download the openSUSE 11.1 ISO’s available for 32 bit, 64 bit and PowerPC. In addition, you can perform a network install if you prefer. There openSUSE 11.1 LiveCD (runs directly from your optical drive) and one installation DVD. It’s possible to download openSUSE via standard protocols (http or ftp) or using the distributed network bittorrent.

If you feel confortable reading Spanish please use the manual “Grabación de imágenes ISO.” to learn how to burn the ISO image files. This manual is available here. We hope to release very soon an English version of this manual.

Check out openSUSE 11.1 screenshots here.

openSUSE 11.1 screenshot

Posted on December 2008 in Distributions, News

openSUSE release countdown

There are 3 days for openSUSE 11.1 to be released. December 17th, 2008 will be a day of joy because the GNU/Linux community is going to meet the 11.1 release of openSUSE. Why is it so important? Let’s take a review of the openSUSE project.

The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides free and easy access to openSUSE. Here you can find and join a community of users and developers, who all have the same goal in mind - to create and distribute the world’s most usable Linux. openSUSE also provides the base for Novell’s award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products.

openSUSE

The last paragraph, taken from the openSUSE project page summarizes the spirit of the openSUSE GNU/Linux distribution. If you read carefully, notice that openSUSE is intended to be user friendly, so, it is thought to be used for as much as possible people.

Personally, I am very satisfied with openSUSE. It gives me the opportunity to use both GNOME and KDE desktops. Actually, there are many distributions wich includes support just for GNOME or to KDE. However, only a few GNU/Linux distributions keep support for both desktop environments on the same time, in the same release. Moreover, when using openSUSE you have the possibility to install new software just with a click or using the highly advanced package manager YUM.

openSUSE is the free alternative to SUSE Linux Enterprise, which is advocate to use in corporate environments running servers and certified applications. openSUSE is widely used to test software that will be used later in SUSE Linux Enterprise. By doing it, all the users gain more, because, free users received the highly advanced openSUSE distribution (openSUSE 11.1, right now) and Novell ensures that they provide the best quality software to be used in critical corporate environments.

To check out the openSUSE 11.1 screenshots, please visit this link.

Posted on December 2008 in Distributions, News

Download Slackware 12.2 and read the release news

Download Slackware 12.2 here and read the release news, so, you will discover why Slackware leads the GNU/Linux stability.

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This new Slackware release includes the 2.6.27.7 Linux kernel, XFCE 4.4.3, KDE 3.5.10, the Xorg 1.4.2 X server (with many driver, library, and application updates), support for non-usb-storage digital cameras through libgphoto2, pm-utils (tools to support suspend and hibernate through HAL) which allows the system administrator to add users to the cdrom and plugdev groups. Then they will be able to use items
such as USB flash sticks, USB cameras that appear like USB storage, portable hard drives, CD and DVD media, MP3 players, and more, all without requiring sudo, the mount or umount command. Just plug and play. In addition Slackware 12.2 offers a simplified wired and wireless networking with wicd in /extra, package upgrade management with slackpkg moved into the main tree.

It is very important to highlight that this release brings the system up-to-date without compromising stability or compatibility with the 12.x series.

Slackware is the most stable GNU/Linux distribution. It is highly used to run high availability websites, databases and other network services. However, it can be easily configured to run as a “home environment”, so, you can use it to chat, browse Internet, manage budget and so on.

Slackware has become more user friendly, so, you’ll find that is easy to set up it.

If you really want to appreciate the Slackware release, please buy a t-shirt, mug or even the official Slackware CD’s or DVD’s in the Slackware store. If you prefer, order your Slackware DVD or CD’s using our contact form and we’ll let you know the price and shipping cost. For every Slackware package sold by WAHIL.net we’ll make a donation to Slackware.

Get the complete release report, here.

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Posted on December 2008 in News