A xpdf security update has been released for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-348
2004-10-21
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : xpdf
Version : 3.00
Release : 3.4
Summary : A PDF file viewer for the X Window System.
Description :
Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses standard X fonts.
A tzdata update has been released for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-336
2004-10-19
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : tzdata
Version : 2004e
Release : 1.fc2
Summary : Timezone data
Description :
This package contains data files with rules for various timezones around the world.
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Update Information:
Previous tzdata-2004e-1.fc2 announcement from 2004-10-12 had wrong md5sums (before signing).
Updated gtk2 packages are available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-342
2004-10-18
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : gtk2
Version : 2.4.13
Release : 2.1
Summary : The GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creating GUIs for
X.
Description :
GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites.
Updated glib2 packages are available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-341
2004-10-18
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : glib2
Version : 2.4.7
Release : 1.1
Summary : A library of handy utility functions.
Description :
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis
for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and anobject system.
This package provides version 2 of GLib.
An updated gimp package has been released for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-345
2004-10-15
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : gimp
Version : 2.0.5
Release : 0.fc2.3
Summary : The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Description :
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other graphics for webpages. The GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. The GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.
The GIMP includes a scripting facility, but many of the included scripts rely on fonts that we cannot distribute. The GIMP FTP site has a package of fonts that you can install by yourself, which includes all the fonts needed to run the included scripts. Some of the fonts have unusual licensing requirements; all the licenses are documented in the package. Get ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/freefonts-0.10.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/sharefonts-0.10.tar.gz if you are so inclined. Alternatively, choose fonts which exist on your system before running the scripts.
A ruby security update has been released for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-264
2004-10-15
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : ruby
Version : 1.8.1
Release : 6
Summary : An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language
Description :
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
A new w3m package has been released for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-329
2004-10-15
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : w3m
Version : 0.5.1
Release : 3.1
Summary : A pager with Web browsing abilities.
Description :
The w3m program is a pager (or text file viewer) that can also be used as a text-mode Web browser. W3m features include the following: when reading an HTML document, you can follow links and view images using an external image viewer; its internet message mode determines the type of document from the header; if the Content-Type field of the document is text/html, the document is displayed as an HTML document; you can change a URL description like 'http://hogege.net' in plain text into a link to that URL. If you want to display the inline images on w3m, you need to install w3m-img package as well.
Updated libtiff packages has been released for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-334
2004-10-14
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : libtiff
Version : 3.5.7
Release : 20.2
Summary : A library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image
files.
Description :
The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the .tif extension and they are often quite large.
The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF format image files.
A new gimp 2 package has been released for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-344
2004-10-14
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : gimp
Version : 2.0.5
Release : 0.fc2.2
Summary : The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Description :
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other graphics for webpages. The GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. The GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.
The GIMP includes a scripting facility, but many of the included scripts rely on fonts that we cannot distribute. The GIMP FTP site has a package of fonts that you can install by yourself, which includes all the fonts needed to run the included scripts. Some of the fonts have unusual licensing requirements; all the licenses are documented in the package. Get ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/freefonts-0.10.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/sharefonts-0.10.tar.gz if you are so inclined. Alternatively, choose fonts which exist on your system before running the scripts.
A new k3b package has been released for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-340
2004-10-14
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : k3b
Version : 0.11.14
Release : 0.FC2.2
Summary : CD/DVD burning application for KDE
Description :
K3b provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks. While the experienced user can take influence in all steps of the burning process the beginner may find comfort in the automatic settings and the reasonable k3b defaults which allow a quick start.
A new system-config-users package is available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-343
2004-10-13
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : system-config-users
Version : 1.2.25
Release : 0.fc2.1
Summary : A graphical interface for administering users and groups
Description :
system-config-users is a graphical utility for administrating users and groups. It depends on the libuser library.
A squid security update is available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-338
2004-10-13
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : squid
Version : 2.5.STABLE5
Release : 4.fc2.2
Summary : The Squid proxy caching server.
Description :
Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests.
Squid consists of a main server program squid, a Domain Name System lookup program (dnsserver), a program for retrieving FTP data (ftpget), and some management and client tools.
A new libuser packages is available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-339
2004-10-13
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : libuser
Version : 0.52.5
Release : 0.FC2.1
Summary : A user and group account administration library.
Description :
The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable back-ends to interface to its data sources.
Sample applications modeled after those included with the shadow password suite are included.
An updated tzdata package is available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-336
2004-10-12
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : tzdata
Version : 2004e
Release : 1.fc2
Summary : Timezone data
Description :
This package contains data files with rules for various timezones around the world.
OSDir.com has posted a screenshot slideshow of Fedora Core 3
Updated gimp 2 packages are available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-328
2004-10-11
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : gimp
Version : 2.0.5
Release : 0.fc2.1
Summary : The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Description :
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other graphics for webpages. The GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. The GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.
The GIMP includes a scripting facility, but many of the included scripts rely on fonts that we cannot distribute. The GIMP FTP site has a package of fonts that you can install by yourself, which includes all the fonts needed to run the included scripts. Some of the fonts have unusual licensing requirements; all the licenses are documented in the package. Get ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/freefonts-0.10.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/sharefonts-0.10.tar.gz if you are so inclined. Alternatively, choose fonts which exist on your system before running the scripts.
An updated pcmcia-cs package is available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-296
2004-10-11
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : pcmcia-cs
Version : 3.2.7
Release : 1.8.2.1
Summary : Utilities for handling PCMCIA devices
Description :
User-level daemon and utilities for using PCMCIA devices on Linux.
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Update Information:
This update fixes a few problems in the PCMCIA init script.
Fedora Core 3 test 3 is now available. This is the last planned test release before the final release
Notable in this test release:
- All translations committed by the string freeze should be built. Please verify the accuracy and completeness of translations in your local language of choice.
- Evolution has been updated to the released 2.0.1 version
- Final GNOME 2.8 is included
- the x86-64 DVD should now fit on a normal single-sided DVD
- updates and fixes to the udev stack
- the usual assorted bug fixes and updates
Note that due to the size fix for the x86-64 DVD, the source RPMS are no longer included on the DVD images.
A cyrus-sasl update is available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-331
2004-10-08
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : cyrus-sasl
Version : 2.1.18
Release : 2.2
Summary : The Cyrus SASL library.
Description :
The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.
Updated pango packages are available for Fedora Core 2
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-299
2004-10-07
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : pango
Version : 1.4.1
Release : 1
Summary : System for layout and rendering of internationalized text.
Description :
Pango is a system for layout and rendering of internationalized text.
