A new OpenOffice.org package is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-185
2005-02-28
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : openoffice.org
Version : 1.1.3
Release : 6.5.0.fc3
Summary : OpenOffice.org comprehensive office suite.
Description :
OpenOffice.org is an Open Source, community-developed, multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, formula editor and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft Office.
Usage: Simply type "ooffice" to run OpenOffice.org or select the requested component (Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, etc.) from your desktop menu. The ooffice wrapper script will install a few files in the user's home, if necessary.
The OpenOffice.org team hopes you enjoy working with OpenOffice.org!
Note: Non-.vor templates covered under the GPL license.
A new tcsh package has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-173
2005-02-26
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : tcsh
Version : 6.13
Release : 10.FC3.1
Summary : An enhanced version of csh, the C shell.
Description :
Tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of csh, the C shell. Tcsh is a command language interpreter which can be used both as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Tcsh includes a command line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C language like syntax.
A firefox update is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-182
2005-02-26
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : firefox
Version : 1.0.1
Release : 1.3.1
Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
Description :
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
DistroWatch is reporting that Fedora Core 4 has been postponed again. The current release schedule:
14. MarchFedora Core 4 Test 1
30. MarchString change deadline (data provided)
11. AprilFedora Core 4 Test 2, string build freeze (builds completed)
27. AprilTranslation deadline (data provided), Fedora Core 4 Test 3 devel freeze
9. MayFedora Core 4 Test 3, translation build freeze (builds completed) ... Continual freeze, only critical bugs fixed until release
23.MayAbsolute devel freeze
6. JuneRelease open, announced
A new selinux-policy-targeted package has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-150
2005-02-26
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : selinux-policy-targeted
Version : 1.17.30
Release : 2.83
Summary : SELinux targeted policy configuration
Description :
Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux
kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement
, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.
This package contains the SELinux example policy configuration along with the Flask configuration information and the application configuration files.
A new radvd package is available for Fedora Core 3
A pvm update is available for Fedora Core 3
A lam update is available for Fedora Core 3
A vixie-cron update is available for Fedora Core 3
An at update is available for Fedora Core 3:
A dhcp update is available for Fedora Core 3:
A gnucash update is available for Fedora Core 3:
A bind update is available for Fedora Core 3:
A gaim 1.1.4 update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-172
2005-02-25
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : gaim
Version : 1.1.4
Release : 0.FC3
Summary : A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client
Description :
Gaim allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just add an account using the account editor.
Gaim supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique features, such as perl scripting and C plugins.
Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, or Yahoo! Inc. or other messaging service providers.
New gaim 1.1.4 packages are available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-171
2005-02-25
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : gaim
Version : 1.1.4
Release : 0.FC2
Summary : A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client
Description :
Gaim allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just add an account using the account editor.
Gaim supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique features, such as perl scripting and C plugins.
Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, or Yahoo! Inc. or other messaging service providers.
The follwing packages have been dropped from the Fedora Core 4 development tree to meet the 4 CD-Roms limit:
abiword, ash, asp2php, aumix, balsa, bzflag, cdp, comsat, dietlibc, diskcheck, exim, freeciv, ggv, gnuchess, gnumeric, gpdf, grip, gv, kdetoys, koffice, lapack, lesstif, libesmtp, libtool-libs13, libxfce4mcs, libxfce4util, libxfcegui4, Maelstrom, mew-xemacs, octave, openssl096, openssl096b, pan, pccts, Regina, sylpheed, THE, tuxracer, wl-xemacs, xboard, xemacs, xemacs-sumo, xfce4-iconbox, xfce4-panel, xfce4-systray, xfce-mcs-manager, xfce-mcs-plugins, xfce-utils, xfdesktop, xffm, xffm-icons, xfprint, xfwm4, xfwm4-themes, xloadimage, xosview, xsnow, and ytalk.
Fedora Core 4 Test 1 is expected for this Monday
An updated gimp-help packages has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-165
2005-02-24
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : gimp-help
Version : 2
Release : 0.1.0.7.0.fc3.1
Summary : Help files for the GIMP.
Description :
The GIMP User Manual is a newly written User Manual for the GIMP.
With the open-source Fedora project, Red Hat is aiming to rebuild its links to the open source community and regain that community's input for its innovation process. The developers and users now contributing to the Fedora project -- which a Red Hat executive credited with providing the starting point for the company's latest Enterprise Linux release -- had their first-ever meeting at a conference on Friday in Boston.
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A squid security update is avialable for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-154
2005-02-22
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : squid
Version : 2.5.STABLE8
Release : 1.FC3.1
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 squid security update is available
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-153
2005-02-22
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : squid
Version : 2.5.STABLE8
Release : 1.FC2.1
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.
