A yum update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-228
2005-06-13
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : yum
Version : 2.2.1
Release : 0.fc3
Summary : RPM installer/updater
Description :
Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded automatically prompting the user as necessary.
Fedora Core 4 has been released:
Fedora Core 4 is the latest version of the free and popular Fedora Core platform with a number of unique features and significant improvements over previous versions.
The Fedora Documentation Project is very proud to announce the availability of the first Installation Guide for Fedora Core from the Fedora Project:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/Many thanks to the author/editor combo who took this guide from just a general outline through to a complete, truly-open source document.
This guide is specifically for Fedora Core 4 and x86 hardware. Our intention is to follow-up with a version for Fedora Core 3.
If you are interested in the documentation project, such as providing assistance to making the Installation Guide cover x86_64 and PPC architectures, here is where to start:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
A tcpdump security update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-406
2005-06-09
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : tcpdump
Version : 3.8.2
Release : 9.FC3
Summary : A network traffic monitoring tool.
Description :
Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria.
Install tcpdump if you need a program to monitor network traffic.
A mikmod security update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-404
2005-06-09
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : mikmod
Version : 3.1.6
Release : 31.FC3
Summary : A MOD music file player.
Description :
MikMod is one of the best and most well known MOD music file players for UNIX-like systems. This particular distribution is intended to compile fairly painlessly in a Linux environment. MikMod uses the OSS /dev/dsp driver including all recent kernels for output, and will also write .wav files. Supported file formats include MOD, STM, S3M, MTM, XM, ULT, and IT. The player uses ncurses for console output and supports transparent loading from gzip/pkzip/zoo archives and the loading/saving of playlists.
Install the mikmod package if you need a MOD music file player.
The company creates the Fedora Foundation to encourage further outside development of its free Fedora software.
Read more
New netpbm packages are available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-401
2005-06-01
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : netpbm
Version : 10.27
Release : 4.FC3
Summary : A library for handling different graphics file formats.
Description :
The netpbm package contains a library of functions which support programs for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm (portable bitmaps), .pgm (portable graymaps), .pnm (portable anymaps), .ppm (portable pixmaps) and others.
An updated system-config-bind package has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-398
2005-05-27
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : system-config-bind
Version : 4.0.0
Release : 16
Summary : The Red Hat BIND DNS Configuration Tool.
Description :
The system-config-bind package provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to configure the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Domain Name System (DNS) server, "named", with a set of python modules.
Users new to BIND configuration can use this tool to quickly set up a working DNS server.
An updated system-config-netboot package has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-397
2005-05-27
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : system-config-netboot
Version : 0.1.16
Release : 1_FC3
Summary : system-config-netboot is an network booting/install configuration utility
Description :
system-config-netboot is a utility which allows you to configure diskless environments and network installations.
An announcement from Warren Togami:
Really Linux published a basic guide to Dial-up Fedora & SuSe
An ImageMagick security update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-395
2005-05-26
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : ImageMagick
Version : 6.2.2.0
Release : 2.fc3
Summary : An X application for displaying and manipulating images.
Description :
ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed work in the original format or a different one. ImageMagick also includes command line programs for creating animated or transparent .gifs, creating composite images, creating thumbnail images, and more.
ImageMagick is one of your choices if you need a program to manipulate and dis play images. If you want to develop your own applications which use ImageMagick code or APIs, you need to install ImageMagick-devel as well.
A texinfo update is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-370
2005-05-24
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : texinfo
Version : 4.8
Release : 2.1
Summary : Tools needed to create Texinfo format documentation files.
Description :
Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation.
Install texinfo if you want a documentation system for producing both online and print documentation from the same source file and/or if you are going to write documentation for the GNU Project.
A sudo update is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-394
2005-05-24
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : sudo
Version : 1.6.7p5
Release : 30.2
Summary : Allows restricted root access for specified users.
Description :
Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features include: the ability to restrict what commands a user may run on a per-host basis, copious logging of each command (providing a clear audit trail of who did what), a configurable timeout of the sudo command, and the ability to use the same configuration file (sudoers) on many different machines.
A netpbm update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-391
2005-05-24
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : netpbm
Version : 10.27
Release : 3.FC3
Summary : A library for handling different graphics file formats.
Description :
The netpbm package contains a library of functions which support programs for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm (portable bitmaps), .pgm (portable graymaps), .pnm (portable anymaps), .ppm (portable pixmaps) and others.
New kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 packages are available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-392
2005-05-23
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.11
Release : 1.27_FC3
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.
An openssl096b update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-390
2005-05-23
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : openssl096b
Version : 0.9.6b
Release : 21.1
Summary : The OpenSSL toolkit.
Description :
The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols.
An openssl update has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-389
2005-05-23
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : openssl
Version : 0.9.7a
Release : 42.1
Summary : The OpenSSL toolkit.
Description :
The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols.
A dmraid update is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-383
2005-05-23
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : dmraid
Version : 1.0.0.rc8
Release : FC3_2
Summary : dmraid (Device-mapper RAID tool and library)
Description :
DMRAID supports RAID device discovery, RAID set activation and display of properties for ATARAID on Linux >= 2.4 using device-mapper.
A gail update is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-380
2005-05-19
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : gail
Version : 1.8.0
Release : 3.fc3
Summary : Accessibility implementation for GTK+ and GNOME libraries
Description :
GAIL implements the abstract interfaces found in ATK for GTK+ and GNOME libraries, enabling accessibility technologies such as at-spi to access those GUIs.
