A kdemultimedia update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-439
2005-06-17
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : kdemultimedia
Version : 3.4.1
Release : 0.fc4.1
Summary : Multimedia applications for the K Desktop Environment (KDE).
Description :
The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a GUI desktop for the X Window System. The kdemultimedia package contains multimedia applications for KDE, including:
kmid, a midi player
kmidi, a midi-to-wav player/converter
kmix, an audio mixer
arts, additional functionality for the aRts sound system
kaboodle, a media player
noatun, a media player
krec, a recording tool
kscd, an Audio-CD player
kaudiocreator, a graphical frontend for audio file creation
A kdebase security update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-438
2005-06-17
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : kdebase
Version : 3.4.1
Release : 0.fc4.1
Summary : K Desktop Environment - core files
Description :
Core applications for the K Desktop Environment. Included are: kdm (replacement for xdm), kwin (window manager), konqueror (filemanager, web browser, ftp client, ...), konsole (xterm replacement), kpanel (application starter and desktop pager), kaudio (audio server), kdehelp (viewer for kde help files, info and man pages), kthememgr (system for managing alternate theme packages) plus other KDE components (kcheckpass, kikbd, kscreensaver, kcontrol, kfind, kfontmanager, kmenuedit).
A kdelibs security update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-437
2005-06-17
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : kdelibs
Version : 3.4.1
Release : 0.fc4.1
Summary : K Desktop Environment - Libraries
Description :
Libraries for the K Desktop Environment:
KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface), kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio (Input/Output, networking), kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook), kimgio (image manipulation).
A arts update is available for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-436
2005-06-17
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : arts
Version : 1.4.1
Release : 0.fc4.1
Summary : aRts (analog realtime synthesizer) - the KDE sound system
Description :
arts (analog real-time synthesizer) is the sound system of KDE 3.
The principle of arts is to create/process sound using small modules
which do certain tasks. These may be create a waveform (oscillators), play samples, filter data, add signals, perform effects like delay/flanger/chorus, or
output the data to the soundcard.
By connecting all those small modules together, you can perform complex tasks like simulating a mixer, generating an instrument or things like playing a wave file with some effects.
Updated ruby packages are available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-425
2005-06-17
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : ruby
Version : 1.8.2
Release : 1.fc3.2
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.
New ruby packages are available for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-426
2005-06-17
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : ruby
Version : 1.8.2
Release : 7.fc4.1
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 gaim security update is available for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-411
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : gaim
Version : 1.3.1
Release : 0.fc4
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.
A gaim security update is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-410
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : gaim
Version : 1.3.1
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.
A spamassassin update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-428
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : spamassassin
Version : 3.0.4
Release : 1.fc4
Summary : Spam filter for email which can be invoked from mail
delivery agents.
Description :
SpamAssassin provides you with a way to reduce if not completely eliminate Unsolicited Commercial Email (SPAM) from your incoming email. It can be invoked by a MDA such as sendmail or postfix, or can be called from a procmail script, .forward file, etc. It uses a genetic-algorithm evolved scoring system to identify messages which look spammy, then adds headers to the message so they can be filtered by the user's mail reading software. This distribution includes the spamd/spamc components which create a server that considerably speeds processing of mail.
To enable spamassassin, if you are receiving mail locally, simply add
this line to your ~/.procmailrc:
INCLUDERC=/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-default.rc
To filter spam for all users, add that line to /etc/procmailrc (creating if necessary).
A spamassassin security update is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-427
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : spamassassin
Version : 3.0.4
Release : 1.fc3
Summary : Spam filter for email which can be invoked from mail
delivery agents.
Description :
SpamAssassin provides you with a way to reduce if not completely eliminate Unsolicited Commercial Email (SPAM) from your incoming email. It can be invoked by a MDA such as sendmail or postfix, or can be called from a procmail script, .forward file, etc. It uses a genetic-algorithm evolved scoring system to identify messages which look spammy, then adds headers to the message so they can be filtered by the user's mail reading software. This distribution includes the spamd/spamc components which create a server that considerably speeds processing of mail.
To enable spamassassin, if you are receiving mail locally, simply add
this line to your ~/.procmailrc:
INCLUDERC=/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-default.rc
To filter spam for all users, add that line to /etc/procmailrc (creating if necessary).
An updated selinux-policy-targeted package has been released for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-413
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : selinux-policy-targeted
Version : 1.17.30
Release : 3.9
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 checkpolicy update is available for Fedora Core 3
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-417
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : checkpolicy
Version : 1.17.5
Release : 1.2
Summary : SELinux policy compiler
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 checkpolicy, the SELinux policy compiler. Only required for building policies.
Updated system-config-securitylevel packages are available for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-421
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : system-config-securitylevel
Version : 1.5.8.1
Release : 1
Summary : A graphical interface for modifying the system security level
Description :
system-config-securitylevel is a graphical user interface for setting basic firewall rules.
Updated parted packages are available for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-420
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : parted
Version : 1.6.22
Release : 3.FC4
Summary : The GNU disk partition manipulation program.
Description :
The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
A tcpdump update has been released for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-407
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : tcpdump
Version : 3.8.2
Release : 13.FC4
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 is available for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-405
2005-06-16
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : mikmod
Version : 3.1.6
Release : 35.FC4
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.
Updated elink packages are available for Fedora Core 4
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-409
2005-06-15
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : elinks
Version : 0.10.3
Release : 3.1
Summary : A text-mode Web browser.
Description :
Links is a text-based Web browser. Links does not display any images, but it does support frames, tables and most other HTML tags. Links' advantage over graphical browsers is its speed--Links starts and exits quickly and swiftly displays Web pages.
An announcement from Warren Togami:
Same announcement as earlier, except a location was chosen at Taper Hall of Humanities room 119.
Fedora Talk at USC
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
June 16th, 2005 8:00-10:00PM
Location: THH 119
Cost: Free, as in Water
Warren will explain the Fedora Project, do Q&A, and hand out a limited amount of schwag.
http://linux.usc.edu/events.php?eventid=30
More details here including driving directions and Campus Map
Please RSVP to fedora-usc@togami.com if you intend on coming.
Thanks,
Warren Togami
Phoronix published screenshots of Fedora Core 4
OSDir has posted a screenshot tour of Fedora Core 4
