Re: 19-JUN-08 Eau Claire Linux User Group Meeting

[Todd Welch]

Good to see the FireFox story as the top link!  Who downloaded FireFox 3.0 yesterday or this morning?  I downloaded it on four of our computers.


Todd

2008/6/17 ec lug <ec_...@yahoo.com>:

EC_LUG - Eau Claire Linux users group is an informal group of Linux and open source software enthusiasts. For more info please visit our web site or join us in IRC channel #eclug. You can buy EC_LUG apparel and other items here. Last week audio file can be downloaded here.

Mozilla prepares for Firefox 3 release and plans for 3.1.
Mozilla has announced that June 17 is the official date of the much-anticipated Firefox 3 release. Developers and open source software enthusiasts are planning parties all over the world to celebrate the occasion. more... and Get ready for Firefox 3.0.

Opera 9.5 Unleashed.
After months of public inactivity, Opera has been racing to release the latest version of its desktop browser. No guesses why. For the first time since 2003, Mozilla's FireFox looks like a modern browser, and not a skinnable memory heap testing tool. more... and Opera 9.5 gets mad at malware and Opera 9.5 Takes Aim at Browser Market Share.

Banshee 1.0 Released!.
It is my immense pleasure to formally announce the release of Banshee 1.0. After nearly eight months of vigorous, non-stop work, it's here - and we couldn't be happier! more... and Banshee 1.0 Final and Banshee 1.0 Released!

Wine 1.0 Released.
The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road! more...

Tasty Tomato firmware for routers.
Breathe new functionality into your router with Tomato third-party firmware for popular models of Broadcom-based routers, including popular models manufactured by Linksys. Most consumers and users don't know the code for Linksys firmware is entirely open source and based on Linux. That allows developers to create customized firmware that extends the functionality of the router through a plethora of new features. Tomato provides a robust set of advanced features that outperform the default Linksys firmware more...

Controlling your camera from your computer with gPhoto.
Both of the big powerhouses in the digital SLR camera market -- Canon and Nikon -- make software with which you can control your camera from your PC through an attached USB cable. It is a nice tool for situations when manually triggering the shutter might cause shake (such as long exposures), or for automating multiple shots at timed intervals. more...

Dimdim Open Source is a bright-bright solution for Web conferencing.
Dimdim Web conferencing software, which competes with services like WebEx and GoToMeeting, provides almost all the important features you need for conducting a conference over the Web. It's available in three flavors -- a feature-limited but usable Web-based free version, a no-holds-barred fee-based Enterprise version, and an almost Enterprise clone Open Source Community Edition that you can host in your network. more...

Misc.
Field Guide to Firefox 3.
Photographs By Lukas Novak
More details on Dell's summer-bound netbook.
Terminator runs multiple GNOME terminals in the same window.
Processing RAW files in Linux.
First look: Songbird 0.6 open source media player.
Red Hat Makes History With Patent Settlement - Compatible with GPLv3 and more....
Great Taste, Less Filling NetworkManager 0.7.
Announcing the Django Software Foundation.
Meld - a Visual Diff Tool for GNOME.
42 of the Best Commercial Linux Games.
Linux Disk Utilities.

How To Tips.
How To Prevent a package from being updated in Debian.
How To Automating backups using rsync, bash and cron.
How To Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) LAMP Server Setup.
How To Configure Evolution to Work with Yahoo! Mail.
How To Open Source Forum Shootout - phpBB.
How To Install Flock Browser v1.2 on Ubuntu 8.04.
How To Keeping your SSH connections alive with autossh.
How To Use VNC? Encrypt It Via SSH.
How To Aenigma Fonts for Ubuntu.
How To Webalizer Apache web server log file analysis Tool.
How To CuteFlow Document circulation and workflow system Setup in Ubuntu.

See you next Thursday 7 P.M. at 420 Cafe, 420 Washington Ave, Eau Claire, WI.

EC_LUG

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