Announcing the Kolab Server 2.3.3

Yesterday I released the Kolab Groupware Server Community OpenPKG Edition 2.3.3. It not only fixes some annoying bugs but also includes some security updates. Security Updates apache: Security update to 2.2.20 fixing CVE-2011-3192 imapd: Security update to to 2.3.17 fixing CVE-2011-3208 openssl: Update to 1.0.0e fixing CVE-2011-3207 and CVE-2011-3210 php / apache-php: Security update fixing …

Looking back at FrOSCon 2011

Last weekend the 6th FrOSCon took place in St Augustin. Once again it was a nice event, but this time we tried something new: A Fedora Activity Day (FAD) as part of the conference. I arrived at St Augustin on Friday around 7 p.m.. A lot of people were already there and it was nice …

Meet you at the Desktop Summit

I initially planed to go to the Desktop Summit on Thursday because of our Kolab track on Friday, but then I changed my mind because of the talks and the Lightweight Desktop Summit, the annual meeting of the LXDE Foundation. I arrived at Berlin at 3 pm and was at the venue at 4 o …

Linux New Media to ship thousands of Fedora DVDs

F15 Multiboot DVD with GNOME and KDE As some of you might know I started writing for the German Linux Magazin in April. I am now in the lucky position to know quite a few people at Linux New Media and one of them asked me if I had an idea for the DVD they …

Video thumbnails in Thunar

As you might know thumbnails in Thunar are generated with tumbler. For obvious reasons the tumbler package in Fedora cannot include the tumbler-ffmpeg plugin. By popular demand I now rolled an add-on package called tumbler-freeworld. When installed, this is what it looks like: If you are a packager at RPM Fusion, please review the package. …

GNOME developer quote of the day

I am no longer using GNOME but Xfce and this has nothing to do with GNOME Shell. I already switched a long time ago. But as the (co-)maintainer of several terminals in Fedora, I wondered how to enable users to easily switch their default terminal emulator in GNOME 3. In the past users could just …

Announcing the Kolab Server 2.3.2

I’m sorry it took so long, but good things take a while. I am relieved the release is out because now that the problems with FreeBusy are solved, the 2.3 series offer the same functionality as 2.2.4  – plus much more of course. New features The update to postfix 2.8 brings a lot of new …