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Gnuzilla21.Pdf Sadržaj GNUzilla ± septembar 2006 GNUzilla Magazin za popularizaciju Slobodnog softvera, GNU, Uvodna reč...............................................................3 Linux i *BSD operativnih sistema Vesti........................................................................4 Distribucije Kolegijum: Saradnici: Distroflash................................................................6 Ivan Jelić Slađan Milošević Distrowatch..............................................................9 Red Hat 5.2............................................................10 Ivan Čukić Rade Jovičić Marko Milenović Mladen Mirilović Petar Živanić Softver Aleksandar Urošević DPEncoder.............................................................13 Xara Xtreme...........................................................16 Tehnička obrada i dizajn: Lektura: Download...............................................................19 Ivan Čukić Maja Tomić Vim 7.o..................................................................22 Sloboda Priređivač: GNU Free Documentation License...........................25 Mreža za Slobodan Softver ± FSN http://www.fsnserbia.org URL adresa: http://www.gnuzilla.info Kontakt adresa: [email protected] IRC kontakt: #gnuzilla na irc.freenode.org Copyright © 2006 Free Software Network ± FSN. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". GNUzilla avgust 2006 www.gnuzilla.info 2 Piše: Ivan Čukić Akcija! UMESTO STANDARDNOG UVODA, I PONOVNOG IZVINJENJA ZBOG KAŠNJENJA I OVOG BROJA GNUZILLE (KOJI JE I OVOG PUTA IZAZVAN TEŠKIM EMOTIVNIM STRESOVIMA KOJE ČLANOVI EKIPE PROŽIVLJAVAJU), OVOG PUTA ĆU VAS POZVATI DA SE PRIKLJUČITE NOVOJ AKCIJI ZA POPULARIZACIJU SLOBODNOG SOFTVERA. Reč je o akciji nazvanoj ¹Ubuntu ShareITª koja je pokrenuta zahvaljujući problemima sa kojima se susreću članovi Ubuntu zajednice u Srbiji prilikom naručivanja besplatnih CD-ova preko Ubuntu ShipIT programa. Problemi nastaju zbog carine i oštrijih carinskih propisa koji, bar po rečima samih carinika, zahtevaju plaćanje dažbina i za besplatne stvari koje dobijamo iz inostranstva. Suština akcije je stvaranje mreže korisnika koji mogu stajati na raspolaganju što većem broju zainteresovanih za nabavku Ubuntu diskova. Za sada čvorovi mreže postoje u svim većim gradovima Srbije. Za detaljnije informacije svratite na: http://www.ubuntu-cs.org/ (lekt. I.Č.) Piše i crta: Javier Malonda (escomposlinux.org) Prevod: Mladen Mirilović GNUzilla avgust 2006 www.gnuzilla.info 3 Piše: Slađan Milošević Vesti Pokrenut SpreadGNOME.org Debian Etch Installer Beta 3 Sve veći napor da se Tim koji radi na promoviše GNU/Linux razvoju Debian desktop, doveo je do Installera sa kreiranja i pokretanja ponosom je objavio internet stranice dostupnosti treće SpreadGNOME.org koja po redu beta verzije je pokrenuta sa ciljem da njihovog novog pomogne širenje korisnika instalera za nadolazeću verziju Debiana GNU/Linux grafičkog okruženja GNOME. Ova veb stranica 4.0 pod nazivom Etch. Primetna su određena napravljena je kao mesto gde bi se razmenjivale unapređena samog instalera, kao i određena ideje, obavljala promocija, kao i pružala pomoć poboljšanja. novopečenom korisnicima. Korisne adrese: Korsine adrese: http://www.debian.org/ http://www.spreadgnome.org/ Prva razvojna snapshot verzija Novi KDE start meni u OpenSUSE 10.2 nadolazećeg KDE 4.0 Nadolazeća nova verzija ¹Krashª je ime prve Novellovog OpenSUSE razvojne snapshot verzije Linuxa koja će da nosi novog KDE 4 grafičkog oznaku 10.2 imaće novi okruženja. Ova prva verzija start meni integrisan u je isključivo namenjena za KDE grafičkom okruženju. programere koji žele da Sadržaće u sebi određene isprobaju novu KDE4 opcije kao što su favoriti, tehnologiju ili za one koji brze pretrage i pretraga žele da krenu sa razvojom aplikacija. Ovaj novi start aplikacija zasnivanih na KDE4. Ova verzija nije meni kreirali su korisnici i namenjena za obične korisnike i nema garancije da članovi KDE SUSE tima. će da radi stabilno, a i samo ime ove verzije, Korisne adrese: ¹Krashª, govori sve. Ova prva verzija donosi portove http://www.opensuse.org/ kdelibs, kdebase i kdepimlibs za Qt 4, koje omogućavaju programerima brdo novih mogućnosti. Ukoliko želite da isprobate nove mogućnosti, GNUzilla avgust 2006 www.gnuzilla.info 4 preuzimanje je moguće sa ove interenet stranice: Novi NVIDIA i ATI drajveri http://kde.org/info/3.80.1.php Korisne adrese: http://www.kde.org/ http://kde.org/info/3.80.1.php Linux proslavio svoj 15 rođendan! Oba proizvođača grafičkih kartica trude se da Prošlo je 15 godina od ostanu u samom toku zbivanja na Linux sceni, tako kada se po prvi put pojavio da nam od obe obe kuće stiži nove verzije drajvera operativni sistem Linux. za Linux. NVIDIA je objavila novu verziju svojih Tačnije 25. avgusta 1991. drajvera za Linux pod oznakom 1.0-8774. Novina godine, Linus Benedikt koju donosi ova nova verzije jeste podrška za novi Torvalds je objavio svetu X.Org 7.1, a što se tiče ATI-ja on nam donosi nove postojanje novog drajvere koji nose oznaku 8.28.8 i jedna od novina operativnog sistema koji je kod ovih drajvera jeste ta što od sada ovi drajveri sam kreirao, a evo i tog kombinuju zajednički instaler za x86/x86-64 originalnog teksta: procesore što je neminovno dovelo do uvećanje veličine drajvera na čak 53 MB. Pored ove novine "Hello everybody out there using minix ± koja sigurno neće obradovati korisnike Linux-a sa I©m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, modemskom vezom tu je još i pairmode opcija won©t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) aticonf-a koja omogućava podešavanje statusa AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is monitora i sekundarnog displeja čak i nakon starting to get ready. I©d like any feedback on things restartovanja. people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system Korisne adrese: (due to practical reasons) among other things). http://www.nvidia.com/ http://www.ati.com/ I©ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I©ll get something practical within a few months, and I©d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won©t promise I©ll implement them :-) Linus ([email protected]) PS. Yes - it©s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that©s all I have :-(." GNUzilla avgust 2006 www.gnuzilla.info 5 Piše: Slađan Milošević Distroflash MidnightBSD Ubuntu Lite Sa porastom popularnosti Ubuntu Linuxa, sve je veći broj i njenih derivata. Pored već naširoko poznatih izdanja Kubuntu, EdUbuntu, Xubuntu, nUbuntu dobili smo još jednog novog člana, a to je MidnightBSD prestavlja novi projekat stvaranja Ubuntu Lite. BSD operativnog sistema lakog za korišćenje sa Osnovni cilj ovog novog projekta nije samo da se grafičkim instalerom, alatom za lako podešavanje, napravi još jedna mala Linux distribucija kao što su održavanje i administraciju sistema i naravno kao i Puppy Linux ili Damn Small Linux, već da pored većina novopečenih BSD distribucija zasnovan je na svoje male veličine, postane i desktop operativni FreeBSD-u. sistem za slabije mašine, koji će moći da koriste ljudi koji imaju veoma malo znanja, kako iz oblasti Osnovni ciljevi MidnightBSD-a: Linuxa, tako i uopšte iz oblasti poznavanja OS-a. • Stvaranje desktop okruženja koje će da bude lako za korišćenje, Dakle ovaj OS trebalo bi da bude: • Stvaranje novog window manadžera napravljenog • Veoma prost i lak operativni sistem, koji će moći tako da može da se koristi veoma lako. da koriste ljudi sa minimalnim znanjem iz oblasti • Integracija GNUstepa u sistem, ali održavanje Linuxa i OS-a, BSD licence. • Mogućnost korišćenja na veoma slabim mašinama • Kernel kao i većina softvera na ovom sistemu (Pentium I sa 32MB RAM i 1GB HDD) mora da bude pod BSD licencom. • Mogućnost da zadovolji prosečnog korisnika kada • Ubacivanje i korišćenje novih tehnologija sa je reč o programima koje će da sadrži, kao i o drugih BSD projekata koji bi zainteresovali samoj funkcionalnosti sistema. desktop korisnike kao što je OpenBSD opennntp, Korisna adresa: openssh i wireless. http://www.ubuntulite.org/ • Kreiranje sopstvenog port sistema zasnovanog na FreeBSD-u ports itd. Detaljnije pogledajte na zvaničnoj internet prezentaciji ove distribucije, koja je još uvek u izradi: www.midnightbsd.org Korisne adrese: http://www.midnightbsd.org/ GNUzilla avgust 2006 www.gnuzilla.info 6 Phantomix Live CD Nadolazeće realizacije distribucija Phantomix je distribucija Live CD Pogledajte i u ovom broju pregled nadolazećih Linux, koja je zasnovana na realizacija distribucija Linux/BSD i najave novih Knoppix Linux-u. Ova distribucija verzija: je posebno konfigurisana kako bi Septembar: koristila Tor i Privoxy softver za * 01-09-2006: Mandriva Linux 2007 RC1 anonimno povezivanje i surfovanje po internetu. Od * 04-09-2006: NetBSD 3.1 RC1 paketa donosi grafičko okruženje KDE u verziji * 08-09-2006: Mandriva Linux 2007 RC2 3.4.1, kernel je 2.6.12 a tu su još neke aplikacije: * 07-09-2006: openSUSE 10.2 Alpha 4 * 09-09-2006: Foresight Linux 1.0 * 11-09-2006: Fedora Core 6 Test3 * 14-09-2006:
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