Fedora 15 Beta Available: Feedback Wanted
Announced today on the Fedora announce mailing list, the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) beta is now available for download.
The Fedora 15 beta release is still a development release and users are cautioned that bugs may still exist; however, the Fedora community welcomes anyone who would like to help make this release of Fedora as solid as possible by downloading, testing, and providing feedback. Users who wish to help test the beta release are encouraged to read the list of known bugs and asked to file any new bugs they may encounter.
New features such as the GNOME 3 desktop, LibreOfffice, BoxGrinder, and more can be seen in the Fedora 15 beta.
More information on how users can help test the beta release can be found on the Fedora website.
Issue 171/2015
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Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
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Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
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Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
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Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
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TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
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Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.
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Poll: Vote for the Best Open Source Software for Photographers
The Linux New Media Awards have honored the most significant products, projects, people, and organizations for open source/Linux every year since 2000.
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Debian Gets Forked
Legendary Uber-distro splits over the systemd controversy.
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Linux Mint Project Releases Mint 17.1
New LTS version offers many refinements for the Cinnamon and Mate desktops and significant improvement under the hood.
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CeBIT Open Source Forum Call for Papers
One of CeBIT’s most successful forums returns in 2015.