GoblinX Linux News

GoblinX Newsletter 207 Published

grobsch — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:20:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 207 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week is about how to correct mount points without using fstab.

GoblinX Newsletter 206 Published

grobsch — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:20:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 206 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to display kernel logged messages.

The G:Mini 3.0 is Released

grobsch — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:40:00 +0000

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the release of the new stable g:Mini distribution. The g:Mini 3.0 is released. The g:Mini formerly known as ‘GoblinX Mini Edition‘ is the son of GoblinX and contains only XFCE as the windows manager and GTK/GTK2 based applications. The edition is ideal for those users whose want to remaster the distribution.

GoblinX Newsletter 205 Published

grobsch — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:30:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 205 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to display kernel logged messages.

GoblinX Newsletter 204 Published

grobsch — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:30:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 204 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to use some Alsa utilities.

GoblinX Newsletter 203 Published

grobsch — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:30:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 203 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to use some Alsa utilities.

GoblinX Newsletter 202 Published

grobsch — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:00:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 202 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to install and run Adobe AIR on GoblinX distributions.

GoblinX Newsletter 201 Published

grobsch — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:00:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 201 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week is about how to use Alltray to dock applications.

GoblinX Newsletter 200 Published

grobsch — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:40:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 200 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week is about MPlayer and video output.

Released G:Standard 3.0.beta01

grobsch — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the first released of the next G:Standard. The G:Standard 3.0.beta01 (2.9.90) is Released. The G:Standard is the original edition first released in the end of October 2004. In the past it was called as GoblinX and later as GoblinX Standard. In order to dismiss doubt about the releases and follow the same criteria used for all dsitributions (editions) of the GoblinX Project it became simply G:Standard.

GoblinX Newsletter 199 Published

grobsch — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:25:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 199 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week is about Di, a disk utility.

GoblinX Newsletter 198 Published

grobsch — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:45:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 198 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week is about Xbindkeys.

The G:Noblin 3.0.rc01 (2.9.90) is Released

grobsch — Sun, 27 Apr 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the second released of the G:Noblin. The G:Noblin 3.0.rc01 (2.9.90) is Released. The G:Noblin is the GoblinX Gnome and GTK/GTK2 based distribution. The edition is ideal for those users whose are fan of the Gnome desktop environment. This distribution is an old desire of GoblinX users.

GoblinX Newsletter 197 Published

grobsch — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:30:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 197 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week is about how to add actions to Thunar Filemanager.

GoblinX Newsletter 196 Published

grobsch — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:30:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 196 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week is about how to correct mount points without using fstab.

GoblinX Newsletter 195 Published

grobsch — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:57:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 195 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week is about how to add actions to Thunar.

GoblinX Newsletter 194 Published

grobsch — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:45:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 194 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week is about how to use Alltray to dock applications.

Unicamp LAS is Out

grobsch — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:30:00 +0000

The Unicamp repository is out all day. Unicamp is our main repository and for now we cannot upgrade any packages because it is out. We have some packages to upgrade later today.

GoblinX Newsletter 193 Published

grobsch — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:55:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 191 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to install and run Adobe AIR on GoblinX distributions.

The G:Mini 3.0.rc01 (2.9.90) is Released

grobsch — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:15:00 +0000

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the second release of the next G:Mini. The G:Mini 3.0 rc01 (2.9.90) is released. The G:Mini formely known as ‘GoblinX Mini Edition‘ is the son of GoblinX and contains only XFCE as the windows manager and GTK/GTK2 based applications. The edition is ideal for those users whose want to remaster the distro or with difficulties in downloading more than three hundred of megabytes (the original size of g:Standard).

GoblinX Newsletter 192 Published

grobsch — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:15:00 +0000

GoblinX Newsletter 191 Published

grobsch — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:10:00 +0000

GoblinX Newsletter 190 Published

grobsch — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:41:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 190 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to install and run Adobe AIR on GoblinX distributions.

GoblinX Newsletter 189 Published

grobsch — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:07:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 189 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to find the package that contains a file.

G:Mini and G:Micro New Maintainers

grobsch — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The GoblinX Project splited the maintenance of the smaller distributions G:Mini and G:Micro. G:Mini is now maintained by Vitor Micillo Junior (www.minilinux.com.br) and G:Micro is maintained by Evaldo Junior Bento (http://infog.casoft.info). Both will work together with myself and they will be the responsable for the next releases of these distributions. The distributions will follow some rules. Both only can use packages from GoblinX repository, only GPL or free applications and libraries and both will retain its small sizes. This is the second stage of our reengineering plains. The project is working to also receive help with the biggest distributions and the repository in the near furute. We expect to follow a roadmap and release the distributions in the same day.

GoblinX Newsletter 188 Published

grobsch — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:57:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 186 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to use Xargs.

GoblinX Newsletter 187 Published

grobsch — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:57:00 +0000

The G:Noblin 3.0.beta01 is Released

grobsch — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:40:00 +0000

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the third beta of the next stable release. The g:Noblin is the GoblinX Gnome and GTK/GTK2 based distribution. The edition is ideal for those users whose are fan of the Gnome desktop environment. This distribution is an old desire of GoblinX users.

GoblinX Distributions Changes

grobsch — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:50:00 +0000

THIS IS IMPORTANT NEWS: For the next series the GoblinX distributions will be different. First of all the GoblinX Premium will be abandoned, the G.Standard will not have anymore five windows managers and each distribution will have a single windows manager. The G.Standard will be our KDE distribution and G.Noblin the GNOME distribution. The Premium will be discontinued and we will continue building the biggest distribution like G.XFlash and G.Mega. These bigger distribution will fit DVDs and PENDRIVES sizes.

GoblinX Newsletter 186 Published

grobsch — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:50:00 +0000

Save Changes Method

grobsch — Tue, 05 Feb 2009 09:15:00 +0000

For the next releases we intend to implement a modification in the way all changes are saved. Because our distributions can use different resources and languages we need to improve the current method of saving changes. The idea is have all changes saved in different directories for each Isolinux menu option. This will be implemented to increase the usability of conflicting desktop such as KDE4 and KDE3, but also because of the internationalization process.

GoblinX Newsletter 185 Published

grobsch — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:15:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 184 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to use build scripts to compile applications.

KDE 4.2 and Xfce 4.5.99.1 Released

grobsch — Wed, Jan 28 12:45:00 +0000

These last days we had the releases of the new KDE4 version. Slackware already compiled the KDE 4.2 packages and we downloaded them to add to our repository. Today I sent some dependencies and I will work on upload all packages during the next days. Yesterday I uploaded the Xfce 4.5.99.1, the first release candidade of the next stable release, to our testing repository.

GoblinX Newsletter 184 Published

grobsch — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:46:00 +0000

GoblinX Newsletter 183 Published

grobsch — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:42:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 183 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to add volume.label to your partitions.

GoblinX 2.7 Patches Upgrades

grobsch — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:05:00 +0000

Added several security fixes upgrades to GoblinX 2.7 (current stable release. Visit the patches repository to download these security fixes packages. Read the ChangeLog.txt to know exactly all packages you need to upgrade.

The G:Mini 3.0.beta01 is Released

grobsch — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:35:00 +0000

The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the second beta of the next stable release. The G:Mini 3.0 beta 01 is released. The g:Mini formely known as ‘GoblinX Mini Edition‘ is the son of GoblinX and contains only XFCE as the windows manager and GTK/GTK2 based applications. The edition is ideal for those users whose want to remaster the distro or with difficulties in downloading more than three hundred of megabytes (the original size of g:Standard).

Xfce 4.5.92 and Kernel 2.6.27.6

grobsch — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:23:00 +0000

Today I finally add the Kernel 2.6.27.6 and Xfce 4.5.92 to the testing repository. The Xfce 4.5.92 is going to be included to g.Mini 3.0 beta01 which the release is near. KDE will only be upgraded after KDE 4.2 is released.

Pidgin MSN Account Error

grobsch — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:40:00 +0000

Today I found the error Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book when I tried to connect to a MSN account using Pidgin. The error can be solved for some users by installing Msn-pecan plugin. You can download the Msn-pecan plugin here: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/goblinx/goblinx-current/goblinx/extra/.

GoblinX Newsletter 182 Published

grobsch — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:10:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 182 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The newsletter is also published using the old html format. The Mini Tutor of this week explains how to use the rootcopy feature.

GoblinX Beta Tester

grobsch — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:15:00 +0000

The GoblinX Project created the GoblinX Beta Tester Google group to let everybody help the development. The beta tester must join the group and have a free partition to start helping. Partimage will also be necessary.

GoblinX Newsletter 181 Published

grobsch — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:30:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 181 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The Mini Tutor of this week explains howto join avi files.

GoblinX 2.7 Reviewed by Steve Lake

grobsch — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:40:00 +0000

Steve Lake wrote a review of the GoblinX 2.7. You can read the review to get his opinion about the system. The review has also some screenshots. "GoblinX is a LiveCD distribution built around Slackware Linux, and designed for ease of use. The flexibility of GoblinX is worthy of mention, as even its boot options show this ability. But is GoblinX an angel in disguise, or a troll under the bridge? Let's find out."

GoblinX Newsletter 80 Published

grobsch — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:45:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 180 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The Mini Tutor of this week is about how to use Alltray to dock applications.

The G:Micro 3.0.beta01 is Released

grobsch — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:30:00 +0000

Merry Christmas!! The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the first beta of the next stable release. The G:Micro 3.0 beta 01 is released. The g:Micro, formely known as GoblinX Micro, is the smallest distribution and contains only Fluxbox as windows manager and GTK/GTK2 based applications.

GoblinX Newsletter 179 Published

grobsch — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:55:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 179 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The Mini Tutor of this week is about how to run Nautilus as volume manager inside Fluxbox.

Ivman Replaced by GVFs/Nautilus

grobsch — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:30:00 +0000

During this week I started to test better Nautilus as volume manager for Fluxbox. I decided it will replace Ivman and run since the Fluxbox login, not as desktop manager, but as volume manager. Nautilus uses Gvfs as the handler for HAL events and Gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem with fuse support. Nautilus does not need to be used as desktop manager to manager medias and mount possibilities. Because of this change g.Micro will have its release postponed by few days.

GoblinX Newsletter 178 Published

grobsch — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:55:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 178 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The Mini Tutor of this week is about how to run Nautilus inside light windowmanagers.

Still Finding Errors

grobsch — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:30:00 +0000

This week I upgraded almost all packages to match Slackware 12.2, except of KDE4. After these upgrades I rebuilt all modules I am testing them trying release as soon as possible the first beta of the next series. There are some errors to correct and interfaces to test and improve. Most of the errors are around Gnome. We will probably have the first beta to try in the next week.

Slackware 12.2 is Release

grobsch — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:30:00 +0000

Slackware 12.2 release is released. Well folks, it's that time to announce a new stable Slackware release again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.2! Since we've moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware 12.2 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware 12.1) and is a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user.

GoblinX Newsletter 177 Published

grobsch — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:25:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 177 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The Mini Tutor of this week is about compile application from source using build scripts.

Slackware 12.2 is a 0.1 Version

grobsch — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:30:00 +0000

Slackware 12.2 release is almost here. Patrick Volkerding posted yesterday new packages and the following annoucement in Slackware current changelog: While there are still some docs that need updating and probably a few more tweaks and updates here and there, everything is mostly in place for the next stable release, Slackware 12.2. The versions of major components like X and the kernel can be considered frozen. Anything major that we have not done yet will probably wait for the release after this next one. As Slackware 12.2 is only a 0.1 version bump, we ere trying to focus on making it better without causing instability or losing compatibility with Slackware 12.1 wherever possible. Invasive changes like the new X (that will require changes to xorg.conf) and merging KDE4 should probably wait for Slackware 13.0. We will call this batch Slackware 12.2 release candidate one.

GoblinX Newsletter 176 Published

grobsch — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:10:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 176 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The Mini Tutor of this week explains howto add actions to Thunar Filemanager.

Linuxish is Back

grobsch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:25:00 +0000

We are glad to inform that Linuxish is back. Linuxish is maintained by Akuna and is the most used repository by our users being also the default set by Slapt-get together with Unicamp. Allthough Unicamp is the main GoblinX repository, it is best use Linuxish and others because we are always upgrading Unicamp tree and it can sometimes have uncompleted package.

Linuxish is Out

grobsch — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:20:00 +0000

The GoblinX Linuxish repository is out all day. This repository was kindly created by Akuna and it is very fast. You can still use another repository to download packages or isos. Unicamp, CVut and Uoc is working. We hope to get Linuxish back soon.

Slax 6.0.8 is Released

grobsch — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:20:00 +0000

Tomas announced the release of Slax 6.0.8. The release is important because includes Kernel 2.6.27.6, upgrades for AuFS and SquashFS, and a lot more. We will use the Slax Kernel source and scripts to build our own Kernel and then start to build modules. Thanks Tomas for the new release and improvements.

GoblinX Newsletter 175 Published

grobsch — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0000

The GoblinX Newsletter 175 is published. Full of news about our distribution and open source applications, also with links to tutorials and howtos. The Mini Tutor of this week is about Di, a disk information utility.

Afiliates Programs

grobsch — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0000

In order to get further maintainance help we signed to Submarino and PCTech101 afiliates programs. First we created a Submarino Afiliados account which is displayed only in the portuguese website, and yesterday we joined the PCTech101.com affiliate program.

GoblinX 2.7 Patches

grobsch — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:35:00 +0000

The GoblinX 2.7 - current stable release - got a new repository category called patches. Just like Slackware, inside patches you will find important upgrades and security fixes. For now the patches repository is not compatible with Slapt-get and only Slackware packages are added. It is important upgrade the patches packages to have a more security installed distribution. Visit the patches repository