Re: FWN 152 status

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Pascal Calarco wrote:

> I will be traveling for about the next five hours, so will plan to
> update FWN 152 next sometime after 2:00 pm and then send this out to
> fedora-announce and fedora-news. Thanks!

You guys are all awesome. Congrats on another issue getting out the
door!

--Max

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0988 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 libxml2 - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0988

libxml2 security update for CentOS 3 x86_64:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0988.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

x86_64:
updates/x86_64/RPMS/libxml2-2.5.10-14.i386.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/libxml2-2.5.10-14.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/libxml2-devel-2.5.10-14.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/libxml2-python-2.5.10-14.x86_64.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/libxml2-2.5.10-14.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-3 x86_64 installations by running the command:

yum update libxml2

Tru
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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0988 Important CentOS 3 i386 libxml2 - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0988

libxml2 security update for CentOS 3 i386:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0988.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

i386:
updates/i386/RPMS/libxml2-2.5.10-14.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/libxml2-devel-2.5.10-14.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/libxml2-python-2.5.10-14.i386.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/libxml2-2.5.10-14.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command:

yum update libxml2

Tru
--
Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance)
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

Ubuntu 8.10 release party held in Tehran/Iran

Hiya,

The Iranian Local Community had their greatest ever Ubuntu Release Party in Tehran with more than 100 attendee and celebrated Ubuntu-ir's 2nd anniversary!
The Iranian Team started their public work with Ubuntu 6.10 release and soon became a big mature Open Source promoter team in the area and now with more than 3000 users in forums and ~80 posts per day is a very fast growing comunity.

We've had 8 Presentations in this release party. Ubuntu 8.10 features tour, Kubuntu 8.10 features tour, Joomla CMS Introduction, Zekr project Introduction, Desktop effects in Ubuntu & Kubuntu, Ubuntu Server presentation, Linux Kernel comipation howto and finally the Iranian team future plan and roadmap.

I would like to thank all contributers, all talkers, and Farhang Saraye Rasane again for the conference room.
You guys all rock and did a great job, THANKS A LOT :-)

The whole Story, Photos and Presentations:
http://wiki.ubuntu.ir/IntrepidIbexReleaseParty

Cool figures ;-)
Ubuntu 7.04 Release Party: 15 attendee
Ubuntu 7.10 Release Party: 25 attendee
Ubuntu 8.04 Release Party: 50 attendee
Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party: 100 attendee
Ubuntu 9.04 Release Party: ???


Bests,
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Yours Sincerely, Mehdi Hassanpour
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