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The recent problem faced by me was that suddenly after an online update my computer went too slow….i could feel the zagginess while while moving windows. After using “ctrl+esc” i realized that Xorg was using a lot of CPU % which didnt come below 25% n every thing was getting slow coz of it. I though it was due to some problem in compiz or Xorg n will vanish after one or two updates but that didn’t happen so it striked to me that it must be due to some plugin so i turned off all the plugins n every thing was normal again

I started to turn on each plugin one by one and observe the changes n i saw that blur plugin was on but its own n it was causing the problem and also the reflection plugin was causing the problem ( well i dont have a graphics card n if u do maybe reflection plugin wont make a difference i think) so u can try this n if even this doesnt solve the problem try switching off the KDE4 native effects. Hope this will solve the similar problem faced by any of u

Fedora has updated snort (F9, F8, F7: detection rules bypass), evolution (F9, F8, F7: arbitrary code execution).

Mandriva has updated mozilla-firefox (denial of service).

rPath has updated vsftpd (denial of service).

SUSE has updated xine, xemacs and emacs, opensuse-updater, libvorbis, vorbis-tools, pdns-recursor, openwsman (various issues).

Wine 0.9.59 is out….

• Improved support for the .NET framework.
• Better services handling through a separate services.exe process.
• Support for ATI fragment shader.
• Better support for http proxies.
• Window management fixes.
• Pre-compiled fonts are now available in the source tree.
• Lots of bug fixes.

Well i hope the proxy thing will bring update in picasa which will help use of proxy for uploading pics to web albums…

Good news for all voice+video chat lovers… Skype 2.0 is finally out as a stable version.

• Hardware requirements
• 1 Ghz processor or faster
• 256 MB RAM.
• 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive.
• Microphone and speakers or headset.
• Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results may vary on a satellite connection). .
• Video card driver with Xv support.

• Software requirements
• Qt 4.2.1+
• D-Bus 1.0.0
• libasound2 1.0.12

Skype 2.0 supports both video and voice chat support. all you need is a webcam and its drivers installed. The other requirements are listed above.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/linux/choose/

Contradictory to my previous blog compiz 0.7 is working fine…it was just the color opacity that was crashing  my compiz, and after testing all other plugins i found out that blur plugin  is also crashing compiz.Many new plugins have also been added like login/logout (though i was not able to find out what is does), magnifier, show mouse, appearance of cube atlantis has also been improved, error notification has been added etc. I was not able to use the new multi monitor support that they claim to have added, i any one knows how to use it please help me out with it.

Still looking forward for the new stable version of compiz fusion.

Hi every one i just wanted to inform every one that compiz 0.7.0 is out and its not stable.Atleast with my Linux kernal 2.6.22.17-0.1 on openSUSE it crashes and is not working at all. So please beware before updating it. I will suggest that every one should wait for the next stable version before upgradaion.

Leaving it apart i would like to inform that latest version of compiz-fusion has support for dual monitor in it which was not working till the last stable version.