Comments on Cairo, the new environment for Windows
Cairo Shell: for now, only in English
Perhaps to save us from a possible schizophrenia, desktop environments like the one we discuss in this article offer more than one reason to give them a chance. I refer to Cairo, an environment for Microsoft Windows that enables us to pretend that we Gnome 2.x users of GNU / Linux.
Many users have the two operating systems on one computer, or more than one computer in which they have installed different OSes, like myself. The truth is that at such a duality, the user may be confused by more than one case. That is why we can be very useful Cairo. Let us review some complications that have arisen in their use.
The desktop environment is a great product. In fact, is in its alpha stage, it is tested, and it shows in more than a detail. If we need to clarify briefly what are the major problems of this project, we could talk first of a large redundancy into aspects that are not worth it.
For example, Cairo offers, added to the bottom bar of Windows, a second bar that marks this new environment. To overlap with the original Windows user can not get to understand what kind of benefit is obtained.
It would also be appropriate to speak of the dimension of stability. For Cairo does not work very well on Windows versions available today. For Windows 7 things are going well. The problem is when we try in Windows XP.
Finally, another problem is found when installing applications. Read more
The OS for guitarists
gnuguitarinux
The word "user" is much more abstract than it seems at first appear. Because behind it there is an infinite variety and preferences at all comparable. Is that when we talk about "users" are generalizing a group that itself is fractured, divided, multiplied by their interests and ways of addressing the experience of navigating the operating system.
Thus it is appropriate for the market to diversify in order to make the user category something more concrete. In that case we can say that there are Windows users, Linux users, and so with each OS. But today we want to discuss is the operating system intended for a very precise area of society, limited, but always present: the musicians. And if you ask us to be even more specific, we might say, guitarists.
We speak, of course, the GNUGuitarINUX, Linux OS for guitarists who are just starting in the music world and want to pursue his musical project from a recording of a disc. The software that we use in this OS for these targets are the TuxGuitar or Audacity, although the offer is far more plurívoca.
The importance of this proposal is that Linux is not done under the cloak of no interest to spurious contamination of the great idea of the project. For the GNUGuitarINUX allowing is to ensure that at the time of the recording there is no operational problem that we ruin the recording. Read more
Behind Maverick Meerkat is a likeBeOS 10.10
Ubuntu is behind the ubiquitous ZevenOS 3.0 with XFCE 4.6.1, a kernel 2.6.35 the previous quarter, including by nouveau driver accelerator free and open to Nvidia 802.11 drivers wireless updates and new WebM & MKV codecs and the software inherited from the defunct Zeta almost five years ago. The announcement of this piece of software (X86 only) interposed between what was and what still is sometimes disappointing (Haiku R1) with that weird basement Linux says little and does not say about the quick jump from a close version 2.0 on the This time 3.0. As in the case of Linux Mint, the other version, the Neptune 9.1 Debian base is also available from October (comes with Chromium, Eclipse IDE, Wireshark and Aircrack-ng on 1.4GB DVD). Perhaps the core and around GNU / Linux is because they have few programmers and that they have to get your hands on more trite and distributed among all penguins SouthAfrica Canonical gave us.
It is worth mentioning that also provide the installer for Haiku that Leszek Lesner developed.
An unexpected and welcome support: PPC Linux Mint
Is forthcoming Linux Mint 10 Julia and while other distributions like Ubuntu or openSUSE come apart from the PowerPC architecture-as anachronistic and obsolete excepting understand all the architects of MorphOS - distribution commanded by Clement Lefebvre now splits into Ubuntu and Debian-based foundation to push back a linux installation of more advanced and functional on those processors G3, G4, and so on. Read more
LiMo and GNOME are associated
The mobile Linux industry consortium, the LiMo Foundation , has agreed a partnership with the GNOME Foundation . At the developers conference GUADEC, GNOME and LiMo have announced they want to work together in order to develop innovative Open Source. The LiMo foundation becomes a board member of the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Foundation as an organization, otherwise the GNOME project becomes representative of the LiMo Foundation.
They comment that as the LiMo platform in versions 2 and 3 and contains a large number of components of GNOME Mobile, for both partners this step is a natural consequence. The number of components used GNOME Mobile includes Glib, GTK +, D-Bus, GStreamer and BlueZ.
On the One and Peppermint Peppermint Ice
On the One and Peppermint Peppermint Ice
One Peppermint Peppermint Ice and are distributions based on Linux Mint, with a clear focus on cloud computing even if locally installed applications.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
We see a trend in innovations that are in the infinite beta versions circulating on the Internet that do not yet know whether it is feasible to be interpreted positively or negatively. What do we mean? There is a power to simplify the use of the products so that users no longer encounter conflicts, tensions, and problems when using both the OS and the application of all kinds.
At first this would seem to be positive. Nothing better than a conflict-free use, simple and fast. Now, are not creating just one type of user and unable to cope with the complexity of reality? Interpreted from psychoanalysis could lead to the conclusion that something like a progressive decomposition of I type user.
What can be deduced from a user's ego weakness is an inability to cope, if it ever happens, the problems that Internet usage scenarios can be generated.
Let's see how this is exemplified in the new second beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, which is to improve and refine what is shown in the first beta of the series of three that Red Hat will release before the final release of the sixth version of its system. This new beta is available for i386, AMD64/Intel64, System z or IBM Power (64-bit)
Some of the developments by highlighting this distribution that is aimed at big business is facilities for installation, with simple options and practices, how to create an installation file that will answer all the questions we asked the installer program, which automates the process and makes it faster or the ability to encrypt data on storage media encryption keys defined directly during the installation process. Read more
USB Multiboot creates multiboot (Ubuntu)
Multiboots
Often one is ever justified if it generates love Linux users is due to a potential of the same, namely: as a result of experience using it, or a theoretical potential: since conceptually presents challenges to other users operating systems do not have.
Obviously, we can consider that one of the advantages that there are many distributions of Linux is the variety for all tastes, needs and resources. Unlike other operating systems that seek to impose from above that we use and what to do, because economically it is much more profitable to them because they hold a monopoly of production technologies, Linux always allow a plurality in the use that ends up with a democratic concept of digital praxis.
However, the proliferation of differences, so rewarding in philosophical terms, is operational in practical terms? The application lets you today discussed to answer this question affirmatively. If we turn usually tools or Linux-based tools we like to try new distros, would not it be convenient to have them all loaded on a USB stick to boot with a different one each time we need it?
The program discussed (Multiboot) is for Ubuntu, it will allow us to create flash drives containing more than one distribution to boot any of them as needed, which is especially useful that will make our job much faster and more convenient. Read more
Other features of openSUSE 11.3
openSUSE - New version
But if we are not committing an act of injustice to innovation implicit in this new version of openSUSE, we have to spend even one more post for the purpose of reviewing some of the other aspects that have been improved greatly. Let us then.
Another aspect in which it has worked very hard on openSUSE 11.3 is compatible with major mobile devices today. No doubt this speaks well for the openness to new trends as far as man-machine interface will referred to in the information society. We do not say that this is the last year since a long time that men have left behind the connections that bound sedentarily to their resting places to spend a total spread accompanied by notebooks of all kinds. But it is worth the openSUSE 11.3 confirm this trend.
This new version can sync music, graphics files or access the internet connection sharing with Android, Apple iPhone or Blackberry.
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New version of openSUSE Linux
openSUSE
At this stage of the game we all know what it's openSUSE. As well as the name implies, the open is a program with a basic concept that makes it extremely interesting. Working on the democratizing potential of the Internet as device production and dissemination of information, this application seeks to create social ties, trusting in the collective production of meaning. The program offers easy accessibility, all for free.
Well, the news is that you can download a new version of GNU / Linux. Nine months after the previous release, version 11.3 comes from the distribution covered by Novell and AMD, and a large community of users.
Overall, the openSUSE 11.3 features updated versions for more than 1000 applications over its predecessor. These new versions include desktop applications, server applications (WWW, mail, FTP, ...) and a selection of development tools. Read more
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