Gnome 2.26 has been released
Already out the latest version of the famous desktop for UNIX, version 2.26. It brings many new and improved file sharing with WEBDAV, HTTP or Bluetooth, improved migration from Windows and various improvements to system components such as Pulse Audio or the display settings.
There are also developments in desktop applications as sistintas Evolution, Brasero, Epiphany Media Player or Empathy among other applications.
For more information read the official notice of the Gnome team .
For those who do not want to wait for the various distributions empaquten the new version you can download a live distribution to test new developments in this direction .
Problems Jaunty and ATI drivers
The next version of Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) has a problem with drivers for most ATI cards. The problem seems to lie in the compatibility with the new version of XServer, version 1.6, with the driver current owner.
So far it has prioritized wishlist so you do not think that since Ubuntu is going to give short-term solution. According to the developers of Ubuntu is ATI which is responsible to update the driver and now propose using the free driver despite not available graphics acceleration.
More information on the page of discussion of the bug .
Problems with the ext4 file system
A bug discovered in the development version of the next Ubuntu has shown that some applications may have compatibility issues with ext4 filesystem.
The problem occurs in the writing system disk configuration files of applications. In ext3 journaling mode and the "data = ordered" these files are written to disk every 5 seconds so that any changes made in the configuration files in practice are written to disk without problems.
Security Issues in Mac OS X
In Boston, the conference SOURCE, Dino Dai Zovi has made a demonstration on how to break the security of Apple's operating system. To make the show has used the data memory (HEAP Memory) is not sufficiently protected in order to perform the attack. This problem is currently produced in Leopard but it is anticipated that in the next version, Snow Leopard, will be resolved as data memory will be random.
So far Mac OS X is considered one of the most secure systems on the market. However this finding may be that serious attacks appear to Mac OS X.
Curiously the iPhone OS is not vulnerable to the problem described above.
More details in faq-mac-com .
Backward compatibility of Windows 7
According to Cnet Microsoft is working to improve compatibility with older programs that do not currently run on Windows Vista. The list of programs "rescued" are foreign language and emphasizes the inclusion, among others, of IKEA Home Planner in the Spanish version.
If they improve this point will be something for Windows 7 as it is one of the issues that has been most criticized in Vista.
Timeline of Linux.
Thanks to www.muycomputer.com I find one of those curious news as well as interesting. This is a chart where we see the evolution of certain Linux distributions over time and products. It is surprising indeed to see how many unknown distributions and those that have been drifting until we know today.
http://futurist.se/gldt/gldt92.png
Mono 2.4 is throwing themselves and contains more functionality
The. NET incorporates universal in its most complete ASP.NET 3.5, metadata checker for the JIT compiler and the expected inclusion of MonoDevelop 2.0.
Except that does not support Linq what you needed to completely replace VStudio 2008 Orcas Microsoft?
I think Mono is what certifications closer to those developers that are shifted to open this tool and platform-level software architects WinFX, J2EE Java or Objective-C Cocoa "institute" Apple.
Novell certifications.
Mono 3.0 is expected with C # 4 to the end of 2009.
Packages, and live virtual machine OpenSuSE available on some days in Mono-Project.com
OpenSuSE Thin Client
There are also a similar development in PC-BSD , Novell reimplement the concept client / server (Linux Terminal Server Project GNU) to have reduced hardware operating system performance to the NetWare network. Innovation happens that an image is done with KIWI . Other distributions imitate this good initiative.
If you're legal, use Open Office
"This copy Linex Legal" is a slogan that I use at the time the Junta de Extremadura to promote their distribution and how good it could estrapolar to Open Office today. Glogueando is gerund, I found this on UbuntuArte . Take a look that is priceless
"A promotional message from OpenOffice, cites that 35% of software in the world are pirated or illegal copies, we asked whether our software is legal and clearly describes the strategy of Microsoft.
"After years of unofficially tolerating piracy as a means of securing control of the market, Microsoft is now conducting an offensive to ensure that copies of their software is legitimate:
* Just bought AssetMetrix, a software company specializing in detecting what programs have installed on our PCs
* You are using Internet screening software to install copies of MS-Office on users' PCs.
* Worldwide, the Business Software Alliance is organizing efforts to prosecute those who violate their conditions - for example in the UK offers great financial rewards to any informer who reports to companies that use pirated software.
* Microsoft itself admits that clients have difficulty understanding the complexities of software licensing - it's easy to accidentally break their conditions. "
Note that OpenOffice is a perfectly viable alternative, and further copies are legal and will not cost you money. "
The Catholic Church calls for fasting during Lent technological
Italian Catholic bishops have asked their parishioners to stop using both high-tech means such as appliances during Lent, thus giving from the Internet, email, SMSn among others.
This new type of withdrawal due to the care provided by their own religious hierarchy in relation to the use of technology and in some cases abuse the use of it. As an example, the Modena diocese have asked to abstain from the use of electronic messages on Fridays of Lent which ends this year on Sunday April 12.
'' It's a small way to remember the importance of concrete and not virtual relationships [...] is an instrument to remind us that our actions and lifestyles have consequences in distant countries. "
The Day Without SMS, as have called on Fridays of Lent joins the suggestion of the diocese of Turin, who suggested his parishioners do not watch TV in that time period. Although there are more "suggestions": leave the car at home and bike or public transport; refrain from throwing chewing gum on the street and start recycling waste; enjoy the silence in a week without internet or iPods.
But one thing is clear, and as stated by one of the priests of a Roman basilica, Giancarlo Angelo Andreis, "if technology is needed to work, no sense (abstinence)."
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