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 with the objective to develop innovative Open Source. LiMo Foundation becomes a member of the board of the GNOME Foundation and the GNOME Foundation as an organization, otherwise the GNOME project becomes representative of the LiMo Foundation.
Commented 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 covers the GNOME Mobile Glib, GTK +, D-Bus, GStreamer and BlueZ.
About One and Peppermint Ice Peppermint
About One and Peppermint Ice Peppermint
One and Peppermint Peppermint Ice are two Linux distributions based minimalist Mint, the cloud-oriented but without sacrificing the ability to install applications locally. Something like a Chrome OS, but not limited to all of our applications are in the cloud.
First, we launched Peppermint One with Firefox as a hub, managing websites and local applications Prism. He recently launched Peppermint Ice, where Chromium who manages the central interface, with the support of Ice, a utility that replaces the functions of Prism. Peppermint Ice has a greater orientation to the cloud One, including a future support for Google Print Cloud.
Both distros include shortcuts to web apps like Facebook, Seesmic, Google Docs, etc, or Hulu and Pandora for the lucky ones who can enjoy both. But along with the web apps, there are shortcuts to local applications, such as Dropbox, VLC, Transmission, XChat ... Read more
Goodbye HP Slate. Hello webOS 2.0!
HP Slate and the dilemma of operating systems
Obviously our present is very unaware of what happened a few years ago in the world of operating systems. Everything changes, everything changes, and said the industry is not without it.
Is that we have passed in a very short time, a central ion Atenc on PCs and laptops to an increasing importance of the mobile world and also that of the tablets, which is where a large proportion of innovation.
Two new reports we would like to share here. On the one hand we have the decision not to market the HP HP Slate, which was to bring Windows 7, and on the other we have the announcement of a new webOS version 2.0 later this year. But let's step by step ...
On Slate, HP has decided that will be launched only corporate versions for businesses and other institutions, so the average consumer, who are the majority of us, you can not get to try this new tablet that has raised so many expectations. Rather than the cancellation of the device itself, this is important for the fact that another product that would bring Windows (W7 Home Premium) has been dismissed. Read more
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
We see a trend in the innovations that are in the endless 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 potential to simplify the use of products so that users no longer encounter conflicts, tensions or problems in using the operating system as the application of all kinds.
At first this seems to be something positive. Nothing better than a conflict-free use, simple and fast. Now, do not create just one type of user and unable to cope with the complexity of reality? Interpreted from psychoanalysis might lead to the conclusion that something like a progressive breakdown of user I type.
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 things shown in the first beta of a 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 IBM Power (64-bit)
Some of the developments by highlighting this distribution which aims at the large company is the facilities for installation, with simple options and practices, how to create an installation 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 in storage means defining the encryption keys directly during the installation process. Read more
Multiboot USB stick allows you to create multi-boot (Ubuntu)
Multiboots
Many times one is ever justified if the love that generates Linux users due to a practical potential of the same, namely: as a result of the experience of using it, or a potential theoretical as conceptually presents challenges to users than other operating systems do not occur.
Obviously, we can consider one of the advantages that there are many distributions of Linux is the variety for all tastes, resources and needs. Unlike other operating systems that seek to impose from above that we should use and what we do, because economically it is much more profitable to them because they hold a monopoly on production technologies, "Linux can always use a plurality that in the end a democratic concept of digital praxis.
However, the proliferation of differences, so rewarding in terms of philosophy, is practical operational terms? The application that we discuss today I can 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 I need?
The program discussed (Multiboot) is for Ubuntu, we can create the same USB sticks containing more than one distribution in order to boot any of them as needed, which is especially useful that will make our work 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 improved greatly. Let's see then.
Another aspect in which we have worked with great care in openSUSE 11.3 is compatible with leading mobile devices today. No doubt this speaks well of openness to new trends as far as man-machine interface will be referred to the information society. We do not say that this is the last few years since quite some time that men have left behind the connections that bound them to their places of sedentary break to spend a total spread accompanied by all kinds of laptops. But it is not more than 11.3 openSUSE confirm this trend.
This new version can sync music, graphics or access files shared Internet connection with Android devices, 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 the name says, the open is a program with a basic concept that makes it extremely interesting. Working on the democratizing potential of the Internet as a mechanism of 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 now download a new version of this distribution of GNU / Linux. Nine months after the previous release comes version 11.3 of the distribution covered by Novell and AMD, and a large community of users.
Overall, the openSUSE 11.3 updates available for more than 1,000 applications on its predecessor. These new versions include desktop applications, server applications (WWW, mail, FTP, ...) and a selection of development tools. Read more
Small differences (between ZFS and btrfs)
ZFS: devised by Sun Microsystems in 2004 for Solaris and FreeBSD, it is behaving natively to Linux, also includes Mac OS X 10.5 Server.
Supports drives and files of 16 exabytes (16 million terabytes) not reaching the Zettabyte, where its name comes, supports checksum ECC, supports POSIX, supports snapshots and integration with LVM, supports encryption, the highest number of files is 2 48 is repair itself mirrored disk RAID 5 and RAID 6, no data is overwritten or references from or metadata, within the units ZFS file systems are created with ease to create directories in NTFS or EXT3.
Any application without any problem associated with this filesystem, then pointed to discs 1 and 2 TB.
Video of their characteristics ( in English ) and documents organized in addition to this PDF .
It works very well with the compression algorithm LZJB .
Btrfs: devised by Oracle in 2007 for Linux, supports drives and files of 16 exabytes (16 million terabytes), supports checksum ECC, supports POSIX, supports snapshots of snapshots and integration with LVM, does not support encryption, the highest number of files is February 1964. Some other features unmentionable and repositories of source code.
Maverick Ubuntu Meerkat incompatible with older buses
Meerkat Ubuntu
The new version of Ubuntu to come, namely the Meerkat Maverick 10/10 will not work with processors that do not reach a minimum of architecture i686. In this way, opening the debate both in the community of developers and the community of users as to whether this determination sharp ran no danger of being equivalent to an act of discrimination.
Is that many may wonder why Ubuntu has set this arbitrary cut. Is that we all know that this is so, the i586 family-to give just one case, has a great importance in home computing. In establishing this selection Ubuntu people were leaving out of their potential users to a large number of people whose processors would not meet the minimum requirements for compatibility.
But this would be interpreted accurately. Not as much as the particular act of discrimination, and therefore the moral condemnation that obviously could alsarce against Ubuntu, but rather as one more case in an objective tendency of which is complex to escape. Read more
New Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat
Maverick Ubuntu
If I remember fairly recently were talking about the news of Ubuntu Lucyd Lynx . We had to wait too long, in fact, to realize that we had available a new version, more updated it. These days it has launched at the disposal of users the first alpha release of Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat. What is it? Ubuntu is the future 10.10. This way Ubuntu is directed to make the public "the latest of the latest" new.
Ubuntu's policy is to update every 6 months. Some users have bothered with this idea, since in many cases end up watching is perhaps better to wait a little longer and really processing updates. What happens is that when you upgrade and release new versions every so little time, changes can never be completely revolutionary.
However, one could say that there is a basic reason that forces Ubuntu to maintain this regimen so strict half-yearly update: If there were not very likely to be successful with users not be so great, since many of them would lose "the train "that does not stop at any station and behind which we set out to achieve. Read more
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