Gnome 2.26 has been released
Has already left the latest version of the famous desktop for UNIX, version 2.26. Brings many new features and improvements in the sharing of files with WebDAV, HTTP and Bluetooth, improved migration from Windows and various improvements in system components such as Pulse Audio or the display settings.
There are also developments in desktop applications sistintas as 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 .
Timeline of Linux.
Thanks to www.muycomputer.com I find a curious that news as well as interesting. This is a chart where we see the evolution of certain Linux distributions over time and their products. It is surprising indeed to see how many unknown distributions and those that have been drifting to the ones we know today.
http://futurist.se/gldt/gldt92.png
Summary of Features of IBM labor ext4
The ext4 filesystem promises is nothing new. In fact running on the network several benchmarks where it seems to be clear superiority over ext3 and even other known systems (xfs, jfs and reiser). IBM labor where we bring you this document, without going into too complex explanations, we can find interesting information, as well as differences with the system it replaces.
You can find the article here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-anatomy-ext4/index.html?ca=drs-
The Catholic Church calls for fasting during Lent technology
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 12th April.
'' It's a small way to remember the importance of concrete and not virtual relationships [...] It is an instrument to remind us that our actions and lifestyles have consequences in distant countries. "
The day without SMS, and have called on Fridays of Lent joins the suggestion of the diocese of Turin, which suggested to his parishioners do not watch television during this period of time. Although there are more "suggestions": leave the car at home and bike or public transport, to refrain from throwing chewing gum on the street and start recycling waste; enjoy the silence in a week without internet and 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 for work, meaningless (abstinence)."
In: Inquirer
A nostalgic look to the past.
Surely many of us tonteabamos with Linux back in 2000, and it seems like yesterday, I do not know because we have lived many more years in the twentieth century than in the XXI or because we imagine that by 2009 cars would fly or Public transportation stops on the moon. Whatever is at 2000 and we fell a long way and although it seems that as usual, you might look at an article like the one I leave with memories bring us apart, makes us see how things change.
No doubt a little story for nostalgia. http://www.tuxradar.com/content/archives-best-distros-2000
Mini-CD's of Ubuntu
I heard recently (never lie down ...) for the existence of minicd's that enable network installation of Ubuntu in its different variants. Images are ridiculously small (9.5-10MB) and further to select what things you want to install and what not, an option not found in normal livecd method. I leave the link to these little wonders
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
DragonFly BSD 2.2 Introduced
DragonFly BSD team has released version 2.2 The main difference is the inclusion of HAMMER filesystem as stable. According to its developers is loaded with many upgrades. An interesting project that tries to bring Unix to the users.
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release22/
Debian 5.0 available for download tomorrow
It appears that unless some cataclysm or other mishap of magnitude, tomorrow will be released version 5.0 of Debian with numerous changes. As discussed have paid special attention to security (vulnerabilities, patches, less executable UID, etc) will enjoy more than updated packages (KDE 3.5.9, OpenOffice 2.4.1, Samba 3.2.5, etc). Tomorrow is a big day for fans of this legendary distribution.
Interview with Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux;)
In an interview with Distrowatch recently found the father and creator of Linux and GNU / Linux for the purists where among other things talks about his change of KDE to Gnome (apparently not by choice) and tell us what distribution uses . Linus also makes clear that from their point of view there are so many distributions is not bad, but quite the opposite, which is necessary.
The entire interview here: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090202 # feature
JNode 0.28 released
For those who do not know, this is a free operating system with a nanokernel written in assembler, and java for the rest of the system. We can find the announcement here: http://jnode.org/node/2879 accounts as well as some illustrative images here: http://www.jnode.org/node/132 .
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