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Was released Linux distribution Element 1.4 , designed for home theater arrangement or Media Center, and simple tools for common PC to connect to an HDTV TV. Distribution based on Ubuntu includes a user interface based on XFCE with the possibility of using XBMC Media Center interface. Distribution is designed as a LiveCD, the size of the ISO is 626 megabytes
The kit includes a selection of applications for viewing photos, listening to music, watching videos and navigation of resources Media Network. Among others include Firefox 3.6.8, Audio Player Decibel, an instant messaging client Pidgin, bittorrent client, AllmyApps.com. The new version features the improvements in the E-Bar applet Editor, Audio HDMI Switch and Slim Element Set.

The available download is the first test version of OpenSUSE 11.4 . The final version is expected March 10, 2011. In the current issue you will find updated versions of many programs, such as the move to Xorg 1.9, KDE 4.5 and GNOME 2.32.0 Beta 1 Distribution of integrated studies to increase the productivity of network traffic associated with the package management: an updated version of the library libzypp (8.1), which represents a new backend for download via HTTP and FTP. Instead MediaAria backend now uses MultiCurl which supports zsync-transfer. Another improvement is the Metalink download. From a user perspective these changes will be visible so that the speed upgrade, which reduces time to install the update packages and implementation of operations. Support Metalink download allows you to organize parallel bundles, with each part of the package can be downloaded from various mirrors. Support ZSync reduces the amount of data transferred due to the fact that only downloads the changed parts of files.
Moreover, VMware and Novell have reached an agreement under which VMware will deliver their products in a complete set of specially optimized for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). At the same SLES (with access to the underside of the add-ons) for users of VMware vSphere will be provided free of charge.

The CUPS printing system, which is used in Linux and other Unix-compatible operating systems, implementing migration from PostScript to PDF. OpenOffice.org developers have also accepted the recommendation of the Linux Foundation to use as a standard PDF format for printing. After two years of development was completed and integrated into OpenOffice.org - the last test preparation package is already used for printing in PDF format.

Ambassador Company has issued such games as Half Life, Counter Strike, and Portal. On its website it was published a notice of finding suitable candidates for the position of the leading games to be převíct way to port Windows games to the Lin ux. More next time.

Distribution has been released RIPLinuX August 10 RIPLinuX - Live CD / Live USB distribution is focused on recovery, backup and other maintenance of the existing system. Distribution supports many filesystems (ReiserFS, Reiser4, Btrfs, Ext2/3/4, HFS +, ISO-9660, NILFS2, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS2, CIFS, MS DOS, NTFS (using ntfs-3g) + Squashfs LZMA, and VFAT), but also contains a set of tools for system recovery (including utilities for backing up and restoring file systems, networking, hard drive or partition). This distribution uses kernel version 2.6.35.4. Download HERE . More information HERE.

Deli team concluded that the current status of the project is groping in the void and was about to close, but the company paid for the domain delilinux.org Normworks and developers have decided to restart the project. Meet ConnochaetOS!
Objectives:

• System for Computer: Pentium I/64Mb RAM
• Only free software to view the GNU
• KISS philosophy
• is a modern and stable

Some of the innovations:

• completely free from the Linux kernel project-Libre "LTS"
• eglibc use glibc instead (as in Debian)
• use packet base Arch Linux

Although the project is in its infancy and developers are recommended to test the proposed distro. More information HERE .

Unigine Corp. announced the release of real-time strategy Oil Rush for Linux, Windows and Sony Playstation 3 The game uses its own engine - Unigine Engine ™ - and is being developed by a team Unigine since 2009. The game is a mix of real-time strategy genre and Tower Wars: You can control the creation and development of offshore oil platforms, as well as their defense through the creation of defense, to attack from the sea air. It supports multiplayer over LAN and Internet.

• High quality graphics
• Multiplayer
• Multiplatform: Windows, Linux, PlayStation 3
• Exciting gameplay and hordes of enemies
• Variety Cards
• Available SDK for creation of the game changes

Official announcement.

ArchHurd - a project to transfer the GNU / Linux distribution of GNU Hurd kernel ArchLinux. His project aims to create an environment such as the Arch (init scripts in the style of BSD, optimized for i686, with pacman and ABS package management and loyalty KISS), around the nucleus Hurd, Hurd from which is sufficiently stable.
The project, as well as the use ArchLinux pacman and ABS. Despite the fact that the announcement of the beginning of the project was already at the beginning of the year, yet not quite ready to complete, but is still updated and the number is growing. We wish the project luck luck! More information HERE.

Recently published quarterly financial report, Novell provides a profit decline in almost all areas of society. Total profit was $ 199,000,000, which is 8% lower profit for the same period as in 2009. Profits from sales declined by 2% to $ 108,000,000 dollars. Profits from sales of SUSE Linux has fallen by 7% to $ 36,000,000.

Mozilla Developer Center developed the new redesigned portal for developers - developer.mozilla.org called Mozilla Developer Network. This site contains documentation and communication platform for developers of websites and web applications, SEO pages for mobile devices, the authors add-ons, etc.

Gentoo Project announced graphic design competition for the mascot of the project, which could be used in printed materials and elsewhere. As the basis for the preparatory work should use the current mascot of the project.

Ksplice announced the launch of free updates for Fedora. The service allows you to update the contents of the kernel on the fly without temporary stop and restart the system. Project code Ksplice is distributed free, but the service is the dissemination of the latest updates available only to subscribers. Previously been distributed free update for users of Ubuntu Desktop 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04, now this category is expanding distribution of Fedora 13 .
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CloudLinux, Ubuntu Server, Debian GNU / Linux and CentOS updates are distributed on a commercial basis and costs about $ 40 per year. In the near future a list of supported systems will be complemented by SUSE Linux.

She released a new server distribution Zentyal 2.0, formerly known as the "eBox Platform". Distribution is based on Ubuntu 10.04 and is aimed at creating a local network server for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Manage all aspects of the distribution is made through the web interface. Supports the rapid organization of the gate, firewall, mail server, VoIP, VPN-server, proxy (SQUID), file server, a system for employee interaction, monitoring, server backup, etc. Zentyal is available as a standalone installer live-distro (460 megabytes) .

He was released Lightspark 0.4.4 , free Flash-Player-based technology and the use of LLVM JIT-compiler that translates ActionScript code in x86. The source code is Lightspark written in C + + and distributed under the GPLv3 license. Due to the OpenGL JIT-compilation and burden of work Lightspark significantly less than that seen in the same video in Adobe Flash or Gnash. The project is being developed with the support of the GNOME Foundation.

State Committee for Communications and Informatics in Ukraine, which publicly advocates the use of software with open source software in government prepared a draft program. According to official documents aim to optimize the expenditure of budgetary funds, as well as the solution using unlicensed software in government agencies. According to calculations, the transition economies into the state apparatus to the open source software to reach 87%. The expected outcomes of the program - improving the regulatory framework, carry out scientific research to create and use open source software, Creating infrastructure for its development, creation and dissemination, Coordination and public support for infrastrukturue use of open source software in government agencies, creating a localized base kit distribution adapted to the needs of public administration. In addition, the State Committee of Ukraine is planning to conduct an open-source software to meet the requirements of normative documents on technical and (if necessary) cryptographic protection of information to create a fund of algorithms and open source software. Details here .