Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux beigesteuert of former and members of the Mandriva Linux distribution. The official announcement of the project was on September 18, 2010, and the first stable release 1 June 2011. The article is a combination review [...]
Mageia 1.0 review
Posted by Admin on Thursday, June 30, 2011
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How much GNU are GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)?
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After the development of the infrastructure, to analyze the code in an Ubuntu release, I decided, satisfy a simple curiosity and find out is how much GNU software actually part of a modern distribution.Read m [...]
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Apache gives Oracle Open Office
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Oracle has Apache, IBM blessing given to Office suite OpenOffice. Life can the document Foundation, creator of LibreOffice, a fork of OpenOffice with this st [...]
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The reasons for Ceylon, Red Hat new programming language
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Red hat engineer Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate, developed a new programming language for enterprise software development. His team at Red Hat apparently works opened on grammar in secret for two years and it finally [...]
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The European Commission of locked-in syndrome
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EC migrates in Windows 7, contracts with no public call for tenders. Statements confirm lock-in as a motivation, which is contrary to the European procurement directive. A black day for Euro [...]
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Free Software Foundation prefers LibreOffice about OpenOffice
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Some people in the open-source community pleased at all not that Oracle has OpenOffice on Apache and so they throw their support behind LibreOffi [...]
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Mozilla refuses WebP image format, it adds Google Picasa
Posted by Admin on Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Google built the royalty-free WebM video format with the sophisticated acquisition compression technology On2 2009 determined it in its acquisition. In addition to the above objective of open video for the Web, the search [...]
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Most developers are for Google Android instead of Apple's encoding IOS.
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From the platforms Dept.:Most developers build mobile apps for Google Android operating system with less encoding for Apple's IOS, according to a report of Bluevia and visi [...]
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Firefox 5 RC updates version number, and little else (PC Magazine)
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PC Magazine - is missing from the adoption of the chrome of quick release cycle for Firefox, Mozilla new Firefox versions of their former splendo [...]
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HTC desire, gingerbread - as soon as HTC UI shrink bloated sense
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HTC has decided its UI overlay sense is on the HTC desire to decrease, so there enough informed place 2.3 gingerbread, the company on Wednesday for an upgrade to Android on his Facebook page. Sense is a set of proprietary [...]
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PaaS on Drupal base, Ruby on Rails announced
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Red hat do not be pursuing the platform-as-a-service market for developers only open-source providers.Have this week announced Acquia and engine yard, you create a cloud service for Drupal and Ruby on Rails merged. The new fully managed PaaS will integrate [...]
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Two new projects can help to replace free software Skype
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Both building frameworks that make Skype out of date are GNU free call and WebRTC. Skype has a lot lately in the news were: Microsoft agreed to buy the company, its network dropped twice recently, and they are threatening unspecified action against [...]
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Fedora 15 of the five best features
Posted by Admin on Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Red hat latest community desktop Linux distribution Fedora 15, is now out and it was not for GNOME 3.0, I would love [...]
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Chrome 12 published
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From the Shiney Dept.:Google chrome 12, has add many new features his minimalist Web browser and a number of security fix releas [...]
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Spurns Oracle LibreOffice, Apache Foundation will give OOo
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Oracle announced a proposal of this week the OpenOffice.org (OOo) project to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) transfer. Set the move running under the umbrella of the Apache incubator program and transition of the [...]
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Unit environment in good form on the right track for Ubuntu 11.04
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In a current mailing-list thread, the Ubuntu technical Board is discussed, whether the new unit environment appropriate default value for the upcoming release of Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed natty is the narwhal. The prevailing [...]
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Strip mining of OpenOffice.org
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We have now two implementations of the same code and two communities work to different licensing regimes, and the result is potentially divisive and bad for everyone with the exception of I [...]
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The first Chromebook review: Samsung series 5
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The first Chromebook, which is Samung series 5 will be delivered, and while it is not a great laptop, it is very good. Only consider it as a full Windows laptop replacement. It is n [...]
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Windows' endgame. Desktop-Linux error
Posted by Admin on Monday, June 27, 2011
After almost 20 years of ruling the world, Windows is on the way down. Linux however are not the winn [...]
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New mobile Web Google maps underlines sad state native iOS app
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Google released an update for the mobile Web version of Google maps on Friday, many features that previously included add native app in the - now, the Android app anyway. The additional capabilities bring Web maps up [...]
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"Internet in a suitcase" will offset Internet censorship hopes US
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The Dept. to be free:The Government has created what it calls "Internet in a suitcase" to cheat the switches on the filtering regime of repressive countries. A hardware kit created a "shadow" the suitcase Internet within a country, that allows to communicate [...]
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Peppermint two: Faster, slicker and easier than ever
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Is it a little more than a year, because, I reviewed the first Peppermint OS, and while I liked the first attempt on this new project, I have been looking forward to Peppermint two really have. Well, was my wait over last week, so I was able to kick [...]
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Mozilla resists user request remove Firefox tool (AP)
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AP - Mozilla, the non-profit developers of the Firefox Web browser operation to adhere to a user request Government a software tool, which meant to circumvent efforts to reduce Internet piracy to remove Federal Republ [...]
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Liveblog: Google i/O day 1
Posted by Admin on Sunday, June 26, 2011
The time has come for Google i/O, the search giant annual event. Google uses I/o as a forum for some of his most important users targeted innovations and central components of its technology roadmap revelation. Keynotes, [...]
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Hands on: Miro 4.0 offers music management, Android sync
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The participatory culture Foundation (PCF) recently Miro 4, a new major version of its open-source media player. The new version is the support for music library management and Android device synchronization - extension [...]
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Mozilla spars with Microsoft via WebGL security (digital trends)
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Digital trends - triggered last week, Microsoft some balk in the Web development community by claiming that it no way to implement WebGL open 3D graphics standard in Internet Explorer, without exposing user unacceptable potential security ris [...]
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Hands-on: Haiku Alpha 3 on a netbook running
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The haiku open-source software project, building a clean-room implementation of the BeOS platform, has released its third alpha version. The new version over the weekend was made available, and offers advanced hardware [...]
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Japan criminalized creation of computer viruses
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From the tentacles Dept.:Japan's Parliament enacted legislation Friday criminalization of the creation or distribution of computer viruses, down on the growing problem of computer-related crime, but critics say that the move to the constitutionally guaranteed [...]
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Mozilla is Firefox 5 (digital trends)
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Digital trends - published Mozilla Firefox 5, the latest version of its popular Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The release comes just three months after the release of Mozilla Firefox 4, and not even a month after the first Firefox 5 Beta: [...]
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Ditching copyleft, to compete with a fork?
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I was reading that Oracle will try all OpenOffice code under the Apache 2.0 license today intellectual and move OpenOffice Software Foundation Apache disturbed.Read m [...]
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Mozilla's Firefox 5 is now available for download (PC Magazine)
Posted by Admin on Saturday, June 25, 2011
Promises to remain faithful to PC Magazine - a quick-release cycle, Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 5, about three months after Firefox 4 debütie [...]
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Google Announces film rent for Android music streaming in beta,
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Laboratories Android devices come to music and film rental service directly from Google, the company at its I/O Conference announced today. Customers will be able to stream movies from Android market and streaming gets [...]
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Guardian project provides security for paranoid Android Smartphone
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The Guardian project is an open source initiative, which aims to, you use the Google Android operating system for Smartphones bring the same kind of security and privacy that savvy users expect from laptops and desktops. [...]
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