01.28
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After years of development costoyalsya release a set of free sound drivers and libraries, ALSA ( Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ) 1.0.25, providing audio – and MIDI-functionality for family systems GNU / Linux., which says more than 3,000 changes. Among the most notable improvements include:
- Added support for PCI-card Creative Titanium HD;
- Support for the use of hardware acceleration compression streams;
- For all models, sound card ASUS Xonar driver CMI8788 Oxygen supports S / PDIF input;
- Fixed problems in the cards Essence ST, Sound Blaster X-Fi, as well as older cards Creative Labs, supported by the driver EMU10K1 and EMU10K2, and HDA-devices Intel, used on platforms with an Atom;
- Support for new synthesizer with interface USB: Yamaha MOX6/MOX8, Roland GAIA SH-01, Cakewalk UM-1G, Traktor Audio 2;
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01.28
12
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Among developers Fedora distribution discussion broke out on the distribution of transition “sliding” model updates, similar to that used in the distributions Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
It is worth noting that at present there is a special Fedora repository for “moving” updates – Rawhide. But, according to developers, to always use this repository is almost unusable, as falling within a package are often unstable, and upgrade of critical components (such as kernel and system libraries) from Rawhide can simply bring the system inoperable and sometimes lead loss of data .
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01.26
12
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In April and May, it’s that time again, Linux and Open Source is touring Austria. We start with the LinuxTag in Graz, which is already on the lookout for interesting articles , and on 28 April to take place. The deadline for submissions is mid-March. On 3 May it then goes on in Vienna and until the fifth May Also here are the makers already on the search for exhibitors and contributions .
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01.26
12
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The Head-Up Display , which Shuttleworth has presented yesterday in his blog, is an interesting concept. Who has not seen it yet:
Where it is actually described quickly: Instead of menus in the window below the title bar there is a context-sensitive search input, accessed by pressing a key combination, which scans the menu items and more. A few thoughts:
Such a search bar has several origins. Gnome-Do, green, but also the terminal itself, is probably not on the reference for no reason at the end of the video. Want to get rid of the menu also has prominent predecessor, namely Chrome and Firefox it plagiarized.
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01.25
12
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Today, January 25, came the long-awaited version of one of the most popular DE for Unix-like systems – KDE SC 4.8.
The main innovations:
- Plasma
- A partial translation by QML.
- Added new features to the rooms. Now they make sense, since there was a feature of energy saving profile settings for each of the rooms. Long live the smart energy saving! Also added a handy switch rooms.
- Added the possibility of simultaneous automatic grouping on taskbar and window title bars.
- Added Icontasks.
- Fixed a bug where when you press the power button, the shut down menu to appear only after 15-20 seconds.
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01.25
12
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All APIs and the desktop itself are now fully stable!
I hope you’ll enjoy the many new features, the desktop effect, desktop layouts, the new configuration tool, the applets, changes, bug fixes and improvements that went into this release. This is a huge step forward for Cinnamon.
We’ll follow up with documentation for artists and developers, and with a website for users to download, rate and comment themes, applets and extensions. For now, we hope you enjoy this new release as much as we enjoyed working on it. Some of the new features were requested by many people, others will come as a bit of a surprise. It’s a real pleasure for us to finally unveil the very latest of our favorite desktop and we look forward to receiving your feedback so we can improve Cinnamon further with each and every release. Read More »
01.25
12
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Aptitude – a part of the Debian base system, front-end for APT, featuring enhanced functionality, including, inter alia, extended the mechanism to resolve dependencies and extensive opportunities for sample packages for all operations.
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01.25
12
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To the delight of the workers of the web programming just a couple of days ago a blog Ruby on Rails was informed of a significant event – the release of the eponymous Model-View-Controller framework’a for version 3.2. Of changes worthy of attention, we mention the following:
- Changing the rules restart classes. Now loaded only really changed classes. This change leads to a significant acceleration of the development process.
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01.25
12
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ExFAT – proprietary file system, designed mainly for flash drives. First introduced by Microsoft in Windows Embedded CE 6.0 embedded device also supports Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP (with update KB955704), Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, MacOS X Snow Leopard 10.6.5. It should be noted that the major electronics manufacturers such as Sony and Canon have already signed an agreement with Microsoft on licensing ExFAT. For device manufacturers with operating systems based on the kernel Linux – Android and MeeGo driver is available for the file system under a proprietary license ExFAT, which most likely will not be opened because of an agreement with Microsoft and still is intended only for OEM manufacturers.
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01.25
12
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The Linux kernel is found dangerous vulnerability that allows a local attacker to execute code as root. The problem occurs in kernel since 2.6.39. At the moment, has published threeworking exploit. Vulnerability assigned the number CVE-2012-0056 .
Source of vulnerability is a bug in the implementation proc-interface for direct access to process memory (/ proc / pid / mem).
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