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The organizers of the LinuxTag 2011, have given the lecture program of this year, which will expire in seven parallel tracks.

The of 11 to 14 May 2011 the Berlin Exhibition Grounds under the radio tower held LinuxTag is also this year an extensive free Conference Program exhibit. To make the program easier, the speeches were, as in previous years, grouped in parallel tracks. On Wednesday, the 11th May, there are the issues business models, development, data center and virtualization. On Thursday in Cloud Management, Business applications, high availability, and Office Admin sessions on the program. Friday is the other hand, under the banner of security, distribution, web frameworks, databases, and Admin. In addition to this day there is also the security tag instead. On Saturday, finally, the kernel issues, distributions, desktop, hardware hacks, OpenStreetMap, and Shell are provided. The lectures are depending on speaker in German or English.
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Resara, a server for small businesses to Linux and Samba 4 base is available in version 1.0.

The server is designed for a network of Windows clients and can be administered with little prior knowledge. Samba 4 means it manages the users and passwords and makes it accessible as a file server drive shares. He also serves as a DHCP and DNS server for the local network.

The administration, such as user management is done in Resara via a management console.
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With the recognition of the responsible Technical Committee at Oasis has the specification 1.2 of the Open Document format is now the final approval of Oasis on.

The consent of the Oasis Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Technical Committee “is almost as give impetus to the adoption of the new specification of the free document format. The technical committee has done to his work. The engineers are turning version 1.3 to do and also some corrections to version 1.1, chairman of the committee writes Rob Weir in his blog .
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The Suse developers Flavio Castelli and Dominik Mayer have released a command-line client for Suse studio called Dist.

The software is specialized in customized Linux images with Ruby on Rails applications to produce, containing all the required components Ruby. The inspiration comes from the commercial service Heroku .

Dister uses a Gemfile that lists the desired Rubygems. In addition, the tool has Suse Studio to install additional packages such as the PostgreSQL database to be created in the system image. Finally, does the command “dist push” by the developer built the application into Suse Gems Studio.

The command line tool used Dister Suse studio to produce a Linux image with all the necessary components for a Ruby Rails application.
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An award for energy-efficient data center operators will now be awarded at the Data Centres 2011th

At the conference, “Data Centres 2011″, the EU Commission awarded a prize for the excellent implementation of its Code of Conduct “to save energy. The Code of Conduct is a voluntary code of conduct with which companies commit to reducing their energy consumption through technical measures.
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The Document Foundation has published on time for their six-month anniversary, a new version of the Libre Box Office for free download.

The ISO images for the DVD contains installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X as well as dpkg and RPM-based Linuxes. Various language packs and templates are included, such as dictionaries and documentation for developers. In addition, the source code and the SDK with it. The makers of the box they packed also other programs like 7-Zip, Firefox, Thunderbird, Inkscape and much more.
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LM Sensors, a free software package for monitoring hardware data under Linux is available in version 3.3.0 with new features.

The new version also provides the Opening and humidity sensors under their supervision. For existing sensors, there are new attributes, CoreTemp now finds all CPUs in the system. A list of newly detected hardware components found in the changelog .
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In May 2011, turning the development of openSUSE 11.2, the version to update Hahn and supply the Linux distribution no longer with security updates.

After the openSUSE roadmap to maintain a release until two more versions published and another two months have elapsed, the security support ends on 12 May The current Version Opensuse 11.4. OpenSuse 11.2 in May then disappears from the build service in the direction of “discontinued” and from the distribution lists, the openSUSE server, it says in the announcement .
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Amazon promises to users of its service Cloud Drive 5 GB of free data storage.

The cloud offering is indeed the Amazon.com Web site designed for, but it works at least as an online store with German accounts as a test result, the editor in. Restrictions for German users to list a few: At the offered services in the United States to expand the space for a fee, must refrain users from Germany and other European countries. Furthermore, the (temporary) offer to get when buying an MP3 album for another 20 gigabyte disk space, this country is also not valid. Also purchased from Amazon MP3 albums do not land automatically in the Cloud Drive, as in the U.S. users. The latter function requires a purchase of the albums from Amazon.com.
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After the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has a complaint against Apple for patent infringement in a first estimate considers to be irrelevant, the Finnish mobile phone giant has filed a second appeal.

In the first case, it hints at Nokia, we will await the final verdict of the Commission and make them dependent on other steps. Regardless of Nokia have now filed a second action when it go to Nokia’s additional patents which infringes the company believes that Apple’s in almost all mobile phones, portable music players, the I-pads and computers. Nokia has filed these complaints to the ITC in addition to a court in Delaware, and courts in Mannheim, Dusseldorf and the German Federal Patent Court. Even before the High Court in London and a court in The Hague accuses Nokia.
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