The new version of the old GNU / Linux distribution has finally come out. Since the previous version in less than one year.
Slackware 13.37 uses the Linux kernel version 2.6.37.6 is the first release with the new naming system versions. To prefer the latter version, the kernel 2.6.38.4 is also available, as well as configuration files for 2.6.35.12 and 2.6.39-rc4, so each user can choose a new Slackware kernel to your liking.
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Today, as planned, released on the next release of Ubuntu, now numbered 4.11 and code-named “Natty Narwhal” (Elegant Narwhal).
Remember that in 2010, Carey Burgess had driven the initiative to consult the Network on the Linux community if wanted or not Adobe products for your system . The response was so overwhelming: several thousand people voted in getsatisfaction.com for the “Yes”. It seems that this was not a “Toast to the Sun” and that such participation has been ignored by the leaders of the company.
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The free BSD DragonFly BSD operating system in version 2.10.1 brings advanced hardware support and speed.
DragonFly BSD 2.10.1 contains almost half a year of development work and brings some major innovations. The system, which runs on 32-bit and 64-bit x86 systems, received improvements in the ACPI support, especially in the interrupt routing. As a result, significantly more hardware options and multi-processor systems are supported as before.
The file system can now hammer “duplicate files deduplicate.” If a file exists in identical form in different directories, the space for the copies can be saved. The deduplication can occur during normal operation, but also as a job such as overnight. A simulation command is used to find out before changing the file system, whether it is worth the effort.
The packet filter, pf, which is from OpenBSD, version 4.2, which was introduced six months ago, upgraded to 4.4. The revised Brigde system can combine multiple network interfaces in a single MAC address and add the bandwidth of the interfaces.
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Patrick Volkerding released after about one year of development time Slackware13.37. The leap from version 13.1 on the 13:37 he said that that seemed too boring and Version 2.13 is to compensate 37 the absence of a code name.
Slackware is considered the oldest surviving Linux distribution. The new version is based on a 2.6.37.6 kernel, of the variants included will be two in. There is a large kernel, which includes almost any driver and is intended only for installation. The installation ran successfully, users can access a small generic kernel, change the necessary drivers as modules and reloading an initial ramdisk (initrd), requires the need to create the user. In addition to the above kernel are also the kernel versions 2.6.38.4 and 2.6.35.12 (with Long Term Support) into the repositories.
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Lennart Poettering has published a further consequence of blog posts about Systemd. This issue deals with the configuration. Systemd leads not introduce new concepts and wants to remain compatible with various Linux distributions, however, strives for a unification.
One of the goals of Systemd, boot the system without executing shell scripts is, according to Poettering largely achieved. Because of the simple and well-defined formats of the known configuration files according to him it was quite easy to replace the numerous shell scripts by C code. However, there are files that differ in the path or in the format between the distributions. Systemd can deal with all this, but that’s a lot of case distinctions in the code required.
To improve this situation, Systemd defines its own configuration files. These are read by preference, and only if they are not present, will fall back on distribution-specific configuration files. Systemd leads however, no new concepts, but based on the existing files. Goal of Systemd is that using the distributions that Systemd to take these files and then the configuration is unified by little.
Objections to the names and contents of the configuration files are largely too late, since this topic was discussed already in various ways according to Poettering with representatives of all interested distributions. The newly defined files are the result of the discussions and were accepted by all.
In the course of the contribution is Poettering configuration files from the. / etc / hostname contains the host name as is expected of the system. / etc / vconsole.conf configures the keyboard and the console font, / etc / locale.conf the language.
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A new version Kdenlive – Editor’s nonlinear editing for KDE.
The developers of the split-off of Mandriva Linux distribution Mageia have released the second beta version. The official version 1 is on 1 June appear.
The second beta version is used for testing, and already contains the definitive software version of the official version. Until the publication in June will feed no more major code changes. For the beta version of the software has been updated once more but, among other things with Linux 2.6.38.4 , libre office 3.3.2, KDE 4.6.2 SC, Firefox 4 and Chromium Browser 12.0.742.0.
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Costoyalsya release EiskaltDC + + 2.2.2, cross-platform graphical client for networks Direct Connect , and ADC .
The main differences from version 2.2.1 , see the change log and / or comments to the news.
The next release of the program is expected May 22.
The activity of project development can be seen on this page . Communication with developers can be Jabber-conference or in a special forum thread . Error messages and requests for implementation of improvements made to the system tracking error Google Code.
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The independent game developers Frozenbyte has announced that the buyers of the recent “Indie Bundle Humble” some three gifts and published the source code of Shadowgrounds games.
The third Humble Indie Bundle was the tenth anniversary of the game developer Frozenbyte to the occasion. Once in a week $ 700,000 revenue was achieved, the manufacturer, the availability of some extras known. First, there is a preview of the game still in development “Splot,” the buyer will receive all of the packet in the completion. In addition, the level editor for the game Trine was provided; it exists but is currently only available for Windows and can not run with Wine.
As another extra to Frozenbyte has decided to the source code of the games’ Shadowgrounds’ and ‘Shadowgrounds: Survivor to publish, “which allows a port to other systems and the modification by interested developers. The company blamed but so far no information on the license and license endorsements are also missing in the source code, so that there is still not clear is how to use the source code carefully.
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