Canonical has thrown open its cloud offering Ubuntu for the One Door to Windows machines.
There were now an official Windows client for Ubuntu One, the product team wrote in a blog post. To “Why?” it is there, you’ve listened to the wishes of the users who would like to manage their content on a cloud platform and this also from a variety of platforms and devices.
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The first Android users, the new monthly of Linux New Media AG, is now available on newsstands. The first edition is devoted to focus in the IFA-News and many other smart phones and tablets.
Android users is aimed at smartphone and tablet users and all those interested in Android. The book presents new products and test them and also app-games and ideas do not come too short. For all those who bring a bit more experience with Android, is our power-user tips section on how to use its Android device, and optimally informed about details of the system.
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Mozilla has had to pushing forward shortly after the release of version 7 is a little update. Meanwhile, the beta version of Firefox is to have eight.
Disappeared enhancements are the reason why Firefox a few days after the completion of version 7.0.1 is available as 7 already. Some users have complained about some hidden add-ons, the developers state. This bug is now fixed, it is the new version for download or via the update function.
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The program of the 5th Secure Linux Administration Conference (SLAC), on 1 and second Takes place in Berlin in December, is certain.
Contributions to the Configuration Management with Puppet, checklists for system hardening, cluster file systems, administration strategies for the new DevOps principle, IPv6 and the introduction of DNSSEC are some of the themes of the 18 detailed, up to 90-minute lectures, which this year on the 5th SLAC will.
In addition, reports can be found among the papers from the Enquete commission “Internet and Digital Society” of the German Bundestag and from the laboratories of the anti-malware-virus vendors.
On 1 and second December 2011 conference held in Berlin will not teach basics, but practical, proven approaches to the Linux server administration. The target group therefore includes experienced administrators and IT managers who want to use the conference in addition to the extension of know-how as a platform for sharing experiences.
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The Humble Bundle Inc. offers the Humble Frozen Synapse bundle on a new game package, the buyer can decide for themselves how much they want to pay. In the bundle are in any case, the strategy game “Frozen synapse” and included the soundtrack, which would normally cost a total of about $ 30.
In Frozen synapse of the game developer mode 7 games is a turn-based strategy game that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and MS Windows. It consists of 55 missions that offers multiplayer support and map generators.
Frozen Synapse battles can also unsubscribe by e-mail. Rounds played can be provided to posterity as YouTube video. In order not to be neglected during long games, social contacts, the developers integrated Facebook and Twitter in the game.
As with all previous actions Humble bundle is Frozen Synapse bundle offered for 14 days. Players who pay more than the current average price of $ 4.55 will receive, in addition, the Humble Frozenbyte bundle , which was offered in April. It contains the games Trine, Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds Survivor.
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Tizen - an open source platform supported by leading mobile operators, handset manufacturers and suppliers of components, intended for a broad class of devices such as smartphones, tablets, notebooks, smart devices TV, automotive information.
The project will be managed by a special Tizen Group (Technical Steering Group) supported Linux Foundation.
The main feature of the claimed Tizen is a development environment focused on HTML5 and Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) , as well as a completely open software stack. Publication SDK expected in the first quarter of 2012
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The new version of Rodent (aka xffm) – Rodent Gamma (xffm-4.7.0). Rodent – a lightweight and versatile application, which occupies an intermediate position between the emulator and the classical shell file manager. Although officially refers to the Rodent file manager, developers believe that the right to call him “shell graphic (graphic shell)” because he plays the role of graphic add-on (frontend-a) for the shell and utilities rm, cp, mv, ln, mount, sudo, touch, and so on.
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After six months of hard work went GNOME 3.2 – second stable release of the new generation of one of the most popular desktops for * nix-systems.
Based on user feedback, the developers met a lot of small improvements to improve the quality of use GNOME, for example:
Company Wolfire announces start of sales of a new set of Humble Bundle. New game included only one – Frozen Synapse from Mode 7 Games. This turn-based tactical game with a special, rather simple style graphics, reminiscent of “Uplink” or “Defcon”. Regular price – $ 25, but during the campaign you can buy at any price: the buyer himself points out how much willing to pay. The game runs under Windows, Mac and Linux and has no built-in copy protection. The game comes bundled with a soundtrack.
But that’s not all. Who will pay the average price (at time of writing the news – $ 4.15), one gets more and all the games set Humble Frozenbyte Bundle: “Trine”, “Shadowgrounds”, “Shadowgrounds: Survivor”, “Splot” (game still in development, will be available Download the latest) and “Jack Claw” (this is an unfinished and abandoned the game, available only to the early assembly and source code).
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Ubuntu Canonical has the App Developer a new page starting point for developers launched, will offer to create applications for the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu and developerto support them in all stages of the app creation.
On Canonical’s new App Developer page developers will find everything to create new Ubuntu applications.
With the help of the Python tool can be implemented Quickly (very simple) applications within five minutes. Quickly acts as an interface to various other programs such as Python, GTK +, PyGTK, Gedit, Glade, Bazaar, Winpdb, Launchpad and the Debian package system.
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