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Canonical company in recent years has an active policy to promote Ubuntu, established an important partnership agreements with various countries, organizations and government agencies.

A few days ago it became known that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has decided to use Ubuntu as a reference operating system for its national program running, emphasizing its advantages such as flexibility, openness, the popularity and availability of standards development. Announcement was the result of a five-year transition plan and the accelerated growth of open source software ecosystem in China.

Everything else, in Beijing will be an office development, which Canonical, in close cooperation with their Chinese counterparts will be to further develop the Ubuntu with a focus on the Chinese market.
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The Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on CentOS is available in version 6.4. CentOS is a community project, which provides a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) compatible system.

CentOS 6.4 is based on RHEL 6.4, which was released about two weeks ago . As RHEL distribution is supplied for seven years with updates. Since the developers behind CentOS need to adjust many Red Hat packages, new versions of the free offshoot appear, however, almost always with a delay. In CentOS Red must, among other associated trademarks and artwork has to be removed or replaced.

The new version of the distribution is still based on a kernel 2.6.32 , which was, however, greatly expanded. Among other things in the kernel for Microsoft Hyper-V Linux driver has been integrated. Furthermore, CentOS 6.4 now supports drivers for both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V paravirtualization. Virtualization with KVM replaced in the new version adds support for the 3.4 kernel since embodied in “virtio-scsi”. 
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The free operating system, PC-BSD, a FreeBSD-based system, wants to move on to more frequent releases and updates.

As the PC-BSD developers write in their blog, they are not satisfied with the frequency of releases and updates from PC-BSD. They would give out love to frequent new versions, were tied to the FreeBSD releases but so far carried out in intervals of partly over one year.

To increase the frequency of publications of PC-BSD, the developers had to improve once their system to generate the distribution since the work on the creation of a publication was far too slow and expensive. The goal is to go more in the direction of a rolling-release system, but only for the own tools and system packages. Later this will be extended to the whole FreeBSD base system.
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The team of Mageia Linux distribution has released the second beta release of Mageia 3 for testing. With this in LibreOffice are the almost finished version 4.0 and Linux 3.8.

Mageia is a Linux distribution, which in September 2010 split from Mandriva and since then has released two versions in community work. After Mageia 2 , the developers immediately began work on the next version, which is expected at the second April, two weeks later than originally planned, appear .
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The Long-Term Support Initiative of the Linux Foundation has published a kernel based on Linux 3.4.25, which is supported for two years.

The Long-Term Support Initiative (LTSI) was in October 2011, was founded . She reports to the Working Group on Electronic Devices and wants with the publication of its own kernel ensure that device manufacturers have long supported kernel version available that meets their needs, or at least represents a good basis for their requirements. Once a year should appear a LTSI kernel version that is supported for two years each. In a separate industry segment will be published Kernel supported up to three years. This is the typical lifetime of an electronic product of two to three years correspond.
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Proposed to replace MySQL to MariaDB in the beginning of the development cycle Fedora 19. MySQL will continue to be available for at least one more release, but MariaDB will now be the default. In addition, support will be a parallel installation of both packages on the same machine, will have to choose just one.

Development and support of MySQL implements Corporation Oracle, acquired the rights to the brand with the absorbed Sun Microsystems, which had previously acquired the Swedish company MySQL AB. Recent changes to Oracle, indicate that they are moving toward greater secrecy project MySQL. They do not publish information on security issues, and a very large part of the MySQL bug tracking system is no longer accessible. (more…)

Ben Hutchings, the main responsible for the kernel in Debian, has given an insight into the development and the differences between Debian and the standard Linux kernel explained.

While Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” around 200 critical errors and perhaps three months from the publication, is being used Wheezy kernel fixed long ago. The kernel is based on Linux 3.2 and includes a number of adjustments to the distribution, as well as bug fixes. In addition, drivers, new features and enhancements in recent kernel versions were integrated.
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The Ubuntu One team has announced the opening of the Ubuntu One Music Store for the web and your mobile phone. From now on users can not Rhythmbox detour buy their music via a browser or mobile device in the Ubuntu One Music Store.

The integration in cooperation with the 7digital -powered and available for Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu One Music Store was previously using the Gnome media player Rhythmbox. Banshee also has a corresponding extension. The shares purchased will be transferred except as a local downloads in the personal Ubuntu One memory of the user and can be synchronized from there, with each connected client PC. At extra cost from there also streaming the shares purchased is possible on a mobile phone.
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NexPhone – it’s smartphone operating system Android, which is surrounding the technology of Ubuntu for Android. One of the main advantages of this device – the ability to connect not only to your computer, but also to the tablet.

This smartphone is being developed by NexCrea, which advertises itself as the first company to release a smartphone with technology Ubuntu for Android. That the company has launched a promotional video NexPhone.

Naturally NexCrea not the first to work on a smartphone with Ubuntu for Android. But in NexCrea want to do more, and do it with style. Just look how it will look NexPhone , NexTablet , NexLaptop , NexMonitor .
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Customizer grub - a graphical utility to configure GRUB2 and BURG.

Among the features worth noting:

• sort, rename, delete, menu loader;
• support GRUB2 and BURG;
• setting the default operating system, kernel parameters and specify a delay before loading;
• setting a background image, text color, screen resolution.

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