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Linux Mint developers have announced the release of Linux Mint Debian 201,204.

A choice of two versions – with MATE 1.2/Cinnamon 1.4 or with Xfce 4.8, both in form 32-bit or 64-bit.

Known problems of production are described here .

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is based on Debian Testing, uses a repository Debian, but declared more stable – updates are made available to users after some additional testing and compatibility testing in a “settler» Linux Mint, which formed the so-called «Update Packs» for users.
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By tradition Ubuntu uses a name and an adjective that start with the same letter to give the code name for the version of Ubuntu, these names are in alphabetical order, if the next relase, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, will be the exponent of the letter P , the next logically be the Q, and we want to talk about this, it was announced by Mark Shuttleworth himself.
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The creators of Linux Mint has released a few days, the Debian edition of the Linux distribution (short LMDE).
With the DIY desktop Cinnamon Mate on board and softened along with Xfce as an alternative Linux Mint Debian from Ubuntu to the otherwise under fed from distribution. . Gnome is in LMDE no longer there, but the Aspire desktop based on Gnome 2.2. With the development of Cinnamon desktops lead developer Clement Lefebvre has been a special path.
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Samba developers reported that their product (versions 3.0.x – 3.6.3 inclusive) detected a dangerous remote vulnerability. The code, which is responsible for serializing and deserializing data for RPC-call encountered an error check the size of the array that allows a specially crafted RPC-to execute arbitrary code on the server.

The vulnerability is dangerous because it can use an anonymous user without going through the authentication procedure. Therefore, the developers recommend that all users of Samba upgrade as soon as possible. Due to the exceptional situation, the developers provide patches , even for unsupported versions (up to 3.0. *).
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Fedora now spends one day a broad profile of the test: testing the power management.

List of test cases:

• suspend / resume using pm-utils;
• hibernate / resume using pm-utils;
• gathering information on the errors pm-utils;
• Notebook: identification of the battery and power supply, the reaction pm-powersave to change the source;
• Notebook: a reaction to the closing of the lid;
• Notebook: Change the brightness of the screen;
• basic functionality and utility service tuned tuned-adm;
• Notebook and in the presence of wattmeter – measurement of energy consumption for different profiles tuned.

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The Novell Open Workgroup Suite for Small Business, Novell now smaller companies with up to 200 employees and five servers in a favorable licensing round carefree package.

The Workgroup Suite includes server and client licenses for the Novell Open Enterprise Server, based on SLES 11 SP 1 Network, provides file and print services. Also included is Groupwise, Novell’s collaboration solution, and Vibe, which offers the same goal towards social networking tools, process automation, blogs and survey tools. To manage the servers are Zenworks Linux Management ZENworks Configuration Management and integrated. Desktop users can use the office suite zusamen LibreOffice with the Linux Enterprise Desktop.
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The minimalist Tiny Core Linux distribution, Linux has been released in version 4.4 and including updated versions of the packages included, bringing the kernel improvements and innovations in the handling of boot parameters.

Tiny Core 4.4 is based on a 3.0.21 kernel and runs completely in memory. The main novelty of this version in addition to an upgraded system, the advanced parameters at startup. Thus, the distribution may for example be transmitted via the parameter “iso” is the location of the ISO image embedded extensions. In addition, the distribution of a new sript “fromISOfile” which starts after the start of an ISO file. Also new is the ssb module in the base component. The kernel also has support from at ax25/ham and comes with an on kexec. In addition, the developers have fixed a crash of the kernel in the integration of CIFS shares.
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According to Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is Ubuntu’s market share in the company is now higher than that of Red Hat. There are no official figures, it is not.

The proportion of the Ubuntu Linux enterprise market in the last twelve months , according to Shuttleworth has steadily increased, however, dropped by Red Hat. The Ubuntu-founder makes this statement based on a statistics of W3Techs , the only public Web server involves. It evaluates the companies from those Web servers that at Alexa prove the first million sites.
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The team of Debian Edu (Skolelinux) has released the first version of the distribution, which is based on Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”.

Debian Edu is a Debian Pure Blend , which is used specifically in schools and educational institutions and provides a ready-made environment of a fully configured school network. It contains the configuration of a school-server installations via PXE, PXE boot for machines without hard drives, a configuration for the installation of stationary workstations and a configuration for workstations, which can be removed from the school network. Several educational programs such as Celestia , Dr. Geo , GCompris, GeoGebra , calcium, KGeography and Solfege are in the default configuration of the work environment included. (more…)

A few days ago was published release CentOS 5.8. This distribution is based on the RHEL 5.8.

The new packages as compared to 5.7:

• binutils220
• iotop
• mysql-connector-odbc64
• pixman
• postgresql-odbc64
• python-ctypes
• spice-client
• spice-protocol
• virt-who
• unixODBC64

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