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Sylvestre Ledru conducted an experiment on the assembly Debian repository with a compiler clang. Contrary to expectations, the results were encouraging:

In my opinion, clang is stable and good enough to rebuild the most packages, Debian, although many of them will require minor corrections.

In the next few years, given the best tools of static code analysis, clang can replace gcc / g + + compiler as a C / C + + by default in Linux distributions and BSD.
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For the Android platform become available written in Java X server.
This was announced on his blog Quenya Matt (Matt Kwan), a graduate student from Australia.

“The last few months I developed X11 on Android. In the near future, maybe I need a user interface. It was much harder than I imagined, but after much effort I was able to finish the idea. I think this is really helpful.”
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The Fedora Project has released the alpha version of Fedora 17th In addition to the new desktops KDE SC 4.8 and Gnome 4.3 can be found in the alpha version, many improvements in virtualization and clustering.

In the vote on the name of the next version could the supporters of the name “Miracle Beefy triumph” after several attempts. Suitable to take notice of the alpha version of Fedora 17 humorous reference to that. The alpha version already contains all the planned features of the new version, partly but not completely. But it should be sufficiently complete and stable for initial testing.
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Canonical announced a project for Ubuntu Android . The aim of the project – launched a full-fledged desktop from Ubuntu to Android-smartphone with a docking station.

According to Canonical, mobile devices have sufficient resources to run full desktop applications. Therefore, a more impractical to carry around (eg from home to work) heavy laptop – enough to take your phone and connect it to the dock and get a full-fledged workstation.
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Red Hat is the eighth update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 released, which brings better hardware support, minor software updates and corrections. In addition, the new version includes all previously released security updates to.

The latest update to the company’s distribution from Red Hat is on an extended kernel 2.6.18 on. Some of the new features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux was (RHEL) 5.8 in RHEL 6 introduced and integrated into the older version. Thus, the support of virtualized environments on RHEL 5 has been expanded. Virtualized guest under KVM can use immediately from now instead of 128 to 256 cores. In addition, the Spice client only supports the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 systems. The company also has improved support for virtualization in hardware timer, which according to statement from Red Hat to lead to, among other things one at a quicker start and accelerated environments. Xen environments, however, the log information and the system can donated to change the size of virtual hard disks also switched hosts.
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The recovery distribution System Rescue CD is available in version 2.5.0 with updated software.

The Gentoo-based live Linux now defaults to kernel 3.0.21, as an alternative to the newer version 3.2.6 is there. In addition, the developers have ntfsprogs ntfs-3g replaced by 15/01/2012, E2fsprogs upgraded to 1.42 and got the latest stable Utilities for Btrfs in the Git repository. The partitioning tool GParted was updated to version 0.12.0. For space reasons, the Midori browser has replaced Firefox. Other version numbers called thechangelog .
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The new Linux file system Btrfs has recently dominated the compression process and Snappy LZ4 that save space and are fast.

Within the last week, two developers for the Linux kernel file system Btrfs have implemented new compression method. First, Andi Kleen has on the mailing list a patch released that developed by Google Snappy implemented algorithm. The procedure puts more emphasis on fast (de) compression rather than large compression ratios. Because the use of file system code in the Linux kernel must be implemented, Kleen has integrated the first Snappy code from C + + and ported to C and the kernel, before he wrote the actual code Btrfs. Snappy the code in the kernel is now also other kernel subsystems.
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The Debian Project is its patent policy with respect to entering the software distribution: http://www.debian.org/legal/patent .

Debian is a critical position in relation to software patents: patents for software algorithms are considered as a threat to free software and an obstacle to the mission of the project to provide a completely free operating system for all. We believe that software patents do not promote innovation and encourage developers to upstream object to these patents.
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The free software engineer James Bromberger has estimated the value of software included in Debian 7.0 to 14.4 billion euros. This number indicates what would today cost the development of the distribution from the ground up.

James Bromberger , besides President of the Perth Linux User Group, went a similar pattern at the statistics, such as the Linux Foundation [a 13 365] in 2008. While the Foundation at that time but the current Fedora analyzed 9, Bromberg moved approaching the upcoming version 7.0 “Wheezy” of Debian, which is still in development. Compared with 5547 packages to Fedora 9 and 204 million lines of code is Wheezy Debian packages with 17 141 and 419 million lines of code several times larger.
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The company Canonical has released its new Ubuntu distribution for deployment in the enterprise.

The main difference is the absence of gaming, file transfer tools (samba), development tools, the elements of social networking. The distribution is added to VMware View, Adobe Flash Plugin, OpenJDK, and some other program office orientation.
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