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The Jetpack team of Mozilla has released version 1.5 of the add-on SDK.

The add-on SDK supports developers creating extensions to the free Firefox browser. With the SDK extensions developed based on Web technologies HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The importance of the SDK is not only that it should make writing extensions easier, but the extensions will also be largely independent of the exercise version of Firefox.Traditional hand, must be offered to each new version of Firefox, currently adjusted so every six weeks.

In addition, the new extensions can have a better security design and install without a browser restart.
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In the development version of OpenStack there are now no longer supports Microsoft’s hypervisor.

The open-stack developers have removed the latest build support for the Microsoft hypervisor Hyper-V. The reason is, according to the changelog , that nobody cares about the local code. The unit tests for this are meaningless, as well as the drivers for other hypervisor systems have evolved so functional that Hyper-V could no longer keep up. For the future, it is not impossible to take the driver again, if a developer finds it. Less than one and a half years of support for Hyper-V as part of a partnership was announced was.
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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 FlightGear development team has released the free flight simulator, version 2.6. With FlightGear 2.6 hobby pilots start faster and take advantage of many new features.

The developers helped FlightGear 2.6 in shorter load times, easier tuning graphics and improved usability. At some airports, players can automatically boot from a parking lot, the size and type of aircraft selected meets. If the controlled airport supports the functionality can be shown the route to take-off and landing runways. The artificial intelligence system (AI) uses processors with multiple cores better and can load aircraft models in a background thread. The charging process seems so fluid and is additionally reduced by the fact that only parts of the aircraft to be read from the disk that are currently visible. From the artificial intelligence or other players controlled planes do not move more quietly, but give as the main aircraft noise.
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In Hall 9 at CeBIT 2012, the Cebit Lab, the innovative technology concepts of language input presented to robotics.
Some of the innovations derived from medical technology: The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), for example, provides a solution for radiologists, the medical records by voice command to bring the Tablet PC. SAP uses its in-memory database Hana on treatment histories.

Another focus is on robotics. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) shows the humanoid robot ARMAR II, which is to learn through imitation of humans. In the demonstration, he will work in the kitchen and clear about cups in the dishwasher. The robots of the Oldenburg Institute for computer science (OFFIS) can position tools and samples with an accuracy to within single nanometer. The Cebit home on Thursday 8 March, by the way the conference Networked Robotics . (more…)

2012_2_19 version of Parted Magic, a live CD to work with disk partitions, upgraded software and cleaned some errors.

The new release delivers to the BNEP Bluetooth module for the Linux kernel. In the multi-purpose binary BusyBox missing in the previous version, the command “dpkg” and “ar”, which is now also fixed.

There are also using Truecrypt 7.1, Clonezilla-1.2.12-10-E2fsprogs 1.42 and ntfs-01.15.2012-3g_ntfsprogs some updates. The Firefox browser is now installed in version 10.0.1. Other versions of the program lists the changelog .
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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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Apache Software Foundation and Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.1, the first stable release of the new 2.4.

Major improvements:

• Dynamically loaded MPM. Several MRM can be collected in the form of loadable modules that can be activated without rebuilding
• Event MPM module is no longer fully supported by experimental and
• Improved support for asynchronous read / write for the MRM

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Sly without any news of scandals and unreleased (another?) Programming language, this time with a nice female name Julia.

Why another one? The developers claim that they wanted to take the best of the existing languages, such as: the speed of C, the dynamism of Ruby, a system of macros Lisp, to create a language that is convenient for statistical (R), mathematical (Matlab / Octave) problems, the natural processing lines (Perl), and use as a shell to run other utilities. In short, happiness for all and nothing, let no one left out.
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The Scientific Linux Red Hat derivative is available in version 6.2 now also live issues are available.
The images are created with Fedora’s livecd-tools in version 13.4 and have a different scope: The live mini-CD (477 MB) used the window manager Ice WM 1.2, the live CD (695 MB), the desktop environment, GNOME 2.28, and the Live DVD (2.2 GB) offers a choice of Ice World, and Gnome 4.3.
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