02.1
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Airtime 2.0: Open Source for broadcasters

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Airtime, an open source web application to design and automate a radio program, is available in version 2.0 with new features.

In the new release, users can connect via browser up to three Internet streams at different bit rates with different Icecast-/Shoutcast-Servern. The Verbingsstatus and error messages are displayed on the web interface. The developers have made the playlist editor and a clear resolution of conflicts in the input. There are also improvements in access to the platform Soundcloud, the calendar and the Prelisten function. Further details can be found in the presentation of the new version on the homepage airtime, which also offers a screencast. A demo installation invites you to try.

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02.1
12

Humble Indie Bundle launched for Android

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With the “Humble Indie Bundle for Android,” suggested the Humble Indie Bundle on a new chapter and offers well-known indie games to a user-selected award for Android. The next four games are also available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

In May 2010 initiated action games by independent studios for a reasonable price and some for the first time to make it available for Linux, goes into another round , this time with a focus on Android. Of the three games that are offered at least one previous bundle is already known. Also offered as a bonus World of Goo, which is obtained if one pays more than the current average, was already part of a previous bundle. Bought separately would cost about $ 60 games. The price actually paid on average currently at 5.89 U.S. dollars.
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02.1
12

Vulnerability in sudo

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A popular tool for launching programs from other users of a security vulnerability, potentially allowing us to obtain the privileges of root.

Bug found in the function sudo_debug (), where the program name (argv [0]) is passed directly to fprintf (). Check availability of vulnerability can be the following simple way:
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02.1
12

Petition against ACTA

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Trade agreement to combat counterfeiting (ACTA) – issued to the multilateral trade agreement that will set strict supervision over the observance of copyright on the Internet, market information and information technologies and products based on information technology.

The proposed agreement will allow customs officials to inspect laptops, MP3-players and cell phones for storing them in files related to a violation of copyright law. It also assumes the introduction of new requirements for Internet service providers, which include partial disclosure of information related to user activity, and the use of network security tools.
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02.1
12

Mozilla Firefox is already 10 ESR

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So we waited for “the ten.” This release marks yet another milestone in the development that we all love the appearance of a browser version with extended support (ESR). The tenth version of the ESR will be maintained in parallel with the development of the main branch and will include security fixes until the 18th version ( tentative plan for future releases ). In parallel, released two versions of 10 and 10 ESR (the difference in the channel updates and logos in the Help → About Firefox).

In addition to this, of course important for all events, the latest version boasts the following changes:

  • “Next” button has now become optional and only appears when needed, freeing up space so critical to the horizontal;
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02.1
12

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle

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Red Hat offers services for each major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux throughout four life cycle phases – called Production 1, 2, and 3, and an Extended Life Phase.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 are offered with 10 years of Production Phase support, followed by a three year Extended Life Phase.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 are offered with seven years of Production Phase support, followed by a three year Extended Life Phase. Optionally, during the Extended Life Phase, customers may purchase an Add-On called Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) that provides support similar to Production Phase 3.

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01.31
12

IBM releases latest version of Symphony

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IBM for the last time a version of Office suite Symphony has released. Symphony will be discontinued in favor of OpenOffice.org.

Symphony is IBM’s proprietary Office suite, which is derived from OpenOffice.org 3 and free for downloading. The new version is 3.0.1 , according to Ed Brill from IBM to latest version of Symphony. This means that users get to upgrade again, appears to Apache OpenOffice. The whole energy of the IBM developers should now be placed in the continuation of OpenOffice.org, which is home since mid-2011 at the Apache Foundation.
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01.31
12

Zero image: fast and lossless image compression

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The KDE developers Christoph Feck has image zero (“iz” spoken, “easy”) presented a lossless compression algorithm for images, in addition to a high compression rate and can still score with a high speed.

image zero should be used especially where users often open and save images, some with image editing programs. Information about the losses that occur for example in JPG images to get at, Feck evaluated in recent months, several lossless image compression algorithms. In their comparison in Lossless Compression Benchmark photo he was disappointed with PNG and JPEG-LS. On the one hand, they worked him some too slow, on the other hand, they were provided with patents. Consequently, he decided to make it better and initiated zero image, a high-performance, lossless codec for RGB pictures.
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01.31
12

ownCloud 3

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Came third major version of the open source project cloud storage and data processing ownCloud, the number of users which exceeded 350 thousand

New features:

  • “Cloud” text editing. Allows users to edit files directly from the browser as well as free access to the network. The modified files can be synchronized with the upcoming release client synchronization. The new online editor supports:
    • syntax highlighting for 35 languages, programming
    • Drag’n'Drop
    • automatic indentation
    • syntax checking for JavaScript, Coffee and CSS.

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01.31
12

μHub 0.4

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Available file-sharing p2p-release hub μHub 0.4.0. The hub is intended to bring the technology hubs Advanced Direct Connect operating systems, Unix / Linux / OS X / BSD / etc.

With the previous version have been modified as follows:

  • Plugin System (unfortunately not in LUA):
    • display motd / rules
    • chat history
    • blocking general chat
    • Logging
    • Sign in SQLite3/file

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