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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 They do not publish information on security issues, and a very large part of the MySQL bug tracking system is no longer accessible.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…)

In order to circumvent the ban on tivoizatsiyu a license GPLv3, which is distributed under the boot GRUB2 and allow manufacturers to deliver computers with preinstalled Ubuntu, booted in a mode of Secure Boot, company Canonical has announced the start of work on creating your own boot loader, which is licensed under a liberal license.

The basis of the new boot loader will be accepted efilinux, developed by Intel.

To obtain the status of Ubuntu Certified developers Canonical also require suppliers to the availability of key EUFI WinQual, allowing to boot other operating systems. In addition, the company’s policy remains unchanged and the company supports manufacturers that provide the ability to disable the Secure Boot.
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Recently FESCo approved for implementation in the next, the eighteenth, the next release of Fedora revolutionary new product from the producer pulseaudio, systemd and journal. It is an off-line upgrades.

Now, all updates will be divided into two parts: the system updates and application. Last updated and will be put in the old way, but updates will be applied at reboot into a special mode of system updates and restart further back into normal mode.
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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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In the wake of the newly released Release Gnome 3.4, today, March 29, Fedora test day carries on the work of Gnome Shell, in the absence of hardware support for 3D.

If you have a problematic video card is too old or too new, or just a sane character with a composite manager of Gnome Shell, is today the best day to announce it to the Gnome development team http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and in http://bugzilla.redhat.com .

Also under the suitable objective test launch of Gnome Shell on all kinds of virtual machines. VirtualBox, and KVM should already work without problems. (more…)

Fedora developers Tim Waugh points out that Apple has made in development of version 1.6 of CUPS away some of what is on Mac OS X is not needed.

CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) was developed by Easy Software. The pressure system has long been the standard for many Linux distributions and some UNIX systems since it among other things, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) and can use all the capabilities of the printer. Since February 2007, Apple held by CUPS and employers in the main developer of CUPS, Michael Sweet. Although Apple promised, CUPS develop under a free license, and this was also, it seems that the new trend seems to be that are removed in Mac OS X is not required parts of CUPS. This is the CUPS “Apple Printing System”, which suggests its name Hohn.
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Among developers Fedora distribution discussion broke out on the distribution of transition “sliding” model updates, similar to that used in the distributions Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
It is worth noting that at present there is a special Fedora repository for “moving” updates – Rawhide. But, according to developers, to always use this repository is almost unusable, as falling within a package are often unstable, and upgrade of critical components (such as kernel and system libraries) from Rawhide can simply bring the system inoperable and sometimes lead loss of data .
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The Australian developer Christopher Smart has released its Fedora Remix Kororaa version in 16th.

The desktop distribution based on Fedora 16 ( we reported ), but offers a few extras. These include repositories for third-party software such as Google Chrome and VirtualBox, as well as an installer for Adobe Flash plug-in.
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Monitorix, an open source tool for system monitoring provides, in version 2.4.0 three other services under his supervision.

The new additions are the NTP time server, the Web proxy and cache Squid and the Icecast streaming server. Also new in version 2.4.0 is the ability to monitor it on FreeBSD and OpenBSD the network ports and the Nginx traffic. Further details can be found in thechangelog .

Monitorix running on the monitored computer and to make its numbers and graphs accessible through a Web interface. Looks like this, shows the demo installation .
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In his new article, Lennart Poettering (Lennart Poettering), a well-known sound server PulseAudio development and system load systemd, explained what he was not satisfied with syslog, and suggested that its universal implementation of the system log on Linux.

Among other things, this implementation does not support syslog protocol transmission of syslog and there are no support network, but instead of text logs using binary data formats, access to which is invited to a separate shared library.
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