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Magic Lantern - an alternative firmware for SLR Canon. Originally developed to obtain more control over the process of shooting video, and today it contains a number of features and interesting photographers.

The new version brings a lot of improvements in functionality and stability. According to the developers, the project grew out of the category of “hack” and can now be considered a full-fledged professional tool. Major changes (and differences from the standard Canon’ovskoy firmware): (more…)

Not even two weeks after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, both the free CentOS project as well as the commercial arm “Oracle Linux” has released updated versions of their products. With the release of CentOS nch follows nearly a week the release of version 6.1.

CentOS is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2 . As this includes the free reproduction of an extended kernel 2.6.32. In addition, the compression of the file has been converted to LZMA initrd.img, which leads to smaller files, among other things. For the network installation can now static IPv6 addresses are used.

Furthermore, the developers have taken driver complemented by Red Hat.

The SCSI driver qla4xxx was modified so that not the firmware, but open-iscsi responsible for the iSCSI administration. In addition, some SCSI drivers have been optimized to make do with fewer locks. In the XFS file system area were, Parallel NFS and CIFS updates.

In the network area of ​​the system call came sendmmsg to send multiple packets at once, Transmit Packet Steering (XPS) and other measures to increase the added speed. It also gave greater improvements in virtualization, KVM and Xen. The former has, among other things, a higher network speeds and supports USB 2.0, supports the latter including Memory ballooning.
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Canonical and Red Hat have jointly published a white paper on “the facts, the Secure Boot” in UEFI firmware compiles and asks the manufacturer to provide an easy way to turn on and off the safety function.

Does Matthew Garrett of Red had since July in a series of blog posts written dealing with the UEFI firmware. A month ago, he pointed to the new “Secure Boot” functionality, which is guaranteed by the BIOS stored key that only correctly signed software can be booted. If the hardware manufacturer to keep it in control of the key, then vice versa, users lose full control over the device, in particular, they can boot any alternative or modified operating systems. The manufacturers who want to get a Windows-8 certification must implement “Secure Boot,” leaving it to them but if they make the function can be switched off and how they manage the keys.
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The Linux distribution Trisquel is Software Freedom Day on 17 September appeared in version 5.0.

The release uses 2.6.38 kernel in a Linux-Libre-version, so no proprietary drivers and firmware. This reflects the general philosophy of the distribution, which relies exclusively on free software components. Equipment belongs to weitren Libre Office 3.3.3 and Mozilla-based abrowser in version 6.02.
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The project Qi hardware has released a new Linux image for the miniature computer Ben Nano touch.

The operating system is based on the Linux distribution OpenWRT. The current release 2011-05-28 shortens the boot time to less than 15 seconds. The used video player MPlayer now uses the hardware acceleration of the device and can play most of Theora and web-M video files in full QVGA resolution.
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The thin client specialist Igel show at Cebit upgraded hardware and new features of its own Linux firmware.

The thin client model UD3 has provided the manufacturer with a Nano-E-Series processor with 800 MHz VIA, which will bring faster boot times, about 40 percent more processing power and lower energy consumption. The network is the revised client with gigabit LAN.

At Cebit 2011 Igel Thin Client receives a faster processor and updated Linux firmware UD3.

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