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Hispalinux , a Spanish association lodged a complaint with EU 
against Microsoft and its SecureBoot UEFI.

In the past there has been much discussion of SecureBoot and its impropriety, but until 
now no one had moved really against this injustice, we tried it 
to find solutions, sometimes peaceful and sometimes not, to solve the problem. 
But these solutions how convenient? 
Very few distributions support the ‘ UEFI SecureBoot , these include: (more…)

Jim Meyering (Jim Meyering) has announced a new version of GNU Coreutils. The output of this version is mainly due to various bug fixes. Although there have been made some improvements.

Junkie The Sniffer, a tool for real-time analysis of network traffic is available in version 2.2.0 with new features.

The new release supports multiline HTTP headers and can play back recordings in a loop. She also feels faster on deadlocks. Junkie can pass NetTrack values now on the GNU Guile programming language that is used to write extensions. The Guile-compiled files, the tool before it loads. In addition, there is now more detailed documentation in the “doc” directory.
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Jim Meyering (Jim Meyering) reported that 13 weeks of development has been prepared by a new stable release of GNU Coreutils 8.18

Bugs

• cksum prints the checksum is now atomic, so that the output of parallel processes do not stir (the error was present initially);
• date-d “$ (printf ‘\ xb0′)” now reports an error: hshdate: invalid date ‘\ 260′, rather than today’s displays 00:00:00 as in previous versions (bug was present initially);
• df now replaces control characters in the mount points on?. It may be convenient to use in scripts, counting on a certain order of transfer lines in the output of df (error originally present);
• df – total goes to the appropriate error message if the specified file system type (optional – type) does not correspond to the processed file system. The previous version of df worked without the error message:

  $ touch /tmp/tes $ df --type=ext2 /tmp/test df: не обработано ни одной файловой системы $ echo $? 1 $ df --total --type=ext2 /tmp/test Файловая система 1K-блоков Использовано Доступно Использовано% Cмонтировано в total 0 0 0 - $ echo $? 0

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Red Hat has announced a distribution yield of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3, which is represented by error correction, support for the implementation of new equipment and adding new features, while maintaining full compatibility with the software environment branch RHEL 6.x. In the near future is expected to start training RHEL distribution 7, which is scheduled for release in the second half of next year.
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Roland McGrath, founder of the system library Glibc, announced the dissolution of overseeing the development of Glibc steering committee, which will lead to the transfer of decision-making powers in the hands of the team’s active maintainers. The Committee agreed to its dissolution, arguing that formed the community of developers can provide self-regulation. The direction of policy development and the project will now be determined by consensus among the people directly involved in the development of Glibc.
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There was a release of GCC version 4.7.0, dated to the 25th anniversary of the project.

Major changes in this version:

• Support for transactional memory architectures.
• Expanded support for C + +11, including the atomic operations and memory model.
• OpenMP 3.1.

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There was a release of the popular open-Internet browser Firefox 11! In connection with the found critical mistake during the competition Pwn2own, as well as a desire to test the release of a fresh update for Windows, was taken a decision to delay a little bit contrary to the strict production schedule.

List of changes:

• Import bookmarks, history, and cookie-files from Google Chrome.
• Support for CSS text-size-adjust.
• In reviewing the source code for syntax parser uses HTML5.
• New tool to edit the CSS.

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Octave – a high-level language for numerical computations similar to Matlab.

In the new version the following changes:

• To build the library now requires PCRE.
• ARPACK, previously included in the source code for Octave, was removed from the delivery. Now ARPACK must be put separately to work functions such as eigs and svds.
• Many binary operators (.*,. ^, +, -, …) Can now perform automatic distribution (broadcasting) for array operations. For example, the scaled columns with elemenov vector by using the expression:

    rv .* M

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12 people in 12 weeks have added more than 120 commits. The result was published January 6 new version of GNU Coreutils 8.15. Added a new program, realpath, and also fixes some bugs. Well, what are these errors, as is the case recently, found only in the “dusty corners” of code, and few of them are played often enough.

Significant changes

• New Programs
  • realpath displays absolute file names.

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