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Wine, which allows users to Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris to run Windows-based applications, has been updated to version 1.5.28. The developers spent quite a lot of work, improving application performance with the old and the new games (including the hit Bioshock Infinite) and fix bugs.

An incomplete list of changes is as follows:

• GnuTLS is now used for all secure connections.
• MAC-default driver activated.
• Made various improvements to the Postscript-driver.
• Fixed problem with displaying the main menu Audiosurfs.

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On a system that is Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for porting a popular game engine, Torque 2D MIT on the platform Android. As the name implies, the engine is distributed under a free license MIT.

At the moment, the engine supports platforms Windows, OS X, iOS. Upon successful completion, the company Max Gaming promises about a month to port the engine to devices based on Android 2.3 + (including Ouya).On account of Max Gaming few games based on the Torque engines, including issued under Linux. They have also been fulfilled porting T2D on XBOX 360 and other engines from iOS to Android.

In addition, with the successful financing of the project Nathan Martin (Nathan Martin) from the community of T2D, together with the employee Max Gaming Tim Newell (Tim Newell) promise to perform porting of the engine for Linux.
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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…)

PF-kernel - kernel patchset for Linux, including patches that are not formally part of the kernel. These patches are:

• branch-ck with Scheduler processes BFS, designed to improve the interactivity of the system;
• IO scheduler BFQ, much uluchayuschy interactive system for disk operations;
• alternate subsystem hibernation TuxOnIce;
• Patch UKSM, created for deduplication memory pages (useful when, for example, several virtual machines of the same type).

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Former developer of Nokia have released as part of the project Jolla their operating system for smartphones. The Sailfish OS baptized system based on Linux, Qt, QML and HTML, integrated Android apps and many open source projects. There’s also an SDK – but so far only for Linux.

Who on the website is based Jolla, where developers show once the party to the official launch. As the former Nokia developers on stage, waving tablets and smartphones, and explain as much as possible (“all sorts”) to want to support devices with the “first truly free and open ecosystem for mobile devices”. They want a real alternative to proprietary, provide business models drive models, and so allow plenty of OSS with new business models for anyone who is there to listen.
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Red Hat Linux UEFI expert Matthew Garret believes that problems with Linux on UEFI notebooks concern not only with Samsung devices. The respective manufacturers but are mostly to blame themselves. Really dramatic were problems with UEFI secure boot, but so far only with Samsung.

During a report in last week that Samsung notebooks after a single boot Linux started no more than UEFI, has the weekend also Red Hat UEFI specialist Matthew Garrett in his blog on the subject expressed.

That installing Linux on UEFI laptops to a defective firmware could lead was, in his view, due to a manufacturing fault. According to Garrett, there are even problems with UEFI on notebooks from other manufacturers, but which are less dramatic. Overall, let Linux install easily on the vast majority of devices.
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Linux Hosting simply means Web services running on a server running a Linux operating system, so no need to follow your description confused over housing. Hosting Linux is mainly considered by online business owners or small or medium that running in nature.

Considering Linux hosting main reason is that Linux hosting costs much less to other options such as Windows web hosting for example. Now the question is why is it cheaper? A product of open source software is what Linux is and why step carries high fees that other systems are associated with them can even download the Linux operating system and use it without paying anything like everybody. While on the other hand, if a web host offers Windows hosting would be expensive as they pay maintenance charges for software costs. (more…)

The team of Mageia Linux distribution has released the second beta release of Mageia 3 for testing. With this in LibreOffice are the almost finished version 4.0 and Linux 3.8.

Mageia is a Linux distribution, which in September 2010 split from Mandriva and since then has released two versions in community work. After Mageia 2 , the developers immediately began work on the next version, which is expected at the second April, two weeks later than originally planned, appear .
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The company system 76 from the United States offers a laptop for playing enthusiastic buyers who can look like some desktop Pc pale.

System 76 includes four notebooks with Linux pre-installed 14 to 17 inches. The top model is the Bonobo Extreme, a 17.3-inch laptop with a weight of almost four kilograms. The hardware equipment makes the Bonobo Extreme interesting for players who want to wear a PC to the next LAN party. Also multimedia enthusiasts could wallow in the bonobo.

The buyer of configurable in many parts notebook comes in the basic equipment with a Core i7-3630QM CPU from Intel, which is supported by eight GB of dual-channel DDR3 1600 MHz clock speed. The memory is expandable up to 32 GB. For the graphic provides a Geforce GTX from Nvidia 670MX with 3 GB of GDDR5 RAM, the reflection in the in the basic 17.3-inch screen running at 1920 x 1080 pixels. That’s enough for 1080p full high definition.
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The idea has to come first, a credit card-sized, designed for learning Linux mini computer as a server for the Enterprise Resource Planning select.

The 512 MB RAM and the feeble ARM controller of popular Raspberry Pi seem the Stuttgart-based company All for Accounting GmbH go to in order to operate a three-user version of the in-house proprietary ERP software Mercaware. At least that puts a press invitation for the 5th December close.A previously published photo shows a bright red box with an Ethernet jack, the size fits well with the known Raspberry boards.
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