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Canonical company in recent years has an active policy to promote Ubuntu, established an important partnership agreements with various countries, organizations and government agencies.

A few days ago it became known that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has decided to use Ubuntu as a reference operating system for its national program running, emphasizing its advantages such as flexibility, openness, the popularity and availability of standards development. Announcement was the result of a five-year transition plan and the accelerated growth of open source software ecosystem in China.

Everything else, in Beijing will be an office development, which Canonical, in close cooperation with their Chinese counterparts will be to further develop the Ubuntu with a focus on the Chinese market.
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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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After more than a year of development came fourth alpha version of Haiku OS.

The main goal now is to provide updated and stable operating system to third-party software developers to work on their projects without the distraction of an error in the OS. To do this, the operating system includes the basic tools. In this release, the ability to build executable files like using GCC2 and through GCC4, but if you have a specific need, it is not recommended to use GCC4, because the API backward compatibility with future versions is not guaranteed.
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For some time in China is another Linux-based mobile operating system OS Aliyun the e-commerce group Alibaba as Android challenger headlines. Now throws Android chief Andy Rubin from the Chinese, Aliyun OS used without permission the Android runtime.

Aliyun OS is a smartphone operating system of the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba , which is estimated by the Chinese firm strategists Zeng Ming be in the near future “in China as strong as Android in the U.S. and Europe.”

Now Google has taken some time to Alibaba Aliyun OS in the room standing allegations in words. Said Andy Rubin wrote on Google+ , Aliyun OS used without permission from parts of Google Android, such as the Android runtime, the Android framework and a number of other Android tools. Furthermore, the App Store for OS Aliyun contain many Google apps for Android without permission from Google and many other Android apps without the knowledge or permission of their respective owners.
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Ubuntu for Android is a project to bring Ubuntu to Android as if it were an app, sharing it with the kernel, and once started the app and attacked the smartphone to a dock, it was possible to work with Ubuntu Unity environment, but it seems that Canonical is not satisfied with this, but you want to go further, it wants to present Ubuntu OS for smartphones, which unlike Ubuntu is not an app for Android, but a real OS, if it were really so, Canonical would be emulating Apple with iPhone OS (remember to be ported to Mac OS X for ARM devices) carrying on ARM platform (ie Smartphone and Tablet) Ubuntu. really happen if Canonical would be in direct competition with the Titans Android and iPhone OS, infants Bada OS and dying and Windows Phone OS Symbian and Blackberry. will succeed? It will become known as Android and iPhone OS? or remain anonymous? Personally if you really want to be successful, it must meet the following requirements: (more…)

The security problem on the Android operating system is known, and corrective seemed not yet in sight. But with the help of the NSA is the first time an SE-Linux implementation for Android ready for testing.

As a project that serves to identify and correct critical errors in Android, called the Android developer of Security Enhanced (SE Android) their project. This should allow the use of SE Linux in Android, and so the damage that malicious apps on the smartphone OS cause dam. Meanwhile, there is even a reference implementation available, which attaches itself to a lower level in the software stack, and so an “overview of the value of SE Linux aware of the dangers of root exploits and application errors” offer, the SE Linux project in its Wiki .
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English student James Molloy published in his blog, step by step guide to creating operating systems for x86 processors. This operating system has all the essential parts of modern operating systems such as virtual memory, VFS, multitasking, and others. This manual consists of fragments of source code (in C and Assembler) and a detailed explanation of how it works, as well as technical data on the processor, a description of some of the registers, etc.
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July 8 came the next version of OS Barrelfish, developed by members of the Higher Technical School of Zurich (ETH Zurich) in conjunction with Microsoft Research. This is the second major release of the operating system, the first experimental version of which was presented at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) in October 2009.

OS Barrelfish is experimental and is designed to work effectively with multicore processors and systems on a chip. Barrelfish written “from scratch”, almost entirely – in C or assembly language. While the only supported platform is x86, support for other platforms – in the process.
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Finally, the Release of CentOS 6.0. Mirrors are not yet updated, but some are already available.

Centos – distribution based on the source code of commercial distribution RedHat Enterprise Linux. On major changes to the 6th version of the distribution can be read in the news about releases RHEL6 .

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LoseThos is an operating system 64-bit PC, complete, free, and created a completely independent basis. In reality, this is not a Linux distribution ( Ubuntu , Mandriva , Fedora , etc..) and has no basic Linux. It is an alternative atypical all existing systems, able to fully exploit the latest multi-core processors that are in this case from a x86 platform 64 (Core i7, Core 2 Duo, Pentium D, …).

However LoseThos is a somewhat unusual in that it runs completely counter to the current standards in terms of GUI, usability and design, where Mac OS X reigns supreme. LoseThos is indeed much more reference to some of the 80 OS using a very basic GUI or text command lines predominate. This interface is represented in a resolution of 640×480 in 16 colors, where current standards are more like the Full HD 1920×1080 in 24 million colors. The author of the software specify the reasons for this choice by citing the drivers and hardware accelerated graphics cards are difficult to integrate, or using resources unnecessarily to its use.
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