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Linux Mint developers have announced the release of Linux Mint Debian 201,204.

A choice of two versions – with MATE 1.2/Cinnamon 1.4 or with Xfce 4.8, both in form 32-bit or 64-bit.

Known problems of production are described here .

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is based on Debian Testing, uses a repository Debian, but declared more stable – updates are made available to users after some additional testing and compatibility testing in a “settler» Linux Mint, which formed the so-called «Update Packs» for users.
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Largely designed to eliminate errors in OpenSSH 6.0 presents.

The free implementation of SSH protocol also offers several new features such as optional screening checkpoints in the module “ssh-keygen”. The release announcement mentions other features and lists the most important bug fixes.
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The new version of Calculate Linux – is based on Gentoo-based distro Linux, designed for rapid deployment in an enterprise environment.

Available for download all editions distribution: Calculate Directory Server (CDS), Calculate Linux Desktop with the desktop KDE (CLD), GNOME (CLDG) and XFCE (CLDX), Calculate Media Center (CMC), Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) and Calculate Scratch Server (CSS).
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So today a new version of the popular distro openSUSE 12.1. This is the next release of 11.4 and the second this year. openSUSE 12.1 contains tens of thousands of changes and improvements, it combined the best traditions of building Linux-distributions, combined with the new system tools and powerful cloud technologies.

With a little delay related to lack of necessary patches, published the first version patchseta pf-kernel for a fresh kernel Linux v3.1.

In this version:

• Stabilization Patch v3.1.1 Linux ;
• patchset from Kona Kolivasa (Con Kolivas) 3.1.0-CK2 , including a newer revision process scheduler BFSv415;
• IO scheduler BFQ v3-r1 ;
• alternate subsystem hibernation TuxOnIce as of v3.1-rc8;
• patch , which reduces power consumption to the level of Linux v2.6.37.

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Continuing full-scale training of sign release 0.3.14 (Pi) of the operating system ReactOS . In connection with what the developers are turning to community to take part in the testing of fresh builds on real hardware.

Coordinating the testing center is located on the developer forum. That requires the attention of testers: (more…)

Available for download all editions of distribution: Calculate Directory Server (CDS), Calculate Linux Desktop with the desktop KDE (CLD), GNOME (CLDG) and XFCE (CLDX), Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS), Calculate Scratch Server (CSS) and new Calculate Media Center (CMC).

Major changes

Distribution

• The structure includes a new Calculate Linux distro Calculate Media Center.

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After six months of hard work went GNOME 3.2 – second stable release of the new generation of one of the most popular desktops for * nix-systems.

Based on user feedback, the developers met a lot of small improvements to improve the quality of use GNOME, for example:

• increased area for grasping that you can drag a window;
• System Settings applets contain links to the most-used settings associated with the applet, but used elsewhere (for example, the applet contains a link to the keyboard layout setting);
• headings, buttons and panels have been slightly reduced in order to make GNOME more convenient for small screens;
• battery status is now displayed as a bar.

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Canonical’s former co-worker Scott James Remnant suggested Ubuntu to publish a monthly release cycle. Then one could avoid problems with the current 6-month cycle.

Scott James Remnant is not just anyone. He sits on the Technical Board of Ubuntu, but now works for Google. From him comes Upstart. In his blog he has now there is a problem, the current Ubuntu release cycle causes. Because of the 6-month cycle employees would integrate software in Ubuntu, which was not yet finished.

Alternatively, it represents a new approach to the discussion. He wants to make Ubuntu a rolling release. Regular users receive monthly updates on Ubuntu 11:10′d Ubuntu 11.11, 11:12, etc. follow. The updates come from a beta-branch, interested users can use instead of the release branch. Among them there is still an alpha branch.
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The Swiss Federal Court received in the last week of the public accounts committee of the Senate’s permission to publish the court-house developed software under the GPLv3 open justitia. justitia will be used to open courts of individual cantons, among other things, to investigate court decisions.

In the run up to task quite a stir around open justitia. Proprietary software vendors court accused the Federal Court of distortion of competition, because the software was developed with taxpayers’ money and other courts should be made freely available. Thus, the federal court would provide an administrative unit, according to the commercial provider of commercial services to third parties, for which it is not entitled under Article 41 of the Financial Management Act.

Moreover, the risk was seen that the required independence between federal courts and other courts had been at risk due to business relationships.

The Control Committee of the Council of States (CC-S) took care of the problem and underwent the willingness of the Federal Court, the software under a free license to publish and other dishes at no cost, an audit. Especially the charge of commercial services and the associated distortion of competition has been verified.
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