Il team di sviluppo di OpenSuse ha rilasciato la prima milestone di OpenSuse 12.3

Good news! openSUSE Milestone 0 of openSUSE 12.3 is out!

a quick overview of the latest changes in Factory:

• KDE is updated to 4.9.1 release
• Glibc is updated to 2.16 release
• Kernel is updated to 3.6.0-rc7
• X.org updated to 1.13 release
• All X.org video drivers are updated to latest stable release (or snapshot).
• Mesa updated to upcoming v9 snapshot.
• DRM libraries updated to 2.4.33 release
• Qt updated to 4.8.2 release.
• Emacs updated to 24.2 release.
• OpenJDK updated to 1.7.0.6 release
• Banshee media player is updated to 2.5.1 release.
• zsh is updated to 5.0 release
• SourceCodePro font from Adobe is now available among other new font packages.
• Support for OPUS codec added via libopus
• jpeg-turbo is now the default jpegv8 implementation, jpegv6 is dropped.

Rilasciata una nuova versione di Virtual Box, software di virtualizzazione

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164 and others)
• VMM: host freezes with 64-bit  guests on 32-bit Linux hosts (bug #10528)
• VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly updating the screen size when minimized
• AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause guest memory corruption after the has been reset
• NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions (Windows hosts only; bug #10513)
• Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard (bug #10631)
• Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter (bug #10624)
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes
• Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly updated (bug #9887)
• Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12

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La X.org foundation ha annunciato il rilascio di X11R7.7, release 7.7 di X Window System. Questa release è parte delle celebrazioni per il 25esimo anniversario del rilascio di X Window System version 11, avvenuto il 15 settembre 1987. La prossima release di X11, X11R7.8, sarà disponibile nel 2013.

The X.Org Foundation and the global community of X.Org developers announce the release of X11R7.7 - Release 7.7 of the X Window System, Version 11. This release is the eighth modular release of the X Window System. The next full release will be X11R7.8 and may happen in 2013.

This release is part of our celebration of 25 years of X11, recognizing the 25th anniversary of X Window System Version 11, Release 1 (X11R1) on September 15, 1987. We will continue this celebration later this year at the X.Org Developer Conference, hosted by SuSE in Nürnberg, Germany on September 19-21.

X11R7.7 supports Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and GNU Hurd systems. It incorporates both new features and stability and correctness fixes, including support for reporting multi-touch events from touchpads and touchscreens which can report input from more than one finger at a time, smoother scrolling from scroll wheels, better cross referencing & formatting of the documentation, pointer barriers to control cursor movement, and synchronization fences to coordinate between X and other rendering engines such as OpenGL.

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Rilasciata la prima beta di openSuse 12.2

On the graphical side this milestone now features gimp 2.8 (with single window option) and the latest updates to GNOME and KDE packages (including Qt 4.8.1 and KDE SC 4.8.3, GNOME 3.4.2). Heavy work has been going on in the area of bringing Xorg 12.1 and split-up Xorg packages to Factory. Moving from there, the new graphical stack combined with the new compiler tools (llvm, GCC 4.7) and the new Mesa can bring cool new stuff: llvmpipe bringing gnome-shell to non-accelerated systems and the svga gallium driver featuring 3D support to VMware VMs. We have switched from the old bootsplash to the modern Plymouth with our own plymouth openSUSE theme.

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Rilasciato VirtualBox 4.1.16, software freeware di virtualizzazione per sistemi Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. Download da questa pagina.

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)
• VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)
• VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution only; bug #9941)
• VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP guests in rare cases
• 3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash
• NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some circumstances (bug #10527)
• Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to 128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for Solaris and Windows hosts)
• EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)
• VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)
• Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some reason (bug #6189)
• Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible
• VBoxManage: fixed controlvm savestate if the VM is already paused
• Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3 (bug #10267)
• Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes
• Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages (bug #10418)
• Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute(bug #10581)
• Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)
• Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better to miss some features than providing a blank screen)
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12

Presentata al CeBIT 2012 in corso ad Hannover dal suo creatore Klaus Knopper la nuova versione della distribuzione linux (LiveCD/LiveDVD) Knoppix, Knoppix 7.0.

New in version 7.0

• Version 7.0 of Knoppix is based on the usual picks from Debian stable (squeeze) and testing (wheezy), with newer package versions especially for desktop applications. It uses kernel 3.2.4 and xorg 7.6 (core 1.11.3.901) for supporting current computer
• experimental free  Nouveau graphics modules supporting NVidia cards, accelerated graphics via kernel mode settings (KMS),
• LibreOffice 3.4.5,
• Chromium 16.0.912.77 and Firefox/Iceweasel 10.0 Web Browser,
• Optional 64-bit Kernel via boot option "knoppix64", supporting systems with more than 4GB of RAM and chroot to 64-bit installations for system rescue tasks (DVD version only).
• Boot option "grub", for starting a bootloader shell in system rescue tasks.
• ADRIANE: Version 1.4 of the audio desktop framework, now using cuneiform as engine for text recognition of scanned texts, enhanced support for several cellphone models via gammu (SMS function).
• Viacam  for controlling the mouse cursor by movement of head or hand using the builtin webcam.

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Annunciato il rilascio di PCLinuxOS 2011.6 per sistemi a 32 e a 64 bit.

"PCLinuxOS KDE 2011.6 for 32-bit and 64-bit computers is now available for download. The Linux kernel was updated to version 2.6.38.8. Additional kernels are available from our repositories such as a PAE kernel for computers with more than 4 GB of memory. A BFS kernel for maximum desktop performance and a standard kernel with group scheduling enabled. X.Org Server was updated to version 1.10.2. Mesa updated to 7.10.3 and libdrm to version 2.4.26. These updates bring enhancements to the PCLinuxOS desktop including speed, 3D desktop support for most Intel, NVIDIA and AMD/ATI video cards, better font rendering, black screen fixes for most NVIDIA cards, better Flash playback and more."

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Rilasciato SystemRescueCd 2.0.1, un LiveCD basato sulla distribuzione linux  Gentoo provvisto di una collezione di software per il recupero dati e la riparazione del sistema.

• Updated standard kernels to 2.6.35.11 (rescuecd + rescue64)
• Updated alternative kernels to 2.6.36.3 (altker32 + altker64)
• Updated Memtest86+ floppy disk image to 4.20 (supports Sandy-Bridge + fusion)
• Updated xorg-server to 1.9.4 (graphical server and drivers)
• Updated initramfs software (programs involved in the boot process)
• Upgraded atl1c driver in standard kernel for Atheros AR8151 Gigabit devices
• Fixed name resolution in the initramfs environment (used for PXE booting)
• Updated GParted to version 0.8.0

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Dopo 24 mesi il team di sviluppo di Debian ha annunciato il rilascio di Debian 6, nome in codice "Squeeze".

Debian 6.0 è un sistema operativo libero e per la prima volta viene fornito in due varianti. Accanto a GNU/Linux, con questa versione viene introdotta, come anteprima tecnologica, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

Debian funziona su dispositivi di ogni tipo, dai palmari ai supercomputer. Supporta inoltre un totale di nove architetture: 32-bit PC/Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC/Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390) e ARM EABI (armel).

Questo rilascio include le ultime versioni disponibili di molti software, tra i quali:

• Aree di lavoro e applicazioni KDE Plasma 4.4.5
• una versione aggiornata dell'ambiente desktop GNOME 2.30
• l'ambiente desktop Xfce 4.6
• LXDE 0.5.0
• X.Org 7.5
• OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
• GIMP 2.6.11
• Iceweasel 3.5.16 (una versione di Mozilla Firefox priva del marchio)
• Icedove 3.0.11 (una versione di Mozilla Thunderbird priva del marchio)
• PostgreSQL 8.4.6
• MySQL 5.1.49
• GNU Compiler Collection 4.4.5
• Linux 2.6.32
• Apache 2.2.16
• Samba 3.5.6
• Python 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3
• Perl 5.10.1
• PHP 5.3.3
• Asterisk 1.6.2.9
• Nagios 3.2.3
• Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (con il supporto per dom0 e per domU)
• OpenJDK 6b18
• Tomcat 6.0.18
• più di 29.000 altri pacchetti pronti per l'uso, generati a partire da circa 15.000 sorgenti.

Debian 6.0 comprende inoltre più di 10.000 nuovi pacchetti, come il browser Chromium, la suite di controllo Icinga, l'interfaccia Software Center per la gestione dei pacchetti, il gestore delle reti wicd, gli strumenti lxc per i container Linux e il framework per cluster Corosync.

Le note di rilascio sono disponibili a questa pagina. Il download è possibile da questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso (4475 MB, torrent),
debian-6.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (4446 MB, torrent).

Rilasciata la terza release candidate di PC-BSD 8.2

In addition to some fixes in response to previous 8.2 testing snapshots, RC2 contains the following software components:

  - FreeBSD 8.2RC3
  - KDE 4.5.5
  - Xorg 7.5
  - Nvidia Driver 260.19.29
  - Nvidia Driver 173.14.25
  - Nvidia Driver 96.43.16

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