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Mark Shuttleworth, Open-Source Software's Sugar Daddy

Chi — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:05:25 GMT

Ten years ago, just ahead of a trip into space, Mark Shuttleworth took out an insurance policy on his reproductive future. “I put a couple swimmers on ice,” he says. “There was going to be a gamma ray source about a foot from my balls under my seat on the Soyuz. So I made a deposit in a secret location before I flew.”

Google lancia Knowledge graph

Chi — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:05:15 GMT

Il motore comprenderà la relazione tra le parole ricercate
E restituirà dati e correlate in maniera più organizzata

Linux Mint 13 RC Is Available for Download

Chi — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:05:40 GMT

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, uploaded (no official announcement, yet) a few minutes ago, May 16, the Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux Mint 13 operating system.

Ubuntu Zombies

Chi — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:05:37 GMT

The reason for posting this, is because I have the feeling that something isn’t going quite right to our favorite OS. This is strongly my personal opinion and of course I retain every right to be wrong

Distribution Release: Hybryde Linux 1

Chi — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:05:45 GMT

Olivier Larrieu has announced the release of Hybryde Linux 1, a desktop Linux distribution with one unique feature - the ability to switch rapidly and fluidly between a number of desktop environments and window managers without logging out and without having to close open applications first.

Distribution Release: Parted Magic 2012_05_14

Chi — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:05:32 GMT

Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 2012_05_14, an updated build of the project's specialist live CD with a collection of software for hard disk management and data rescue tasks:

Development Release: siduction 12.1 RC

Chi — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:05:21 GMT

Ferdinand Thommes has announced the availability of the first release candidate for siduction 12.1, a desktop Linux distribution with a choice of KDE, LXDE and Xfce desktops, based on Debian's unstable branch:

Quasi quasi mi faccio il cloud

Chi — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:05:28 GMT

Dopo l'arrivo del gigante Google, si completa il quadro delle offerte e dei servizi per i nostri dati sul web. Che sono gratuiti (nelle versioni base), elementari e invisibili. Ecco come scegliere quello adatto alle nostre esigenze

Mozilla e Google contro Microsoft

Chi — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:05:43 GMT

Le due aziende lamentano che nella versione Arm del prossimo Os di Redmond, Internet Explorer sarà il solo browser a poter funzionare in modalità desktop. "Un ritorno agli anni bui del digitale", scrive la società di Firefox sul suo blog. E Big G: "La concorrenza fa bene a tutti"

GNOME Tweak Tool 3.4.0 Has Been Released

Chi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:57 GMT

John Stowers has announced yesterday, May 14th, the release of GNOME Tweak Tool 3.4, an utility popular among users of the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

Download Debian 6.0.5 Squeeze

Chi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:53 GMT

The Debian project proudly announced a couple of days ago, May 12th, the immediate availability for download of the fifth maintenance release of the Debian 6 Linux operating system.

Set up a free and secure Terminal Server with Linux

Chi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:49 GMT

Jack Wallen suggests ditching the Windows Terminal Server and migrating to using a Linux box. Learn how to set up and use NX Free, a tool that can help with this task.

Goobuntu: Ubuntu per chi lavora in Google

Chi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:46 GMT

Tra i numerosi talk che si sono susseguiti durante il recente Ubuntu Developer Summit, c’è stato anche un interessante intervento dello sviluppatore Google Thomas Bushnell (tra l’altro fondatore del progetto GNU Hurd, in seguito dimesso da Richard Stallman nel 2003 per le sue critiche contro la GNU Free Documentation License), a parlare dell’uso di Ubuntu e Goobuntu all’interno dell’azienda di Mountain View.

Distribution Release: Ophcrack LiveCD 3.4.0

Chi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:41 GMT

Cedric Tissieres has announced the release of Ophcrack LiveCD 3.4.0, a specialist Linux distribution featuring a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables:

Distribution Release: Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.05

Chi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:38 GMT

Anke Boersma has announced the release of Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.05, an updated release of the project's rolling-release "Archimedes" series featuring KDE 4.8.3:

New distributions added to waiting list Xinutop

Chi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:34 GMT

Xinutop is a Xubuntu-based distribution with a collection of useful marine applications, such as: GeBabbel - data conversion and transfer to and from GPS;

Distribution Release: ROSA 2012

Chi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:30 GMT

Konstantin Kochereshkin has announced the release of ROSA 2012, a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva with the goal of delivering a functional and easy-to-use business desktop using KDE 4.8.2:

Apple, una iTv forse con Loewe e Foxconn prepara gli impianti

Chi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:23 GMT

Il numero uno dell'azienda cinese di hardware conferma la produzione di un nuovo dispositivo, per cui è stata avviata una joint venture con Sharp. E Il titolo del costruttore tedesco fa un salto in Borsa. In arrivo probabilmente il prossimo anno

Download Linux Kernel 3.4 Release Candidate 7

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:59:38 GMT

Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, May 12th, that the seventh and probably the last Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.4 kernel is available for download and testing.

Ubuntu 12.10: merge di /usr, e Ubuntu Control Center

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:59:31 GMT

L’Ubuntu Developer Summit dedicato a Ubuntu 12.10 sta per volgere al termine, e sono tante le novità discusse per la prossima release di ottobre:

Skype per GNU/Linux riceve un aggiornamento: riprende lo sviluppo del software per questo sistema?

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:44:39 GMT

- Dopo circa un anno senza la minima traccia di update, la versione per i sistemi GNU/Linux del popolare software di messaggistica istantanea riceve un aggiornamento, seppur solo di sicurezza. Segno di una volontà da parte di Microsoft di riprendere lo sviluppo per i sistemi del Pinguino?

Linux Kernel 3.3.6 Is Available for Download

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:44:45 GMT

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced yesterday, May 12th, the immediate availability for download of the sixth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.3 kernel series.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Business Remix Officially Released

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:30:45 GMT

Canonical proudly announced a few minutes ago, May 10th, the immediate availability for download of the Ubuntu 12.04 Business Remix operating system.

Ubuntu 12.04: To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:30:39 GMT

Ubuntu’s latest release called Precise Pangolin has managed to please its many admirers and silence the naysayers. Unity, the most contentious part of Ubuntu so far has turned out to be a dark horse in Canonical’s race for desktop domination.

Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 Core 58

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:05:55 GMT

Arne Fitzenreiter has announced the release of IPFire 2.11 Core 58, an updated version of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls:

Da Zuckerberg a Microsoft la parabola triste di Yahoo!

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:05:49 GMT

Il fondatore del social network prendeva il motore di Sunnyvale come fonte di ispirazione, Microsoft nel 2008 voleva comprarlo per 50 miliardi di dollari. Poi l'addio del cofondatore Yang e un declino che pare inarrestabile

Steve Jobs Ghostbuster

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:29:28 GMT

Inedito spot del 1984 con il fondatore della Apple in guerra contro l'Ibm

Distribution Release: SystemRescueCd 2.7.0

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:29:33 GMT

François Dupoux has released an updated build of SystemRescueCd, a Gentoo-based live CD with a collection of data rescue, disk management and networking utilities. What's new?

Distribution Release: Libert� Linux 2012.1

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:08:48 GMT

Maxim Kammerer has announced the release of Liberté Linux 2012.1, a Gentoo-based security live CD with the primary purpose of enabling anyone to communicate safely and covertly in hostile environments:

Agcom, dal web spunta il candidato tecnico

Chi — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:08:42 GMT