These days the signing of the red hat is celebrating ten years of his distro. Red Hat is grateful to the worldwide Linux community and all our partners, and is proud to recognize the achievements we have made ​​with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, said Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies.
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Intel has just announced the release of version 2.0 of PowerTOP – a diagnostic utility that allows you to manage the energy consumption of machines with Linux. The update preserves all the features of version 1.0, but adds some new features: in particular, the chipset supports Intel’s Ivy Bridge.
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Skype for Linux 2.2.0.99

May 15, 2012

Even if on purpose, after the news from Microsoft that Skype for Linux would not have been left to himself, here comes the first update, which really brings nothing new other than the usual practice of bugfixes, and fixes some critical. Skype for Linux 2.2.0.99 remains in beta, and it makes no essential improvements.

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Linux Mint 13 RC

May 15, 2012

Through time, the development of Linux Mint continues, exactly like Cinnamon, the fork of GNOME Shell has won a number of users for its adherence to a more traditional user experience. From a few hours was released Linux Mint RC 13, through the usual ISO images.

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Wasteland 2 on Linux

May 15, 2012
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The much-troubled relationship between Linux and video games, seems to have found in recent months, a turning point: after the outcry caused by big names such as id Software and Valve – and overestimated the contribution of Electronic Arts in recent days – is about to break onto desktop penguin sequel of a critically acclaimed [...]

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IBM and SAP will create a port of OpenJDK on PowerPC Linux and AIX

May 14, 2012

OpenJDK, the Java Development Kit (JDK) open source, what comes first on the PowerPC architecture – at least, using Linux or AIX. Despite OpenJDK has become, from Java 7, the base of all JDK – owners and non – distributed by Oracle, the PowerPC are still excluded. The porting of OS X is only on [...]

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Ubuntu 12.10 will have a dedicated ISO GNOME Shell

May 14, 2012

With the Ubuntu Developer Summit is almost in the thought that now all the news had arrived: it is not so, in fact Canonical last minute gave the announcement of intentions to release a double ISO Ubuntu, a standard with Unity and one with GNOME Shell.

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ConnMan 1.0: APIs for D-Bus are considered stable

May 13, 2012

ConnMan 1.0 was released just over two weeks since version 0.80. The Connection Manager has updated the Intel Application Programming Interface (API) for D-Bus, now considered stable, ideal in mobile devices and integrated ConnMan is ready to compete with NetworkManager – especially on the wireless. One of the most interesting features is the use of [...]

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Skype for Linux?

May 13, 2012
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With the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft, in May of 2011, doubt that the external client platforms Windows were excluded from any updates had been made ​​clear, though very vaguely, by Steve Ballmer: Microsoft will continue to support non-Microsoft platforms because it is fundamental to the mission statement in the field of communications. We were [...]

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Microsoft introduces support for FreeBSD to Windows Server Hyper-V

May 11, 2012
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FreeBSD 8.2 or 8.3 can be virtualized on Windows Server Hyper-V. It is the result of collaboration with Microsoft, NetApp and Citrix: A demo will be shown today in Ottawa, Canada, at the BSDCan 2012. The drivers for Windows Server 2008 R2 will be released in early summer along with the source code under BSD. [...]

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