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GStreamer 1.0

by Clement on September 26, 2012

The developers of GStreamer, the famous software platform for developing multimedia applications used in large numbers of GNU/Linux, are happy to announce the release of Version 1.0 marks a nice change from the point of release past – turn so powerful that the toolkit is incompatible with previous releases.
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Ubuntu 12.10: GRUB 2.0 arrives, ready to Secure Boot

September 25, 2012

GRUB, the bootloader historical distributions Linux has long been at version 2.0. However, many distributions still do not implement the default considering it still not very mature. From today, but now one of the most important distributions of the landscape GNU/Linux has decided to take the plunge and take GRUB 2.0: we are talking about [...]

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Firefox OS: Mozilla will have a dev phone with ZTE

September 24, 2012

Despite the presence of strong competitors already on the market, the development of Firefox OS continues in an unabated: Mozilla fact, over the partnership with Telecom for distribution has selected ZTE as a company to produce his phone development, ie the handset official developers.

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Aliyun OS: the first fork illegal Android

September 17, 2012
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Android, the operating system for smartphones and tablets developed by Google, which is based on the kernel Linux, has always left a large freedom to his community by turning it into its real strength, in fact it is mostly free software, management of SIM card is closed-source together with some drivers, anyone can take it [...]

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Crypto Stick, an open source solution for data encryption

April 24, 2012
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Crypto Stick is a product of the German Privacy Foundation and consists of a USB stick that generates three keys for data encryption. GnuPG is compatible with the protocol and uses PKCS # 11 thanks to the smart card integrated. Built in 2009, is both open source, both open hardware and prepares to leap in [...]

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Open Source Cloud: VMware raises Cloud Foundry

April 17, 2012
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In the continuous expanding universe of cloud computing, open source continues to make strides with various solutions – such as Open Cloud of Red Hat and OpenStack – but it is not certain of unique. In the field there is also VMware, known for its applications for virtualization, as he said his CTO Stephen Herrod, [...]

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Google helps with coreboot source OS designed for chrome

April 5, 2012
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After a year of its inception, Google has decided to release their own patches of coreboot – used on Chromebook Chrome OS. The alternative system to the BIOS – which has begun to support some laptops – so receives an enormous contribution to Intel processors and chipsets that do not have a driver open source.

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SUSE Studio starts to support the VHD format for Microsoft Hyper-V

February 8, 2012

SUSE Studio, the source of SUSE for network appliances, has introduced another new feature this week: after the panel of directors, SUSE Manager, it’s experimental support for Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) – Microsoft’s format for Hyper-V virtual disks. The appliance can be compressed with ZIP dedicated.

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FFmpeg 0.10 (Freedom) supports the new formats

January 30, 2012

FFmpeg 0.10 (Freedom), the first major upgrade this year, has introduced new formats [de-] audio / video encoding. In particular, the focus is on products from Sony: the most interesting news about support OpenMG. It is a proprietary technology of Digital Rights Management (DRM) ATRAC3 format.

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Google Sky Map is Open Source

January 22, 2012

Good news for developers of software for Android. The source code for Google Sky Map, the software made ​​in Mountain View is dedicated to astronomy and the cosmos, has been issued a license compatible with open source, allowing enthusiasts and professionals to make improvements to the already valuable Google Maps for the Milky Way.

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