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The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 17 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. 17.0.963.46 contains a number of new features including: New Extensions APIs Updated Omnibox Prerendering Download Scanning Protection Many other small changes Security fixes and rewards: Please see the Chromium security page for [...] The city of Tyler, Texas, is better known as the nation’s “rose capital” than as a hotspot of the technology industry. It’s a quiet, conservative city of about 100,000, full of wide streets and big trucks. This week, though, Tyler is the site of a remarkable battle over the history of the World Wide Web—a [...] The 3.1 series is the first based on the new netcode, with new terrain renderer and many other changes. The main target are systems capable of OpenGL 2.0 (with shaders), but at least the important things like team colours should work with OpenGL 1.4+ (some things might look strange though). Configuration uses a new directory, [...] The 10.8 version of Simutrans Experimental has been recently released. This is a bug fix release, with some small feature changes to assist in balancing games, especially online games. The ReactOS team is proud to announce the release of ReactOS 0.3.14. This version includes a significant amount of changes including both user visible and architectural improvements. Also included in this release is the valuable work accomplished as part of the Google Summer of Code 2011 event, of which ReactOS was a mentoring project. One [...] LinuxDevices’ publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, has been acquired by a Californian company — as yet undisclosed, but rumored to be Foster City-based QuinStreet. Future plans for the site have not yet been announced … At this point, the future of LinuxDevices.comis uncertain. What we can say for sure is that it has been a pleasure [...] This week we’ll talk about how to come up with the “right” price for your book in each of the formats in which you plan to make it available (eBook, soft, and/or hardcover). By “right” price, I mean a price that will make more, rather than fewer, people actually buy your book. My challenge will [...] The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4, Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-10, DEFT Linux 7, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 and Linux Mint 12 KDE. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about Wine 1.4 RC2, Ubuntu 12.10 Developer Summit, KDE Telepathy 0.3, Spark, PS3 Media Server 1.50.1, Frugalware 1.6 RC2, OpenShot [...] This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: I dream of Linux – Dreamlinux 5 News: Red Hat introduces 10-year support, Texstar takes leave of absence, Mint banks on Cinnamon Questions and answers: Revisiting Ubuntu market share numbers Released last week: Linux Mint 12 “KDE”, PCLinuxOS 2012.2, DEFT Linux 7…. Read more at DistroWatch Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 251 for the week January 30 – February 5, 2012. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue251 == In This Issue == * Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released! * Developer Week: Summaries Days 1-3 * The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You! * Ubuntu 12.04 Development update [...] Softpedia is the first to announce today, February 2nd, that the second and last Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system is now available for download. As usual, we’ve grabbed a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS development. [...] Welcome to Precise Pangolin Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 12.04. Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and [...] (IN)SECURE Magazine is a freely available digital security magazine discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue #33 has just been released – download the magazine! The articles in this issue include: Securing Android: Think outside the box Interview with Joe Sullivan, CSO at Facebook White hat shellcode: Not for exploits Using mobile device [...] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.22 Released The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.22 of the Apache HTTP Server (“Apache”). This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release, including the following significant security fixes: * SECURITY: CVE-2011-3368 (cve.mitre.org) Reject requests where [...] As expected, Mozilla has released the first Extended Support Release of Firefox, based on Firefox 10, for organisations. The release is the culmination of what began as complaints from the enterprise community that the rapid release schedule of Firefox was leaving them unable to qualify Firefox for use within their organisations. Mozilla reactivated its Enterprise [...] Linux is succeeding on many platforms other than computing desktops, but it’s still true that many Microsoft Windows users are either switching to Linux or choosing to run it as a secondary operating system. In many cases, Windows users are unaware of the benefits they can get from Linux, or don’t know where to start [...] There’s some news today out of Linux Game Publishing, but it’s not about a new game being ported to Linux. Rather, it’s an apology from Michael Simms, the CEO of LGP, and to announce his resignation. Linux Game Publishing though isn’t going away but a new CEO has been announced. Linux Game Publishing has been [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 250 for the week January 23 – 29, 2012. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue250 == In This Issue == * Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu. * Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February * Planet Ubuntu Update * Ubuntu [...] Google Earth is an application that provides a virtual globe, map and geographical information which you can use to travel the wold virtually, see images, 3D buildings, maps and more. Google Earth 6.2 was released a few days ago and the most important change is a new way of rendering imagery which fixes an old [...] This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: PC-BSD 9.0 “Isotope” News: Ubuntu’s HUD, Linux Mint’s Cinnamon, Arch Linux for hardcore users Statistics: OSDisc.com sales in 2010 and 2011 Questions and answers: AppArmor, home movies, tabs in Vim, syntax highlighting Released last week: GhostBSD 2.5 Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha…. Read more at DistroWatch | |||||
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