Mer 07 Mar 2012     

NVidia è entrata a far parte della Linux Foundation, organizzazione no-profit dedicata a promuovere la crescita di Linux. NVidia si va così ad aggiungere a Intel e AMD che sono soci da tempo della fondazione. Altri soci di rilievo della Linux Foundation sono IBM, Google, Oracle, Cisco, Adobe, Samsung, Siemens. Al momento non è ancora chiaro se questo comporterà delle modifiche nella politica di NVidia sui driver, NVidia ha finora rilasciato driver proprietari per le sue schede grafiche sotto Linux.

 
Mar 06 Mar 2012     

Adobe mette a disposizione il tool Adobe SWF Investigator con cui sarà possibile analizzare i file Flash ed effettuare l'analisi statica ed il testing dinamico. Il tool consente anche di decompilare i file SWF per poter esaminare il codice sorgente di ActionScript e contiene un editor HEX.

Download per sistemi Windows e Mac OS X da questa pagina, disponibile anche il source code a partire da questa pagina. Il tool è rilasciato sotto licenza Mozilla Public Licence 1.1.

 
Gio 16 Feb 2012     

Rilasciata la versione 6.2 di Scientific Linux

Differences from SL6.1

anaconda
Added the Scientific Linux install classes
DVD installs do not ask for the network unless needed

OpenAFS
Updated to version 1.6.0-97.z2.sl6
This packages includes a patch to disable NAT pings to avoid a race condition

livecd-tools, liveusb-creator
Updated from upstream to version 13.4
Added support for SL 6.2

redhat-rpm-config
Changed to recognize Scientific Linux as an Enterprise Linux

sl-release
removed Troy Dawson's GPG key
added CERN's GPG
added EULA

yum-autoupdate
yum-autoupdate has had PRERUN and POSTRUN scripts added for more flexibility

External Repositories for yum
The yum-conf-* packages now require yum-fastestmirror by popular request The new x86_64 adobe repo is now available

mingw32, hivex, openmpi-psm
Removed these packages from the i386 tree as they do not belong in that tree

RHN related tools present in SL6.1 have been removed
rhn-client-tools, rhnlib, rhnsd, rhn-setup-gnome,
subscription-manager, yum-rhn-plugin

Download a partire da questa pagina.

 
Ven 27 Mag 2011     

Annunciato il rilascio della versione finale di Linux Mint 11 "Katya".

New features at a glance:

  • One click install for multimedia codec and extra applications
  • The Software Manager
    • UI improvements
    • New splash screen
    • Fonts category
    • More accurate package information
    • More application icons by default
    • More accurate search by default
  • The Update Manager
    • Performance boosts
    • Improved dependencies handling
    • Better changelog retrieval
    • UI improvements
  • The Desktop Settings tool
    • "Desktop-agnostic", detection and upcoming compatibility with other desktops
    • New setting for the fortunes in the terminal
  • Artwork improvements
    • Backgrounds, overlay scrollbars, plymouth, Mint-X, search add-on.
  • System improvements
  • Changes in the software selection

Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina. Download da questi link:
linuxmint-11-gnome-dvd-32bit.iso (867 MB, torrent),
linuxmint-11-gnome-dvd-64bit.iso (864 MB, torrent).

 
Ven 25 Mar 2011     

La Ubuntu Technical Board ha deciso che Ubuntu non consentirà l'installazione di software sviluppato da terze parti, come ad esempio Adobe Flash Player, per default. La proposta di selezionare per default l'opzione di installare software di terze parti come per l'appunto Flash è stata messa ai voti ed è stata respinta all'unanimità dal board.

 
Mer 23 Mar 2011     

Mozilla ha annunciato il rilascio di Firefox 4, la versione finale arriva dopo il rilascio di 12 versioni beta e due release candidate.

Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open source Web browser.

Secondo Mozilla la versione 4 è la versione più veloce di Firefox, Firefox 4 è da due a sei volte più veloce di Firefox 3.
Firefox 4 è dotato anche di un nuovo add-ons manager, supporto per HTML5, App Tabs. Il motore JavaScript incorpora il nuovo compilatore JägerMonkey JIT. Con Firefox 4 un eventuale problema con Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime o Silverlight di Microsoft non causerà il blocco del browser. Se uno di questi plugin si dovesse bloccare non influenzerebbe il resto di Firefox, sarà sufficiente ricaricare la pagina per riavviare il plugin.
Firefox 4 è disponibile in oltre 80 lingue per sistemi Windows, Linux, Max OS X. Il download è possibile da questa pagina.

What’s New in Firefox 4:

Fastest Firefox Ever

  • Performance: Firefox is up to six times faster than the previous release. With improved start-up and page load times, speedy Web app performance and hardware accelerated graphics, Firefox is optimized for rich, interactive websites.

Streamlined Interface

  • App Tabs: give a permanent home to frequently visited sites like Web mail, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr.
  • Switch to Tab: easily find and switch to any open tab from your Awesome Bar without opening duplicate tabs.
  • Panorama: drag and drop tabs into manageable groups to save time while navigating many open tabs.

Private and Secure Synchronization

  • Firefox Sync: access your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and form data across multiple computers and mobile devices.

Most Customizable

  • New Add-ons Manager: easily discover and install more than 200,000 add-ons to customize the features, functionality and look of Firefox.

Private and Secure

  • Do Not Track: Firefox is leading the Web towards a universal standard Do Not Track feature that allows users to opt-out of tracking used for behavioral advertising.
  • Firefox puts privacy first, fixing flaws in some Web standards to prevent others from accessing your browser history.
  • HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS): automatically establishes secure connections to stop "man in the middle" attacks and keep sensitive data safe from interception during the log-in process.
  • Content Security Policy (CSP): prevent cross-scripting attacks by allowing sites to explicitly tell the browser which content is legitimate.

Cutting Edge Tools for Web Developers:

  • The JavaScript engine incorporates the new JägerMonkey JIT compiler, along with enhancements to the existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey’s interpreter for faster page-load speed and better performance of Web apps and games.
  • HTML5 support in Firefox includes hardware accelerated, high-definition video (WebM), 3D graphics, offline data storage, professional typography, touchscreen interfaces and the Mozilla Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound and more.
  • Firefox 4 also improves existing tools like CSS, Canvas and SVG to enable developers to make exciting Web pages.
  • Firefox provides uninterrupted browsing when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If one of these plugins crashes or freezes, it won’t affect the rest of Firefox. Simply reload the page to restart the plugin.
 
Mar 22 Mar 2011     

Opera ha rilasciato la nuova versione del suo browser per dispositivi mobili Opera Mobile 11 per sistemi Android e Symbian.

Big day at the Opera! We are launching Opera Mobile 11 for Android and Symbian/S60. Download now direct to your device from  m.opera.com, or get it in the Android Market.

Features
  • Modernized new user interface
  • New UI optimized for tablet devices
  • Faster framerates when panning and zooming
  • No checkerboard, ever
  • Text stays sharp during zooming
  • Improved text-wrap on zoom
  • Smart-tap, auto-zoom and highlights links if ambiguous link click
  • Incremental zooming for devices w/o multi-touch
  • Buttons for jumping to the top/bottom of the page
  • Haptic feedback (if supported in hardware)
  • Share URL on social networks, email etc
  • Improved Geolocation support
  • Session restore

Rendering
  • Presto 2.7.81
  • JIT for greatly improved Javascript performance (was supported in 10.1 on some Symbian devices)
  • Adobe Flash support (Android only, Flash player available separately in Android Market)
  • Click-to-play, load Flash content on demand only
  • Application Cache
  • WebStorage and WebDatabase
  • DOM touch and multi-touch events
  • HTML5 Audio/Video
  • Support for CSS @viewport
  • Improved support for meta viewport
  • Support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
  • Support for Arabic ligatures
  • Improved form fields skin