Annunciato il rilascio di Linux Mint 12 "LXDE" edition

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 LXDE.

Linux Mint 12 LXDE comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.

LXDE

This edition features the fast and lightweight LXDE desktop.

Hybrid ISO images

This is the first release of Linux Mint using Hybrid ISO images. Traditionally, tools such as 'Startup Disk Creator' or 'UNetbootin' were needed to install Linux Mint via USB. With hybrid images, you can simply use the "dd" command or a graphical frontend to make a bootable USB stick with no efforts which acts exactly like a liveDVD.
Pros:

• The resulting USB stick will act exactly like a liveCD/DVD
• The process is fast and simple
• Hybrid ISOs are still compatible with Unetbootin and Startup Disk Creator

Cons:

• This method deletes all the data present on the USB drive
• The USB stick isn't persistent (though you can still use Unetbootin to do this)

Download da questa pagina.

Annunciato il rilascio di Linux Mint 12 "KDE".

KDE 4.7
This edition comes with the latest and recently released KDE 4.7.4.

Hybrid ISO images
This is the first release of Linux Mint using Hybrid ISO images. Traditionally, tools such as 'Startup Disk Creator' or 'UNetbootin' were needed to install Linux Mint via USB. With hybrid images, you can simply use the "dd" command or a graphical frontend to make a bootable USB stick with no efforts which acts exactly like a liveDVD.

Download a partire da questa pagina, o direttamente da questo link: linuxmint-12-kde-dvd-32bit.iso (1.111 MB).

Rilasciato VMWare Player 4.0, software freeware con cui è possibile far eseguire immagini realizzate con VMWare. Come per VMWare Workstation 8.0 anche VMWare player 4.0 potrà girare solo su PC con processori a 64 bit. Note di rilascio a questa pagina

The hardware requirements to install this version of Workstation have changed. Workstation now requires a relatively modern 64-bit CPU.

This version of Workstation includes many hardware improvements. To try new hardware features, you must upgrade the hardware version of your virtual machine or create a new virtual machine that uses the latest virtual hardware version.

• The display technology has been changed to provide a better experience for Unity users and users who have multiple monitors. These changes also allow you to add a projector to your laptop without restarting your virtual machine.
• Virtual machines can now support up to 64GB of memory. The host system should have more than 64GB of memory to use this feature.
• An HD Audio device is available for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2008, and Windows 2008 R2 guests. The HD Audio device is compatible with the RealTek ALC888 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec.
• USB 3.0 support is available for Linux guests running kernel version 2.6.35 or later (Ubuntu 10.10) through a new virtual xHCI USB controller. To enable this feature, add the following line to the .vmx file: usb_xhci.present = "true". Do not enable this feature for Windows guests. Because Windows does not currently have a generic xHCI driver, this feature will not work in Windows.
• Bluetooth devices on the host can now be shared with Windows guests. With the latest hardware version, Bluetooth devices that are paired to the host system radio are available to Windows guests and can be paired from within the guest. You should not pair Bluetooth audio devices, such as headphones, or Bluetooth input devices, such as keyboards and mice, to a guest.

Il download di VMWare Player è possibile da questa pagina (è necessario essere registrati).

Annunciato il rilascio della versione 4.1. di VirtualBox

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression; bug #9458)
• VMM: fixed INVALID_PARAMETER guru meditation caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)
• VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during stos/lods/ins/outs emulation under rare circumstances
• VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs
• USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298); bugfixes for Windows host USB support
• VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK images
• Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums (Windows hosts only)
• Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active
• 3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching to/from fullscreen with enabled 2D acceleration
• 3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10
• Guest control: Miscellaneous small bugfixes
• Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages (4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)
• Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root (bug #1578)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only interfaces (bug #8076)
• Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based bridged networking (bug #9532)
• Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files (bug #9535)
• Windows hosts installer: fixed ADDLOCAL usage on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)
• Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm help file (bug #9646)
• Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)
• Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate console window (bug #3549)
• Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)
• Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
• Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
• Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1 (bug #6229)
• Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)
• Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting (from console) and unmounting shared folders.
• Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates (4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)
• Windows Additions: fixed PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)
• Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)
• Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from fullscreen text mode apps (bug #9636)

Rilasciato VMWare Workstation 8.0, ultima versione del noto software di virtualizzazione. Sarà possibile utilizzare VMWare 8.0 solo su PC con processori a 64 bit, questa la novità principale per questa versione. Le Note di rilascio sono disponibili a questa pagina.

This version of Workstation includes many hardware improvements. To try new hardware features, you must upgrade the hardware version of your virtual machine or create a new virtual machine that uses the latest virtual hardware version.

• The display technology has been changed to provide a better experience for Unity users and users who have multiple monitors. These changes also allow you to add a projector to your laptop without restarting your virtual machine.
• Virtual machines can now support up to 64GB of memory. The host system should have more than 64GB of memory to use this feature.
• An HD Audio device is available for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2008, and Windows 2008 R2 guests. The HD Audio device is compatible with the RealTek ALC888 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec.
• USB 3.0 support is available for Linux guests running kernel version 2.6.35 or later (Ubuntu 10.10) through a new virtual xHCI USB controller. To enable this feature, add the following line to the .vmx file: usb_xhci.present = "true". Do not enable this feature for Windows guests. Because Windows does not currently have a generic xHCI driver, this feature will not work in Windows.
• Bluetooth devices on the host can now be shared with Windows guests. With the latest hardware version, Bluetooth devices that are paired to the host system radio are available to Windows guests and can be paired from within the guest. You should not pair Bluetooth audio devices, such as headphones, or Bluetooth input devices, such as keyboards and mice, to a guest.
• You can now enable Virtual VT-X/EPT or AMD-V/RVI in the processor settings interface. With this feature, applications running in a guest can take advantage of these virtualization technologies. You can also run 64-bit guest operating systems inside of vSphere running inside Workstation.