Annunciato il rilascio di Sabayon Linux 8.

Features

• The first and best way to try a Gentoo-based Linux distribution at its full power, with all working out-of-the-box and no compilation needed at all
• Faster, cleaner and more evolved than any other rolling distro out there: we work hard to bring you the most stable rolling release experience
• Keep up-to-date your system in minutes while maintaining full Gentoo Portage compatibility
• Focusing on performance: GCC 4.6 with Graphite Loop Transformation infrastructure and Link Time Optimizations enabled
• Always up-to-date Linux Kernel 3.2 (and experimental "Fusion" Kernels available in repositories)
• Providing extra Server-oriented Linux kernels (OpenVZ, Vserver, Generic Server)
• Natively supporting the btrfs file system (besides ext4, aufs, and others)
• Transform Sabayon into an full-featured HTPC Operating System (Media Center) using XBMC 10.1 (11.0 available soon)
• GNOME 3.2.2 Visual Environment
• KDE 4.7.4 Desktop Environment (4.8.0 available in a few days)
• Improved Xfce 4.8 out-of-the-box experience (for those missing GNOME2)
• Improved LibreOffice integration, updated to 3.4.4
• Migrated to libav as ffmpeg replacement
• Migrated to Java 7 and Subversion 1.7
• Cinnamon and Razor Qt available in repositories
• Entropy Framework (Package Manager, Web Services) updated to 1.0_rc86, consolidating stability and performance
• Support for IME and non-roman fonts at install time
• Support for non-latin languages at install time
• More than 12000 packages available for x86_64, i686

Download dai mirror indicati a questa pagina.

Nokia ha annunciato il rilascio di una technology preview di Qt 4.8. Il codice sorgente è disponibile per il download in formato zip qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0-tp.zip, e in formato tar.gz qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0-tp.tar.gz. Il rilascio della beta di Qt 4.8 è previsto nelle prossime settimane, mentre il rilascio della versione finale è previsto per la seconda metà del 2011.

Qt 4.8 will be a release containing a lot of quality and performance improvements that were carried out during the last 12 months, such as File System performance improvements. It also includes the Qt Platform Abstraction (Lighthouse) feature, which enables easier porting of Qt into new graphics systems for third parties. Today’s Technology Preview is released to get your feedback, comments and improvement ideas.

Packages – Qt 4.8 Technology Preview
The Qt 4.8 Tech Preview packages available today have been tested with Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.6, Linux and Symbian^3.

Supported platforms for Qt 4.8
Targets for Qt 4.8 will be announced in due course. As a reminder and a guide, the supported platforms for Qt 4.7 are available here http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/supported-platforms.html

Rilasciata la versione 2.0.0 di SystemRescueCd, LiveCD basato sulla distribuzione linux Gentoo che dispone di numerosi strumenti utili per riparare sistemi danneggiati

• Standard kernels based on the Long-Term-Supported 2.6.35 kernel (2.6.35.10)
• xf86-video-nouveau is the new default video driver for Nvidia cards
• Updated GNU Parted to version 2.3 with patches from Ubuntu-10.10
• Updated GParted to 0.7.1 (fixes names with dmraid and mount points paths)
• Updated fsarchiver to 0.6.12 (fixes possible problems to save the rootfs)
• Updated initramfs software (programs involved in the boot process)
• Updated aufs filesystem to version 2.1 (another union file system)
• Updated xorg-server to 1.9.3 (graphical server and drivers)
• Updated Network-Manager programs to new major version 0.8.x
• Dropped alternative graphical server (Xfbdev) which is not supported
• Added a 64bit version of memtester (/usr/sbin/memtester-64bit)

Download da questa pagina, o direttamente da questo link: systemrescuecd-x86-2.0.0.iso (280 MB).

A partire da Gingerbread (Android 2.3) Android utilizzerà il file system Ext4, a rivelarlo Tim Bray, Android Developers Blog. Ext4 sostituirà l'altro file system Yaffs (Yet Another Flash File System), in genere utilizzato come file system predefinito. Theodore Ts'o fa notare sul suo blog come Yaffs sia single threaded e questo "sarebbe stato un collo di bottiglia su sistemi dual core".