Debian developer passed away

With deep apology, the free software community was Shocked to death of the famous developer Ian Murdock who passed away at age of 42 years, He was one of the biggest supporters of free software and open source, and the spiritual father of the project Debian and the essential developer ...
Ian Began in Debian development project in August 1993, and in the same year several preliminary versions of Debian was launched, and later it became runnable on every platform in this world, from embedded devices and even the International Space Station!

His focus was on the creation of a stable rock distribution based on of community culture software which are interrelated, ethically and technically, it's a distribution that believes in freedom of software.

Ian had a dream and lived it today, the Debian community remains incredibly active, with thousands of developers working hours and hours to bring the world a reliable and secure operating system.

And thereby lose the free software community and the open source high-profile symbol of symbols, which contributed to the existence of other distributions, which is why you are reading this post using Ubuntu or one of its derivatives ...

     

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Unity, Game engine has arrived to Linux

It seems that the good news coming in on the penguin Linux day after day, of this news is the arrival of the game engine Unity to support the Linux operating system with the release of the beta version these days, which means that game developers now can create games using Linux, which previously was the Unity engine is limited on Windows and Mac only system.

If you do not know Unity is the development of many of the most popular games that could be played by one day platform.

This announcement may not be entirely surprising. In the month of January this year Unity announced its intention to provide version that runs on Linux, and this version remains just a trial version and there is no any guarantees on the continued support in the future unless there is an acceptable number of game developers on the Linux platform.

This version is based on a copy of 5.1.0f3, and provides the ability to export to :

- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- Web operator
- WebGL applications
- Android
- SamsungTV

System Requirements :

Unity is only available for 64bit architecture, it requires Ubuntu 12.4 or later, may be other Linux distributions with 64bit are capable of running Unity editor but officially supports Ubuntu.

To download the Unity Editor in deb format for Ubuntu in particular, and Debian-based distributions generally : through the following link.

To download the Unity Editor for other distributions in Shell Script through the following link.

     

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Release of openSUSE 13.2

The community of OpenSUSE distro announced the release of the final version, 13.2 after months of constant development, the new version comes with several updates, such as the Linux kernel 3.16 and GNOME Desktop 3.14, KDE 4.11 and 4.14,XFCE and the latest stable version of LXDE desktop environment.

Btrfs Filesystem has become is the default filesystem in openSUSE 13.2 for the root (/) while XFS is the default filesystem the Home folder (/ home), which is considered a significant change to the level of performance and speed, in fact, also been several improvements made to the package management application of openSUSE so-called "Yast2" such as removing support for GRUB Legacy and focus on supporting the GRUB 2 just as well to restructure Sticky distribution and make it more automatic in the performance of tasks, as well as to improve the formal aesthetic of the overall distribution and update all packets to the latest versions.

Speaking of KDE, Kda plasma 5 became available in the official repositories for anyone who wants to try it, and KDE 3.5 for those who wants to stay on it, GNOME Shell 3.14 is pre-existing and its applications, interface MATE 1.8 is also available official repository, also have been added several scientific applications to their own official repository such as Pythia and Yoda and Cadabra, in addition to many other features.

To download the version of openSUSE 13.2, click here.

     

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The release of the final version of Ubuntu 14.10

After months of continuous development, Ubuntu developers announced release of Ubuntu final release 14.10 of which, the new version did not come with any new features to remember it is just a version carries Last updated packages and bug fixes as well as to provide some additional packages to be installed through the official repositories, is not worth the upgrade to in fact especially as it is not LTS.

The new version came with Linux Kernel 3.16, Firefox and Thunderbird 33, LibreOffice 4.4.3.2, interface Unity 7.3, and the interface MATE becomes available for installation from the official repository and so on for the interface Unity 8, It has also updated the appearance a little bit by a new set of backgrounds for Ubuntu 14.10.

To download the Ubuntu 14.10 Click here.

     

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openSUSE integrated two projects (Tumbleweed and Factory) in one

openSUSE has always been of the distributions that Appeal to me, not for anything, but because they are adaptable and really has a lot of beautiful sub-projects for all categories of users, and one of these projects is the Tumbleweed project. 

Tumbleweed is a special repository for openSUSE that contains the latest available versions of the various packages, designed to the latest software and tools to provide users of this distribution, which is a very popular repository due to the number of packets in which it resides, once added to the distro openSUSE, the distribution is considered a Rolling Release like Arch Linux, now there is another named "Factory" project, a project of the Factory consists of two things: the official developmental versions of distro openSUSE (mean files iso for the project), in addition to the repository, the Factory, which is the other contains the latest developmental versions available from the packages, which also once added to your system, it turns into a rolling distro like Arch Linux (because you will have updates every day). 

The good news today for users of openSUSE is that both projects, Tumbleweed and Factory will merge under the name of Tumbleweed ! This means the unification of efforts in order to create a single repository contains the latest packages, programs and tools to be a good choice for anyone who wants openSUSE distro and be rolling at the same time, will also be the launch name "Tumbleweed Release" on the developmental versions name of the distro openSUSE, starting from 4 November 2014 the Factory repository will be re-directed automatically to the Tumbleweed repositories to be the merger process. 

Incidentally, the version of openSUSE 13.2 will be launched after 8 days, to follow the news here's the official website of the distribution : https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:13.2

     

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Netflix on Linux

Netflix now works on Linux with no Wine tricks required. All it takes to start watching Netflix on Linux right now is Google Chrome and a quick user agent tweak, and soon won’t be necessary.

But for now we have to do some tweaks to make it works.

What we need to play Netflix on Linux

- Having the last Google chrome

- NSS 3.16.2 or greater

- Hacking The user Agent by installing and using this extension : "User-Agent Switcher" and pasting these text lines as you see in the image bellow :

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2114.2 Safari/537.36

Soon It will not require any tweaking and we will get rid of this extension, so we can watch Netflix without any complications.

     

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MICRO FOCUS buy ATTACHMATE the owner of SUSE LINUX

Nearly two years ago, Attachmate Group announced the acquisition of Novell, sponsors SUSE Linux distro (latter supports the distribution openSUSE) compared to 2.2 billion dollars (and before that, bought Novell SUSE Linux in 2003, compared with 140 million dollars), everything went just fine and did not no change regarding SUSE and openSUSE, as you know, it's the Business.

Now and in the news again, Mirco Focus announced  for the acquisition of Attachmate Group for 2.3 billion dollars and therefore are acquired also projects Novell and SUSE Linux, the new company is a software company based in Britain - London, aims through the process to purchase these to provide products and related services for the Linux system and the field of hosting generally serve the objectives of the company.

Nils Brauckmann general manager of the SUSE Linux calls openSUSE Society , and said :

It is the Business as usual: no changes planned for the structural project SUSE or its administration, as there is no need to take any action by the community openSUSE as a result of this announcement, SUSE will continue to contribute to the open source community and will continue to list the projects in the field of business, and will remain supportive of the openSUSE project and society.

The situation will remain as it was with Suse and Opensuse .. the latest version of openSUSE (13.1) is very mature and you can download it from here.

     

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DEBIAN celebrates its twenty birthday

Debian celebrate its project over 21 years to its inception, making it one of the oldest open source projects in existence.

Debian is one of the most widely used Linux distributions around the world, and the most famous distributions based on them, and on top of Ubuntu, the Debian Linux distribution is more stable and stable at all so it described as "the rock."

We also know that Valve has created its own operating system for games SteamOS which is based on Debian, and this is evidence of the power of this distribution, which made ​​them the choice despite the presence of dozens of famous distributions.

Interestingly, the new policy is pursued by the developers of the project, as it will provide 6 years of support for Debian Wheezy, is likely to apply the policy on future versions as well.

Do you use Debian ?

     

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Turin, Italian city will provide eight million dollars when moving to Linux

State behind the state .. and the city behind the city .. turn to the world of open source, last of these is the city of Turin of Italy, which announced its intention to convert to open-source, to Ubuntu distro precisely, which will gradually convert more than 8300 computer from the Windows system and software closed to Ubuntu and free software, it is expected that the process takes a year and a half to be completed.

If the city remained on Windows and Microsoft Office .. had to pay about $ 29.5 million over five years, but with the transition to free software, it will pay only 21.4 million dollars .. which means providing more than 8 million dollars and this at the level of only one city in 8300 a computer belonging to the local authorities, and that this amount will be reduced too at the end of training sessions for staff and workshops and transport operations for the first time, then will become employees are able on their own to manage devices and run and will not return there are high costs and there is no annual amounts to be paid as in the past.

It is expected that Turin will become the first Italian city fully transmitted to the Free Software and Linux system .. In the case of the experiment succeeds, it is expected to continue to shift to the movements of free software in several other cities in Italy.

     

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Valencia Schools provide 50 million dollars due to LINUX

Valencia is located east of Spain and the largest city in the country, announced that its schools have been transformed into Linux, specifically to the Lliurex distribution created by Spain for those schools, which is based on the Edubuntu educational distribution, and Lliurex is used in more than 110 thousand computer teachers.

The process of transmission of Valencia Schools for Linux to save about 36 million euros (equivalent to approximately $ 50 million) over the past nine years.

Lliurex distribution is managed by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration; during the installation process, users can choose between several options differ in their suitability for use, there is an option for use in schools or homes, and another for small and medium-sized businesses. The Lliurex and one of the many free software projects in the autonomous region of Valencia, Spain.

Instead, there are about more than 120 thousand desktop computers in Valencia which uses LibreOffice including schools, courts, and have the government said last year that the use of LibreOffice will help provide 1.5 million euros a year (the equivalent of nearly two million dollars) .

Not only this, there is also another area in western Spain called "Extremadura", which also uses her own Linux distribution called linex installed on more than 70 thousand computer teachers in the region.

     

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Ubuntu expands in India

India is the fastest growing market for open-source operating system Ubuntu, thanks to links \ alliances with leading vendors of computers, and the increasing reliance on cloud applications and web solutions in the country where institutions see the  that Ubuntu is very good at such things and things.

Linux has grown by 50% from last year in India, and perhaps this is thanks to a partnership with Canonical my company Dell and HP, to attach to the system operated with certain models of those Laptops displayed in India.

India is the fastest growing market for us for adoption on Ubuntu, it's definitely one of our main markets globally. - Prakash Advani: Regional Director for Canonical in Asia and the Pacific. 

As many companies have moved to cloud storage, and this means that Ubuntu has become more important for them, and also said: that people are switching to Ubuntu because it is simpler to understand and easy to install and use. - Sanchit Vir Gogia. 

We chose Ubuntu because it is stable, and does not require the struggles of viruses Unlike Windows, it is very safe and cost-effective. - Mahesh Pawar. 

To ensure that it comfortable for users, JustDial company began conducting training in the field of basic awareness about Ubuntu.

If some users insisted on the use of the Windows system, we will educate these people how they can use the Ubuntu system more efficient. - Pawar. 

We seek to make important applications running on open source operating systems. - Srikanth Raman: Director of Information Technology at Narayana Hrudayalaya. 

In last two years, Ubuntu was able to penetrate the government and education sectors with some great bargains, such as the deal of 15-lakh where bought Delhi University 61 A computer installed upon Ubuntu also bought the province of Assam Omitron 28 thousand computers; as the company JustDial transferred substantially all its computers amounting 4500 computer to Ubuntu, for their use of the CRM system that works from the browser.

Ubuntu has also seen a growth in the consumer sector of users who opt for cheap versions of laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu, and there are about 850 stores in the country sells Laptops HP and Dell pre-installed with Ubuntu system.

     

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