The world's fastest supercomputer, Sunway-TaihuLight by China, run Linux

Sunway-TaihuLight, a new-generation supercomputer installed in the east China city of Wuxi, is able to perform quadrillions of calculations per second. The system was named the world's fastest computer during the Int'l Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt.

LibreOffice 4.0.0 Final released

LibreOffice 4.0.0 is the first release from the 4.0 branch of LibreOffice. It contains many exciting new features, and is suitable for early adopters and private power users.

GIMP 2.8.4 released

GIMP 2.8.4 is out! This is a release in the stable GIMP 2.8 series, featuring lots of bug fixes and translation updates. For the complete list of changes please see the NEWS file.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS announced

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is available now!

Or, take a online tour here before download.

Ubuntu Developer Week - January 31st - February 2nd 2012

In just five years, Ubuntu has become the most popular Linux distribution in the world with millions of users. Ever wondered how Ubuntu development works? How to get involved yourself? Find out from January 31st 2012 to February 2nd 2012!

Ubuntu Developer Week is a series of online workshops where you can:

• learn about different packaging techniques
• find out more about different development teams
• check out the efforts of the world-wide Development Community
• participate in open Q&A sessions with Ubuntu developers
• much more...

Know more: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

NASA launch code.nasa.gov

NASA launch code.nasa.gov (at January 4, 2012), the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, NASA will continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution.

Source: http://open.nasa.gov/blog/2012/01/04/the-plan-for-code/

FreeNAS 8 - Released

The release of FreeNAS 8 includes major architectural optimizations, a django-driven user interface, and ZFS - lending us some useful features like thin provisioning, periodic snapshots, LDAP and Active Directory authorization along with the most popular platform sharing protocols.

FreeNAS 8 retains enterprise-class services while eliminating some "Home User" functionality such as iTunes/DAAP, Bit Torrent, and UPnP. These features will make it back as third-party plugins at a later date. You may have noticed FreeNAS.org has changed a bit...

- http://freenas.org/

FreeNAS is a free, open source, Network-Attached Storage operating system based on FreeBSD. it uses a custom version of FreeBSD and a web-based interface to provide a fully-featured NAS environment. FreeNAS offers software-based storage and backup solutions for a variety of applications, from home to enterprise.

FreeBSD 8.2-RC2 Available

The second Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD-8.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures can be downloaded from most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. Please see the official announcement for further details about this release.

FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive security features, and world class performance and is used by some of the world's busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

Home of FreeBSD>>

PCLinuxOS 2010.12 holiday CDs available

PCLinuxOS baked up some fresh ISOs for PCLinuxOS. They are gui hot and delicious. PCLinuxOS 2010.12 holiday CDs are now available for KDE 4, Gnome, LXDE, XFCE and Enlightenment desktops featuring the latest updates from the PCLinuxOS software repository. All CD features kernel 2.6.33.7bfs kernel for maximum desktop performance. Nvidia and ATI fglrx driver support. Multimedia playback support for many popular formats. Wireless support for many network devices. Printer support for many local and networked printer devices. Addlocale allows you to convert PCLinuxOS into over 60 languages. GetOpenOffice can install Open Office supporting over 100 languages. MyLiveCD allows you to take a snapshot of your installation and burn it to a LiveCD/DVD. PCLinuxOS-liveusb – allows you to install PCLinuxOS on a USB key disk.

Link:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=1114

MeeGo

MeeGo is an open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity. MeeGo integrates the experience and skills of two significant development ecosystems, versed in communications and computing technologies. The MeeGo project believes these two pillars form the technical foundations for next generation platforms and usages in the mobile and device platforms space.

MeeGo 1.1. is announced. It provides a solid baseline for device vendors and developers to start creating software for various device categories on Intel Atom* and ARMv7 architectures.




http://meego.com/

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Honored by NEC C&C Foundation

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Honored by NEC C&C Foundation

Torvalds to receive one of the world’s most prestigious awards for contributions to computer technologies and their social impact

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Edubuntu 10.10 Released

The Edubuntu project is a group of people that aims to deliver the best of educational free software in an easily installable medium. They are part of the larger Ubuntu community and the main body of work is the Edubuntu installation disc, which installs Ubuntu along with educational tools and packages available in the Ubuntu software archives. They aim to make Ubuntu, the popular Linux-based operating system, a great choice for the computing needs of children, students, parents, teachers and schools, bringing many of the best educational open-source applications and tools to the Ubuntu operating system.

The Edubuntu team announced the release of the latest version, Edubuntu 10.10, codenamed "Maverick Meerkat" which is now available for download.

http://edubuntu.org/

Ubuntu 10.10 is released

Super-fast and great-looking, Ubuntu is a secure, intuitive operating system that powers desktops, servers, netbooks and laptops. Ubuntu is, and always will be, absolutely free.

ArchBang Linux: 2010.10 READY!!!

ArchBang is a simple GNU/Linux distribution which provides you with a lightweight Arch Linux system combined with the Openbox Window Manager.
Suitable for both desktop and portable systems – It is fast, stable, and always up to date.

You can customise your install to suit your needs, and draw on the vast resources & knowledge of the Arch Linux community.
The download page has links to both 32 & 64 bit versions, bootable as a live CD / USB – allowing you to easily test it out before doing a full install.

ArchBang Linux 2010.10 READY!!!

ArchBang Linux 2010.10 is out in the wild! Grab it while its hot from the download section.

Qt SDK 2010.05.1 for Linux released

The now released Qt SDK 2010.05.1 for Linux is only available for x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) Linux environments. This version include GTK style plugin, it make Qt to have look native on Gnome.

Source: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/10/06/qt-sdk-2010-05-1-for-linux-released/

CRUX 2.7 released

CRUX 2.7 released!

CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is keep it simple, which is reflected in a straightforward tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries. CRUX also has a ports system which makes it easy to install and upgrade applications.

Before downloading CRUX please read the CRUX Handbook (chapter 2 - Installing CRUX) to make sure your hardware is supported and to make sure you know how to install it.

Packages on the official CRUX ISO image are compiled with optimization for i686 (Pentium-Pro/Celeron/Pentium-II or better) processors. Do not try to install it on an i586 (Pentium, AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III) or lower processor, since it simply will not work. To install CRUX on an i586 system you need to download the i586 version of the CRUX ISO image.

A minimum of 160MB system memory is required to install CRUX from CD-ROM. It is possible to perform a custom chroot installation with only 16MB of RAM.

CRUX | Main / HomePage

GCC 4.4.5 has been released

GCC 4.4.5 has been released.

The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...). GCC was originally written as the compiler for the GNU operating system. The GNU system was developed to be 100% free software, free in the sense that it respects the user's freedom.

Related Site:
- GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Get the pre-release Fedora 14

Can't stand the wait? Fedora 14 alpha is available now.



This is pre-release software. The Fedora Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. All issues should be reported via the Red Hat Bugzilla. Read the Release Notes for more information.

Ubuntu 10.10 beta

Ubuntu 10.10 beta is available now!