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SILVIU STAHIE
I joined the Linux team at Softpedia a year and a half ago and it turns out I enjoyed working on Linux platforms more than I imagined. The potential is immense and I believe open-source is a great future to believe in.
Otherwise I'm just the average geek. Besides my regular passion IT related stuff, I also enjoy reading books, maybe a little too much. I like PC games and the occasional Marvel inspired movie.
Last, but not least, I love hiking in the summer and skiing in the winter, although I'm finding that the relativity of time is shrinking these activities as I grow older.
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Zorin OS, a multi-functional operating system based on Ubuntu and designed specifically for Windows users who want to have easy and smooth access to Linux, is now at version 6.0 RC. According to the developers, Zorin OS 6 RC is the most advanced operating system they have built. It has a new desktop environment cal... |
19 May 2012
10:07 UTC |
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Stellarium 0.11.3, a free open source planetarium app that shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what can be seen with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope, has been officially released. Highlights of Stellarium 0.11.3: • Ecliptic grid was added; • A list of world observatories is availabl... |
19 May 2012
08:50 UTC |
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We usually like to announce when a distribution is available for download. Fedora 17 is not yet available for download and will be delayed another week. Who could have guessed that?
Robyn Bergeron, the appointed leader of the Fedora Project, made the unexpected announcement after a Go/No-Go meeting (they should jus... |
18 May 2012
14:27 UTC |
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Michael Tremer, developer for ipfire.org team, has announced IPFire 2.11 Core 59, a new stable release of the popular Linux-based firewall distribution.
IPFire 2.11 Core 59 comes only a week after the previous version, bringing some much-needed security updates, like OpenSSL 0.9.8x, PHP 5.3.13, and Python 2.7.3.
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18 May 2012
13:13 UTC |
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On May 17th, Canonical announced that new vulnerabilities were found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 edition of the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.
The following four Linux kernel vulnerabilities affect Ubuntu 11.10 OMAP4: CVE-2011-4086, CVE-2012-1090, CVE-2012-1097, CVE-... |
18 May 2012
06:30 UTC |
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Version 0.8.52 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre has been announced today, May 18th, with some important new features and fixes.
Calibre 0.8.52 has quite a few improved functionalities for various tools, and more changes than usual.
Highlights of Calibre 0.8.52:
• When deleting books of a ... |
18 May 2012
08:24 UTC |
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Cloud Linux, an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, will exhibit at WHD.india and WHD.asia and will explain the current I/O limits and what solutions are available.
Cloud Linux Inc. is the developer of CloudLinux OS, a distribution based on CentOS and Red Hat tha... |
17 May 2012
14:58 UTC |
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0 A.D., a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare with historically-based war/economy, that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, is now at version Alpha 10.
The latest version of 0 A.D, Alpha 10, has been dubbed Jhelum and comes with a ... |
17 May 2012
14:18 UTC |
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Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software for enterprises and SaaS providers, has announced that Open-Xchange Server 6.20.4 is now available for download.
Open-Xchange 6.20.4 includes important updates for Open-Xchange Server 6 (OX6), OX SE (Server Edition), OX ASE (Advanced Serv... |
17 May 2012
08:55 UTC |
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Nvidia has released version 295.53 of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems.
Nvidia 295.53 brings support for quite a few video cards: GeForce GTX 670, GeForce 605, GeForce GT 610, GeForce GT 630, GeForce GT 640, and GeForce GT 645.
The only other fix in this latest driver is for a bu... |
17 May 2012
09:48 UTC |
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OS4, a custom Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that aims for ease of use and user friendliness and that falls into the line of what is called "simplified computing," is now at version 12.1.1.
OS4 12.1.1 is now available for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms and it includes a large number of security and bug fixes,... |
16 May 2012
14:50 UTC |
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CUPS, a software used to print form applications and to convert the page descriptions produced by applications into something a printer can understand, is now at version 1.5.3.
Highlights of CUPS 1.5.3:
· USB backend based on libusb 1.0 has been improved;
· Fixes for PostScript, SSL, authenticated p... |
16 May 2012
14:30 UTC |
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Siduction 12.1 RC, a Linux distribution that ships with three desktop environments, KDE SC, XFCE and LXDE, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, was announced today. Siduction 12.1 RC, codenamed Desperado, is actually a Linux distribution based on Debian Sid from 2012-05-13, with a lot of extra packages and scr... |
16 May 2012
12:07 UTC |
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Redo Backup and Recovery, a recovery solution that provides bare metal restore, is now at version 1.0.3.
Bare metal restore means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes.
Redo Backup and Reco... |
16 May 2012
11:37 UTC |
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MonoDevelop, an IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages that enables developers to quickly write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux, is now at version 3.0. MonoDevelop 3.0 contains lots of new features and improvements and even a Visual UI Designer for Mono, for Android. Highlights of Mon... |
15 May 2012
15:00 UTC |
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Kdenlive, an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, which supports DV, AVCHD and HDV editing, is now at version 0.9. The updates for this particular software arrive at great interval, but when they do, they are full of important changes and new features. Highlights of Kdenlive 0.9: · The effect s... |
15 May 2012
14:35 UTC |
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GNOME Boxes, a simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems and which is sharing a lot of code-base with virt-manager project, is now at version 3.4.2. GNOME Boxes 3.4.2 is a relatively new application added to the GNOME project and therefore it contains a lot of new features. Highlights of GNOME... |
15 May 2012
14:00 UTC |
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Midori, a lightweight web browser which features full integration with GTK+ and fast rendering with WebKit, is now at version 0.4.6. According to the developer, Christian Dywan, the current version, Midori 0.4.6, is mostly a bugfix release so there are quite a few changes.Most importantly, Prominently 0.4.5 has a r... |
15 May 2012
09:58 UTC |
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Michael Tremer, developer for ipfire.org team, has announced IPFire 2.11 Core 58, a new stable release of the popular a Linux-based firewall distribution. IPFire 2.11 Core 58 is only a minor release, covering a few security updates and various changes. The main change in the operating system is about cryptodev whic... |
14 May 2012
14:50 UTC |
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Netrunner, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Kubuntu, featuring KDE as the default desktop environment, and integrating many GNOME/GTK+ programs to make it Ubuntu compatible, is now at version 4.2 RC. Netrunner 4.2 RC, codenamed Dryland, was announced by the developers, but so far only the 32-bit version is availab... |
14 May 2012
14:32 UTC |
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François Dupoux announced a couple of days ago, May 12th, a new release of his popular SystemRescueCd Linux-based operating system for rescue and recovery tasks. SystemRescueCd 2.7.0 comes with important changes and improvements, such as: · Updated the standard Linux kernel package to version 3.2.16 ... |
14 May 2012
14:26 UTC |
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Liberté Linux, a secure, lightweight and easy to use Gentoo-based LiveUSB/SD/CD Linux distribution with the primary purpose of enabling anyone to communicate safely and covertly in hostile environments, is now at version 2012.1. Liberté Linux 2012.1 brings a lot of changes, ranging from a brand new Li... |
14 May 2012
13:33 UTC |
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PulseAudio, a sound system for POSIX OSes, working as a proxy for sound applications which allows user to do advanced operations on sound data, is now at version 2.0.It took almost six months to get a new version, but PulseAudio 2.0 was worth the wait. It comes with a lot of new key features, updates, and important b... |
12 May 2012
09:38 UTC |
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Wine 1.5.4, a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project. Wine 1.5.4 brings some much needed updates and represents an important milestone in the development of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator). H... |
12 May 2012
08:52 UTC |
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ConnMan, a project that provides a daemon for managing Internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system and which is designed to be slim and use as few resources as possible, is finally at version 1.0. ConnMan has been forever in development and it's nice to finally arrive at a s... |
11 May 2012
14:53 UTC |
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Emmabuntüs, a distribution created for reconditioning old computers which relies on the robustness of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, is now at version 1.02. According to the developers, the Emmabuntüs 1.02 distribution aims to be as simpler and fair as possible. It includes all the necessary tool so that users can qui... |
11 May 2012
14:16 UTC |
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Aaron J. Seigo, one of the main KDE developers, has said that Vivaldi, the first tablet to come with KDE installed by default, has changed its configuration, for the better of course. The Vivaldi tablet will now ship with 1 GB of RAM and the internal storage has been increased to 8 GB. The prices haven't been... |
11 May 2012
13:42 UTC |
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Version 0.8.51 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre has been announced today, May 11th, with some important new features and fixes. Calibre 0.8.51 has quite a few improved functionalities for various tools, and even brings a couple of new drivers. Highlights of Calibre 0.8.51: • Motorola XT87... |
11 May 2012
07:13 UTC |
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Something happened with Fedora in the last years and the names just weirder and weirder, but this is about to change and Fedora 19 will have a proper, butcher name. Fedora 7 was Moonshine, Fedora 8 was Werewolf, Fedora 11 was Leonidas, and so on. Then comes Fedora 17, dubbed Beefy Miracle. The developers have tried... |
10 May 2012
14:33 UTC |
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Rocks Cluster, an open-source Linux cluster distribution that enables end users to easily build computational clusters, grid endpoints and visualization tiled-display walls, is now at version 5.5 / 6.0. Rocks Cluster is available for both CentOS 5.8 (Rocks Cluster 5.5) and CentOS 6.2 (Rocks Cluster 6.0). Both the O... |
10 May 2012
14:10 UTC |
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