Finally, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) is set to penetrate deep into the Cloud Computing Enterprise segment post the Dell partnership. Canonical had first debuted the UEC along with their Jaunty Jackalope (9.04 Release) in April 2009.
Open Source softwares have 90% software usage share in Poland for public administration
About 90% of public administrations use open source softwares particularly open source web browsers and ditto office applications in Poland; this was found in a survey funded by the Polish Foundation on Open and Free Software (Fwioo), after interviewing over 100 IT professionals from both, central and local government sector.
Other interesting findings of the survey are:
- Open source software usage depends on type of application. Web browsers and office application are relatively more popular than open source desktops.
- Linux is common for servers. The report states “The uptake of open source is relatively low. It is not evenly spread over servers and desktops.” For desktops however open source operating systems are not very popular.
- IT professional assert that the major reason for widespread adoption of open source is cost constraint and costs owing to proprietary licensing.
Proxmox VE – An Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
Proxmox Virtual Environment is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines.
Proxmox VE is an open source project, developed and maintained by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH
Proxmox VE is simple to use: Pre-built Virtual Appliances, Install and manage with a few clicks.
GhostBSD- Another freeBSD based system with Gnome desktop
Few days ago GhostBSD2.0 beta was released. This release comes with bug fixes and many improvements on the look, feel and the speed. Some of things that were introduced to this new release was the new logo, New live cd file system, and improvements to GDM where there is no more white screens during booting. GhostBSD 2.0 is base on freebsd 8.2, and comes with latest software like Gnome 2.32, Rhythmbox 0.12.8_3, Pidgin 2.7.7, Firefox 3.6.13, Thunderbird 3.0.11 and more.
Android 3.0, the version for Android Tablets, to debut!
Since Google posted an introduction video of Android 3.0 to its developers channel on YouTube there has been much of anticipation about this new version. The excitement continued when Google officially introduced Android 3.0 the Honeycomb on its official blog. The release date of Honeycomb expected early this year the moment Iconia Tab, Motorola’s Xoom or G-Slate are launched officially!
Android 3.0, also called the Honeycomb is Androids version optimized for large-screen devices particularly Tablets. According to the official Google blog, Honeycomb has “a brand new, truly virtual and holographic user interface” and a home screen that is fully customizable with a flashy 3D experience aided with completely redesigned widgets that are richer and more interactive. Honeycomb also includes Google Maps 5 that can be reliably used in offline mode on mobile devices. Goggle claims for other enhancements like elegant notifications and more refined multi-tasking. By far the web-browser received greater refinements. The browser is enabled with multi-tabbed browsing, auto-fill form, private browsing, and integrated Chrome bookmark syncing.
Who will run Android 3.0!?
Korean firm asserts that honeycomb will require at least dual –core processors .Motorola has already demonstrated its device Motorola Xoom tablet running on Honeycomb that debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show this January. Motorola device features a dual-core processor 10.1-inch screen, front- and rear-facing cameras and HD video recording. LG will also launch G-Slate with the support of T-Mobile. On the other hand, Acer has also announced 7- and 10-inch Android tablets, rumored to be released this April.
It is fancied that Android 3.0 is for high-end devices, and will run on phones that satisfy the criteria of 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 3.5-inch or larger displays. Till yet, it is supposed that Samsung Galaxy S2 will run on honeycomb. PSP Phones are also believed to be released with Android 3.0.
Android 3.0 has specially stirred excitement in the market and community of developers. If all goes smooth in favor of Google, Google will easily manage to take away Apple Ipad2’s potential customers!
For more details:
Google’s Official blog: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/01/sneak-peak-of-android-30-honeycomb.html
VLC "It plays everything!"
What is new in 1.1.7 changeinfo log
* Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs #234484 and #260719. Mac OS X port:
* Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
* Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed and stability reasons Demuxers:
* Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability. VideoLAN-SA-1102 Translations:
* Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
Here are some VLC 1.1.7 features :
Inputs:
· UDP Unicast / Multicast
· RTP Unicast / Multicast
· HTTP
· FTP
· MMS
· File
· DVD
· VCD
· Audio CD
· DVB-S/C/T
· MPEG encoding card
· Video acquisition
Input formats:
· MPEG ES/PS/TS/PVA/mp3
· AVI
· ASF/wmv/wma
· Ogg/OGM/Annodex
· MP4/MOV/3gpp
· Matroska
· Wav
· DTS Wav
· Raw DV
· Raw AAC
· Raw ac3/a52 audio
· Raw DTS audio
· FLAC audio
Video Codecs:
· MPEG-1
· MPEG-2
· DivX 1/2/3
· MPEG-4/DivX 5/XviD/3ivX D4
· Sorenson (SVQ 1/3)
· DV
· Cinepak
· Theora (alpha 3)
· H263/H263i
· MJPEG A/B
· WMV 1/2
Subtitles:
· SVCD
· CVD
· DVB
· OGM
· Matroska
· MicroDVD
· Vobsub
· SubRIP
· SubViewer (v1 & v2)
· SSA1-4
· SAMI
· Vplayer
Video Filters:
· Deinterlace
· Crop
· Image Wall
· Brightness-Saturation-Contrast
· Rotate
· Upside down
· Logo overlay
Video Output:
· Native
· GDI
· X11
· Xvideo
· SDL
· Framebuffer
· ASCII art
· colored ASCII art
· MGA
· GGI
Audio Codecs:
· MPEG Layer 1 and 2
· MP3
· AC3 (i.e. A52)
· DTS
· LPCM
· AAC
· Vorbis
· WMA 1/2
· ADPCM
· DV Audio
· FLAC
· MACE
· Speex
Audio Output:
· Native
· S/PDIF
· multi-channel
· SDL
· ESD
· aRts
· File
Interfaces:
· GTK+ (unmaintained)
· Gnome (unmaintained)
· QT (unmaintained)
· KDE (unmaintained)
· WxWidgets
· Skins
· HTTP/Webpage
Service Information:
· SAP / SDP
· SLP
Misc:
· Command line
· RTSP client
· Remote Control
· Infrared
· Mozilla plugin
· DVD Menus
· Audio Visualization Effects
· Localization
· ID3 tags
· CDDB CD info
· IPv6
· IGMPv3
· CPU acceleration
Download and install last version VLC 1.1.7
GNU/Linux
Gimp Paint Studio(GPS)- A collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets for GIMP
GPS (Gimp Paint Studio) is a collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP.
Is Upcoming Firefox 4 inspired by Google Chrome?
Today, I installed Firefox 4 beta. My very first impression when the new browser opened was “How much like Chrome!” On exploring 
Firefox 4 beta I found the design and functionality has incredible likeness with Google’s browser Chrome. In this post we will deem at the new features of Firefox and comment on how they look alike Google Chrome.
Linux Penetration into Entertainment Accessories
Linux is fast redefining synthesizers, routers and keyboards technology and performance, Linux true to its history believes in making a subtle entry into unchartered territories. While there is so much writing about the desktop dominance tussles, Linux has silently built a substantial base in new unchartered avenues of electronic consumables as well as cell phones. Today Linux is running most set-top boxes, media streamers, routers, synthesizers and keyboards. Linux is what runs the show at the London Stock Exchange as well as entertains travelers on innumerable airlines.
Install Xfce4.8 via PPA in Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04
Few days ago xfce4.8 was released, this new release comes with many new features and improvements, Xfce users are now able to browse remote shares using a variety of protocols (SFTP, SMB, FTP and many more), panel application has been rewrittenthereby improving positioning, transparency, item and launcher management.
How to update and add repository in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty and 11.10 oneiric ocelot behind a proxy | FAQs
Question: How to install , update packages and add PPA repository behind a proxy Server in Ubuntu 10.10, 11.04 Natty and 11.10 oneiric ocelot?
Y PPA Manager 0.0.5 comes with GUI for settings and repositories backup/restore feature | Ubuntu & LinuxMint
Few days ago was released Y PPA Manager 0.5, this great tool comes with some important new features: A GUI for settings, a repositories backup/restore feature, and an option to scan and remove duplicate PPAs, this last one only works for PPAs which are in separate .list files; it doesn’t work if you add the PPAs to the sources.list file.
install the last Mplayer in Ubuntu
MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor problems, also in DOS using HX DOS Extender. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available. A version for the Wii Homebrew Channel has also emerged.
Yesterday Mplayer 1.0rc4 released with may changes and bug fixes
Decoders:
- YUY2 Lossless Codec (YLC0) via binary DLL
- Truemotion RT codec (TR20) via binary DLL
- Nogantech Codec (NTN1 and NTN2) via binary DLL
- add new FourCCs (m1v1, yuvs, VYUY, Y42B, V422, YUNV, UYNV, UYNY, uyv1, 2Vu1, P422, HDYC, IJLV, MVJP) TwoCCs (0xA106, 0x6c75, 0xAAC0, 0x55005354) to existing decoders
- AMR now handled via OpenCORE decoder
- updated Windows Media Screen Codec (MSS1, MSS2) via binary DLL
- CoreAVC H.264 decoder via binary DLL (Windows only)
- Kega Game video codec (KGV1) via binary DLL
- SoftLab-NSK Forward MPEG-2 I-frames (SLIF) via binary DLL
- JPEG 2000 support via OpenJPEG
- internal liba52 copy removed
- CineForm HD (CFHD) via binary DLL
- VP8 en-/decoding through libvpx wrapper and native decoder in FFmpeg
- support for external libmpeg2 added
- hardware MPEG decoder priority lowered
- external libmpg123 support
Demuxers:
- Mostly fixed timing issues with some H.264 (PAFF) samples
- Matroska and Ogg demuxers switched to use libavformat by default. Report issues and use -demuxer ogg and -demuxer mkv to work around them.
- support for TrueHD in Blu-ray streams in libmpdemux
- more Blu-ray codec support with lavf
- fix length in ASF/WMV files
- support ISDB-Tb DVB streams
Filters:
- remove vf_yuy2, functionality is replaced by -vf format=yuv2
- remove vf_rgb2bgr, functionality is replaced by sws and vf_format
Streaming:
Support for unencrypted Blu-ray playback through libbluray. Use it through: mplayer br:////path/to/dis
Install from PPA for Ubuntu 10.04 of 10.10 and 11.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:motumedia/mplayer-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer
Play windows media video wmv in Linux
Question
How to play wmv files in Linux ?
Answer :
1- first you have to install the rpmfusion repository with
yum –nogpgcheck install http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
2-Install some needed packages
yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg
3- install Mplayer Totem and VLC
yum install totem vlc mplayer -y
4-Now to play the file with commands you can use
vlc /patch/file.wmv
or
totem /path/file.wmv
or
mplayer /path/file.wmv
5-you can play from the gui mode
Application >media>VLC or Mplayer of Totem Medoa player
6-To enable playing these files from your browser :
yum install totem-mozplugin gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad
How to upgrade to Centos6
Upgrade to centos 6
Opensuse11.4 – Apache – Access Forbidden 404| FAQs
Question: I installed apache from yast manager in opensuse and i started apache, everything went ok. Now when i type in the browser
http://ip i got the error message : Access Forbidden 404
gDesklets 0.36.3 (final) released
After 2 more than 2 years from Latest Release, finaly gDesklets is back, the news version comes to fix some known non critical bugs and also some new features that were planned for the version 0.4 were introduced to this release too. This release features :”Check for updates” menu entry in the gDesklets’ tray icon, another new feature are the icons that have been added to both the tray icon menu as well as the desklets’ menu,
About gDesklets
“gDesklets is a system for bringing mini programs (desklets), such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. The possibilities are really endless and they are always there to serve you whenever you need them, just one key-press away. The system is not restricted to one desktop environment, but currently works on most of the modern Unix desktops (including GNOME, KDE, Xfce).“
The Black Perl is back with a new release- Sabayon 5.5 | With Screenshots Tour
Sabayon Linux 5.5 is released, it is available for both GNOME and KDE editions . This new release features best AMD/ATI and NVIDIA 
Linux Desktop support, faster boot time compared to Sabayon 5.4, improved Windows autostart support, try Sabayon directly from your Microsoft OS and more.
