Konstantin Kochereshkin has announced the availability of the release candidate for ROSA 2012, a desktop distribution forked from Mandriva Linux and enhanced with a variety of innovative desktop utilities and applications: “ROSA company has finished formation of a package base for the ROSA 2012 operating system. We are….
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Development Release: ROSA 2012 RC
Tails 0.11, a new version of the Debian-based live DVD designed for anonymous Internet surfing, has been released: “Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), version 0.11, is out. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. Notable user-visible changes include: Tails Greeter, the login screen which obsoletes the….
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Distribution Release: Tails 0.11
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: The new Calligra office suite News: Ubuntu’s “Quantal Quetzal”, interviews with Jane Silber, Jono Bacon and Artyom Zorin, whither Mandriva, upgrading to Fedora 17, Haiku overview Questions and answers: Using native applications, a note on OpenSSH Released last week: Ubuntu 12.04, Linux….
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Philip Newborough has announced the availability of the first public testing build of CrunchBang Linux 11, a lightweight desktop distribution with Openbox, now based on Debian “Wheezy”: “The first CrunchBang 11 ‘Waldorf’ development builds are now available for testing. For anyone unaware, these are the first builds to….
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Development Release: CrunchBang Linux 11 R20120430
Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 5.1, a BSD operating system with a focus on security: “We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.1. What’s new? umsm(4) supports additional mobile broadband devices; non-GigE ale(4) devices can now establish link to a GigE….
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BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.1
Stan McLaren has announced the release of ArchBang Linux 2012.05, a lightweight Arch-based desktop distribution featuring the Openbox window manager: “ArchBang 2012.05 is out in the wild. If you are already running ArchBang smoothly on your system you don’t need to install the new release. Some changes for….
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Cryptis is a command line-based XOR Plain Text Encryption Unit.
Usage: cryptis [PATH/OPTIONS]
OPTIONS:
-h Help
-v Version Information
-i Licence Information
-? See Help
(Options may not be combined)
Features:
* XOR 8-bit Plain Text Encryption
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Protect your privacy with xShredder. You can destroy your sensitive files. Choose from simple destruction or shredding by Peter Gutmann 35 times. Eraser -Tool for Windows.
Options
1. Erase in all subdirectories.
2. Remove all empty directories.
3. Locked files destoryed after a reboot.
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The program is designed for automatic coloring schemes of PCB (printed circuit boards).
For the program will require four (or three) input file:
1,2: the wiring diagram in the blanks format dxf, obtained export silk layer in P-CAD layout of the original board. Want to save as separate files…
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PCBColorizer
Google and its partner Onix Networking just won a $35 million contract to run the U.S. Department of the Interior‘s new cloud-based email and collaboration system. This wasn’t always a sure bet for Google. In 2010, the Department of the Interior awarded Microsoft a $59.3 million contract to run its email and collaboration system. Google and its Ohio-based partner Onix Networking quickly filed a suit to block this contract. In Google’s view, the Interior Department’s procurement process unfairly favored Microsoft and never gave it a fair chance. Google finally withdrew its lawsuit last September after the Department scrapped its plans to use Microsoft’s solution because its original decision was “now stale in light of new developments in technology and entrants into the market.”
The arguments between Google and Microsoft got rather heated at one point last summer. Microsoft even alleged that Google falsely advertised that its solution was certified by the General Services Administration for use in government agencies.
Once this migration is complete, the Department of the Interior will become the largest major U.S. government agency to switch to Google’s cloud. Other agencies already using Google Apps for Government are NOAA, the GSA, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Idaho National Laboratory . A number of state governments also made the switch to Google’s solution recently. (Correction: This story previously stated that the DOI is the second agency to switch. It is actually the fifth one. The story now reflects this correction.)
This being a government contract, things are obviously not as easy as just moving all the existing mailboxes over to the new system. Instead, this contract gives Google and its partner the right to “demonstrate they can meet the Department’s objectives for an integrated suite of tools and services, information assurance and regulatory compliance.” The actual migration is expected to be done by December 2012. In total, this process will involve the migration of over 90,000 mailboxes away from the Department’s aging systems to Google Apps for Government.
Microsoft, of course, was not too happy with this decision and has issued the following statement:
Microsoft has a positive, longstanding relationship with the Department of Interior and we are working on a number of enterprise-wide initiatives with the agency. Although we are disappointed by this award, we will engage with our partners and DOI to review and understand the reasons for this decision. Microsoft remains committed to providing our customers with the cloud services that have the performance, security, privacy and other capabilities they expect and deserve.
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Google Wins $35 Million U.S. Government Contract Over Microsoft