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Russian National Operating System Based On Linux

Russia plans to create its own national operating system (OS), said Ilya Massukh, Deputy Minister of Telecommunications and Mass Communications of Russia, as reported by newspaper Vedomosti.The government is hoping to launch the first version of a "national operating system" for its computers as early as next year.The operating system, for use on the computer systems of government agencies and state-run companies, will be 90 percent based on the open-source Linux operating system.

TrueCrypt 7.0 released

TrueCrypt 7.0  has been released. Among the new features are hardware-accelerated AES, support for devices that use sector sizes other than 512 bytes, ability to configure a volume to be automatically mounted whenever its host device gets connected to the computer, favorites organizer, and more. Main Features: Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive. ...

Wine 1.2 Released

WINE 1.2 has been released, the new version including (finally!) 64bit application support. This release represents two years of development effort and over 23,000 changes. The main highlights are the support for 64-bit applications, and the new graphics based on the Tango standard. It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, and over 3,000 bug fixes. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes. download now origin

Google Chrome OS

Google's long awaited operating system final release based on Linux is not yet officiall here but there are already development version available. The files are available as virtual machine images and can be downloaded using torrent. Download: http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/5170843/chromeos-image-999.999.32309.211410-a1.vmdk.bz2.5170843.TPB.torrent

Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition

Canonical Ltd. has released latest version of famous Linux distribution Ubuntu. New features includes faster system start, better login experience which I think is the result of boot changes as whole. In setup part new audio framework has been made and at wireless playground 3G broadband connectivity has been updated. Downloads are ready at: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download .

Linux Mint 7 Gloria

New build of popullar Ubuntu based Linux distro Linux Mint has been released. New name Gloria brings new features and improvements. Base is build from Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, Linux 2.6.28, Gnome 2.26 and X Server 7.4. Most changes has been made in mintMenu module, installation and update module and of course what Linux user likes - new artwork. Download is available at: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php .