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Submission + - Opensource router firmware OpenWRT 15.05 released

Submitted by aglider on Friday September 11, 2015 @06:56AM

aglider writes: The newest stable iteration of the famous and glorious OpenWRT has just been released in the wild for all the supported architectures.
The latest version is 15.05, codenamed "Chaos Calmer" after a cocktail drink, just like all previous ones.
From the official announcements:

* Linux kernel updated to version 3.18
* Improved Security Features
— Rewritten package signing architecture based on ed25519
— Added support for jails
— Added support for hardened builds
* Improved Networking Support
* Platform and Driver Support

For the full details you are welcome on the forums while the firmware itself and extra packages are available from the distribution servers.
Need more features from your router? More control? More security? Fewer backdoors? OpenWRT is for you!

Submission + - Razor-Qt: A New Qt-Based Desktop Environment? (razor-qt.org)

Submitted by aglider on Monday December 19, 2011 @03:39AM

aglider writes: Phoronix has an interesting piece of news about a new emerging desktop environment. And it's Qt based!
From the project home page:

Razor-qt is an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It has been tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and an intuitive interface. Unlike most desktop environments, Razor-Qt also works fine with weak machines.
Someone has already tagged Razor-Qt as
a KDE ripoff

What we have so far is version 0.4 as announced on a blog and, very important, a number of easy ways to install and test it on a few main Linux distributions. Maybe time has come for something really new in the desktop environment arena almost completely occupied by GNOME and KDE.

Submission + - Hubble shots the movie of star births

Submitted by

aglider

on Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:57AM

aglider writes: "A number of different scientific sources is giving big echo to one of the latest announce made by the NASA and the Hubblesite.ORG. Quoting from Hubblesite.ORG:

A team of scientists [headed by Rice astronomer Patrick Hartigan] has collected enough high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images over a 14-year period to stitch together time-lapse movies of powerful jets ejected from three young stars. The jets, a byproduct of gas accretion around newly forming stars, shoot off at supersonic speeds in opposite directions through space.

The report is also accompanied by a number of photos and, of course, astounding small movies.
The complete scientific study, that dates back to 2011.07.20, has been published on the Astrophysical Journal (subscription needed) but also on European Space Agency's Space Telescope and Cornell University Library's arXiv."

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