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This article was written on May 11, 2007 by CyberNet.

For the audio, graphics, and video lovers out there…Ubuntu Studio 7.04 is here! One of the developers, “joejaxx,” posted about the new release to give some insight as to what you can expect after getting Ubuntu Studio up and running:

The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its first release: 7.04 for Intel i386-compatible processors. With this release, which you can download for DVD in little over 860 MiB, we offer a feature that is somewhat reminiscent of Ubuntu Server: on installation, you can choose between the Audio, Graphics or Video tasks; and choose also to install a number of plugins, which for this release is mainly aimed at audio production.

To test out Ubuntu Studio you have to install it on your PC because there is no LiveCD/DVD to use. After you get it up and running you’ll find some of these great applications there for you to use:

• Video:
  • PiTiVi – Video editor
  • dvgrab – Grab digital video data via IEEE1394 links
• Graphics:
  • Blender – A very fast and versatile 3D suite for modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
  • Gimp – Powerful photo editing application often compared to Adobe Photoshop.
  • Inkscape – A vector-based drawing program similar to Adobe Illustrator.
• Audio:
  • Audacity – Swiss army audio editor
  • Ardour – Digital audio workstation
• And much much more…

Ubuntu Studio also brings a sexy black theme to your computer, but I think it might be a little too dark for my own liking. Here are three screenshots to give you an overview of what it looks like:

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The demand for this release is so great that the site seems to be suffering from the same troubles that Ubuntu had when they released 7.04 a few weeks ago. Their site is currently unavailable so we have taken the liberty of posting links to several mirrors that are hosting Ubuntu Studio 7.04, and I put them in the order of the fastest first. I was receiving 500KBps+ on the first mirror which nearly maxed out my download speed.

http://aehunter.net/Files/UbuntuStudio/
http://proyectos.pixelamigo.com/software/Ubuntu/ubuntustudio/7.04/
http://intelligentdancemusic.com/ubuntustudio
http://mirror.imbrandon.com/ubuntustudio/7.04
http://download.linuxaudio.org/ubuntustudio
http://mir.zyrianes.net/ubuntustudio/7.04

Note: The ISO image is 860MB which is just slightly larger than what a CD can hold, so you’ll have to burn this to a DVD.

Source: Download Squad

Thanks for the tip Mohan!

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An awful lot has been happening in Nokialand over the past week. A few days ago, we spent our first real quality moments with the much discussed N9, and we were pretty blown away by the MeeGo smartphone. Fast forward a mere two days, and we catch wind of a pretty suspicious looking leak of “Sea Ray,” the company’s first Windows Phone handset where else but sitting firmly in the hand of CEO Stephen Elop. Just in case that brand of corporate subtlety didn’t quite drive the point home, the executive gave an interview with Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat this week, confirming the nearly universal suspicion that it will abandon the Linux-based OS. Elop told the paper that, even if the N9 proves a massive hit, Nokia is going to turn its attention to other, more Windows Mobiley things.

[Thanks, Vezance]

Nokia’s Stephen Elop is still over MeeGo, even if the N9 is a hit originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on June 22, 2007 by CyberNet.

So here we sit, 5-months after the consumer launch of Vista and 7-months after the commercial/business launch. Seeing that security is an important aspect in many people’s lives, Jeff Jones decided to see how Vista stacked up more than 6-months after its release. Before I get into anything it is probably important to note that Jeff is the Security Strategy Director for Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, which might affect how you look at these results.

The chart below shows the number of high severity vulnerabilities found in some common operating systems during the first 6-months of the release. Jeff decided to not include the vulnerabilities for third-party applications that are commonly included with Linux, such as OpenOffice and Gimp. Here are the results:

Here is a look at the first 6-months of the operating systems in the chart:

• Vista: 12 vulnerabilities fixed and 10 were high severity.
• XP: 36 vulnerabilities fixed and 23 were high severity.
• Red Hat Enterprise: 214 vulnerabilities fixed and 62 were high severity.
• Ubuntu 6.06: 74 vulnerabilities fixed and 28 were high severity.
• Novell SLED10: 123 vulnerabilities fixed and 44 were high severity.
• Mac OS X 10.4: 60 vulnerabilities fixed and 18 were high severity.

While that chart flatters Vista for having just one high severity vulnerability unpatched, it also doesn’t tell the whole truth. At the end of the 6-month period in XP there were only three unpatched vulnerabilities (over all severities), Ubuntu had 11 unpatched, and Vista sits with 15 unpatched. So in terms of fixing the high severity vulnerabilities Microsoft is really on top of it, but what about the other 15 vulnerabilities that are still out there?

Not only that, but 5 of the 12 vulnerabilities that they fixed were for Internet Explorer, so anyone not using that as their browser is already a lot safer! Time to go get Firefox or Opera…

Another interesting fact is that over the last month 91% of our visitors have been using Windows. Breaking it down even further shows that only 15% are using Vista and 73% are using XP, which leads to another obvious question. Not enough people have made the upgrade to Vista yet, so why would the hardcore hackers target that operating system? At this point it isn’t really worth their time.

Source: PC World

Props to CoryC for the tip

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Well, Linux users, say goodbye to Air. Adobe has announced that version 2.7 will be your last official release and, going forward, you’ll have to rely on kind-hearted souls willing to fire up the Linux porting kit the company will be providing. Development teams will instead be focusing on the growing realm of mobile and improving Air support on iOS and Android, and likely bringing the browser-plus-flash app environment to webOS. With the world’s favorite open-source operating system holding steady at roughly one-percent of the desktop market it’s hard to take issue with the choice. Of course, it probably doesn’t help that Adobe has had trouble getting it to play nice with *nix — especially the 64-bit flavors. Besides, with Tweetdeck prepping a proper web-app, what do you need Air for anyway?

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This article was written on January 10, 2008 by CyberNet.

The December 2007 market share stats for operating systems and web browsers are in. I wouldn’t say any of the numbers are that shocking because patterns have emerged for many of them, but looking back one year ago shows some pretty impressive results.

For the stats that we’ve posted below we’re using the data provided by Net Applications. Generally this has been looked at as a fairly accurate representation of the market share for browsers, but when it comes to operating systems it’s not quite what you would expect. That’s because it is only able to analyze the computers that are browsing the Internet, which eliminates nearly all of the servers out there that are never used for that purpose.

–Browsers–

The general trend with browsers is exactly what you would expect it to be. The standards compliant browsers are reaping the benefits of their hard work. Browsers like Firefox, Safari, and Opera have all increased their market share over the past year, while Internet Explorer is looking at a nearly 4% drop.

–Operating Systems–

There is a new operating system that wasn’t available last year, and it has already been able to make its way onto the charts. What is it? The iPhone! It only has a small market share right now, but for only being around 7 months I would say that it’s doing pretty darn good. Aside from that the Windows market share has dropped over 2%, with Mac and Linux coming in to scoop it up. Linux’s market share is still a little weak, but it did almost double which is pretty significant.

Note: As I mentioned above this would not include stats from servers and such which are not used for browsing the Internet.

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