Appena rilasciata l'Alpha 1 della nuova versione di Ubuntu, Intrepix Ibex. Dedicata agli sviluppatori, racchiude in sé alcuni miglioramenti che derivano da Debian

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation.OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under an Apache-style licence, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions.

Openssl 0.9.8g è il più potente sistema di cifratura Open Source per proteggere dati e connessioni di rete.OpenSSL nel suo complesso è composto da un insieme di funzioni di cifratura e da numerose utility che permettono di usarle praticamente.Grazie a questo toolkit è possibile inviare e-mail cifrate, comunicare in tutta sicurezza su Internet e proteggere i nostri file più importanti da sguardi indiscreti.

In 1991 a Finnish university student named Linus Torvalds began working on a new operating system in his spare time. He didn’t work in isolation, nor did hemake a big deal about what he was doing; rather, he modestly invitedprogrammers from all over the world to join his project, which he dubbed “Linux.” This loosely knit team of students, professionals, and hobbyistscollaborated through the Internet, with the expectation of learning a bit about programming and having a good time. Linus never thought that his project would spawn an entire industry.

With Hardy now past feature-freeze it's time to start to plan features that are being lined up for inclusion after Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is released in April.And so I'd like to introduce you to the Intrepid Ibex, the release which is planned for October 2008, and which is likely to have the version number 8.10.

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python.It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.

Google earth is a world map viewer. It can show 3D buildings and bridges in 3D view. It shows satellite pictures by default. The latest version also includes sky viewer. See http://earth.google.com/ for more details. Google Earth is available in the Medibuntu Package archive. First add Medibuntu to your package list echo "deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list Second add the PGP key of Medibuntu to you keyring

  None other than the father of Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, announced last night the name and the goals for the next version of this marvelous operating system, Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex); scheduled for release in October 2008: "With Hardy now past feature-freeze it's time to start to plan features that are being lined up for inclusion after Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is released in April.And so I'd like to introduce you to the Intrepid Ibex, the release which is planned for October 2008, and which is likely to have the version number 8.10."

Ebbene sì, Mark Shuttleworth ha annunciato il nome della versione di ubuntu successiva ad Hardy Heron (8.04) che uscirà ad ottobre del 2008 (quindi sarà la versione 8.10). Il nome sarà Intrepid Ibex, ossia stambecco intrepido (ibex in latino significa appunto stambecco, per la precisione Linneo lo chiamò Capra ibex). Particolare attenzione sarà rivolta alle