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Mageia 4 released Following a slew of development builds, the final version of the Mageia operating system has finally drawn its first breath. Mageia 4, which started off as a fork of the Mandriva Linux distro, has arrived, and the spec sheet does boast of an impressive array of changes and improvements. The official announcement read, “Right on time, and just in time for the first day of FOSDEM 2014, we have the great pleasure of announcing Mageia 4. We’re still having a grand time doing this together, and we hope you enjoy this release as much as we’ve enjoyed making it. And if you’re at FOSDEM, come and help us celebrate!” The ‘new' OS is a GNU/ Linux-based ‘free' operating system that is supported by a non-profit organisation of elected contributors. With Mageia 4, developers seek to keep the OS that was originally a fork of Mandriva, alive!
India-Born Satya Nadella is the new CEO of Microsoft
Microsoft has finally got a new CEO and it is none other than India-born Satya Nadella. The news from the Redmond giant came after months of speculation. “Satya Nadella is appointed as Microsoft's CEO, effective immediately,” read the company announcement. Nadella has replaced Steve Ballmer, who resigned last year. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, said, “During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella.” "Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft needs,” he added. In addition, Bill Gates, who was the chairman of the board of directors, will step down from his position and assume a new role on the board as technology advisor. John Thompson is to assume the role of chairman, according to a statement from Microsoft.
Vodafone now supports Ubuntu!
Even as the market remains clueless regarding when the first Ubuntu-powered smartphone will be available, there's good news coming for the open source community. The Vodafone Group, a popular carrier, has now become the latest to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisor Group, something that will help Ubuntu mobile devices reach as many users as possible! 18 | March 2014 | OPEN SOURCE For You | www.OpenSourceForU.com
Mozilla Firefox 27 arrives
Mozilla has released Firefox 27, which comes with as many as 13 security advisories attached, and delivers an improved performance. To sum it up, the debut open source Firefox release of 2014 comes with security and performance that is notches higher than its predecessor. Notably, four of the security advisories have been ranked as being ‘critical'. At least one of the critical updates is for a group of vulnerabilities labelled ‘Miscellaneous memory safety hazards'. PC maker Hewlett-Packard had earlier reported concerns over a use-after-free memory error that enables attackers to launch an arbitrary attack by utilising legitimate memory space. Mozilla Firefox 27 comes with a fix for the problem, while also providing a fix for a download dialogue box window issue that could potentially enable a spoofing attack. At the same time, the release offers a fix to an issue rated as having low impact that could enable an attacker to reset a user's profile. And it now includes default support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 specification.
Here's a CPU-Z hardware stat tool for Linux!
If you're an ardent Windows user, you will know about CPU-Z, the freeware application that caters to all your technical trivia needs, giving in-depth stats on your system hardware. Now, if you have switched to the user-friendly Linux, and you're looking for a CPU-Z like app, you can try i-Nex. i-Nex is an app similar in design and aim to the CPU-Z, but available for Linux. It can be used to get indepth stats on your system hardware, from your CPU to your sound card and more. Further, the app also returns software information on systems distribution, environment, windows manager, etc.
