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Amahi Releases Ubuntu Edition
Amahi has announced version 6.1, Ubuntu Edition, of its home Some of the features in Amahi 6.1, Ubuntu Edition include: server, and, according to the company’s website, the developers • Latest storage pooling technology with Greyhole 0.9 are working to create a graphical installer to make installation • Reliability fixes and updates, including a new look of Amahi Ubuntu Edition easier. • Support for both the 32- and 64-bit desktop and server ver- The Amahi home server is a GNU/Linux-based, open sions of Ubuntu source network server, integrated with Fedora and Ubuntu. • Improved cloud storage with Amahi Sync According to the development website, it is meant to be head- • Some support for ARM systems, like the PandaBoard and less and run 24/7. However, it can also be used as a desktop BeagleBoard while still serving the home network. It • One-Click app installs via Amahi’s ap- features a centralized storage server, plication store bare metal backup server, application For more details, release notes, and server, media streaming server, calendar known issues, check the Ubuntu wiki server, wiki server, remote access server, page at: http://wiki.amahi.org/index. and print server. php/Main_Page
New Version of Black Duck Announces digiKam Releases UndoDB Released Code Quality Audit Version 2.7 Undo Software Black Duck has broadened its audit ser- The digiKam team has released a vices with the Black Duck Code Quality has announced new version of Audit (CQA), which delivers a compre- digiKam Software UndoDB – a hensive code quality report for internal Collection 2.7.0. powerful Linux debugger tool. The com- audits and merger and acquisition due According to the pany says, “New features, support for diligence. announcement, more systems, and improved performance According to the company, the audit this bug-fix release help to make Linux developers more pro- service evaluates key software quality cri- improves RAW file processing support ductive than ever. Many bugs that would teria including code reliability, efficiency, using the LibRaw 0.14.7 release. Addi- otherwise have taken weeks to fix can be and maintainability to help companies tionally, new cameras are now sup- fixed in just minutes with UndoDB.” manage operational risk and reduce sup- ported, including: Canon 5D Mark III, According to the announcement, Un- port costs. The report is designed to help G1 X, 1D X, and Powershot SX200; doDB can record everything that any corporate and business development Nikon D4, D800/D800E, and D3200; Fuji Linux program does; it then allows de- managers compare their code against in- X-S1 and HS30EXR; Casio EX-Z8; Olym- velopers to see exactly what happened dustry best standards for coding. pus E-M5; Panasonic GF5; Sony NEX-F3, and home in on bugs. Additionally, the Black Duck CQA uses static analysis, SLT-A37, and SLT-A57; Samsung NX20 most recent version of UndoDB includes comparative analysis, and inspection of and NX210. an improved user interface that provides development processes to create an over- The announcement also states that the integration with other development all assessment of code base quality. The internal LensFun library has been up- tools, such as GDB 7, Eclipse, and audit assesses whether the code being dated to the current 0.2.6 release. This Emacs). analyzed is structured to enable ongoing includes new camera profiles to apply UndoDB also features improved per- development, is scalable, is well-docu- optical lens corrections automatically. formance and scalability, the ability to mented, avoids complexity, and follows Also, the internal LibPGF library has turn on recording midway through a de- industry best practices. been updated to speed up thumbnail bugging session, the ability to debug ap- The Black Duck CQA is available now. processing in the icon view. plications and libraries that rely heavily For more information, please visit: The digiKam software collection tar- on ioctls (e.g., CUDA and OpenGL appli- http://www.blackducksoftware.com/ ball can be downloaded from the Source- cations), and an autotrace feature. services/ Forge Repository. digiKam is licensed For additional information, please audit/code‑ under the GPLv2. For more details, see visit: http://undo‑software.com/. quality‑audit. http://digikam.org/drupal/
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