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We are thrilled to announce the availability of the production release of Magento 1.1 ( Download |Release Notes ).
For this major release we focused on expanding Magento’s product configuration options, streamlining integration between strategic Magento modules and external applications, increasing the flexibility of the core tax module to allow for Canadian and EU tax rules and boosting the overall performance of the Magento Platform.

Here are some of the highlights of Magento 1.1:
More product-types
With Magento 1.1 merchandisers can now create a few new product types:

* Bundles (most commonly used in kitting or in the built-to-order product model)
* Virtual Products - products that don’t require shipping information

• Read more: Magento 1.1 is here!!!

Yahoo! Subsidiary Zimbra has released Beta 3 of its outlook competitor Zimbra Desktop.

The program already features off-line functionality, allowing emails to be written and composed in places without an internet connection.

Composed messages can also be set to be sent the next time an internet connection is detected.

Read more at LinuxWorld

Hi All,

The Evolution Team is pleased to announce the release of Evolution
2.23.5.

You can download the following :

• Read more: Evolution 2.23.5 , Evolution-Data-Server 2.23.5 , GtkHTML3.23.5 and Evolution-Exchange 2.2

This is a Content Management System built on Python & itools, among
other features ikaaro provides:

- content and document management (index&search, metadata, etc.)
- multilingual user interfaces and content
- high level modules: wiki, forum, tracker, etc.

• Read more: ikaaro 0.20.6 released

Dear Elisa Users,

The Elisa team is happy to announce the second official release of the
0.5 series of the Elisa Media Center, Elisa 0.5.2 ‘Good news everyone…’.

With this release Elisa takes another step towards its goal of being a
true cross-platform media center. It works under Windows Vista and XP,
as well as the main Linux distributions.

The main outlines of this release are:
- The integration of a media scanner that indexes one’s music collection
and allows one to browse it by Artists/Albums, with automatic albums’
covers and artists’ photos retrieval;

• Read more: Elisa Media Center 0.5.2 Release

* What is it ?
==============

Evince is a document viewer. It primarily displays pdf, though djvu,
tiff, dvi, impress slides, postscript and even comics archives are also
supported.

More information can be found at http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

* Where to get it ?
====================

• Read more: Evince 2.23.5 released

Seahorse is the GNOME application for managing encryption keys and
passwords. It also integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for
encryption/decryption operations.

This is an development release.

Important Notes:
================

* This release includes code written in the vala programming
language. However vala should not be required to build
this tarball. Please file bugs if you run into trouble.

• Read more: ANNOUNCEMENT: Seahorse 2.23.5

I am proud to announce the release of Soprano 2.1, the RDF
storage/parsing/serialization framework based on Qt 4. Soprano 2.1 comes with
a set of improvements and new features as compared to 2.0 and will accompany
the upcoming KDE 4.1 release.

The following list is not complete but names the most important changes and
improvements.

* SignalCacheModel to restrict the number of emitted statementsAdded and
statementsRemoved signals in a certain timeframe.
* Raptor serializer now supports all raptor serializer factory names which are
mapped to Soprano user serialization types.
* Changed mimetype of N-Triples to “application/n-triples”

• Read more: Soprano 2.1 released

Inquisitor team is pleased to announce Inquisitor v3.0 – a first major open-source version of the platform. After initial announcement of Inquisitor branch 3.x in August 2007, it’s a fruit of almost a year of labor.

Inquisitor version 3 is a major redesign of older 1.x and 2.x systems. New features:

* Modularity: it consists of dozens of interconnected and interchangeable modules with well-defined API; one can easily add new modules to add new tests, detections, production steps, etc.

* Three varieties: standalone (runs on top of already installed OS), live CD (can be used to analyse/test just one home computer), enterprise (server-controller network boot).

* Flexibility: every test parameter can be adjusted, all system can be customized.

* Server-controlled testing: server-based version includes a database that stores all the data on all computers that were tested by Inquisitor. If only some parts of hardware will change, clever scheduler won’t redo all the long testing, but only tests relevant to hardware changes.

* Distributed workload: due to modular architecture, Inquisitor can be easily distributed across a cluster to distribute load or make a geographically distributed system.

For those who would like to try Inquisitor, the easiest way is to download a 130MB ISO, available for both x86 and x86_64 from http://www.inquisitor.ru/.

Comments and especially bug reports are welcome.

Hi,

KDiff3 is back and ready for KDE4. Although the status is still beta I think
it is very usable already.

My thanks go especially to Valentin Rusu who volunteered to do the porting of
the build system to cmake and made the program compile again.
More thanks go to Albert Astals Cid and David Faure who helped with the
kdiff3-plugin.

• Read more: KDiff3 is back in extragear

Gossip 0.30 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gossip/0.30/

0be7a32b11a0957dcf8bddecfdfcd37e gossip-0.30.tar.gz
d36603e333f77dba51a6750dec036f8b gossip-0.30.tar.bz2

What is it?
===========
Gossip is an instant messaging client for GNOME with an easy-to-use
interface, providing users of the GNOME Desktop with a friendly way to
keep in touch with their friends.

• Read more: ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.30 released

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) that have been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. Now entering its third year, the Award has established itself as an important measure for quality and the popularity of Open Source Content Management Systems.

The 2008 Award will continue to support a range of open source Content Management Systems with four main categories offering prize money of $5,000 for the overall winner and $2,000 for the winners of the remaining categories.

* Overall Winner
* Most Promising Open Source CMS
* Best Open Source PHP CMS
* Best Other Open Source CMS

Read more at PactPub

The KOffice team announces the availability of the ninth alpha release of KOffice 2.0. With KDE4 becoming more stable by the week, KOffice development is picking up at a fast pace and developers who previously had trouble keeping up are now getting active again, leading to a much increased rate of commits for KOffice. Both the NLnet sponsored Girish Ramakrisnan, who is working on OpenDocument support, and the KOffice Google Summer of Code students are delivering solid work.

Read more at KDE.news

Remodeling? Like free software? If you answer “yes” to both questions, try taking Sweet Home 3D for a spin. The open source, cross-platform 3-D interior design application is simple to use and simple to learn. You don’t create individual objects in Sweet Home 3D like you do in a modeling app like Blender; instead you focus on the layout and design of the rooms themselves.

The most recent version is 1.3, released in April. Sweet Home 3D is a Java app, requiring Java 5 or greater. You can use Java Web Start to launch the app directly from your browser on the project’s download page, but if you plan to continue using it you should grab the full installer. Packages are available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Read more at Linux.com

I have been using Linux in one capacity or another since I first downloaded a Red Hat ISO a number of years ago. What finally allowed me to go full-time with my chosen distro was not so much the progression of hardware detection and self-mounting partitions but the applications. Today, I would like to share some of my personal favorites with you.

Firefox. Total love/hate relationship with the browser. Despite finding it becoming more bloated with every release, I know every time I browse to a page with it, unlike Opera, it will not toss up some stupid compatibility error at me. That and the extensions are highly addictive, despite me keeping only two of them to avoid bloating my browser.

Read more at OSWeekly

This is the unstable development branch of GIMP. Here we are working
towards the next stable release, which will be GIMP 2.6.

Changes in GIMP 2.5.2
=====================

- final touches on the combined Freehand/Polygon Select tool
- added a dockable dialog for managing Color tool settings
- prepared the code for changes in the upcoming GTK+ release
- improved popup scale button
- mark the center of rectangles/bounding rectangles during moves
- added dialog to query for using the online user manual
- allow to map dynamics to hardness for the Eraser tool
- provide gimp-remote functionality on Windows
- disable the build and install of the gimp-remote tool by default
- allow to scroll beyond the image borders
- added new PDB data type for transferring color arrays
- added new PDB function gimp-palette-get-colors
- added text search to the Help Browser plug-in
- bug fixes and code cleanup

Contributors:

Sven Neumann, Michael Natterer, Martin Nordholts, Manish Singh,
Lars-Peter Clausen, Alexia Death, Tor Lillqvist, Róman Joost,
Jakub Steiner

Opera Software today released the first public beta of Opera Mobile 9.5.

As with the latest version of Opera Mini, Opera Mobile 9.5 beta now defaults to page overview mode, allowing the user to view the entire Web page and instantly recognise the Web site. With panning and zooming options, the user is able to focus on specific page content.

Opera also introduces a sleek new user interface for easier navigation.

Read more at Tectonic

Did you know that it’s possible to view the content of the biggest and most widely used online encyclopedia without the need for Internet connectivity? That’s right, Wikipedia, with over 10 million articles in 253 languages can be viewed offline in your Linux box anytime, anywhere.

There are actually 4 easy ways to take your favorite Wikipedia offline:

Read more at Tech Source From Bohol

ISPConfig 3.0.0.6 Beta is available for download. This release is
for testing only, it is not for production use.

ISPConfig 3 is a new Hosting Control Panel rewritten from scratch. ISPConfig 3
is not a direct update for ISPConfig 2. DO NOT INSTALL IT ON AN ISPCONFIG 2 SERVER!

Features of ISPConfig 3 compared to ISPConfig 2
—————————————————–

- Support for virtual mail users
- Support for virtual FTP users
- Support for multiple servers
- Support for splitting of services to multiple servers
(Database, web, FTP and DNS can be on different servers).

• Read more: [ISPConfig] ISPConfig 3.0.0.6 Beta released

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

The digiKam development team is happy to release version 0.9.4. The digiKam
tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641

Noteworthy features added since the last stable release include auto-gamma and
auto-whitebalance support for RAW files in 16bit mode, displaying the number
of contained items in the overview for all albums, usability improvements, as
usual a lot of bug fixes - take a look at
http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/359
for a complete list of new features and fixed bugs.

Andi Clemens