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Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.10.0.
There is a new graphical relation manager, called Designer, available in database view.
See $cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] in Documentation.html.

The OpenTTD team has released version 0.5.0 of their Transport Tycoon Deluxe clone. New features:

• YAPF: a lean-mean C++ pathfinder with far superiour performance to NPF and the original pathfinder
• TGP: a customizable random land generator
• UTF8: full unicode support throughout openttd (display, input and output)
• NewGRF: newstations, newsounds, I18n and many more fixes and features
• Multiplayer: MP stability has greatly improved, desyncs diminished

Screenshots: [ View ] Download: [ openttd.org

Those of you who are outside of the Linux circle of influences must have heard about Eric Raymond’s rejection of Fedora in favor of a distribution that he believes will better serve his needs. While I can hardly attest to each of his reasons for washing his hands of this once favored distribution, I do agree with him 100 percent about the problems with RPM package-based distributions.

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I don’t have anything against Apple or its wonderful Mac OS X. It’s a fine piece of creation from all imaginable angles - intuitive GUI, lack of malware, ease of use, robustness, and stability. What more could you ask for from an OS? In reality, OS X is what Windows can never be. But I fear, will Apple pull the plug on OS X in the future?

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Andrei Zmievski is one of the leading developers of the PHP programming language. Since March 2005, he has been working with about 20 other developers to add Unicode support to version 6.0 of PHP. Now their efforts are nearing an alpha release.

Read more ta Linux.com

Gmail offers a few clever features that make it more than just an email service. You can use your Gmail account as a document viewer, a file storage, and even as a full-blown Getting Things Done solution. You can also turn Gmail into a nifty backup solution for your OpenOffice.org documents using a simple OOoBasic macro and Gmail’s own tools.

Read more at Linux.com

The Gentoo project has just welcomed a new developer: Daniel Robbins. From the introduction: “Daniel doesn’t have much experience with Gentoo so let’s give him a helping hand in the start.” The truth of the matter, of course, is that Daniel is the founder of the project, returning after some time spent in the proprietary world.

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Trolltech, the Norwegian company behind the Qt toolkit has become the second Patron of KDE. Trolltech itself should not need an introduction, since they have worked together with the KDE project since its inception ten years ago. Knut Yrvin, the community manager for Trolltech points out that “KDE does an excellent job of making UNIX-based desktops easy to use. Trolltech gains from feedback, bug reports and the spread of Qt through the success of KDE“.

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There’s been a lot of talk in the last couple weeks about the significant negative impact that Windows Vista will have on the environment. Almost 100% of this negative impact is the waste that it will generate by making millions of machines obsolete.

The question becomes…would machines go obsolete as quickly if software people weren’t coming out with fancy, but largely similar, operating systems all the time? The answer has been given to us by Linux: Yes…but not nearly as quickly.

read more at Linuxlookup

Sun Microsystems has become a “patron” sponsor of the Free Software Foundation, the organization founded by Richard Stallman that ultimately spawned the open-source software movement.

read more at Linuxlookup

This is a step by step tutorial on how to install the server component of Puppet (puppetmaster) on one machine, and the Puppet client (puppetd) on another. We then perform a simple test to make sure Puppet is working properly. If you’re not familiar with Puppet, it’s a configuration automation tool that allows you to centralize management of the various *nix flavors running on your network. Puppet supports central management of the important aspects of your systems, such as: files, packages, users, services, cron, mounts, etc.

Read more at HowtoForge

OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER

Volume 04  -  Issue 8  -  02/2007

Please send news clippings to:
newsletter@marketing.openoffice.org

For up-to-date news visit the OpenOffice.org Newsletter Blog:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com

To read all of this month’s stories in full:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_ooonewsletter_archive.html

ATOM feed:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Contents
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1. Announcements
—————-
* OpenOffice.org selects Barcelona for the OpenOffice.org Conference 2007

2. Success Stories
——————
* OpenOffice.org on 50,000 Brazilian desktops
* OpenOffice.org for close to 200,000 pupils in France
* City of Zaragoza (Spain) moving to OpenOffice.org
* South Africa moves to open source
* OpenOffice.org in Africa
* OpenOffice.org at the Municipality of Makedonska Kamenica

• Read more: OpenOffice.org Newsletter - Volume 04 - Issue 8 - 02/2007

Hi All,

The Evolution Team is pleased to announce the release of Evolution
2.9.92

You can download the following :

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gtkhtml/3.13/gtkhtml-3.13.92.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server/1.9/evolution-data-server-1.9.92.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/evolution/2.9/evolution-2.9.92.tar.bz2
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-exchange/2.9/evolution-exchange-2.9.92.tar.bz2

Upgrade Notes :
Evolution 2.9.x is the unstable series of 2.10 development.

What is New ?
=============

Evolution:
==========
Major Updates:
Documentation updates from PC Radhika.

Updated Translations:
Luca Ferretti (it)
Ivar Smolin (et)
Changwoo Ryu (ko)
Gabor Kelemen (hu)
Kjartan Maraas (nb)
Gintautas Miliauskas (lt)
Jordi Mas (ca)
Daniel Nylander (sv)
Leonid Kanter (ru)
Funda Wang (zh_CN)
Artur Flinta (pl)
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Washington Lins (pt_BR)
Stéphane Raimbault (fr)
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (vi)
Alexander Shopov (bg)
David Lodge (en_GB)
Djihed Afifi (ar)
Leonid Kanter (ru)
Duarte Loreto (pt)
Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)

Contributors:
Matthew Barnes, Raghavendran R, Srinivasa Ragavan, Ebby Wiselyn,
Harish Krishnaswamy, Chenthill Palanisamy, Sankar P

Evolution-data-server:
=====================
Updated Translations:
Gabor Kelemen (hu)
Luca Ferretti (it)
Artur Flinta (pl)
Priit Laes (et)

Contributors:
Gilles Dartiguelongue
Matthew Barnes

Evolution-exchange:
==================
Updated Translations:
Changwoo Ryu (ko)
Gabor Kelemen (hu)
Alexander Shopov (bg)
Peter Bach (da)
Artur Flinta (pl)
Kjartan Maraas (nb)
Hendrik Brandt (de)
Ilkka Tuohela (fi)

Contributors:
Kjartan Maraas, Varadhan, Nathan Owens, Harish

GtkHTML:
=======
Bug Fixes:
Harish Krishnaswamy
Matthew Barnes
Gilles Dartiguelongue

Updated Translations:
Luca Ferretti (it)
Gabor Kelemen (hu)
Changwoo Ryu (ko)
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (vi)
Alexander Shopov (bg)
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (pt_BR)
Artur Flinta (pl)
Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
Hendrik Brandt (de)
Duarte Loreto (pt)
Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
Kjartan Maraas (nb)
Priit Laes (et)

Reporting Bugs

If you have problems with 2.9.92, please take the time to submit the bug
using Bug Buddy or at http://bugzilla.gnome.org. Try to fill in as much
detail as you can regarding the circumstances that lead to the problem.

If you have a feature request, you can also file that at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from
us right away, we get hundreds of feature requests a year.

You can also check if your bug has been reported before by using the
search functionality of Bugzilla.

More information is available at the project website
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution and the project wiki :
http://go-evolution.org/

Thanks,
Srini

Pango-1.16.0 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.16/

3ff23998479e98c5dd9a7eaf08f6249d pango-1.16.0.tar.bz2
0b6ee553631e3988d8e7ce87c3072e39 pango-1.16.0.tar.gz

This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared
to Pango-1.14, while maintaining source and binary compatibility.
Notable improvements in Pango since version 1.14 include:

* Support for vertical writing system

* Improved performance when rendering layouts multiple times

* New Thai, Indic, and Arabic language engines, improving line
breaking and cursor positioning in their respective languages. These
were backported released in later 1.14.x releases too.

About Pango
===========

Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in
the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text
and font handling for GTK+-2.x.

Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout engine can
be used with different font backends. There are three basic backends,
with multiple options for rendering with each.

- Client side fonts using the FreeType and fontconfig libraries.
Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or directly
to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries.

- Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe for complex-text
handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or directly using the
native Win32 API.

- Native fonts on MacOS X, rendering via Cairo.

The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org)
provides a complete solution with high quality text handling
and graphics rendering.

Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango ships with a wide
selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic,
Hangul, Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all of the
world’s major scripts are supported.

As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,
and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.

More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/.
Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

Pango 1.16.0 depends on version 2.12.0 or newer of the GLib
library and version 1.2.6 or newer of the cairo library (if the
cairo backend is desired); more information about GLib and cairo
can be found at http://www.gtk.org/ and http://cairographics.org/
respectively.

Overview of changes between 1.15.6 and 1.16.0
==============================================
- Improved docs, with an object hierarchy and cross references to glib and
cairo docs now (may require rebuilding the docs to correctly detect glib
and cairo prefixes).
- Improved font selection for space characters
- Misc build system fixes
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 407087 – autogen.sh wants automake-1.7
Bug 409212 – Missing link flag prevents build with “-z defs” ld flags
Patch from Loïc Minier
Bug 355987 – choosing font/shaper for spaces breaks Arabic runs on
spaces

27 February 2007
Behdad Esfahbod

Name: PDFedit
Version: 0.2.5
Type: Text Editor
Depend: Qt 3.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=51831

Description:
Complete editing of pdf documents is easy with
PDFedit. You can change either raw pdf objects
(for advanced users) or use predefined gui
functions.

Changelog:
0.2.5:
* Bugfixes

0.2.4:
* 64bit compilability fix
* Fixed bug with units precision, 1234pt showing
up as 1.23e+3pt
* Console scripts bug fixed (not running scripts
from current directory)
* Added QSPdf.save() function
* Spanish translation added

0.2.3:
+ page rotation, text extraction,
+ simple drawing, lines, rectangles, layer control
+ revision control
+ text operations, highlight, strike through,
delete, simple add, moving, color changing
+ simple pdf to xml support
+ everything based on QSA scripting language
+ access to raw pdf objects
…

Special devel features:
+ pdf to whatever format support

The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 1.2.5 release of Apache Lenya. The 1.2.5 release contains all bug fixes that have accumulated since the release of 1.2.4. For a detailed list of changes, visit http://lenya.apache.org/changes.html Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and workflow.

Read more at Apache News

The Apache Portals PMC (project management committee) is proud to announce the General Availability release of Apache Pluto 1.1.0. Apache Pluto implements a portlet container which complies with the Java Portlet Specification. This is the first GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of Pluto 1.0. Pluto 1.1 allows for easier integration of Pluto’s portlet container and simpler configuration of the Pluto portal driver, a simple portal included with Pluto.

Read more at Apache News

Are you looking to re-master a LiveCD/DVD of Ubuntu Dapper Drake and Edgy Eft (or Linux Mint)? Well, head on over to the Phoronix Forums where Fragadelic has written a script to make this process very easy.

Linux.com reviews the latest KDE 4 snapshot. “On Friday, the KDE Project released the third in a series of development previews for the upcoming KDE 4.0 release. Dubbed “Kludge,” the 3.80.3 release includes the Sonnet language library, the new Dolphin file manager, and the Solid hardware library.”

Linux.com looks at Krugle. “With the rise in popularity of open source software, developers don’t need to start from scratch when coding new software. Instead, they can use specialized search engines that crawl repositories to find the perfect code snippet. Now, one entrepreneurial open source developer has built a business that expands on the basic code search engine, and in true hacker recursive style, finds his company relying on the very tool it exists to create. Krugle is a combination code search engine and developer community.”