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Volunteers will present the progress in code development at FOSDEM Berlin, January 30, 2013 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 3.6.5, for Windows, MacOS and Linux, which is going to be the last of LibreOffice 3.6 family before LibreOffice 4.0, the next major release. This new release is another step forward in the process [...] Opera, an Internet browser developed by Opera Software that provides support for RSS feeds, BitTorrent, IRC chatting, contact management, and many other features, is now at version 12.13. The developers from Opera Software have rapidly gone through a few development versions and have pushed the final version of Opera 12.13 for release. Highlights of Opera 12.13: • An issue where Opera gets internal communication errors on Facebook has been corrected;… SocialRok, an Amarok 2.0 script which allows users to post what they’re are listening to in the music player on social networks, is now at version 1.7. SocialRok 1.7 can be used to post on Facebook, Flickr (optional, if you want to send Cover Art along with the post as link format), Twitter, GooglePlus, and Skype. Highlights of SocialRok 1.7: • Checking the presence of Python & Curl is now done only once; OTRS Help Desk, a software solution that provides an efficient interface between a business and its clients, is now at version 3.2.1. Highlights of OTRS Help Desk 3.2.1: • A test has been added to check if there are problems with the MySQL storage engine used in OTRS tables to bin/otrs.CheckModules.pl; • The new “Customer Information Center” provides a great dashboard-like view on a customer (company); • A new feature, “switch to customer,” … On January 29, Canonical published in a security notice details about an OpenStack Nova vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems. According to Canonical, Nova volume could be made to expose volumes from other users. It was discovered that nova-volume did not validate access to volumes. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to bypass intended access controls and boot from arbitrary volumes. The securi… Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 2013_01_29, a Linux live CD with specialist tools for disk management and data rescue tasks: "Parted Magic 2013_01_29. This version of Parted Magic brings all the X.Org packages up to date, adds Spanish language support, and a much improved…. AMD have finally started to take their jobs seriously and have released yet another driver update, Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3. Just as the name implies, this is a development release. Nonetheless, the changes are quite intriguing, if we take AMD’s word for it. AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 for Linux only has a couple of changes, but they are entirely gaming and Steam for Linux oriented: • Resolves a Team Fortress 2 performance issue with Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 and … With Mesa 9.1 nearing its release next month and having been branched from master as of this week, here are some new benchmarks looking at the Intel HD 4000 “Ivy Bridge” graphics performance when testing Mesa 9.1-devel Git to Mesa 9.0.2, 8.0.5, and 7.1… XBMC, an open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media that is available for multiple platforms, is now at version 12. After a few development versions, including three release candidates, the XBMC Media Center, coden… QupZilla is a not often spoke of web-browser that is written in Qt and supports Qt5 while using the WebKit rendering engine… With the Green Island Compositor, the Hawaii Desktop is looking to be the very first Wayland-friendly desktop environment for Linux… OWASP Mantra-OS 12.04 is available. OWASP Mantra-OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution built for penetration testing and secure computing. Read more …. New features and other enhancements for the performance benchmarking of *BSD operating systems have been committed with the forthcoming release of Forsand… MantisBT 1.2.14 is a security update for the stable 1.2.x branch. All installations that are currently running any 1.2.x version are strongly advised to upgrade to this release. The following release notes are relative to 1.2.12 (rather than 1.2.13). Four cross site … Continue reading → Tonight is the deadline for submitting new feature proposals to be considered for the release of Fedora 19… The latest edition is Razor-qt 0.5.2. This article shows how to install it on Ubuntu 12.10 or any other edition of Ubuntu you might be running. Read more …. Paweł Pijanowski has announced the release of SparkyLinux 2.1 "Ultra" edition, a Debian-based lightweight distribution with Openbox as the default desktop user interface: "SparkyLinux 2.1 ‘Ultra’ edition has been released. The system is built on Debian ‘Wheezy’ and all packages have been synchronized with Debian’s testing repositories as…. Don’t miss out on any of 2013’s updates. Join the Premier Club before February 4th and get a whole host of benefits and bonuses! Demons have invaded Gielinor this week but that hasn’t stopped the fansites partying! Find out more in this week’s Community Round-Up… One of the major limitations of QEMU/KVM when it comes to Linux desktop virtualization is that it hasn’t provided any form of support for graphics acceleration — either by passing OpenGL calls onto the host for execution by the host’s driver and graph… |
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