http://freesoftnews.com Free and Open Source Software News Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:53:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8942 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8942#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:53:27 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8942 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 [...]]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8942/feed http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8935 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8935#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:02:27 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8935 The second of four days at the 10th annual Ottawa Linux Symposium got off to an unusual start as a small bird “assisted” Rob Landley in giving the first talk I attended, called “Where Linux kernel documentation hides.” The tweeting bird was polite, only flying over the audience a couple of times and mostly paying [...]]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8935/feed http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8933 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8933#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:01:11 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8933 Is OpenID a panacea, a placebo, or something in between? Opposing viewpoints took turns on center stage Wednesday afternoon at OSCON 2008. The session entitled “A Critical View of OpenID” started off as anything but critical, but once the audience got its turn to raise questions, things got more interesting. Read more at Linux.com ]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8933/feed http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8931 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8931#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:32 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8931 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 ]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8931/feed http://gamnix.com/2008/07/25/crossover-games-71-released/ http://gamnix.com/2008/07/25/crossover-games-71-released/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:58:55 +0000 freesoftnews http://gamnix.com/?p=163 CrossOver Games for Linux was originally released back in March (CrossOver Games Preview), but the CodeWeavers team is still busy driving new features and games into both CrossOver Office and Crossover Games. The latest example of this comes with the release of CrossOver Games 7.1. With CrossOver Games 7.1 comes plenty of game fixes and a [...]]]> http://gamnix.com/2008/07/25/crossover-games-71-released/feed http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8929 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8929#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:29:21 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8929 The 2.6.25.12 stable kernel update is out. This release contains over 40 fixes for a wide variety of problems. Read more at LWN.net ]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8929/feed http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8927 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8927#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:13:32 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8927 VIA Technologies today boosted its involvement in the open source community by appointing Harald Welte as its open source liason. Welte was the 2007 recipient of the Free Software Foundation’s Award for the Advancement of Free Software. He also recently won the Defender of Rights award at the 2008 Open Source Awards. Until 2007, Welte was chairman [...]]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8927/feed http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8925 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8925#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:09:43 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8925 Google is on a roll. Hot on the heels of releasing its internal Protocol Buffers data interchange format, it has open-sourced Google XML Pages (GXP). Though the project page reports this as version 0.2 beta, don’t be fooled: according to a presentation about the technology, this is the templating language behind AdWords, Blogger, Google Reader, [...]]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8925/feed http://ubuntulook.com/2008/07/25/ubuntu-intrepid-alpha-3-released/ http://ubuntulook.com/2008/07/25/ubuntu-intrepid-alpha-3-released/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:07:05 +0000 freesoftnews http://ubuntulook.com/?p=282 Hello Ubuntu developers, Welcome to Intrepid Ibex Alpha-3, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.10. Pre-releases of Intrepid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. Alpha 3 [...]]]> http://ubuntulook.com/2008/07/25/ubuntu-intrepid-alpha-3-released/feed http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8923 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8923#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:05:34 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8923 Andrew Leyden has some killer ideas about radio. Literally. For example, he correctly identifies the iPhone as a radio, and says it will kill off XM and Sirius: I’ve downloaded all of the Internet radio applications from the iPhone application store. I have the version one iPhone which works on Edge, but [...]]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8923/feed http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8921 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8921#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:04:48 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8921 The Debian project’s maintainer, Luk Claes, announced in an email Saturday that he will freeze the “testing” or “Lenny” tree, in preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux. On Claes’s checklist for September 2008: “Release lenny!” The freeze means that open source software developers have only a couple more days to package any applications [...]]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8921/feed http://howtomatrix.com/node/1855 http://howtomatrix.com/node/1855#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:04:11 +0000 suvi http://howtomatrix.com/?p=1855 Squid is a caching proxy server that can provide enhanced performance for HTTP and FTP. Squid will cache commonly accessed sites so that it can improve performance by 10-20% for Internet connections. Here is the Official Squid Site: http://www.squid-cache.org/ Squid is compliant to the Harvest Cache architecture and uses the Inter-Cache Protocol (ICP) to transfer data between [...]]]> http://howtomatrix.com/node/1855/feed http://howtomatrix.com/node/1853 http://howtomatrix.com/node/1853#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:03:07 +0000 suvi http://howtomatrix.com/?p=1853 For the past few days I have been looking for a proper i18n (internationalisation) and l10n (localisation) method for PHP. PHP has quite a few locale aware functions such as strftime and sprintf. In combination with gettext this can work quite well. The major downside is that you need to install all the locales that [...]]]> http://howtomatrix.com/node/1853/feed http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8919 http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8919#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:00:43 +0000 freesoftnews http://freesoftnews.com/?p=8919 OpenEMR HQ announced the official launch of their OpenEMR Live fully hosted EMR solution earlier today in a conference call with developers, employees, and clients. The service, according to their website, removes the headache associated with running an in-house application server and the cost of keeping a full-time IT person on staff. It also reduces [...]]]> http://freesoftnews.com/archives/8919/feed http://howtomatrix.com/node/1851 http://howtomatrix.com/node/1851#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:59:39 +0000 suvi http://howtomatrix.com/?p=1851 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has emerged as a popular technology for modern voice communications. Many organizations have replaced their analog or proprietary digital telephone systems with VoIP-based solutions. This allows the consolidation of telephone services into an existing IP infrastructure. In addition, using IP to host voice services lets the organization leverage existing expertise–while [...]]]> http://howtomatrix.com/node/1851/feed