Photographic Memory: KPhotoAlbum for KDE 4
May 12, 2009Some users might know KPhotoAlbum under the earlier name of KimDaBa. Now, after a time-intensive migration, the album-software is available in version 4 for KDE 4.
more »Scary Monsters and Stinky Fruit: The New Blender Open Movie Project
May 11, 2009Are you an artist or a 3D specialist? If so you can apply for a job at Blender. The project will begin work on its latest open source movie in September. The film title: Durian.
more »Fresh Wind at Work: OpenOffice 3.1
May 07, 2009Cute but astute: the new minor version of OpenOffice can do more than ever, such as cast shadows, position chart axes and provide structured conversations through comments.
more »Pest Control: Free Virus Scanner AVG 8.5
May 07, 2009AVG Technologies has released a new version of its virus scanner for Linux as AVG 8.5. Biggest features are its malware protection, improved virus filter and on-access scanner based on the RedirFS filesystem.
more »Slimmer Library: Debian Switches to EGLIBC
May 06, 2009As Debian developer and package manager Aurélien Jarno says in a recent blog, Debian will soon switch from the standard GNU C library to the slimmer EGLIBC.
more »Icinga: Developers Fork Nagios
May 06, 2009Open source project Nagios is being forked into the Icinga project. The Netways firm, which specializes in open source IT management services and particularly the monitoring solution Nagios, will be managing the fork.
more »One for All: Terminal Server X2go 3.0
May 04, 2009The new version of the X2go terminal server, code-named Uthörn, is particularly Debian 5.0-compliant. Print requests result in files compressed to about 10% before being sent to the client, and the terminal server now supports a third sound architecture through PulseAudio.
more »DVD Menus Under Control: QDVD-Author New Version 1.8.0
May 04, 2009The DVD authoring software has been released in the new 1.8.0 version that promises to keep complex DVD menus under control.
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