Archive for August, 2010

Open source media Centre Boxee adds Movie Library

Friday, August 27th, 2010

The Boxee developers have released a new beta – version 0.9.22.13692 – of their popular part-open-source cross-platform media centre, adding a new Movie Library to complement the TV Show Library
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Glibc finally free software

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Code from 1985 under an old Sun licence and included in glibc has been re-licensed by Oracle America under a BSD licence
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Google updates Chrome Dev channel to version 7

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Google has issued version 7.0.503.0 of Chrome for Windows and Mac OS X, and 7.0.503.1 for Linux into the WebKit-based browser’s developer channel (a.k.a. the Dev channel) – the first 7.x Dev branch release
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Mozilla Labs experiments with Git

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Mozilla has announced that, in addition to being available in a publicly accessible mercurial instance, its Mozilla Labs projects and experiments will now be mirrored on the GitHub project hosting service
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digiKam 1.4.0 released

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

The digiKam project has released the latest update for its open source advanced digital photo management application, adding a new "Remove Doubles" modifier and addressing several bugs found in the previous version
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Eucalyptus 2.0 is to offer improved scalability

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Two months after the commercial Eucalyptus Enterprise version, vendor Eucalyptus has released the open source variant of its Amazon EC2-compatible cloud software
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Motorola buys Cappuccino maker

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Motorola have acquired 280 North, makers of the open source Cappuccino web framework
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Python 2.6.6 released

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Last bug fix and maintenance update for the Python 2.6 branch is released as it goes into security-fixes-only mode
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Mozilla releases fourth Firefox 4 beta

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Following a one day delay, Mozilla has released the fourth beta for version 4.0 of its Firefox web browser, adding built-in support for Firefox Sync and a new feature called Firefox Panorama, formerly known as Tab Candy
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Inkscape 0.48 lined up and released

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

The open source scalable vector editor gets an update with multi-path editing and an improved text tool
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