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The Wine development release 1.1.41 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• A wide range of Direct3D improvements.
• Support for SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 algorithms.
• A number of MSHTML fixes.
• Support for mp3 decoding on Mac OS X.
• Various widl improvements.
• More typelib fixes.
• OLE storage improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

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The next version of the Ruby scripting language has been rescheduled for release in mid August. The final release will be preceded by several previews and release candidates

Trent and I were both looking forward to the release of the Linux Mint LXDE Community Edition for various reasons. Luckily for us, Kendall (maintainer of the Linux Mint Fluxbox CE) pointed us to the .iso for RC1, which is what we’re using as the basis for this review.

The Mozilla Foundation has launched a new Firefox Mobile competition for add-on developers aimed at encouraging them to create innovative and compatible mobile add-ons

It includes latest kernel 2.6.32-16 , fully removaed HAL from the boot process for fast booting. ,The likewise-open package, which provides Active Directory authentication and server support for Linu

As Firebird approaches the final 2.5 release, a new campaign is born to help increase Firebird’s visibility and awareness.

Many times I prefer to just work from the shell. The ~/.bashrc file is a great place to put functions if you are using them regularly.

The tool chain of a sys admin should always be comprised of effective tools. Today we are introducing the package sysstat.
Sysstat is a collection of command line tools dedicated to providing the system administrator with a quick overview of the performance of the system. They work as front-ends to the Kernel...

"We've read the article at Webupd8.org with Mark Shuttleworth, and here is our opinion on the matter." ... "You have a kernel team because you think you need one, you feel the need to change the kernel. How many serious security flaws have there been in Ubuntu? And how many were specific to Ubuntu? "

In this article I’d like to explain the top one-liners from the commandlinefu.com. It’s a user-driven website where people get to choose the best and most useful shell one-liners.

Were happy to announce a new open source project called Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine, or ANGLE for short. The goal of ANGLE is to layer WebGLs subset of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API over DirectX 9.0c API calls. Were open-sourcing ANGLE under the BSD license as an early work-in-progress, but when complete, it will enable browsers like Google Chrome to run WebGL content on Windows computers without having to rely on OpenGL drivers.

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You don’t need to be a tech wiz or a graphics expert to know, when it comes to image manipulation, Adobe Photoshop monopolizes the market. But, there is one down side to the famous program, and that is it’s well known price tag.

Measuring at just 2 x 2 x 2.2 inches this is the smallest Desktop PC. And it's running Linux, one more point for Linux coolness.

Software patents have long been the source of a great deal of concern in the free software community; patents are by far the biggest restraint on our ability to program our own computers. Those who worry about these things have expected that attacks might come from patent trolls, or from software companies with fading prospects.

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Nordic Perl Workshop 2010 will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on May 1st-2nd. The organizers are currently receiving registration and abstract submissions (submissions are open until the end of the month).

This week on The Linux Action Show! Rumor has it: The Big Novell Purchase was JUST aproved we discuss what this means for Linux!

Welcome to part 2! Last time I talked about all the cool features I wished for in KDE that have already became reality. This time I’m going to detail the things I hope to see in future KDE releases.

Mozilla has confirmed that version 3.0 of its popular open source Firefox web browser is approaching its end-of-life (EOL). According to the Mozilla developer's weekly meeting notes, there will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x following the release of version 3.0.19, the last security and stability update to the 3.0.x branch.

This year's EuroPython event will take place from the 17th to the 24th of July in Birmingham, UK and the conference organisers are currently seeking submissions from attendees for talks, papers and tutorials that cover all aspects of Python

Proprietary giant is licensing open source to its partners. What is going on?