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The day before yesterday, 29 January, a new version of the game Lips Of Suna 0.2.0.
Lips Of Suna – play with elements of action-RPG. Supports single player mode, in the future will support online games (up to 30 players on one server).

The main changes compared to version 0.1.1:

• Greatly improved algorithm for generating maps.
• New monsters: the dragon and aer brigands (?).
• New things: plate armor, armor from adamantyl, various types of weapons that can make the most of the ore.
• The level of armor protection is taken into account when calculating damage.
• Added first part of the main quest and a side quest.

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The free document converter pandoc is available in version 1.8 with new features.
Contributions from the community have the free program brings support for more formats. These include read and write support for Textile and write support for the Org-mode of the Emacs editor. There is also a new and faster JSON reader and writer. To the existing citation as Bibtex and Endnote has now joined Citeproc-hs-0.3 as another option. Many details have changed in the Changelog described.

The Haskell program pandoc is licensed under GPL. It transforms input files in Markdown, HTML, LaTeX and other markup languages, document formats such as PDF, RTF, Open Document, GNU Texinfo, Epub, and more. The software can be used as a command line tool or use it in Haskell programs as a library. It also comes in the wiki software Gitit ( online article ) were used.
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The new Nmap is now bringing more than twice as many scripts for burglary and similar tests with.

One year after the last stable release, the Nmap developers have released the latest version of 5:50 of the security scanner. The focus is on the extension of the scripting engine NSE, users can automate the security testing with Nmap. In particular, Nmap brings in the latest version with over 100 scripts for testing application protocols such as Web servers, databases, DNS, and FTP. Even a bit in the aging gopher protocol is not missing, as developer Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon in his announcement wryly notes.
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Presented to support the implementation of file system ZFS to the Linux kernel from an Indian firm KQ Infotech . Driver source code available for hosting open source GitHub . Due to compatibility issues licenses CDDL and GPLv2 + developers, it was decided to license all the code under the CDDL, and the driver realized as a loadable kernel module. Binaries and source packages for Fedora 14, RHEL6, Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 are available from the website after free registration .

Code base served as a project of Native ZFS , which is a leader Brian Behlendorf. Used 28-th version of zpool and code from the 147 th assembly of OpenSolaris. Unlike the original project, which implemented only SPA (Storage Pool Allocator), DMU (Data Management Unit) and ZVOL (ZFS Emulated Volume), a new project implemented by the level of ZPL . This allows you to use ZFS as a complete file system, not only as a means of control volumes.
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Codeweavers Crossover has to Impersonator 10.0 alias brought his installation software for Windows programs on Linux and Mac OS X to date.

The core of the release is the so-called Crossties technology that will be felt in a significantly simplified installation. the user to the Windows installer of the desired program on CD or hard drive has, or is it is freeware, he reaches over to the Codeweavers Crossover Crossties Compatibility Center (C4 called) and gets there, the latest installation instructions for applications. Please click on the desired application is then sufficient to call a pre-profile file. Linux users download the small Crossties file – an XML file with a “tie.” – Download and run it. Mac users drag the file on the Crossover icon or double click it.
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Seven prominent Nagios developers brought out last October, an adapted and extended Nagios version: OMD, the Open Distribution Monitoring. They donated their installation packages, and numerous add-ons. In Linux kommando 02/2011 OMD left in Mark Feilner a good impression.

Nagios and its younger sibling as Nagios in the world of IT monitoring the measure of all things. For the top dog is it cost an almost infinite number of plugins and extensions, GUIs and tools, the selection and activation of the admin when you install a lot of time sometimes.
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The NetBeans developers should concentrate in future on its core business.
In a message to the community , the team announced the NetBeans development environment in order not to support Rails Ruby on in future. As a reason, it indicates to concentrate in future on the support of the upcoming Java SE 7 and Java Development Kit 7 (JDK 7). Outstanding Java support has always been the focus of NetBeans development, and it wants to now focus only once. Another reason for leaving the Ruby on Rails support were the small number of users in the use of statistics.
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Held the second major release of the draft SnapFly – lung PyGTK + – menu, perfectly suitable for light environments, based on WM (type openbox, fluxbox). This project is part of the project AgiliaLinux .

Changes compared with the first release:

• Was greatly improved configuration file parser SnapFly, now the program does not fall under the wrong usermenu-config.
• File a custom menu rid of unused fields
• Support for switching menu items by moving the mouse (optional category_click = false in config) (more…)

Today, together with KDE SC 4.6 was announced release of version 4.2 of the popular development environment KDevelop and its associated plug-KDevelop-php. The main change is the release of interface support KTextEditor:: MovingInterface of Kate, making it possible to use KDevelop in svezhevyshedshem KDE 4.6.

Among the changes compared with the previous version it is worth noting:

• Superior QtHelp plugin now allows you to connect third-party help files. qch, making it possible to use the documentation kdelibs or libstdc + + directly into the IDE
• The new plug-in support for the man pages of documentation
• Support for search and replace in files (previously the possibility of replacing missing)

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Fedora Project manager Jared Smith has said in an email to a slump in the Fedora computer.

According to Smith has surprised a few days ago, a developer of the account team turned over, because he had been informed in an email about the change of its access, even though he had not made any changes. In response to these concerns was the review by the Fedora team has found that someone had misused the account, writes Smith. Although the access is not come from the ranks of the sysadmin or the release team, but the user has been authorized (Source Code Management) and SSH connections to Fedorapeople.org, push-access to the update of SCM Fedora Fedora packages.
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