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Undeservedly remained unheeded released two weeks ago, a new stable version of one of the most underrated free software projects – programs gLabels, which simplifies printing of a variety of labels and inserts, and also allows you to create a template business cards with the filling of the file CSV. The program comes with lots of templates created by the special paper for more than 50 manufacturers.

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Visualization Library – a library providing an object-oriented C + + interface for applications using high-performance two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics. Supported OpenGL versions 1.x-4.x.

Can be used to create cross-platform applications for operating systems Linux, Mac OS X and Windows in areas such as scientific visualization, material science, geology, oil and gas exploration, health care and medical training, civil and military simulation, virtual and augmented reality visual modeling, plotting, data analysis, presentations, multimedia applications, special effects, as well as two-and three-dimensional games.
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Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman that leaves Canonical is not news anymore. Now you know where it drags him – in a startup called Singly.
In his blog, Matt Zimmerman now called details , where it extends to his departure from Canonical. The startup called Singly , where he works in the future, serves as an umbrella for the project and Telehash Locker.
Singly each user to his data, which he otherwise distributed to the Internet via a central place to manage future – in a so-called loose .

This data store copies of the data that you leave for other services, such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Want access to the Facebook applications such as data, they do not need more milk Facebook itself, but access the data that Singly kept for them.
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The developers have accelerated the boot process by a new initramfs and start services in parallel with the init system OpenRC. The Cgroups feature of the Linux kernel is the best possible management of system resources used. New Items in the applications of the OpenSSH client, FBReader, XChat and Pidgin. Besides launching the new Linux Liberté the Speex codec for compressing speech and improved webcam plus MP3 encoding with H.264. More details will list the changelog .
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The Novabit GmbH describes its software as Nuclos “ERP Toolkit.” Now the open-source product in version 3.0 is available.

The surface of the new release uses tabs instead of windows. Favorites lists, drag-and-drop and other features designed to improve ease of use. The increased performance of the server-client application to make working pleasant also slower DSL lines. The new installer (GUI or command line) is according to the manufacturer for non IT-savvy users.
Nuclos is licensed under AGPLv3 and implemented in Java. By default, the software uses PostgreSQL as a database, in addition, it is also Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase SQL Anywhere link.
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The web browser Opera 5.11 is available as a beta download. Innovations include the synchronization of passwords and other features for fast access.

The speed dial (SpeedDial) now shows special extensions to already in the Selection of the current content stored there website. Opera provides a weather extension for testing. In the Speed ​​Dial page will then already have the latest weather report. Opera offers the weather add- on to this site.
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The project Qi hardware has released a new Linux image for the miniature computer Ben Nano touch.

The operating system is based on the Linux distribution OpenWRT. The current release 2011-05-28 shortens the boot time to less than 15 seconds. The used video player MPlayer now uses the hardware acceleration of the device and can play most of Theora and web-M video files in full QVGA resolution.
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Draft qtractor – free and open audio / MIDI multitrack sequencer, developed in C + + using Qt , JACK Audio, ALSA for MIDI and no library dependencies KDE , continues to move towards the output of the first stable version.

Since May 26, 2011 Chief designer Rui Nuno Capela (Rui Nuno Capela) introduced the next release - 0.4.9 – alpha-development stage.

Although from the previous version 0.4.8 in January 2011 was not much time, a list of changes in the new issue looks quite impressive. Acquainted with it can be on the download page of the project . Among the changes worth noting:

• Support for new opportunities JACK – Sessions (JACK Session), which allows saving and restoring settings on demand

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soundKonverter – graphical interface to many different audio converter.

Key features:

• Convert various audio formats;
• Calculation of Replay Gain;
• Create images of CD (CD ripping).

Used encoders / decoders: oggenc / oggdec, lame, gogo, faac / faad, mppenc / mppdec, flac, mac, mplayer, ffmpeg, shorten, ttaenc, bonk, ofr, ofs, wavpack, lac, lpac, speexenc / speexdec, timidity and others.
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Gears on Gallium – distribution includes all the latest in open-source drivers for video card radeon, nvidia, intel.

Press releases are every 14-20 days, this release will be of particular interest to owners of video cards Radeon HD 69xx (Cayman), as should already be full support for 3d.
The main differences from the majority of distributions:

• Always the freshest libdrm, mesa, xorg-drivers-*, kernel.
• 3 versions of Mesa (c Classic, galliumnymi, c galiumnymi + llvm drivers)
• To test the performance of 3d boxes available games such as Openarena, Torcs, Extreme Tux Racer, Lugaru, a well as Mesa demos, kwin and compiz.

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