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After a nearly two-year hiatus, July 27, left raw-processing software photos RawTherapee. During this time, the program managed to change almost entirely, including appearance, license, development model and developer – in January 2010 by Gabor Horvath RawTherapee open source under the GPL.

Have been improved all of its components, increased performance, stability, and liquidation of a memory leak. Among the functional changes are the following:

• Powerful tool for managing HSV palette
• Filters overexposed and underexposed adjustment pixels
• Improved algorithms for reconstruction of burned-out areas
• Tool for automatic correction of chromatic aberration
• The possibility of simultaneous processing of multiple images
• Window interface, which allows to use multiple monitors
• Update built-in libraries and EXIF ​​dcraw

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Allow me to introduce a free-InstantCMS multifunction control system communities. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL as the database. The first system is aimed at building social networks, dating sites, online clubs, and city portals.

All for the social network

• Personal and group blogs
• Clubs – Interest Group
• User profiles and messages
• Personal and general photo albums

All the portal

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Bob Flynn, President and General Manager at Novell is, after nearly three months in office, an outlook on the future direction of the company under the wing of Attachmate.

Flynn says in his blog post from streamlined product portfolio and on the areas of collaboration, file management, network and endpoint management-oriented focus. Novell will it strengthen its development team announces Flynn, with the aim to accelerate product cycles. In the fourth quarter, there would be improvements already in GroupWise, Open Enterprise Server, ZENworks, and Vibe.

Existing customers to upgrade to new versions easier, also an extension and improvement of the support offering was planned, so customers can better plan when the time is right for an upgrade. Netware 6.5, Groupwise 7, ZENworks 7 are called in this context.
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Ubuntu’s cloud solution for Ubuntu developers to announce the new one, celebrating a milestone.

One million users now use the Ubuntu-one service. That the project wrote in a message on his blog. Whether the Canonical flushed some money in the pockets, however, remains open, the reader will not know whether these masses use the free or paid services.
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On the Debian conference in Banja Luka, the former project manager explained Bdale Garbee, as he has created with an open hardware and free software, a controller for amateur rockets.

The eccentric hobby he shares with the Intel developer Keith Packard, who has done the bulk of software development. The amateur rocket fly 4-11 miles high and can be up to 3 meters. Their missile build enthusiasts for months to years of manual labor from materials like carbon fiber. Therefore, the missiles are usually equipped with electronics that senses not only the flight data but also helps in locating the radio signal reflected previous flying object. The control of the parachutes for a soft landing has to take them as well.

The former Debian Project Leader Bdale Garbee the father-and-son hobby.

Bdale Garbee and did not want to resort to proprietary electronics and firmware, but gave no commercial alternatives are not practical, and so they started their open-source project Altus meter .

The hardware, developed by Bdale Garbee, based on a system-on-chip with sub-1GHz transceiver from Texas Instruments with 32 Kbytes of Flash and 4 Kbytes of RAM. The board of about 3 by 7 cm in size are also an air pressure gauge, an accelerometer, a GPS receiver and two electric detonators, batteries and the USB interface. The design is licensed under the TAPR Open Hardware License. On the system do not run Linux, but a specially developed by Keith Packard GPLv2 real-time firmware.
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At the conference, the Debian Project, the developers of the upcoming Debian port for modern ARM processors have been discussing.

In a Birds-of-a-Feather session Steve McIntyre and Hector Oron presented the first challenge of the ARM ports: the architecture exists in different variations and versions, where V7 is currently up to date. The producers arranged especially for system-on-a-chip (SoC) components around the core to vary. In the kernel source code, this is manifested inter alia in around 15 different drivers for the serial interface. The industry consortium Linaro trying since 2010 to reduce the fragmentation of ARM.
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Evolution RTS – real-time strategy gameplay that includes both micro-management and the need for rapid decision-making and macro-management.

The game is developing quite rapidly, new releases come out almost every month in the current version 1.7 added two new maps and made internal changes to the preparatory process for the transition to a new version of the game engine.

The game uses a cross-platform game engine open source Spring Engine , which is also used in many other free and commercial games, a list which can be viewed on indiedb or project site .
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Link-Dead – another multiplayer game from the Polish programmer Michal Marchinkovski (Michał Marcinkowski) – author of the classic two-dimensional multiplayer shooter Soldat and the recently published another two-and multiplayer combat game Gold King Arthur .

Link-Dead action unfolds in a post-apocalyptic world, post-nuclear war, after which humanity was divided into two warring factions. One of them is the advanced group of elite soldiers who call themselves Ubermenami.
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LevelDB – fast data storage, ensuring the orderly mapping of text keys for text values.

Novelty is a library for the language C + +, which you can find many uses. For example, it can be used with a web browser to store the cache of recently opened pages, package manager can keep a list of installed packages and their dependencies, applications to store settings and so on.
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After five years of development, was published in the seventh version of one of the world’s most popular programming languages ​​Java and related tools for development (JDK). This is the first major release since the acquisition by Sun Microsystems Oracle. Also for the first time in the history of the Java platform as the basis of a commercial product fell JDK version OpenJDK open source. Framework fork / join, updated for Java 2D rendering and a completely new sound engine Gervill – all this results in relation to third-party Oracle developers.
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