Archive for July, 2012

07.31
12

Galileo CMS uses WebSockets

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The Perl programmers Joel Berger has published a new content management system (CMS) called Galileo.

It requires a PSGI-compatible Web server that also supports WebSockets. This HTML-5 connections are used to update the content.As SQLite database by default is used, in principle, all databases are used, which can connect the Perl module DBIx :: Class. The user writes the pages in Markdown format and receive a Real-time preview. Galileo is still in its early stages, for example, can not even upload images.
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07.31
12

Stella 6.3 updated multimedia distribution

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The CentOS-based desktop distribution Stella is available in version 6.3 with new software.

Forms the basis of Red Hat clone CentOS version 6.3. In addition, a Stella binds more package repositories: EPEL, ElRepo, one for Adobe software, as well as the distribution’s “nux-dextop” and “nux-libreoffice”. The new release brings, among other things FFmpeg 0.10.4, MPlayer and VLC 2.0.3 and 1.0.14020120205svn Audacity 2.0.In the desktop environment, Gnome 2.x. Stella relies on
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07.31
12

Release of Allegro CL 9.0

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The new version of the implementation of programming environments Common Lisp - Allegro CL 9.0.

Allegro CL ® is a dynamic object-oriented programming environment suitable for the development of complex enterprise-oriented applications. The development of such applications with billions of objects has now become even easier with the new Allegro CL 9.0. The complexity of today’s software systems and explosive growth in data volumes are widely used in all areas, from the Life Sciences (Life Sciences) and ending with the financial analysis (Financial Analytics).

Among the most significant changes in this version – full support for SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) on SMP-platforms:

  • 32-bit Linux (x86), 64-bit Linux (x64);
  • 64-bit Mac OS X 10.5;
  • 32-bit Windows, 64-bit Windows.

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07.30
12

New Life for Ubuntu RAD tool Quickly

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The Ubuntu developers would like Didier Roche Quickly, a tool for rapid application development (RAD) to revive, modernize and.

Quickly originated about three years to beginners and casual programmers toconverting rapid application of ideas to make.The tool incorporates a number of open source components such as the programming language Python, GTK +, the toolkit, the Glade GUI designer, and Ubuntu’s Bazaar version control system.
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07.30
12

Raspberry Pi + = Debian Raspbian

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An ARM port of Debian Linux distribution is now recommended by your operating system for the single-board computer Raspberry Pi

This is an unofficial port of Debian release Wheezy on the ARMv6 architecture. Here comes the hard float ABI (HF) is used, the calculation with floating point numbers to the hardware FPU transfers and thus increases performance. This is expressed, according to Raspberry Pi blog among others at a faster browser out. There are benchmark results for the architecture, “armel” and “armhf” on the Raspberry.
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07.30
12

LEAF 4.3: Updated Embedded Linux

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The LEAF project has released version 4.3 of its Embedded image with uClibc for routers and firewalls.

The new release in so-called Bering uClibc branch of the Linux Embedded Appliance Framework (LEAF) updates the multi-purpose binary Busybox to Version 1.20.2. In addition, it improves the load needed packages and offers Dnsmasq server with support for Dhcpd6 and router advertisements. There are also improvements to boot from USB media, and support for the Apple Filing Protocol via Netatalk.
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07.30
12

Free 3D-shooter Warsow 1.0

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Submitted release Warsow 1.0, cross-platform, dynamic 3D-first-person shooter, similar to games such as QuakeWorld, QuakeLive, CPMA and Xonotic. Sources of the project distributed under the GPL. Finished assemblies are prepared for Windows, Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X.

Among the most interesting changes are the following:

  • In order to simplify the game left in the game only «strong ammo». Previously there were two types of ammunition. Type of ammunition affect the behavior of the weapons and damage.
  • Added indicators allies.
  • Optimized loading of images, which significantly reduced the load time cards.
  • m_raw for Linux (using Xinput2).
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07.27
12

Humble Music Bundle, as well as beta user accounts

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Journal is published Humble Bundle, but this time without the games. There’s only music from the games:

  • collection of They Might Be Giants , the album Raises New and Troubling Questions;
  • collection of music, computer geek Jonathan Coulton , the album Greatest Hit (namely the 13 “greatest hits”);
  • collection of music man calling himself the godfather of nerdkora MC Frontalot , the album Favoritism;
  • collection of music composer Christopher Tin , the album won a Grammy, Calling All Dawns;
  • collection of music, the composer of music for games Hitoshi Sakimoto , the album Best of the Valkyria Chronicles.

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07.27
12

Minetest 0.4.1 Released

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Minetest – it’s a sandbox game, open analogue of Minecraft.

After 9 months of the previous version (0.3) 0.4 was released (and virtually every other day – 0.4.1).

Of the innovations (also applies to the engine game and the game minetest_game):

  • API, which allows to write fashion Lua (Brief documentation is in doc / lua_api.txt);
  • The new generator cards, partially submitted to the lua-scripts (for example, the generation now in charge of ore is not the engine, and the modes of default);
  • Added sound (using OpenAL);
  • A new entity – the “game” at the moment officially supported minetest_game (for games) and minimal (for developing and testing new features);

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07.27
12

Head Valve wants to support Linux, because Windows 8 – Catastrophe

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At yesterday’s game event in Seattle, CEO Valve Gabe Newell said that one of the reasons that delays in the spread of Linux on the desktop – is support videogames.

“The big problem that impedes the spread of Linux are games. People do not realize how important the game for customers “- says Newell. “We want the 2500 Games for Steam can be as simple as possible to run on Linux. This reserve strategy. I think that Windows 8 – is a disaster for all the world’s PC. I believe that we will lose some advanced OEM distributors who leave the market. I think many people will lose their profits. If all this proves true, then it will be good to have an alternative. ”
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