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March 27, according to the plan, took issue desktop environment GNOME 3.8. Attention users are offered new applications, features, and lots of small improvements and bug fixes.

The FlightGear development team has released the free flight simulator, version 2.6. With FlightGear 2.6 hobby pilots start faster and take advantage of many new features.

The developers helped FlightGear 2.6 in shorter load times, easier tuning graphics and improved usability. At some airports, players can automatically boot from a parking lot, the size and type of aircraft selected meets. If the controlled airport supports the functionality can be shown the route to take-off and landing runways. The artificial intelligence system (AI) uses processors with multiple cores better and can load aircraft models in a background thread. The charging process seems so fluid and is additionally reduced by the fact that only parts of the aircraft to be read from the disk that are currently visible. From the artificial intelligence or other players controlled planes do not move more quietly, but give as the main aircraft noise.
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After having been released late last month with WindowMaker 0.95.1 nearly six years after the last release a new version, now comes the second update of the window manager.

Window Maker is a free window manager for various systems dar. The area was originally founded by Alfredo Kojima to life and has been touted as a replica of the NeXTStep interface. Accordingly, the manager stood out quite early out from the mass of existing systems. First, it was his look and feel, on the other hand, he was one of the few window managers that were fully configured graphically. WindowMaker supports applets that here were called slit. This application has taken over from the famous NeXTSTEP dock at which stores not only dockapps, but also frequently used programs can be.
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On the LinuxCon in Prague Dominique Toupin, Ericsson has presented new debugger features for working with multi-core processors.

“Those who can not handle multi-core processors, is in a fix these days” began Toupin, Manager, Developer Tool, his lecture. This is not just about chips with 100 or 256 cores, multi-core technology is itself represented in mobile devices. The complexity of debugging high to climb for several nuclei, and that requires new tools.

The speaker showed in his presentation of what the CDT debugging multicore Working Group at Eclipse and GDB developers have done in recent times for multi-core programmers. Examples include the ability to stop just individual threads of a program, while the others continue to run (Non-Stop Debugging). Also new is the multi-process debugging, which can be a single GDB server to connect to the target machine with several processes. This keeps the low consumption of resources on the target. A feature, use the example, the developer of the Chrome browser is, auto-attach on Fork: The debugger automatically connects to open a new browser tab that runs as a separate process.
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A new major version of an open Web server-based applications for project management and bug tracking ChiliProject 2.0.0. Recall that ChiliProject isa fork of Redmine.

Since the release of version 1.5.0 the developers added 17 innovations and corrected 47 errors.

The most significant changes:

• Upgrading to Rails 2.3.12
• Added Bundler
• Add ActsAsJournalized, completely rewritten the history mechanism hranieniya Wiki and objectives.

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The Document Foundation has opened with the release of Office Libre 3.4.0 a new version branch of their free office suite. The release includes many improved details, but is not ready for all user groups.

The new version is directed primarily at power users and members of the Libre-office community who want to try the new features, the makers. All others, especially business users, the project recommends that you wait for the first maintenance release 3.4.1, enter the bug fixes and stabilization.

there are many innovations in the Calc spreadsheet. Users can now apply an auto filter to any spreadsheet without creating a named database. In addition, it is now but also define named ranges within a sheet. There are also improvements in the dialogue to move and copy worksheets, on the display of drawing objects, and the references to external data. The pilot data now supports an unlimited number of fields of all types.
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The KDE Project has released the first beta of version 4.7 of its free desktop environment, the end of July to be ready.

The window manager kwin ES now supports the graphics API OpenGL 2.0, performance gains of mobile graphics hardware does that, but desktop users will use that too.

The Dolphin file manager received improvements in the meta-search and mapping application Marble can now also off-line search for addresses. The Display Manager KDM goes now with the GRUB 2, so that the user can boot from the menu in another Linux partition, or another operating system.
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Oracle provides its own hardware for the Linux distribution optimized for version 5 with the sixth update. For x86 machines, there are new and updated packages.
For 64-bit platforms, the Unbreakable Enterprise kernel of Oracle, based on the kernel version 2.6.32-21, now the default kernel on boot. The package name of the Oracle kernel changes with the update 6 of the “kernel” to “kernel-TB. New features of the Oracle kernel does not receive from previous updates. is also automatically installed, but not made the default kernel of Red Hat-compatible kernel with the base 2.6.18-238. A third kernel package is not automatically included, but must be manually added by an Oracle-DVD will be installed: the Red Hat kernel with additional bug fixes from Oracle.
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KDE’s Windows team has released free software collection in version 4.5.4 for the Microsoft operating system.

The Windows version is in spite of considerable work still not suitable for production use, sending the team forward. With the new release of Windows users will however benefit from the new features of KDE 4.5 SC to Open Route Service in Marble and improved plasma desktop. In addition, all the bug fixes minor release 4.5.4 included, along with the latest version of the Phonon backend for the video player VLC.
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Almost three years has taken the development of the new major release 7 of the open source content management system Drupal. A major concern was to improve the usability.

The user expects this reason, a completely redesigned interface. A new Dashboard, an Admin Toolbar, vertical tabs, and shortcut buttons are among the new-find there. The Drupal community has to have used for the revision of experts, evaluates the user tests.
For usability also spends around 50 standard modules have been added, such as automatic for image processing.
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