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Kompetisi bulanan Science Prize for Online Resources in Education ( SPORE ) dari science magazine bulan ini memilih proyek opensource sebagai pemenang yaitu Open Source Physics . Proyek ini berupa situs web yang menyediakan perkakas dan sumberdaya untuk pembuatan model berbasis komputer yang interaktif, tujuannya untuk membantu mengajarkan kepada pelajar di semua tingkatan prinsip-prinsip fisika komputasional. ...

Pengembang MyBB piranti lunak papan diskusi / forum berbasis web berlisensi open source telah merilis versi 1.6.5. Versi ini berisi beberapa perubahan fitur penting dan menutup tiga celah keamanan. ...

Pengembang Node.js telah mengumumkan rilis versi 0.6.3 framework aplikasi event-driven berbasis JavaScript ini. Fitur baru pada rilis ini adalah ditambahkannya NPM, Node Package Manager, kedalam distribusi Node.js. NPM dikembangkan secara independen untuk menawarkan kepada pengguna Node.js cara untuk mempaketkan dan mendistribusikan pustaka kode dan menjadi standar de facto untuk pemaketan kode Node.js. ...

Bluefish editor teks untuk programmer dan web desainer berbasis GTK telah mencapai versi 2.2.0 dimana scanner sintaks dikerjakan ulang. Fungsi search and replace juga disegarkan, jumlah bahasa yang didukung juga bertambah. Saat ini Bluefish menggunakan GTK3 meskipun masih mendukung GTK2, berjalan di Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris dan juga Windows. ...

Kate Stewart mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha pertama Ubuntu 12.04, yang diberi code name “Precise Pangolin”: We are pleased to bring you the first set of developer images that capture the current fleeting reality of our Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04 alpha 1) as it starts to emerge. Alpha 1 includes the 3.2.0-2.5 Ubuntu kernel which is based on the latest mainline 3.2-rc3 Linux kernel. This is an update from the 3.0 kernel in Oneiric. Another noticeable change is the consolidation of the amd64 server flavor into the generic flavor. This will help minimize the maintenance burden over the life of this LTS release. The alpha 1 kernel also adds support for additional ALPS touchpads, contains an updated seccomp patch set, and numerous configuration changes. ...

Steven Shiau mengumumkan rilis Clonezilla Live 1.2.11-23, versi stabil terbaru distribusi Live CD berbasis Debian yang didesain untuk pekerjaan kloning disk: This release of Clonezilla Live (1.2.11-23) includes major enhancements and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded, this release is based on the Debian ‘Sid’ repository as of 2011-11-28; Linux kernel was updated to version 3.1.1; Partclone was updated to version 0.2.38, gDisk to 0.8.1; a new mode ‘1-2-mdisks’ (one image to be restored to multiple disks) was added in Clonezilla main menu, this is useful for creating massive USB Flash drives; this release supports VMFS5 imaging and cloning; the option to fsck the source partition will be shown in beginner mode; GRUB 2 for EFI booting was improved, now it is able to boot a Mac OS X machine from a USB Flash drive with the MBR partition table…. ...

Eric Turgeon mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis pertama GhostBSD 2.5, sistem operasi desktop berbasis FreeBSD yang menampilkan desktop GNOME 2.32: GhostBSD 2.5 RC1 is out. List of bugs fixed: PiTiVi on i386; the free space output in the graphical and text-based installers; a third install option in the text-based installer. To install GhostBSD you have two options; a new option is by clicking on the GhostBSD Installer icon or Typing ‘gbi’ in a terminal for graphical installation. Type ‘ginstall’ in a terminal for the new text-based installer. Ginstall is a great tool for those who cannot get to the desktop or their keyboard and mouse don’t work on the desktop. You will see that both GhostBSD lite (CD) and GhostBSD (DVD) have the installers; the difference is that GhostBSD lite is a smaller edition that fits on a CD. ...

Robert Lange mengumumkan rilis final terbaru VectorLinux 7.0: VectorLinux 7.0 is now available. This release is the result of nearly two years of blood, sweat and tears since the very successful release of VectorLinux 6.0. With the enthusiasm of a small group of packagers, our repository now hosts over a thousand up-to-date packages. VectorLinux is the fastest Linux desktop in its class bar none. We have exceeded our original goals and produced a beautiful, full-featured stable desktop that is fun, fast and efficient. The main desktop is Xfce 4.8 with a custom theme and artwork. Fluxbox is installed as a secondary desktop option. Much work has been done on localization and we know users from all over the globe will find VectorLinux usable in their language of choice. The kernel is version 3.0.8. ...

Ian Wells mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta ketujuh dan final SME Server 8.0, distribusi server berbasis CentOS: The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0 beta 7 which is based on CentOS 5.7 and will be the next major release of SME Server. This is the final planned beta for SME Server 8. Major changes in beta 7: require authentication for all emails, including local; optional use of ext4 instead of ext3 for file systems (except for /boot); LDAP authentication can be enabled; improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks; do not make backup fail when due to a modified file; localise the choices for ‘Select the type of share for backup destination’ in the Configure Workstation Backup panel; improve the wording of the ‘Backup or restore’ server-manager panel…. ...

Philip Newborough mengumumkan rilis build update CrunchBang Linux 10, dengan code name “Statler”, distribusi ringan berbasis Debian yang menampilkan window manager Openbox: New Statler images have been made available. These new images contain some significant changes since the last release. The main thing to have been removed/retired is the Xfce edition. I love Xfce and I thought about this long and hard, but I really want to concentrate on making CrunchBang give the best possible out-of-the-box Openbox experience possible. Besides, there are plenty of brilliant Xfce-based distributions available, and if you know what you are doing, installing Xfce under Debian is really not too difficult. GDM is the other big loser, being replaced by SLiM. Plymouth, the graphical boot loader, has also gone from the default install. ...

Linux Mint 12, dengan code name “Lisa”, telah dirilis. Rilis ini hadir dengan desktop baru yang dibangun dengan GNOME 3 dan MGSE (Mint GNOME Shell Extension), lapisan desktop diatas GNOME 3 yang memungkinkan anda untuk menggunakan GNOME 3 dengan cara tradisional. ANda bisa mematikan seluruh komponen MGSE untuk mendapatkan pengalaman menggunakan GNOME 3 sepenuhnya, atau anda bisa menyalakan seluruh fitur MGSE untuk mendapatkan GNOME 3 yang sama dengan desktop yang biasa anda gunakan, tentu anda bisa memilih untuk mengaktifkan komponen tertentu yang anda sukai untuk mendesain desktop anda sendiri. Fitur utam MGSE diantaranya, panel bawah, menu aplikasi, daftar jendela, desktop yang berorientasi pekerjaan (yaitu anda memilih antar window bukan antar aplikasi) serta ikon tray sistem. MGSE juga memasukkan ekstensi tambahan seperti indikator pemutar file media dan berbagai perbaikan di GNOME 3. Untuk informasi lebih detail, anda dapat membaca pengumuman rilis dan mengunjungi halaman what’s new . ...

Matt Housh mengumumkan rilis CRUX 2.7.1, versi update dari proyek distri ringan dan cepat yang ditujukan untuk pengguna Linux mahir: The CRUX team has released an interim release, version 2.7.1. ‘Interim’ means that this release is meant to facilitate upgrades or new installs by saving time that would be taken up by updating quite a few out-of-date packages. This also means that current users of CRUX 2.7 with updated packages do not need to upgrade or reinstall. Release notes: CRUX 2.7.1 includes glibc 2.12.2, GCC 4.5.3 and binutils 2.20.1; Linux kernel 2.6.39.4; packages – CRUX 2.7.1 includes the usual bunch of ports updates, but without any incompatible changes. ...