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Users running the current Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" alpha can now install a development build of version 5.0 of Canonical's custom Unity desktop interface for the Linux distribution
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IBM has released a new version of the Eclipse EGL Web Developer Tools. The bridging technology between classical business applications and modern RIA applications also creates opportunities for the IBM platform
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LG Electronics is the latest in a long line of companies to sign a patent agreement with Microsoft over Google's Android and Chrome OS
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The upcoming 3.3 Linux kernel will be the first to exceed 15 million lines of kernel source code. It was also announced that Linux 3.0 would promoted to long-term kernel status and supported for at least two years
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The Linux Foundation has announced its schedule of conferences, summits and training for 2012, with LinuxCon Europe in Barcelona in November and the Linux Kernel Summit in San Diego in August
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Google has announced that it has ported the open source Box2D physics engine used for simulating rigid bodies to its Dart web programming language
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The Ceylon language may have only passed the first of five milestones on the way to being a Java alternative, but the developers have already released an extensive IDE for the language
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A release candidate, based on Ubuntu 11.10, has been made available for Linux Mint 12 KDE
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Version 2.3 of the Limbas software for creating simple database applications has been released
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Apache HBase, Node.js, nginx, Apache Hadoop and Rails top the OpenLogic report on enterprise open source trends in 2011
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Versions 1.4.11 and 1.6.5 of the open source network protocol analyser fix a number of bugs and close several security holes found in the previous releases
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With the release of version 1.0, the author of the free DAViCal calendar and address book server highlights the software's level of maturity
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During the last year, Debian GNU/Linux and CentOS were the most popular Linux distributions on web servers
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In addition to a new installer, the developers of the open source enterprise portal software have also added extra functionality, including the ability to store and serve videos, to their free community edition
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A denial of service problem which affected a range of web servers and languages is fixed in PHP 5.3.9; the update also includes many non-security bug fixes
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Version 2.9.2 of the open source network monitoring system Snort is now able to detect attacks on industrial systems
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The JBoss Community has published a new version of its open source Byteman tool for manipulating Java bytecode. Version 2.0 includes bug fixes as well as new functions for application testing
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The success of Linux Mint is down to its usability - easy to set up and get running and then use. The latest development is a new user interface, Cinnamon. Richard Hillesley looks at the history of Mint and considers whether Cinnamon marks a turning point for the distribution
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The first major new version of Free Pascal in two years brings support for Objective Pascal, and improves support for ARM floating point and OpenGL
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A "Firefox for Enterprises" with a near annual update and support cycle is to be created, and launched as Mozilla Firefox ESR; it begins with the release of Firefox 10
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The Free Software Foundation Europe is seeking nominations for its fourth annual Document Freedom Award, which will be presented on this year's Document Freedom Day
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Following more than a year of development, SpringSource has announced the availability of version 2.1.0 of Spring Integration, its extension of the Spring framework for building asynchronous, event-driven applications
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A pre-release version of a developer kit and related documentation offers insights into the structure of the mobile operating system
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When Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ships in April, it will be joined by an LTS edition of Kubuntu, and for the first time, LTS editions of Xubuntu and Edubuntu
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AT&T has joined the OpenStack initiative, making it the first US telecom services provider to become a member of the open source infrastructure-as-a-service project
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