At last another George Stobbart adventure.
Thanks to the efforts of a few hard core fans, Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of The Templars, has been released. This unofficial sequel to the Broken Sword series takes place between Broken Sword II and Broken Sword III. 2.5 also brings back the classic 2D comic-style, point & click interface that made the first two Broken Swords so great to play.
Unfortunately for the moment all the voice actors are in German, though English subtitles are included. The good news however is that they are currently under-way recording the English voices. I just hope they some how manage to get a hold of Rolf Saxon, fingers crossed.
To download the full game, completely free. Visit the offical Broken Sword 2.5 website.
Once again it’s time to upgrade your defences, well only if your a user of IPCop. And why wouldn’t you be, its very configurable has a nice clean interface and its really simple to use. As always you can download IPCop form the usual place either as an update from previous 1.4.x versions or as a ready to go ISO for a clean install.
From the IPcop website: Some changes have been introduced since rc2 related to NTP (fix ntp user with ntpdate), Squid upgraded to 2.6.STABLE17, timezone upgraded to tzdata2007i, Snort rules permissions again.
The update has been split into two part to accommodate free space limitation related to the numerous new packages added since the recent releases. A way to recover some free spaces has been created, allowing to select one of the two ‘kernel type’ installed. Most of the work has been made on bug fixes and update interface changes.
You can read the rest of the release notes here for more information.
Finally the Gimp (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) developers have released version 2.4 of the popular graphics editor. The new version has quite a few improvements over 2.2. In order to get an overview of what’s been changed since 2.2, check out the Release Notes over on the Gimp website. The Gimp site design has also been updated with a brand new look to celebrate the release, which was a bit of a shock at first. If you haven’t visited the site for a while you’ll see what I mean when you do.
The Gimp is probably one of greatest Open Source graphic design tools around and most that have used it would agree that it’s just as good Adobe Photoshop. Still it may be lacking a few features that Photoshop has, But unlike Adobe Photoshop, the Gimp is 100% free to download and use. It also works for every platform: Linux, Mac & Windows. so there’s no excuse not to use it.
To get an Idea of how powerful the Gimp can be check out some of the tutorials over on the Gimp website or better yet check out my sister’s site, skyerosetti.co.uk. Most of her art is produced with the Gimp and it looks fantastic 
The GNOME community has just announced the latest version of it’s popular desktop environment, Gnome 2.20. Released right on schedule, 2.20 is the culmination of six months effort by Gnome contributors around the world. Check out the release notes, for a full list of improvements and some pretty pictures of 2.20 in action.
From the release notes:
“The improvements in GNOME 2.20 include: Improved support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power management and incredibly accurate laptop battery monitoring. Developers receive more help with application development thanks to a new version of the GTK+ toolkit, improved tools, and a great new documentation web site.”
Looks like its time for an update.
From the IPcop website: This release fixes some bugs, update glibc, Net::DNS and capi for security reasons. Upgraded packages are squid, snort, e100, r1000… As usual, this version can be installed as an update from previous v1.4.x versions or with a ready-to-go ISO or usb bootable images or pxe for a fresh install. Files are available on ‘IPCop’ package at Sourceforge.
Read the rest of the release for further details.
The final version of the GPLv3 was officially released yesterday on the 29th June 2007, by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). You can check out the final text version here. For more information visit the GPL FAQ, it has recently been updated for the release of the new GPL.
The GNU GPL is the most widely used free software license worldwide: almost three quarters of all free software packages are distributed under this license. Version 1 of the GPL was released in 1989, and version 2 in 1991. revision of the GPL for version 3 began In January 2006.
Shortly after the release of Red Hat Enterprise 5 The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.0. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:
These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.0, Evolution-2.8, Firefox-1.5, Thunderbird-1.5, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.
Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.
Download: i386 | x86_64
The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB.
The code name for the next major Debian release after etch is lenny.
OpenOffice.Org have just released OpenOffice 2.2. Overall, version 2.2 should appear better to users thanks to its support for kerning, a technique that improves the appearance of text written in proportional fonts; kerning is now enabled by default. OpenOffice’s PDF (Portable Document Format) export function has also been enhanced with the addition of the optional creation of bookmarks feature, and with support for user-definable export of form fields. For more information on the improvements and bug fixes check out the project’s release notes.
The GNOME Project has just released GNOME 2.18 today, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. Nothing revolutionary in this release but definitely some nice new features, bug fixes, and improvements. Detailed release notes are available.
