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.

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.

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

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.”

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 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.

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 code name for the next major Debian release after etch is lenny.