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
Browsing google code the other day and came across this little project.
Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar for Gnome which sits at the bottom of the screen (in all its composited-goodness) tracking open windows.
There’s a lot more information on the project site http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/ & some good video footage of it in action on the developers blog.
Awn is currently under development, however you can try it out by either downloading the latest release from the downloads page or you could try downloading from the SVN.
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April 8, 2007 in
Linux, Open Source, Releases and Software.
Tags: debian, etch, Linux, Open Source, release, stable, update, upgrade.
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.
