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Google Wave's legacy will be "Wave in a Box", an open source Wave server and client for real time collaboration
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VMware and Novell have announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware, building on the companies' expanded partnership announced earlier in June of this year
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Source code which can be used on programmable developer boards to circumvent the Playstation 3's security systems, analogous to a PS3 Jailbreak, has been released under the name PSGroove
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The Galaxy Tab is smaller and lighter than the iPad but intended for the same areas of use. Its opulent set of features and components is matched by the high price Samsung has stipulated
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The Apache Software Foundation has announced that registration is now open for this year's ApacheCon North America conference taking place from the 1st to the 5th of November in Atlanta, Georgia
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The Wireshark project has released version 1.4.0 of its open source, cross-platform network protocol analyser, adding and updating a number of new features and dropping support for Windows 2000 systems
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Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages
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New database connectivity, more GUI toolkits supported and cryptographic libraries are added to ActivePython's capabilities
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Palm, HP's recent acquisition, has presented a limited beta version of the next generation of its mobile WebOS operating system. The release of a publicly available version is expected to arrive before the end of the year
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French vendor Archos is set on Android: At the IFA consumer electronics fair, the company presents a total of five mobile devices with Google's operating system - from a pocket model up to a 10.1-inch tablet PC
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The PostgreSQL developers have issued a first release candidate for version 9.0 of their open source database, integrating replication using "Hot Standby" and "Streaming Replication"
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New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub's hosted service
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The KDE Project has released version 4.5.1 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), the first point update to the latest major release of the popular Linux and Unix desktop
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As well as the obligatory component updates, UCS 2.4 sees the addition of the "Univention Virtual Machine Manager“ (UVMM), a tool for managing virtual clients and servers
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The developers have released the final new version of the Python and Zope-based CMS. Among the advancements of Plone 4 are a new theme and an improved user and group management feature.
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At VMworld 2010, VMware has presented its vFabric cloud platform for developing Java applications
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The latest v0.9.0.21 release of Plex, simply referred to as Plex/Nine, is an almost complete, "from-scratch rewrite" of the library and features the inclusion of a support for hardware-accelerated video decoding
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The Lightspark project has released version 0.4.4 of its free, open source Flash player, adding support for localisations and ActionScript exception handling
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Mozilla has released the first alpha for version 2.0 of Firefox for Mobile, also known as " Fennec", for the Nokia N900 and various Android 2.0 or later devices
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CEDET brings project management, code completion, reference analysis, code generation and more to the Emacs editor
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The CyanogenMod project has published version 6.0 of its modified Android 2.2 based firmware, a free, community-built custom ROM that supports a number of older Android phones - many of which only officially support version 1.6 of Google's mobile operating system
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After more than nine months of development, the XBMC project has released the first beta of version 10.0 of its open source media player, introducing a new Add-on system for new scripts and skins
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Users wanting to use the tool to protect themselves from the DLL vulnerability in multiple applications will find their ability to use certain programs, among them Chrome, restricted
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The Rails developers say that everything is now "better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful" as Rails 3 completes the incorporation of the concepts of former competitor Merb
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Google developers have announced that Chromium, the open source browser on which the company builds the Chrome browser, is getting a GPU graphics overhaul
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