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Joomla! 1.5.12 Released

http://www.joomla.org

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.12 [Wojmamni Ama Woi]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes. It has been less than a month since Joomla 1.5.11 was released on June 3, 2009.

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First look: Firefox 3.5 released, ready to "upgrade" the Web

http://arstechnica.com

Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3.5, the next major version of its popular open source Web browser. Ars takes a close look at the new version and evaluates its enhancements. Support for HTML 5 video and other important emerging Web standards make this one of the most significant Firefox releases ever.

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VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux Brings 3D and OpenGL 2.0 Support and Symmetrical Multiprocessing

http://news.softpedia.com

VirtualBox, the popular, amazing, open-source, virtualization software from Sun Microsystems, reached version 3.0.0 a few minutes ago. This major update brings lots of new features, many bugfixes and improvements over previous 2.x versions. The big and breathtaking news is that users can now use Direct3D 8 and 9 games or applications!

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Will Microsoft threaten open source C# implementations?

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com

Recently RMS (Richard M Stallman) came out of his man-cave to voice his concern over Debian’s inclusion of Mono in its latest release. (Read the article here.) The gist of what RMS is saying is that the Linux community needs to be concerned because including this free implementation of the C# language could have a backlash when Microsoft forces their hand with C# patents.

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Google launches new open source Sputnik for JavaScript

http://blog.internetnews.com

A key feature of Google's Chrome browser is its V8 JavaScript engine. But is it actually faster than other JavaScript engines? How do you measure that and is V8 compliant with all of the JavaScript specifications?

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Is the world now an open source society?

http://blogs.zdnet.com

In business, I have learned, there is a price cheaper than free. The subsidies needed to move goods through the channel argue for proprietary models and strict protection of Intellectual Property. The same is true for politics. The Obama campaign, in computing terms, was a much more top-down affair than the Dean campaign which preceded it.

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What is a Browser?

http://www.youtube.com

What is a browser? was the question we asked over 50 passersby of different ages and backgrounds in the Times Square in New York. Watch the many responses people came up with.

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Firefox 3.5 final prepped to ship early next week

http://blogs.zdnet.com

The Mozilla team made available another release candidate of Firefox 3.5 last night. But RC3 is of little interest. What’s most exciting is news that Firefox 3.5 will ship early next week. That’s the pledge of the development team, which indicated its final ship plans after meeting this week.

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Melody: Open Source Fork of Movable Type

http://stuff.techwhack.com

A couple of developers specializing in Movable Type have announced the formation of a new group named The Open Melody Software Group. They are now working on a new open source content management platform named Melody.

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Amarok 2 under Ubuntu

http://www.mygnulinux.com

Amarok is my favourite music player. I recently installed version 2 on my Ubuntu 9.04 system but I was having some troubles with it. This is a post suggesting how to fix these problems and make Amarok play perfectly on Ubuntu

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Converting video & audio files using ffmpeg in GNU/Linux

http://www.mygnulinux.com

A few days ago I downloaded a video file (.flv) from a website. I wanted to convert the video from .flv to .avi (I know it’s not a free format, but I needed to). I searched over the Internet and found out about FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a command line tool used to convert multimedia files between formats. Not only it converts video files but it also converts audio files.

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ObjectsOnClouds.org announces the launch of the ObjectsOnClouds Open Source Project Initiative.

http://www.objectsonclouds.org

The ObjectsOnClouds Open Source Project Initiative (ObjectsOnClouds Project) is a worldwide collaborative effort to develop a set of technologies interworking together as a cloud computing platform.

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What's new in Firefox 3.5? (Video)

http://www.youtube.com

Director of Firefox Mike Beltzner gives a quick video preview of what’s new and exciting in Firefox 3.5, coming soon from Mozilla.

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Yahoo Releases Internal Hadoop Source Code

http://www.techcrunchit.com

Yahoo!

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First release candidate of Firefox 3.5 posts Friday as expected

http://blogs.zdnet.com

The Mozilla team reached a major milestone Friday by making available the first release candidate of Firefox 3.5. As expected, version 3.5 Release Candidate 2 was released after 4 pm on June 19th.

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