This is the unstable development branch of GIMP. Here we are working
towards the next stable release, which will be GIMP 2.6.
Changes in GIMP 2.5.0
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Core:
- improved rectangle tool drawing for narrow mode
- ported lots (but not all) drawing code to Cairo
- optimized image rendering by using pre-multiplied alpha
- use new GLib features such as GRegex
- use new GTK+ features such as the new GtkTooltip API
- much improved GimpCurve object
- cleaner and smaller tool options
- enable brush scaling for the Smudge tool
- added debugging framework that can be enabled at run-time
- …

Openmoko is a project which encompasses two related sub-projects, with the combined aim of creating a family of completely open source mobile phones. The project was founded by FIC.
The first sub-project is Openmoko Linux, an open source Linux based operating system designed for mobile phones, built using free software.
The second sub-project is the development of Openmoko phones — the hardware devices on which Openmoko Linux runs. The first device released was the Neo 1973, which will soon be joined by the Neo Freerunner some time in 2008. Unlike most other …

Mono is a project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems.
Microsoft has a version of .NET available for FreeBSD, Windows and Mac OS X called the Shared Source CLI (Rotor). Microsoft’s shared source license may be insufficient for the needs of the community (it explicitly forbids commercial use). The Mono project has many …

Ars takes a close look at emerging open-source solutions for rich Internet application development using WebKit with Qt and GTK.
read more | digg story

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GParted is the GNOME Partition Editor application. It is used for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
It uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) file system tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted. These optional packages will be detected at runtime and do not require a …

Kebebasan adalah sebahagian daripada falsafah Open Source, tetapi apabila menggunakan beberapa persekitaran desktop seperti KDE dan Gnome bersama adalah tidak kompetant, menjadikan kesukaran untuk menulis perisian yang menyokong kedua-dua persekitaran desktop.
Projek Portland yang ditaja oleh kedua-dua komuniti KDE dan Gnome bertujuan memudahkan membina perisian bagi kedua-dua desktop serasi, dan telah mengambil lagkah pertama untuknya dengan pengenalan beta release set API.
Tujuan utama projek adalah untuk membenarkan pengaturcara membangunkan perisian sama ada menggunakan Qt untuk KDE ataupun GTK untuk Gnome.
xdg-utils
Inside The toolbox:

xdg-desktop-menu
xdg-desktop-icon
xdg-mime
xdg-icon-resource
xdg-open
xdg-email
xdg-screensaver
xdg-su

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