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• Major New Funambol v7 Release Strengthens Leading Open Source Push Email & Mobile Sync Solution For Mass Market 2 days, 12 hours ago
  
  Funambol Inc., the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync for the mass market, today introduced the release of Funambol v7, a major new version of its flagship software. Funambol v7 includes enhancements to the company's mobile clients, portal, server, software development kit (SDK), system management and admin capabilities. Many new features are included in the Community Edition, the open source version of Funambol, which can be downloaded at https://www.forge.funambol.org/download/. Several premium capabilities, primarily those required for large-scale deployment at service providers, portals and mobile operators, are only in Funambol’s commercial Carrier Edition.
• LogMeIn Launches Mobile Plug-in for Linux 1 week ago
  
  New Functionality for LogMeIn Free and LogMeIn Pro Gives Nokia Tablet N800 and N810 users Remote Access Capabilities
• Super Micro C2SBX+ on Linux 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  "Super Micro, are you familiar with them? Chances are that unless your focus is on the workstation and server markets, you probably haven't heard of them ... Super Micro manufacturers a variety of different Intel server motherboards -- and they are one of the few that offers quad-socket Xeon motherboards -- but they also have a growing selection of Core 2 desktop motherboards .... "
• The Bordeaux Group founded, launches Bordeau for Linux and Wine 1.0 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  The Bordeaux Group announces the release of Bordeaux for Linux 1.0 with support for Microsoft Office 2000, Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Internet Explorer and the Steam gaming platform.
• Document Management on the Go 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  KnowledgeTree, the leading provider of commercial open source document management software, and Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 open source messaging software, today announced a new Code Sniper project to their respective global open source communities. The project is set to recognize and reward community members who write software to sync content between mobile phones and the KnowledgeTree document management application using the Funambol mobile open source platform.
• Alien Arena 7.10 released 2 months ago
  
  Some of the new features include seven new/rebuilt maps, improved lighting and visibility, optimizations for performance increases, map voting system, contrast filter, and improvements to the the Galaxy server browser.

  A number of bugs have been addressed as well:

  1. Stack smashing errors in Ubuntu
  2. Reflective water problems with some ATI drivers
  3. Normalization cubemap errors with some ATI drivers
  4. The "no team" bug
  5. Duel queues now correct themselves if errors occur
  6. Bot/player slot overlaps on botkick servers
  

  Changelog - http://icculus.org/alienarena/changelogs/7.10.txt

  For more information about the game please visit http://red.planetarena.org

• Virtual Bridges Announces Win4Lin Desktop 5 2 months ago
  
  Virtual Bridges, a leading provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions for business, announced today the release of a major upgrade to its award-winning Win4Lin Desktop product and a specially priced edition for Ubuntu users.
• Open Source Embedded Database Received Major Upgrade 2 months ago
  
  McObject has released Perst 3.0, a major upgrade to its open source, object-oriented embedded database system.
• Design, Develop and Deploy a Fully Featured Website with New book on Ruby on Rails 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails is a new book from Packt Publishing which helps users to design, develop, and deploy a fully featured website using Ruby on Rails. Written by A. P. Rajshekhar, this book is a tutorial to create a complete Web 2.0 website with Ruby on Rails.
• Zenoss Releases Point-and-Click Installers for all Major Linux Platforms 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Award-winning open source network and systems monitoring product expands platform support and further simplifies installation and deployment
• OpenKM 2.0. - Open Source Document Management System (dms) 3 months ago
  
  OpenKM , open source document management system announces release of OpenKM version 2.0.
  
• Learn to build and maintain networks with new book on FreeBSD operating system 3 months ago
  
  Packt is pleased to announce the availability of it's new book, Network Administrationwith FreeBSD 7 which focuses on the FreeBSD operating system. Written by experienced UNIX system administrator and Network Engineer Babak Farrokhi, this book is a guide to FreeBSD for network administrators. Users will learn to work with and extract full potential from this operating system to build, secure and maintain networks.
• The Linux Test project ltp-full-20080430 released 3 months, 1 week ago
  
  Dear All, The Linux Test Project test suite has been released for the month of APRIL 2008. The latest version of the test-suite contains 3000+ tests for the Linux OS and can be found at
• Zimbra- Your Open Source Mail Server 3 months, 1 week ago
  
  Are you in the lookout for a good open source mail server? Well, then your first stop would be Zimbra. Zimbra provides open-source server and client software for numerous applications like messaging and collaboration: email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. The Zimbra server has been made available for various platforms like Linux, Mac OS X, appliances, and virtualization platforms. The Zimbra Web 2.0 Ajax client runs on most commonly used browsers like Firefox, Safari, and IE. It also features easy integration/mash-ups of web portals, business applications, and VoIP using web services. When it comes to comparison between Zimbra and Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra is in par with Exchange in many ways. It is in fact ahead of Exchange for hosting providers and in collaboration features. One of the notable difference between Zimbra and Exchange is that Zimbra provides SOAP bindings which allows third parties to integrate additional functionality with Zimbra.
• Plat’Home Introduces “Tough Love,” Small, Low-Cost Linux Server for Zero Maintenance Use 3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Compact OpenMicroServer already used by thousands of businesses in Asia and tested by Shimizu Corporation, a Top 5 Japanese Contractor, in high-technology disaster prevention systems
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