gvSIG Desktop 2.4, a popular open source Geographic Information System, is now available. You can access both the gvSIG Desktop 2.4 installable and portable versions from the download section of the project website, with distributions available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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Linux Means Business – Best Free Business Apps
A business application refers to any application that is important to running a business. The best business applications help an organization to improve how they run their operations, minimize costs, and improve workplace productivity. Sometimes business applications are thought to relate to office software suites which offer word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and email applications. While office suites are very common, business applications extend far further afield.
Read moreFlutter — 5 reasons why you may love it
On the Google I/O ’17 Google introduced us Flutter — a new open source library for creating mobile applications. As you may know, Flutter is a solution for creating cross-platform mobile applications with beautiful UI. Flutter’s way of designing views is similar
Read moreexo 0.12.0 released
Exo is an Xfce library targeted at application development. It contains various custom widgets and APIs extending the functionality of GLib and GTK+. It also ships utilities for defining preferred applications, mounting storage devices and more.
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Atom 1.24 released – Hackable Text Editor
GitHub’s Atom is billed as a hackable text editor for the 21st Century. It’s an open source desktop application based on web technologies, specifically HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Node.js integration. It runs on Electron, a framework for building cross platform apps using web technologies.
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KDE releases new Slimbook II Linux laptops with snappy Intel Core processors
The KDE Slimbook II is shiny, smart, and sleek, but it is not only good-looking: it is also powerful. The new i5 and i7 microprocessors and DDR4 RAM make it much faster than its predecessor. Other improvements include a touchpad that “clicks” wherever you press it, and larger internal WiFi antennas that guarantee you will get a better reception wherever a WiFi network is available.
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BASpi I/O board – 12-point BAS expansion board for Raspberry Pi
The BASpi I/O board is a 12-point BAS expansion board for Raspberry Pi. The I/O board, plus the firmware files provided by Contemporary Controls turn your Raspberry Pi into a BACnet-networked, Sedona-programmable controller with 6 Universal Inputs and 6 Relay Outputs. All 12 physical I/O points, in addition to 24 Virtual Points are served up over BACnet/IP using Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
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Pocketsprite Game Console – Keychain gaming
Pocketsprite Game Console is billed as the open-source tamagotchi of 2018. The device isn’t aimed at a niche, nerdy group, rather, it’s targeting a growing majority of game lovers and capable coders.
The device sports a 240MHz dual-core ESP32 processor and 520KB of RAM, which is sufficient to play 8-bit classic games, and still fit on a keychain.
Read moreSoftMaker Office 2018 now also available for Linux, includes modern ribbon user interface
After the successful completion of the public beta test with thousands of testers, the new Office suite SoftMaker Office 2018 is now available for Linux.
Read moreMenuLibre 2.1.5 Released
A FreeDesktop.org compliant menu editor for desktop environments implementing the Desktop Entry Specification. Some desktops are improperly configured and do not export the expected variables, and patches are included to infer the running environment in other ways. Some older desktops, such as IceWM, do not implement this specification and handle their menus in other ways.
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SiFive: HiFive Unleashed Development Board – First Linux-capable RISC-V single board computer
SiFive has announced their HiFive Unleashed, the first Linux RISC-V developer board.
RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computing (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open source ISA that is not subject to patents, and is available under the BSD license.
Read moreAllwinner VPU support in the official Linux kernel – Kickstarter campaign
sunxi-cedrus consists of a Linux kernel driver working on recent upstream Linux kernel, and libva backend. It currently supports MPEG2 decoding and has partial support for MPEG4 decoding, and has been tested on Allwinner A13 and A33.
Read moreElive 2.9.26 beta released
Greatly improved designs for clock and battery, clock is shown by default, the battery includes intuitive colors useful for show the status.
Read moreElisa 0.0.81 Released
The Elisa team is happy to announce the second alpha release of the Elisa music player. Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use.
Read moreLKRG – Linux Kernel Runtime Guard
Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a loadable kernel module that performs runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and detection of security vulnerability exploits against the kernel. As controversial as this concept is, LKRG attempts to post-detect and hopefully promptly respond to unauthorized modifications to the running Linux kernel (integrity checking) or to credentials (such as user IDs) of the running processes (exploit detection).
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