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DevelopmentZenoss releases Zenoss Core 2.1 Zenoss is both a company and an open-source IT management project with commercial extensions that is run by this corporate and development team. The Zenoss overview states:
Zenoss provides a complete suite of software and services to help you succeed monitoring your IT infrastructure.
To support your unique needs, we offer several paths to success. Choose the offering(s) that make sense for your situation, budget and expertise.
Everything we do is based on Zenoss Core, our award-winning open source IT management platform. Our software provides a single, integrated solution for monitoring your entire IT infrastructure: network, servers, applications, across the full lifecycle: inventory, configuration, availability, performance, events, logs and alerts.
![[Zenoss]](/images/ns/zenoss.png)
The About Zenoss document clarifies the company's methodology: "Through our integrated, model-driven product and by taking a new approach to management software that combines the benefits of open source with the best aspects of commercial development, we offer a new alternative." The Zenoss Offerings Overview explains the capabilities and services that are available for the free software and the various levels of commercial subscriptions. The free community edition includes Zenoss Core, the Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB), an inventory and change tracking system, availability monitoring, performance monitoring, event management and core reports. Numerous additional capabilities are available by paying for three increasing levels of support. Zenoss runs on the RedHat Enterprise, Fedora, Ubuntu and SUSE Linux distributions as well as FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Zenoss is able to monitor Unix/Linux systems, various networking devices and machines running Windows and VMWare. The Zenoss FAQ document covers other project details and has installation and configuration details. A walk through the screenshots will show the wide variety of system control and monitoring capabilities. Version 2.1 of Zenoss Core was recently announced: "This release marks a significant update for many areas of Zenoss Core, including a Google Maps mashup, a network topology map, Java application management, powerful graphing capabilities and an Ajax-based drag and drop dashboard. Zenoss Core 2.1 is now available with powerful new features, extending both its network management and application management capabilities with first-of-its-kind network visualization features and native management of Java-based applications. Zenoss Core 2.1 also adds advanced graphing capabilities and personalized dashboard enabling organizations of all sizes gain easy access to an affordable, powerful and integrated IT management solution." If you have a large, possibly geographically distributed, heterogeneous network of systems that you need to monitor, Zenoss Core is worthy of consideration.
System Applications Clusters and Grids announcing allmydata.org Tahoe version 0.6.1 Version 0.6.1 of allmydata.org Tahoe has been announced. "We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.6.1 of allmydata.org "Tahoe", a secure, decentralized storage grid under a free-software licence. This is the successor to v0.6, which was released September 24, 2007. This release focusses on packaging, documentation, and usability improvements."
Database Software Postgres Weekly News The October 14, 2007 edition of the Postgres Weekly News is online with the latest PostgreSQL DBMS articles and resources.
Mail Software Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server: 1.3.3.8 Released (SourceForge) Version 1.3.3.8 of the Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server project has been announced. "The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform-independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists, Bayesian, and basic anti-virus filtering to rid the planet of the blight of unsolicited email (UCE). This release fixes a possible crash when using the Email interface and has some minor improvements to the admin GUI."
Networking Tools Release of iptables 1.4.0rc1 Version 1.4.0rc1 of iptables, a network security package, is out. "This is the first release candidate of the new iptables branch 1.4. This release candidate adds support for the generic xtables infrastructure that strongly improves IPv6 support. Also several accumulated bugfixed are included. Test it!"
Web Site Development TikiWiki 1.9.8.1 security release (SourceForge) Version 1.9.8.1 of TikiWiki has been announced. The project description says: "Powerful multilingual Wiki/CMS/Groupware: File/Image gallery, Article, Blog, Tracker/Forms, Forum, Poll/Survey & Quiz, Newsletter, Calendar, Drawing, Bookmarks, FAQ, Banner ads, Categories, Spreadsheet, Maps, Workflow, Search, Theme control, WAP, VoiceXML, RSS, LDAP, Stats... TikiWiki 1.9.8.1 fixes a critical security vulnerability. All users should upgrade."
Desktop Applications Animation Software Synfig Irregular News The October 11, 2007 edition of the Synfig Irregular News covers the latest news from the Synfig 2D vector animation studio project.
Audio Applications AlsaPlayer 0.99.80-rc4 is out Version 0.99.80-rc4 of AlsaPlayer, a multi-threaded PCM player, has been announced. "This is a bugfix and feature improvement release. Madej added a song title in the title bar option. Several bugs was fixed. Among them, libmad was fixed in configure and a possible horrible crash when upgrading from a gtk1 AlsaPlayer version was fixed. Every user is encouraged to upgrade."
Ardour 2.1 released Version 2.1 of Ardour, a multi-track audio workstation, has been announced. "Ready to make music on those long nights after the clocks change up north? Ready to make music in the bright summer evenings down south? Ardour 2.1 squeaks out in time for both hemispheres to enjoy it. A few brand new features, including native (X11-free) OS X support, and a heap of important bug fixes, are there to make the upgrade worth your time."
Business Applications GanttProject 2.0.5 released (SourceForge) Version 2.0.5 of GanttProject has been announced. "GanttProject is a project scheduling application written in Java and featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring, import/export (MS Project, HTML, PDF, spreadsheets). Learn more on http://ganttproject.[biz]. GanttProject 2.0.5 is a maintenance release focused on adding custom fields of tasks and resources to the available export formats".
Desktop Environments GNOME Software Announcements The following new GNOME software has been announced this week:
KDE 3.5.8 released; KDE 4.0 Beta 3 coming up Version 3.5.8 of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) has been released. "Today, KDE 3.5.8 has been released as the latest bugfix and translation update for KDE's stable 3.5 series. Improvements in KDE 3.5.8 cover: Fixes in KHTML, KDE's HTML rendering component Fixes and improvements in KDE's Mail and Organizer components Improvements in various graphics applications, such as kolourpaint (a simple painting program) and KPDF, the PDF viewer".
KDE 3.5.8 release fixes hundreds of bugs (KDE.News) KDE.News presents further coverage of the recently released KDE version 3.5.8. "The KDE community today released KDE 3.5.8. While the developers' main focus lies on finishing KDE 4.0, the stable 3.5 series remains the desktop of choice for the time being. It is proven, stable and well supported. The 3.5.8 release with its literally hundreds of bugfixes has again improved the users' experience."
KDE Commit-Digest (KDE.News) The October 14, 2007 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced. The content summary says: "Replacement of the "toolbox", and a new KRunner in Plasma, with many applets moving from playground into extragear in KDE SVN. SuperKaramba is now fully integrated into Plasma. A move away from KDEPrint facilities, towards more basic functionality for KDE 4.0. More work on restoring the functionality of the Klipper applet. Basic sound support in Parley..."
KDE Software Announcements The following new KDE software has been announced this week:
Xorg Software Announcements The following new Xorg software has been announced this week:
Games Robocode: 1.4.7 has been released (SourceForge) Version 1.4.7 of Robocode is out with bug fixes and other changes. "Robocode is a Java programming game, where the goal is to develop a robot battle tank to battle against other tanks. The robot battles are running in real-time and on-screen. The motto of Robocode is: Build the best, destroy the rest!"
Interoperability Wine 0.9.47 released Version 0.9.47 of Wine has been announced. "What's new in this release: New scheme for OpenGL support in child windows. Lots of fixes for regression test failures. A Tahoma replacement font. Lots of bug fixes."
Music Applications gigedit 0.1.0 announced Version 0.1.0 of gigedit, an instrument editor for gig files, has been announced. "With gigedit it is possible to modify existing, as well as to create new Gigasampler format instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but now also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or "attached" to LinuxSampler. The latter case allows you to play and edit instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately audible, without having to reload the instruments into a sampler."
LV2 vocoder plugin released The first release of the LV2 vocoder has been announced. "LADSPA plugin created by Josh Green is basically an adaption of Achim Settelmeier's Vocoder program to LADSPA."
News Readers Liferea 1.4.5b announced (SourceForge) Stable version 1.4.5b of Liferea has been announced. "Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is a GTK desktop news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs. The project focus is on simplicity and easy installation. This release fixes a crash when running Liferea with sqlite 3.5.x. Please upgrade!"
Video Applications Theora beta2 released The beta 2 release of the theora video CODEC is out with the following changes: "Fix a crash bug on char-is-unsigned architectures (PowerPC), Fix a buffer sizing issue that caused rare encoder crashes, Fix a buffer alignment issue, Build fixes for MingW32, MSVC and Improved format documentation."
Web Browsers Mozilla Links Newsletter The October 11, 2007 edition of the Mozilla Links Newsletter is online, take a look for the latest news about the Mozilla browser and related projects.
Miscellaneous Genius reaches 1.0.0 (GnomeDesktop) GnomeDesktop announces the 1.0.0 release of Genius. "One of the oldest GNOME projects, the Genius calculator reaches 1.0.0 after 10 years in development. I have previously said that Genius is not going to be 1.0 until it can compute eigenvalues for general matrices. Now with RayleighQuotientIteration function, this is partially satisfied. Anyway, this was the original GNOME desktop calculator appearing first time as part of GNOME in the GNOME v0.11 tarball in January 1998."
A set of linguistics tools: 14/10/2007 OOo2-pack (it) (SourceForge) Version 14/10/2007 of Linguistico has been announced. "Linguistico is a linguistics tools project based on Italian language. Tools are: dictionaries, thesaurus, words definitions, scripts, programs, ... For: OpenOffice.org ThunderBird Mozilla FireFox - MySpell MyThes Aspell HunSpell."
Languages and Tools Caml Caml Weekly News The October 9, 2007 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with new Caml language articles.
Java GNU Classpath 0.96 released Version 0.96 of the GNU Classpath essential libraries for Java has been announced. "This release is primarily a maintenance release. The recent release of the majority of Sun's class library as Free Software on May the 8th, under the auspices of the OpenJDK project (http://openjdk.java.net) has changed the position of GNU Classpath within the community and recent efforts have focused on bringing together Classpath and OpenJDK code under the umbrella of IcedTea (http://icedtea.classpath.org) and on using the new OpenJDK code within existing Free runtime environments such as cacao (http://www.cacaojvm.org/) and IKVM (http://www.ikvm.net/). We hope to extend support and work together with the OpenJDK community over time."
IcedTea 1.4 released Version 1.4 of IcedTea has been announced, it features numerous bug fixes. "The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools and provides replacements libraries for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project."
Lisp GNU CLISP 2.42 released Version 2.42 of GNU CLISP, a Common Lisp implementation, has been announced. "Among other things, this version adds bindings to GTK+ v2 and the GNU DataBase Manager, introduces a MOP protocol for structures, improves CLX, and fixes many bugs."
Python Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links The October 17, 2007 edition of the Python-URL! is online with a new collection of Python article links.
XML jQuery and XML (O'Reilly) Uche Ogbuji works with jQuery on O'Reilly's XML.com. "jQuery emerged a couple of years ago to great acclaim for its performance, elegant design, and handy features, and now it's one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. jQuery offers a lot of facilities, but it's best known for offering a cross-browser model for accessing and manipulating web page elements that means you don't have to deal with the endless pain of DOM. jQuery can be used for XML processing on the Web as well as HTML processing, and in this article I show some examples of this use."
Debuggers GDB 6.7 announced Version 6.7 of GDB, the Gnu Debugger, has been announced. This version adds a long list of enhancements and bug fixes, see the release announcement for more information. (Thanks to Daniel Qarras).
Editors FCKeditor 2.5 Beta released (SourceForge) Version 2.5 Beta of FCKeditor is out. FCKeditor is an: "Online text editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, Java and JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful features of known desktop editors like Word. It's XHTML compliant and works with Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and IE. After an incredible development period, full of challenges and enriched by brilliant ideas, here we are with the Beta for the most important release of FCKeditor since version 2.0. It brings not only Safari and Opera support, but also introduces incredibly powerful features."
IDEs Texlipse 1.2.0 released (SourceForge) Version 1.2.0 of Texlipse has been announced. "Texlipse is a plugin that adds Latex editing support for the popular Eclipse Java IDE. Key features include: syntax highlight, command completion, bibliography completion, outline navigation and automatic building. Some new features and a lot of fixed bugs included in this release. Included among others: some bibtex editor fixes, some spell checker fixes and Windows Vista compatibility (finally!). Also, unlike the previous this release requires Java 5."
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