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The Rosegarden MIDI Sequencer

Rosegarden is a MIDI sequencer application for Linux that has been under development for a number of years. The Freshmeat listing shows the initial project registration on May, 1998. The project went through a branch/rewrite, the original version was renamed X11-Rosegarden and the new Qt-based version was named Rosegarden 4. The current project description states:

The Rosegarden online tour explains the capabilities of the software. Rosegarden features include:

• A matrix editor for working with MIDI note events.
• A notation editor for working with musical scores.
• Musical notation can be exported to LilyPond for professional quality output.
• Built-in capabilities for sequencing of audio clips.
• An event editor for working with MIDI events.
• Support for graphical editing of MIDI control changes.
• Input from a remote MIDI keyboard, the computer keyboard or a mouse.
• Output to MIDI devices and software synthesizers.
• Support for the LADSPA audio processor plugin API.
• Support for DSSI-compatible software synthesizers.
• Support for ALSA-compatible MIDI software synthesizers.
• Integration with the JACK Audio Connection Kit and associated tools.
• An integrated audio mixer.
• Unlimited undo/redo functionality.
• Translations available for 14 languages.

Stable version 1.2.4 of Rosegarden was released this week, it is a bug-fix release: "The 1.2.4 release addresses several issues with the prior 1.2.3 feature release. 1.2.4 introduces no new application features."

The latest version of Rosegarden is available for download here, it is a good idea to review the minimum system requirements for hardware selection and supporting software before installing the software.

If you are looking for a capable MIDI sequencer, give Rosegarden a try.

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BEAST/BSE v0.7.0 is available

Version 0.7.0 of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem and the Bedevilled Sound Engine, is out. "The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving usability and ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in online forums like the Beast Help Desk, Beast Bugzilla or the mailing list, all of which can be reached through http://beast.gtk.org/."

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netjack 0.12 announced

Version 0.12 of netjack, a JACK Audio Connection Kit network driver, is out. "This release finally handles the packet disordering UDP does. Thus high channel counts can now be achieved. However a 24ch in/out link over 100Mbit gave me a major "net xrun" storm on vanilla 2.6.15 kernel. At a roundtrip latency of 2.9ms that is. It was reliable with 5.8ms. 16 channels gave me some "net xruns", which i could not hear though. i expect this performance to increase when using an rt-kernel with the network-irq set to rt-prio. So please report back."

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Release 2.0.6 of Linux-HA is available

Version 2.0.6 of Linux-HA, a cluster control application, is out. "2.0.6 has significant bug fixes and enhancements making it a worthwhile upgrade for anyone running R2 CRM-style configurations, or who want to."

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SXP releases HampusDB, the worlds first Open Source Hybrid Database

SXP has announced the release of HampusDB as open-source software. "HampusDB is a flexible and efficient hybrid database, a mixture of a filesystem and a database. The aim is to fill the gap when storing data in a relational database is to rigid and storing data in textfiles is too cumbersome. A typical example would be XML, configuration or heirarchical data."

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FreeImage 3.9.1 released (SourceForge)

Version 3.9.1 of the FreeImage graphics library has been released. "Release 3.9.1 fixes a bug in the GIF plugin. This bug may cause FreeImage to crash on some malformed GIF files, so that an update is highly recommended."

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Wireshark 0.99.2 is now available

Version 0.99.2 of Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, is available. This release includes security fixes, bug fixes and lots of new capabilities.

For some history on Wireshark, see this recent LWN interview with developer Gerald Combs.

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BlockSSHD version 0.5 released (SourceForge)

Version 0.5 of BlockSSHD is out with a bug fix. "BlockSSHD protects computers from SSH brute force attacks by dynamically blocking IP addresses by adding iptables rules."

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WSMT v1.3 Released (SourceForge)

Version 1.3 of the Web Service Modeling Toolkit has been announced. "The main aim of this release has been to improve the functionality of the WSML Text Editor and Reasoner Views with respect to syntax completion. In the previous release only keywords where recommended and this keyword recommendation was not sensitive to the current location in the document. This release sees the addition of full context sensitive syntax completion."

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smbind 0.4.4 released (SourceForge)

Version 0.4.4 of smbind is available. "Smbind-0.4.4 has been released. Smbind is a PHP-based tool for managing DNS zones for BIND via the web. Supports per-user administration of zones, error checking, and a PEAR DB database backend. This is a bugfix release."

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jack_capture V0.3.1, das_watchdog V0.2.2 and Mammut V0.22 announced

A triple announcement for the audio applications jack_capture V0.3.1, das_watchdog V0.2.2 and Mammut V0.22 has been posted.

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OpenWFE 1.7.1 released (SourceForge)

Version 1.7.1 of OpenWFE has been announced. "This is a new release of OpenWFE, an open source java workflow engine / environment. It is a complete Business Process Management suite, with 4 components : an engine, a worklist, a webclient and an 'apre' (Automatic Participant Runtime Environment). OpenWFE 1.7.1 brings two new features : decision tables and generic (regex) users. Decision tables are excel tables used to modify workitem fields. Generic users is a new technique for managing users and their task lists."

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GNOME 2.15.4 Released

Version 2.15.4 of the GNOME desktop environment is available. "This is our fourth development release on our road towards GNOME 2.16.0, which will be released in September 2006. GNOME 2.15.4 has some rough edges but you should definitely try it to see how well it works."

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GARNOME 2.15.4 announced

Version 2.15.4 of GARNOME, the bleeding-edge GNOME distribution, is out. "2.15.x has been especially rough on all of us due to the API/ABI changes. We are finally beginning to see the light. With a two day delay to fix all kinds of build and dependency issues throughout the entire GNOME stack, GNOME 2.15.4 finally got ready to be released today. Given that work and the fact we are getting closer to the various freezes in the unstable branch, we are heading straight towards feature complete, stable and usable apps again -- ready for all your smoketesting pleasure."

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GNOME Software Announcements

The following new GNOME software has been announced this week:

• Agave 0.4.0 (new features and bug fixes)
• control-center 2.15.4 (new features, bug fixes, documentation and translation work)
• Eye of GNOME 2.15.4 (code cleanup and translation work)
• GnomePython 2.15.4 (unstable testing release)
• gtkmm 2.9.8 (new features and documentation work)
• Hippopotamus 0.1 (initial release)
• Mathusalem 0.0.1 (initial release)
• PyGObject 2.11.0 (unstable testing release)
• PyGTK 2.9.3 (unstable testing release)
• Vala 0.0.1 (preview release)

You can find more new GNOME software releases at gnomefiles.org.

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KDE Software Announcements

The following new KDE software has been announced this week:

• digikam and digikamimageplugins 0.8.2 (bug fixes and translation work)
• kdesvn 0.9.0 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)
• KTorrent 2.0rc1 (bug fixes)

You can find more new KDE software releases at kde-apps.org.

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KDE Commit-Digest (KDE.News)

The July 16, 2006 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced. "In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Unity, a project to re-synchronise KHTML with WebKit, has begun, with work continuing throughout the week. Support for suspend and resume on KIO jobs. KSpread gets support for scripting with Python and Ruby. One Summer Of Code project, "C# parser for KDevelop", reaches the feature-complete stage, with progress in the "Advanced Session Management", "GMail-style conversations for KMail" and "WorKflow" projects. Fixes made to support the German language in KLettres, with large-scale refactoring work in Kiten."

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LyX 1.4.2 is released

Version 1.4.2 of LyX, a GUI front-end to the TeX typesetting system, is out. "This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support."

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New Evolution patch reduces memory by 40-60MB (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org covers a new release of the Evolution email client. "Philip Van Hoof wrote: "Here are the patches to get the upstream version of evolution-data-server and evolution-exchange to start using the mmap technique for loading the header and content info summary data of Evolution and tinymail. I expect it to reduce memory usage of Evolution with approximately fourty to sixty megabytes of ram, depending on the amount of folders you have.""

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TuxGuitar 0.7 has been released (SourceForge)

Version 0.7 of TuxGuitar is available. "We have released TuxGuitar-0.7, a multitrack guitar tablature editor and player written in Java-SWT, It can open GP3,GP4 and GP5 files. Changes: A score viewer was added. A transport was added. A clone track option was added. An option to move a track up and down was added."

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eGroupWare maintainance release 1.2-104 available (SourceForge)

Maintenance release 1.2-104 of eGroupWare has been released. "This is a maintainance release of eGroupWare, a multi-user, web-based groupware suite developed on a custom set of PHP-based APIs. Currently available modules include: email, addressbook, calendar, infolog (notes, to-do's, phone calls), content management, forum, bookmarks, and wiki. Release 1.2-104 contains no new features, only bugfixes. Every productional system should get updated to this version."

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KOffice 1.5.2 Released (KDE.News)

Version 1.5.2 of KOffice has been announced. "The KOffice team today released the second bug-fix release in their 1.5 series. Several crash bugs were fixed, as well as a PowerPC issue in Krita and of course many smaller issues. There are also updated languages packs and a totally new language: Traditional Chinese."

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Open Movie Editor 0.0.20060712 released

Stable version 0.0.20060712 of the Open Movie Editor is available. "Open Movie Editor is designed to be a simple tool, that provides basic movie making capabilities. It aims to be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use." See the status page for the project state.

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Caml Weekly News

The July 18, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with new Caml language articles.

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GNU CLISP 2.39 released

Version 2.39 of GNU CLISP has been released. "This version features better ANSI compliance, improved I/O functionality and performance, a new argument for SAVEINITMEM, and more. CLISP is one of the most popular and actively maintained open-source Common Lisp implementations."

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Urwid 0.9.5 announced

Version 0.9.5 of Urwid, the console UI library for Python, is out with new features and bug fixes.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The July 17, 2006 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is online with a new collection of Python article links.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The July 18, 2006 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is online with new Tcl/Tk articles and resources.

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SDCC 2.6.0 RC1 released

Version 2.6.0 RC1 of SDCC, the Small Device C Compiler, is available. "SDCC is a Freeware, retargettable, optimizing ANSI - C compiler that targets the Intel 8051, Maxim 80DS390, Zilog Z80 and the Motorola 68HC08 based MCUs. Work is in progress on supporting the Microchip PIC16 and PIC18 series. The entire source code for the compiler is distributed under GPL."

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