September 2, 2009 · General · 9 comments

As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. Notable improvements include, but are not limited to:

* KDE 4.3 is now also available in Croatian
* A crash when editing toolbar setup has been fixed
* Support for transferring files through SSH using KIO::Fish has been fixed
* A number of bugs in KWin, KDE's window and compositing manager has been fixed
* A large number of bugs in KMail, KDE's email client are now gone
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September 2, 2009 · General · 32 comments

Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and, in some countries, to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.
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September 1, 2009 · General · 7 comments

If you like a clean, tidy Gnome desktop, you probably don't want it littered with file shortcut icons. Wouldn't it be nice to have a drop-down (or drop-up) file menu in one of the Gnome panels, from which you could select and launch your frequently used documents, spreadsheets, images, etc?

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August 30, 2009 · General · 8 comments

190.25 (beta) is currently under development and most notably it brings support for OpenGL 3.2. The NVIDIA 190.25 driver update just brings fixes and no additional features, but it now supports rejecting video modes based upon DisplayPort bandwidth to fix some corruption issues, an initialization fix for some NVIDIA mobile GPUs, a workaround for an X Server bug, and a nvidia-settings crash fix when displaying GPU information with Xinerama.
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August 26, 2009 · Monitoring, Networking · 2 comments

Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer. It is capable of sniffing using almost any supported wireless card using the Airo, HostAP, Wlan-NG, and Orinoco (with a kernel patch) drivers.
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