Links 7/4/2014: Applications
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-04-07 08:41:36 UTC
- Modified: 2014-04-07 08:42:15 UTC
The latest GCompris 14.03 version is quite extensive and the developers have managed to implement a large number of fixes and new features. For example, support has been implemented for multigraph languages in click_on_letter by GunChleoc, a font selector has been added in the config dialog box and it has replaced the skin selector, the torta py pastel has been replaced in the Spanish text exercise, and support has been added for localized sound.
The Wine development release 1.7.16 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - More regression test fixes. - String arrays better supported in the IDL compiler. - Initial stubs for DirectX Video Acceleration. - Various bug fixes.
XBMC is a home theater application which runs in fullscreen, has a beautiful, modern interface, support for pictures, music and video collections and playlists, television and radio.
Midori 0.5.8 features updates to its WebKit2 rendering engine and AdBlock support (for those web users that unfortunately deprive web publishers of their income... including here; if you appreciate this site, please disable AdBlock or become a Phoronix Premium subscriber to support this site that takes 80+ hours of my week for the past ten years in providing always the latest Linux/open-source news and Linux hardware reviews, etc).
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- It's not the entire wave, just part of it
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- Intercontinental Brigading - Part XIII - Censorship by All Means Available in a Continent So Far Away, as 'Secure' (Restricted, Restriction by Microsoft) Boot Has a Crisis of Legitimacy
- it's about America controlling sites and computers everywhere
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Friday, October 23, 2026
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- We covered several such Friday announcements earlier this year
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- It seems like TechRepublic became LLM slop (maybe all of it, maybe only some of it for now)
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- When we say "GNU/Linux" we emphasise the GNU
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- An everyday activist makes life better for everybody, everywhere (not for personal gain or even credit)
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- The silent layoffs still seem to impact Red Hat
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Garrett is also very jealous of Daniel Pocock
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- Linux (and Linus) are kicking a can down the road
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- Microsoft will try to spin or twist this as "efficiency"
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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