Bordeaux, France, and Bucharest, Romania, October 16, 2008 – AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com) , the professional messaging solution vendor, and Siteconcept (http://www.siteconcept.com), one of the leading distributors of security products in France, announce today the signing of a partnership aimed at further expanding the distribution of the AXIGEN Mail Server product range on the French market.

From Tech Source from Bohol:

The latest and as they say one of the most ground-brsaking versions of Mandriva Linux has been released as scheduled. Mandriva Linux 2009 is jam-packed with exciting new features and innovations that will try to cater everyone’s desktop needs. I had fun with Mandriva 2008, so I was really looking forward to this latest release.

Read the full thing at http://www.junauza.com/2008/10/shiny-new-mandriva-linux-2009-initial.html

From the Official Mandriva Blog:

We+have today released Mandriva Linux 2009, the new autumnal release of our distribution.

2009 is a bold release which brings the new KDE 4.1 as the default desktop, along with a re-designed installer and Mandriva Control Center and many other new features. Other significant updates include GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3, Mozilla Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.27. Key features include new graphical in-line upgrade capability, netbook compatibility, class-leading hardware support, and support for working with mobile devices.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/10/09/mandriva-linux-2009-is-released/

Bucharest, Romania, October 8, 2008 - AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional messaging solution vendor, announces today the commercial release of version 6.2 of the AXIGEN Mail Server featuring Commtouch’s real time antispam protection and many other important security and delegated administration functionalities.

AXIGEN Mail Server version 6.2 comes with new and improved performance reporting, advanced delegation options, Web Mail user options for increased productivity, and a higher level of security.

We've written about GIMP, the outstanding open source graphics program originally developed at U.C. Berkeley, several times before. The application has had a robust community of developers behind it for years, and now a new version 2.6 is downloadable. Here's what's under the hood in the update, including a whole slew of interface enhancements.

Read the full thing at http://ostatic.com/173555-blog/gimp-gets-an-interface-makeover-in-new-version-2-6

Mandriva Linux 2009 RC 2 (code name Sophie" should be available on public mirrors now.

Main features of RC2 (compared to RC1) :

• Improved boot speed
• Support for encrypted partitions in installer and DiskDrake using LUKS
• Improved support for netbooks hardware
• Support for Intel G41 graphics chipset
• GNOME 2.24
• KDE4 theming complete (still some small issues to fix)
• kernel 2.6.27rc7
• installer new design is finalized

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/09/25/mandriva-linux-2009-rc2-is-available/

French software firm Mandriva has released a version of its Linux distribution designed for netbooks. Aimed at original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs), Mandriva Mini is a faster booting, smaller footprint version of the Mandriva desktop distribution, says Mandriva.

Based on Mandriva 2008, which was released last October, Mandriva Mini is designed to work onUsmall format, low-cost netbooks, which typically have screens ranging from 7 to 10 inches. It is said to support key netbook platforms, such as products based on the Intel Atom. According to a recent report on netbooks by Market Intelligence Center (MIC), netbooks will achieve sales of 8.02 million units in 2008, and 18.3 million units in 2009.

Read the full thing at http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8074825002.html

The KDE community is pleased to announce UserBase. UserBase is the new end-user wiki for KDE and complements TechBase, the wiki aimed at developers. It will contain tips and tricks, links to where to get more help, as well as an application catalogue giving an overview of the different kinds of programs that KDE offers.

Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/1221824063/

Adobe has issued its second release candidate of Flash Player 10, which should be approaching the finish line. Developers have not only fixed a number of bugs, but added a few new features.

Among these new features is the ability to use graphical filters and effects in Adobe’s native Pixel Bender programming language for interactive 3D animation. The text layout engine provides new controls such as ligatures and right-to-left and vertical text rendering. Flash Player 10 integrates with the monitor’s ICC color management so that color graphics appear as developers intend them.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/flash_player_10_coming_around_the_final_bend

From /.:

The fine folks at Codeweavers performed an 11 day experiment in getting Google Chrome working on Linux and Mac. Their efforts resulted in the Chromium proof of concept. 'Not only does this give Mac and Linux users a chance to see what all the hype is about, it also lets the world see just how far Wine has come and how powerful it truly can be. In just 11 days, we were able to bring a modern Windows application across to Mac and Linux.' Caveat: their implementation is free as in beer but not free as in speech.

Read the full thing at http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/15/1639216