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The OpenELEC team is proud to announce the 5th beta of OpenELEC 6.0 (v5.95.5). The most visible change is Kodi 15.1 (Isengard). Beginning with Kodi 15.0 most audio encoder, audio decoder, PVR and visualisation addons are no longer pre-bundled into OpenELEC but can be downloaded from the Kodi addon repo if required.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian 8 (codename jessie). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were published separately and are referenced where applicable.

The Sunchip CX-S500 is a very tiny Android powered mediaplayer, about the size of a small smartphone charger.

The Wine development release 1.7.51 is now available.

Seven leading Internet companies today announced formation of the Alliance for Open Media – an open-source project that will develop next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies in the public interest. The Alliance’s founding members are Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix.

If you are Linux newbie, or a professional, tips and tricks are always welcome! Now you can find a list of links related to the latest Linux tips and tricks.

The systemd development team announced the release of systemd version 225. Systemd is an init system for GNU/Linux distributions.

Project MrRobot is an Ubuntu Mobile app with voice, touch and shake control to interact with the (arduino based) Rapiro robot, running on a Raspberry Pi.

The developers of the lightweight desktop environment Enlightenment (used in various Linux distributions) announced their 0.19.9 release. Enlightenment 0.19.9 has some improvements, like the addition of more icon sizes to the systray component.

A new development release of Wine, version 1.7.50 is available for download now. This release brings us various improvements and bug fixes, like a new version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 40 and support for OpenMP on ARM platforms.

About a week ago the Kali Linux (live) distribution version 2.0 was released, now Offensive Security – the company behind Kali Linux – has published so-called Docker images of Kali Linux 2.0, which lets you run it on any platform.

In a security notice Ubuntu creator Canonical warns users to upgrade the OpenSSH-server in the Ubuntu distributions 12.04 LT - 15.04, because of a few of OpenSSH vulnerabilities that have been found.

Clonezilla Live version 2.4.2-41 has been released. Clonezilla Live now supports PXE Booting via Network Interface Card, together with other improvements and fixes.

Leon Jacobs, one of the developers of Emu-OS anounced the release of Beta version one of Emu-OS. This release now supports more console/workstation emulators.

OpenSSH 7.0 has been released, just a month after OpenSSH release 6.9. This release mainly contains security improvements/fixes.

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 5.0, which offers better compatibility with documents from Microsoft Office and Apple iWork, among other improvements.

Olio founder Steve Jacobs announced Olio's latest product; the Model One. This is a smartwatch that runs on a homegrown, Linux-based OS.

Steven Shiau anounced the latest stable build of GParted Live; version 0.23.0-1. GParted Live now runs on Linux Kernel 4.1.3 and GParted 0.23.0 and is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 06-08-2015). This release adds many interesting features like the ability to display a disk's serial number (device information dialog).

The game Homefront: The Revolution will be ported to Linux. Homefront: The Revolution is a FPS game from Crytek built on the CryENGINE game engine. This is the second game in the series, and it was initially published by THQ, but that company is gone Crytek encounterd some problems. Deep Silver will now publish the game and take care of the Linux port.

Jeff Hoogland, one of the developers of the Bodhi Linux distribution has created a 32bit pre-release disc for Bohdi 3.1.0.