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Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0 — the latest major release of the Firebird relational database.

Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure has been Greenlit by the Community in less than 10 days

Firebird Project announces the first Release Candidate of Firebird 3.0, the next major version of the Firebird relational database, which is now available for testing.

Timo-T Game Alpha 0.0.3 build is released , what is changed in this version ? :

Now the player control is more fluent and natural. We have added some new effects and powerups visible in the right corner like: shield, rollover and jump.

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of: Lazarus 1.0 The release is available for download at the SourceForge download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.0" directory.

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce 4.0-RC2 release to public. This is a second release candidate for Android-x86 4.0 stable release. Live CD ISOs are available from our sites, as usual

One year and a half ago, an important part of FFmpeg developers decided to change the way the project was managed. This led to some kind of takeover, mainly to get rid of the old maintainer dictatorship, but also to change development methods, redefine objectives, etc. Then, for various reasons I will quickly explain, these people made a new project called Libav.

I will try first to summarize the most objectively as I can what was the situation, why it led to the current one, and basically how things are linked together. In a second time though, I will try to explain why, as a FFmpeg/Libav war child, I finally chose one side, and what it means daily.

With my new laptop, I've installed Debian Testing on it, and so I finally had a chance to experience GNOME 3.4 personally. Wow, it really is as unusable as everyone has said; painfully so. So, next stop: xfce, as I had planned. Which means I ran into more problems.

Infographics are visual representations of information. These charts are used where information needs to be explained in a more dynamic, such as maps, journalism and technical manuals, educational or scientific purposes. So I made my first infographic on Debian, which sought to put all the information (possible) I have in my lecture on this great project. What motivated me to make this stuff was the difficulty that the general public has to understand Debian, its areas, their numbers or their general operation.

Writing the piece on FOSS design, it made me think about past experiences in various communities and brought back memories to the point when I decided to put down some thoughts on Mozilla browsers (won't cover other apps today) design history as I saw it, both as an user and from my involvement with its community. Even if the screenshots below are taken mostly from Wikipedia (try to run 10-15 years old binaries on a current Linux desktop), all the experiences are mine.

I’ve been using Codeigniter as my development platform and framework of choice since last year. Being a ten year PHP developer, Codeigner was a refreshing way of coding web apps with PHP. The first ones developments I did with Codeigniter were using MySQL, a very used database. But since I’ve also been using Firebird SQL Database from ten or more years ago, I decided to give a try to the Codeigniter-Firebird duo.

In the editorial for the 3d issue of Firebird SQL newsletter we'd like to draw your attention to the upcoming Firebird 3. Firebird Project needs more testers for Firebird 3, and even if you are short in time, you can help Firebird with very simple quick test - download Firebird 3, make backup backup/restore of your current Firebird database and try to work with it.

The second issue of Firebird SQL Project newsletter was delivered to all subscribers. This issue includes announcements of official Firebird channels at YouTube and SlideShare, the full list of materials from Firebird Conference 2011, and also digest of recent community news. You can read the second issue online. We strongly encourage you to subscribe to Firebird SQL project newsletter in order to receive new issues in time.

So, as we’ve promised, here’s the first real issue of WoX-BloX! For those who’ve missed the good news, WoX-BloX translates to “World of Xonotic – Blogs”: an insider developer blog for the masses, so you don’t have to mess with reading cryptic git commit logs, go treasure hunting in the depths of our forums, or lurk for hours on the developers’ IRC channel for information morsels to feed your hunger for Xonotic WIP news (however, you’re welcomed to do so, if you want ).

Classicmenu Indicator is a handy appindicator that allows one to quickly access applications in a traditional "old" GNOME 2 way. Basically, Classicmenu Indicator behaves just like a regular GNOME 2 menu and features an Ubuntu logo icon for folks that are still familiar with regular system menus.

Yesterday the first issue of Firebird SQL Project newsletter was delivered to all subscribers. This issue includes the letter from the President of Firebird Foundation Philippe Makowski, short story about Firebird Developers Day in Brazil and digest of recent community news. You can read this issue online. We strongly encourage you to subscribe to Firebird SQL project newsletter in order to receive new issues in time.

Both on dri-devel and at the most recent Kernel Summit, the idea of a KMS based console program came up yet again. So in the interest of facilitating the lazyweb to write one, I thought I’d provide a review of what it takes to write a simple KMS program that ties in with GL, just in case anyone wants to port the VTE widget and give me my VTs on a cube.

Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.1 This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and many important improvements - for example, performance improvements during a database restore, the ability to write to global temporary tables in read-only databases, etc. For the full list of changes please refer to the Release Notes, Chapter 2 "New in Firebird 2.5". Firebird 2.5.1 has 100% compatible on-disk structure with Firebird 2.5.0, so it is recommended to migrate to 2.5.1 as soon as possible.

Today we can bring you some great news, a brand new release of Xonotic! It has been quite a while since the 0.1 preview version, but we have made immense progress over the last few months. In this blog post we’ll be showing off the latest improvements and tell you about the changes we made from the feedback we had after the initial release.

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce a new test build 20110828 for public testing. This is a release candidate for android-x86 2.3 stable release. Live CD ISOs are available from Download page, as usual.