As Phoronix.com experts write, Ubuntu's and Fedora's desktops performance has degraded. Several systems had been tested and their results had been analysed, and there were pretty impressive slowing down in all the test.
You can read the full test article HERE.

New version of Scilab - a powerful scientific software package for numerical computations - has been released.

The most important change in this version is a new license CeCILL. Now Scilab is an absolutely free software. There are many changes in the graphical user interface, in signal processing, several optimizations and more.

Scilab is available for Windows 2000-Vista and GNU/Linux platforms. You can download it from this page.

Three years ago Django Team released some code to the world. Their plan was to hack quietly on it for a bit, release a solid 1.0 release, and then really get the ball rolling.

Django 1.0 represents a the largest milestone in Django’s development to date: a web framework that a group of perfectionists can truly be proud of. Without this amazing community, though, it would have never happened.

Django 1.0 is available open-source under the BSD license. It requires Python version 2.3 or higher, but it has no dependencies on other Python libraries.

You can download Django 1.0 here. Then execute following:

tar xzvf Django-1.0.tar.gz
cd Django-1.0
sudo python setup.py install

A new version of the best open source instant messaging client is available for downloading. Pidgin is licensed under the GPL2 license. Pidgin works with a lot of IM systems: Bonjour, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, GTalk, Groupwise, ICQ, MySpace, MSN, IRC, SIMPLE, SILC, Sametime, Zephyr, Yahoo, XMPP.

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