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You can download it from here. New version of Eclipse IDE - Eclipse 3.6 - is released now. It has many fixes and improvements:
- support of new platforms (Power PC 64 and Windows x64) and full support of OS Windows 7 and MacOS X
- now it's possible to use webkit engine instead of default mozilla's
- new filters, menus, dialogs and more stuff
- many changes for Java-developers
This release, apparently, has nothing revolutional. As usual, most important bug of Eclipse - its strong slowness - presented in this release completely. I don't think this "bug" will be fixed in the next few years. Generally, all applications written in Java have this problem.
I wonder why Java is still used for big projects like Eclipse. In theory, of course, Java is fast, cross-platform, perfectly extendible and bla-bla programming language, but in real life... I still haven't seen a worthwhile application or a webstie or even a game written in Java. Everybody say, "Java is enterpise". Probably, they are right, and Java can be used only by corporations which are ready to spend any amounts of money on simple programs and on servers for that programs. By the way, those servers cost thousands of dollars and, apparently, only such servers can host Java.
It's a pity that Eclipse is on the "enterprise" way. After all, Eclipse platform is a great idea - opensource, extendible, multilingual integrated development environment, but Java is killing that idea. That's why I'll continue to use Kate and console, and will use Eclipse only for debugging. That's very sad that there is still no good IDE for linux, although Windows has this problem too.
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 installA 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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