Leftovers: Software
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DoubleCMD 0.6.6 Has Been Released
Double Commander is an cross-platform, open-source file manager, inspired by Total Commander.
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VLC now render subtitles in South Asian scripts!
If you were following VLC development status (hey, you should follow the awesome Jean-Baptiste Kempf’s weekly updates!), you might have noticed some recent improvements on how VLC handles subtitle text rendering. In May 2015, the freetype module was improved to use Harfbuzz for text shaping. On the week of August 4, it was mentioned that the internals of VLC subtitle handling were completely rewritten . And in last week’s (October 26) update it mentioned Salah-Eddin added support for font fallback in the freetype module; which would mean that there is no need to set a specific font to display particular script/language.
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Rcpp now used by over 500 CRAN packages
500 user packages is very humbling, a staggering number and a big responsibility. We will out best try to keep Rcpp as performant and reliable as it has been so that the next set of packages can rely on it---just like these 500 do.
KDE
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KDE Pulled In Around $162k USD Last Year
KDE e.V. yesterday released their last quarterly report to end out 2014, which offer a look at their finances for the past year. I've also taken the liberty to do a cursory comparison against the GNOME Foundation's finances for 2014.
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KDevelop 5.0 Enters Beta With Qt5/KF5 Port
The first beta of KDevelop 5.0 is now available. This huge update comes after more than a year of hard work and its code-base has been ported over to using Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
Besides the big step-up in using Qt5 and KF5, KDevelop has replaced its legacy C++ parser and semantic analysis plug-in with a more powerful one derived from LLVM's Clang compiler and its extensive code analysis tools.
GNOME
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GParted 0.24 Adds ZFS & NVMe Detection
For those using GParted as GUI-driven Linux disk partitioning, the GParted 0.24 release is now available with new features.
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GUADEC 2016 to take place in Karlsruhe, Germany
It is with pleasure that the GNOME Foundation is announcing that Karlsruhe, Germany, will host GUADEC in the summer of 2016.
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