Hot Linux Releases, Developers' Tools, and More

Fedora 17:



The new release includes free and open source software for users to share including GIMP 2.8, Inkscape, Scribus and more. It also uses GNOME 3.4, improved themes, and enhancements to the documents and contacts application. Fedora 17 updates OpenStack to 2012.1; this is an included collection of services that can be used to set up and run cloud compute and storage infrastructure.

Knoppix 7.0.1:



Knoppix is based on the usual picks from Debian stable (squeeze) and newer Desktop packages from Debian/testing and Debian/unstable (wheezy). It uses kernel 3.3.7 and LXDE as its default desktop environment.

Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-60:



This release of Clonezilla live includes major enhancements and minor bug fixes. Linux kernel was updated to 3.2.18; the drbl package was updated to 1.12.9 and Clonezilla was to 2.5.36; Partclone was updated to 0.2.48; Gdisk was updated to 0.8.4.

Tools for Web Designers

jqMobi: If you have an HTML5-centric mobile pipeline and jQuery is proving to be a sticking point, why not just rewrite it to fit your needs seamlessly and handle multiple platforms with uniformity?

The team at AppMobi have done just that.

Adobe Shadow: It is a app for mobile developers, which cuts a huge amount of hassle from the design process. Just pair your devices (Android and iOS) with your main machine. Then the sites you browse to are echoed directly to every connected device.

BreakoutJS: It is all about interacting with the physical world. You remember the physical world, don't you? Well, now it can be fed directly into the web. No, not like Tron. The physical world in this case is LEDs, switches, buttons and the like.

Sencha Touch 2: There's no denying that the mobile/touch device has changed web development for good. It's a broader, more heterogeneous world out there and everyone wants a piece of the action.

Fabric Engine: Fabric engine provides a JavaScript/Python interface to a multi-threaded universe, meaning you can write your apps in languages you're familiar with from the web and connect them directly to computational blocks to handle animation or video processing.

ScrollPath: Up and down become arcs, rotations and side-to-sides as well as up and down, obviously. All you have to do is define a path as you would within canvas, and ensure you stay within a containing element, on which you invoke the plug-in.

The Open Brand: It would probably be fair to say that there's a lot of people working in web development that don't have a professional design background. Dustin Curtis has done (or begun to do) a favor for these folks by describing what a good brand framework might look like in structural terms.

Fluid Baseline Grid: The FBG system was built with typographic standards in mind and combines principals of fluid-column layouts, baseline grids and mobile-first responsive design into a resolution independent and device agnostic framework.

BluCSS Framework: BluCSS is a CSS framework designed with ease of use and simplicity in mind. It is specifically made so that when you're working on your next project, you don't have to worry about the essentials.

Aptana Studio IDE: Aptana Studio does a decent job of being all things to all people: it's happy to help you author in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby and it lets you know which browsers will balk at your bright ideas.

Developer Tools

Bugzilla: A Web-based general-purpose bugtracker tool adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a defect tracker for both free software and proprietary products.

Eclipse: Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools

and runtimes.

Gambas: With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language and more

Gobby: Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

Jedit: jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.

Netbeans: The NetBeans IDE is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers.

SciTE: A SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built

to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.

PCQ Virtual Store

This month you'll find 5 very effective security tools to protect your business and home PCs. You can avail attractive discount on bulk license purchases.

Essential Updates

WampServer, IE 8, MS.NET Framework 4, Silverlight,

and more...