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Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on September 19, 2012

"Ask not what an free software community can do for you, ask what you can do for free software community". This is the spirit that drives the free software community. It's not built by some mega corporation and handed over to you in a box; it's built by each of us, you and me who use, develop or promote free software.

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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 18, 2012

ACE is an open source embeddable code editor. The developers have just launched version 1.0 of ACE along with their new website. ACE is written in Javascript, its features and performance is claimed to match that of native editors such as Sublime, Vim and TextMate. It can be easily embedded in a webpage or Javascript application. It supports syntax highlighting for more than 40 languages and can handle documents with up to 4 million lines of code.

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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 18, 2012

The Vivaldi project aims to have a tablet running on Linux (Mer) with Plasma Active.

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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 18, 2012

The cloud music application Nuvola Player that integrates cloud music services like Google Music, Grooveshark, 8tracks, Pandora, Rdio, Grooveshark and Amazon Cloud has seen a new stable release.

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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 18, 2012

Cinnamon 1.6 has released and it brings with it lot of bug fixes with brand new features and improvements.

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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 18, 2012

Fedora team has announced the release of alpha of Fedora 18 aka Spherical Cow. As usual, Fedora brings some bleeding edge technologies to the desktop world.

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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 18, 2012

Piwik is a free and open source web analytics tool which is highly customizable. It is a great open source alternative to the widely used Google Analytics. Piwik provides users with full control of their data. Eliminating the risk of sharing unwanted information with advertising companies that is faced while using Google Analytics.

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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 17, 2012
KDE

Following footsteps of Gnome and Unity to make the desktop more online integrated, KDE developers are working on integrating your web accounts to your desktop. Currently the features are in design phase and one may not expect it to release soon.

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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 17, 2012
mageia

Mageia, an Mandriva based Linux distribution has completed two years of existence. The distribution was founded back in September 2010 and unlike Mandriva, its totally community based distro that relies on contributions from community for its working.

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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 17, 2012
ekiga

Ekiga is a free alternative of Skype that supports Voice over Internet Protocol and Video Chats and Conferencing. The app was updated and this is the last bets release before Ekiga 4.0. Ekiga 4 will be based on GTK2 and is scheduled to be released soon.

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