Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.

Changes: This release features a newly added TPM driver
required for certain IBM Thinkpad models. Various
driver updates were made for DVB, USB, networking,
sound, and SATA. The CIFS, JFS, and XFS
filesystems have been incorporated. Extended
support for AMD/Intel dual core CPUs and
SuperHyway Bus has been added. IPv6 support has
been declared stable. SELinux and software suspend
have both been improved. The device mapper now
supports multipathing. Address space randomization
has been implemented.

Release Tags: 2.6, Major bugfixes

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webDiplomacy (previously phpDiplomacy) is a Web implementation of a popular turn based strategy game in which you battle to control Europe. It is not a game of luck: to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking allegiances and bar…

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webDiplomacy (previously phpDiplomacy) is a Web implementation of a popular turn based strategy game in which you battle to control Europe. It is not a game of luck: to win you must be diplomatic and strategic, forming and breaking allegiances and bargains with your friends and enemies. It features an interface intuitive and simple enough that seasoned Diplomacy pros and complete newcomers can play alongside each other.

Changes: Stability was improved. The adjudication algorithm was improved and a new, cleaner method for rendering maps was implemented. The ability to view phpDiplomacy games turn by turn was added. Support for PostgreSQL was added, and database performance and reliability was improved. The gameplay board interface was improved, support for UTF-8 was added, and the help files were improved.

Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

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MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database
server. It is a client/server implementation that
consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many
different client programs/libraries.

Changes: This is the fourth published beta release in the 5.0 series. All
attention will continue to be focused on fixing bugs and
stabilizing 5.0 for later production release.

Release Tags: Old Production (5.0.x), Minor bugfixes

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Stendhal is a multiplayer online adventure game (MMORPG) developed using the Arianne game development system. It features a rich and expanding world in which you can explore towns, buildings, plains, caves, and dungeons. You will meet NPCs and acquire tasks and quests for valuable experience and cold hard cash. Your character will develop and grow, and with each new level up become stronger and better. With the money you acquire, you can buy new items and improve your armour and weapons. You can also roam the world in search of evil monsters (and kill them).

Changes: This release fixes a bug that happened when players died, one with the
cache timestamp, one with stendhalcreateaccount, one that disallowed
a player from logging in because the system assigned him a sheep when
if fact he didn’t have one, one with whitespaces and a createTextBox,
one with a blocked Creatures AI, and one with corpses. It adds "where"
and "msg" commands, items and item displacement, and "own" and "release
sheep" commands.

Release Tags: Major bugfixes

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Debian is an operating system for your computer that consists only of Free Software. It uses the Linux kernel, and a large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from GNU, which are also free. It comes with thousands of packages.

Changes: Updated with a new installer, GNOME 2, Mozilla 1.7, Firefox, and much, much more.

Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

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Stendhal is a multiplayer online adventure game (MMORPG) developed using the Arianne game development system. It features a rich and expanding world in which you can explore towns, buildings, plains, caves, and dungeons. You will meet NPCs and acquire tasks and quests for valuable experience and cold hard cash. Your character will develop and grow, and with each new level up become stronger and better. With the money you acquire, you can buy new items and improve your armour and weapons. You can also roam the world in search of evil monsters (and kill them).

Changes: An API for identifing several attackers was added.
New monsters were added. Shared XP was
implemented. A bug related to sheep duplication
was fixed. Storable/volatile attributes were
added. The logout position is now remembered. Text
is rendered over all. Double clicking will now
activate the default action instead of single
clicking. iThe frame rate is limited to 50 FPS.
CPU usage was reduced. Butcher, poller, and angel
were added. A set outfit dialog, a new dungeon,
new tilesets, and initial support for inventory
were added. A bug related to the cache directory
was fixed. New RP values were added.

Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

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Debian is an operating system for your computer that consists only of Free Software. It uses the Linux kernel, and a large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from GNU, which are also free. It comes with thousands of packages.

Release Tags: Major security fixes

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MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database
server. It is a client/server implementation that
consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many
different client programs/libraries.

Release Tags: Old Production (5.0.x), Minor bugfixes

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