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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 12.0. Unless there are any unexpected showstopper bugs, this should be the last release candidate before the final release on 11th of December: "The third RC build of the 12.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available.....

A new version of BlackArch Linux, an Arch Linux-based distribution with a collection of over 2,800 penetration-testing and security tools, has been released: "Today we have released a new BlackArch Linux ISO and OVA images. Here is the changeLog: added more than 150 new tools; enabled wicd service....

For our December “Community Choice” Project of the Month, the community elected Free Pascal Compiler, a free 32/64/16-bit multi-platform Pascal and Object Pascal compiler.

Free Pascal is a 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler that can target many processor architectures: Intel x86 (including 8086), AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, ARM, AArch64, MIPS and the JVM. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku, Mac OS X/iOS/iPhoneSimulator/Darwin, DOS (16 and 32 bit), Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, MorphOS, Nintendo GBA, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Android, AIX and AROS. Additionally, support for the Motorola 68k architecture is available in the development versions.

Free Pascal has been around for 25 years, and yet it is still widely used and beloved by many. Here is what one voter had to say:

It is one of the best open sourced compilers out there, not only for Pascal but for any language. It has a great community too. ~Guillermo Martínez Jiménez

Free Pascal Compiler was previously voted “Community Choice” Project of the Month in May of 2017 and “Community Choice” Project of the Month in April of 2014, where project founder Florian Klämpfl spoke about the project’s developments and direction. With its current performance and ongoing development we’re certain that Free Pascal will continue to be a popular and successful open source project well into the future.

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Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the release of Calculate Linux 18 "LXQt" edition, a new variant of the project's Gentoo-based set of distributions with LXQt as the default desktop: "We are happy to announce the release of a new Calculate Linux Desktop flavour, featuring the LXQt desktop and therefore....

Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

deepin
deepin is a distribution that aims to provide an elegant, user-friendly, and stable operating system.
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BibDesk
BibDesk is a graphical bibTeX bibliography manager for Mac OS X.
[ Download BibDesk ]

winPenPack
winPenPack is a project that aims at collecting the most frequently used and most popular open source applications made portable, so that they can be executed without installation from any USB Flash Drive or Hard Disk. The winPenPack suites offer a wide range of portable applications like office tools, internet tools, multimedia tools, development tools, security applications and other frequently used utilities. Everything you need, completely free, open source and portable!
[ Download winPenPack ]

SuperiorOS
SuperiorOS is a AOSP based ROM that works on Android OS 9 (Pie). We try to fulfill the demands of users regarding features , stability & performance.
[ Download SuperiorOS ]

Voyager
Je vous présente Voyager 18.04 LTS une variante de (X)Ubuntu 18.04 LTS et une Version GE pour le bureau Gnome Shell en Ubuntu 18.10. Est proposé aussi, une version Voyager GS 18.04 pour les Gamers avec Steam, Lutris et Wine-staging. Plus Voyager 9.4 basé sur Debian 9.4 Stretch. Voyager 18.04 LTS se veut multi-profils et multitâches dans un environnement esthétique et immersif autant que possible et cela, depuis les origines de Voyager, afin que le temps passé sur votre machine soit dès plus agréable. En résumé, l’idée générale est que, pour chaque profil, on aurait à disposition des options types qu’on peut ou pas activer. Une distribution GNU/Linux libre et gratuite. Vous pouvez graver Voyager sur DVD ou l’installer sur une clé USB. A bientôt pour cette nouvelle aventure humaine au coeur du numérique.
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PyScripter
PyScripter is an open-source Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial IDEs available for other languages. It is a feature-rich but also lightweight. Please note that 64-bit installers and portable versions are available under “Files”.
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Bootleggers ROM
Bootleggers is an open source ROM with the intention of bring you the best and useful features and apps to make you feel like 家.
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OpenFOAM
OpenFOAM – The Open Source CFD Toolbox. OpenFOAM is a generic, programmable software tool for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). For more information, see: – Main Website: https://openfoam.org – C++ Source Documentation: https://cpp.openfoam.org – Issue (Bug) Tracking: https://bugs.openfoam.org – User Guide: https://cfd.direct/openfoam/user-guide
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OmegaT – multiplatform CAT tool
OmegaT is a free and open source multiplatform Computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects.
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Haiku R1 beta 1News: Slax and Kodachi update their download media, dual booting DragonFly BSDTips and tricks: Default passwords on live mediaReleased last week: FreeBSD 12.0-RC2Torrent corner: Bluestar, Clonezilla, Kodachi, Pisi, Slax, SmartOS, Ultimate EditionUpcoming releases: FreeBSD 12.0-RC3Opinion poll: Does Haiku suit....

Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 12.0, the project's upcoming major version currently scheduled for final release on 11 December: "The second RC build of the 12.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Please note that the 12.0-RC2 armv7 RPI2 build failed,....

The vote for January 2019 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until December 15, 2018 12:00 UTC. To cast your vote, please visit the link above. Votes left in the comments section of this blog post will not be counted.

WinPython
WinPython is a free open-source portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows XP/7/8, designed for scientists, supporting both 32bit and 64bit versions of Python 2 and Python 3. Since September 2014, Developpement has moved to https://winpython.github.io/
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CudaText
Cross-platform code editor, with syntax highlight for 180+ languages. Has lite interface with tabs. Has JSON config files instead of options-dialog. Supports Python plugins.
[ Download CudaText ]

JSToolNpp
A javascript plugin for Notepad++ (formerly JSMinNpp). * Douglas Crockford’s JSMin algorithm to minimize javascript code. * My own algorithm to format javascript code. * A JSON data viewer. This JSON data viewer can handle >10MB JSON file easily. * Support 64bit Notepad++ (from version 1.20.0, “.64.zip” package). Really helpful to javascript coder on Notepad++ and really easy to use it. Made in China. Project Site http://www.sunjw.us/jstoolnpp Any bugs, please send me email: sunjw8888 at? gmail.com or submit issue at https://github.com/sunjw/jstoolnpp/issues Source code repository has been moved to GitHub. Please check https://github.com/sunjw/jstoolnpp.
[ Download JSToolNpp ]

BibDesk
BibDesk is a graphical bibTeX bibliography manager for Mac OS X.
[ Download BibDesk ]

x64dbg
An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows. Development is done on GitHub (https://github.com/x64dbg/x64dbg). Daily snapshots are uploaded here, snapshots for every commit can be found on http://releases.x64dbg.com
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Octave Forge
Octave Forge is a central location for collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave. The Octave Forge packages expand Octave’s core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave’s package system. See https://octave.sourceforge.io/packages.php for a list of all available packages. GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Octave is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but it can also be used to write non-interactive programs. The Octave language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable. Refer to https://www.octave.org for more information.
[ Download Octave Forge ]

Epic rom
EPIC ROM IS A CUSTOM ROM BASED ON MIUI, BUT WITH SOME MODS AND IMPROVEMENTS THAT YOU CAN SEE BY CLICKING ON THE RESPECTIVE DEVICE’S BUTTON. THE FOCUS OF THIS ROM IS TO IMPROVE MIUI OFFICIAL STOCK EXPERIENCE ON DEVICES BY IMPLEMENTING MANY MODS
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LibreCAD
LibreCAD is an open-source cross-platform 2D CAD program, which is translated in over 30 languages. http://translate.librecad.org LibreCAD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Source: https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases Track the latest development: https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/milestones https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/commits/master Create bug reports and feature requests: https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/issues Get help: – http://forum.librecad.org – http://wiki.librecad.org
[ Download LibreCAD ]

Skim
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Skim requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.
[ Download Skim ]

The post “Community Choice” Project of the Month Vote – January 2019 appeared first on SourceForge Community Blog.

On this day in 1969 the first permanent ARPANET link was established and put into service. ARPANET or Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was an early computer network that used packet-switching and the protocol suite TCP/IP, technologies that became the foundation of the modern Internet. It was developed by computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider, Robert Taylor and many other researchers of the 1960s for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA. On November 21st, 1969 it was used to connect a computer at UCLA with another from the Stanford Research Institute. The following month, the entire four-node network was established.

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FreeNAS is a FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS). The project has published a new release candidate, FreeNAS 11.2-RC2. "We are pleased to announce the general availability of FreeNAS 11.2-RC2. This final release candidate for the 11.2 series is considered to be feature-complete and ready....

Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

Zabbix
Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices and other IT resources. It supports distributed and WEB monitoring, auto-discovery, and more. An enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution for networks & apps
[ Download Zabbix ]

Skim
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Skim requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.
[ Download Skim ]

Octave Forge
Octave Forge is a central location for collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave. The Octave Forge packages expand Octave’s core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave’s package system. See https://octave.sourceforge.io/packages.php for a list of all available packages. GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Octave is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but it can also be used to write non-interactive programs. The Octave language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable. Refer to https://www.octave.org for more information.
[ Download Octave Forge ]

Мирум
MIUI modifications with russian localization based on clean chinese ROMs for MiRoom Portal Project.
[ Download Мирум ]

rEFInd
rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders and it presents a pretty GUI menu of boot options. rEFInd goes beyond rEFIt in that rEFInd better handles systems with many boot loaders, gives better control over the boot loader search process, and provides the ability for users to define their own boot loader entries.
[ Download rEFInd ]

digiCamControl
digiCamControl is an free and open source software. This allows you to save time by transferring images directly from your camera to your computer as you take each shot and allow to control camera shooting parameters.
[ Download digiCamControl ]

GNS3
GNS3 is a graphical network simulator that allows you to design complex network topologies. You may run simulations or configure devices ranging from simple workstations to powerful Cisco routers. It is based on Dynamips, Pemu/Qemu and Dynagen. Go to GNS3.com for last releases.
[ Download GNS3 ]

XigmaNAS
The XigmaNAS® NAS operating system can be installed on virtually any x64 hardware platform to share computer data storage over a computer network. XigmaNAS is the simplest and fastest way to create a centralized and easily-accessible server for all kind of data! XigmaNAS supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. It includes ZFS, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T / email reports etc. with following protocols/services: CIFS/SMB (samba), Samba AD, FTP, NFS v4, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI, UPnP, Bittorent, Syncthing, MariaDB with phpMyAdmin, VirtualBox and noVNC, Bridge, CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) and HAST (Highly Available Storage). This all can easy be managed by a configurable webinterface.
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DxWnd
Windows hooker – intercepts system calls to make fullscreen programs running in a window, to support a better compatibility, to enhance video modes and to stretch timing. It is typically very useful to run old windows games.
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: NetBSD 8.0News: Fedora networking benchmarked against FreeBSD, Ubuntu team makes plans for 19.04, Ubuntu 18.04 to get extended support, Endless OS offers improved desktop performanceTips and tricks: Bash command line short-cuts and tipsReleased last week: Void 20181111, deepin 15.8, Slax 9.6.0Torrent corner:....

The first release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 12.0 is now ready for download and testing: "The first RC build of the 12.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.0-BET4 includes: NFSv4 ACL inheritance flags are no longer set on non-directories; new keywords, enable,....

The Voyager Live team has announced a new version of the project's Ubuntu-based distribution. The new release, Voyager Live 18.10, switches from using the Xfce desktop to using GNOME Shell as the default interface. An English translation of the original French release announcement reads: "I present to you....

Simon Long has announced the availability of a new release of Raspbian, a Debian-based distribution for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers. One major change in this release is the addition of the VLC media player: "When I first joined Raspberry Pi, back in the dim and distant past....

Open source is everywhere! It’s time to go open source!

These words have been uttered in many different ways by many different industry experts in recent years; and even if you haven’t gotten the memo or still have no clue what open source is, chances are you’re already using it anyway. Open source is no longer the exception, it has become the rule; so much so that many people find themselves unwittingly using open source software and technologies.

It may seem strange to think that a business model based on giving valuable things for free would work so well. But there’s definitely more to open source than just giving things away– there’s a relationship formed here that both developers and users value more than anything. It is this relationship that’s driven open source success.

Trading Control for Passion and Trust

This relationship starts with passion. When people are passionate about something, involvement comes freely, naturally and almost endlessly. It is this passion that open source spurs and nurtures, and is the fuel that keeps its machinery going. It’s a passion that starts with inspired developers and transparent organizations, and spreads to a well-built community.

Companies offer the heart of their products for free out of a passion for their product. But when they do so it’s not really free because in exchange, users give their time, effort and loyalty, and contribute in building a passionate community. There is a trust developed here, an invaluable trust that is initiated by companies and organizations. By letting go of complete control over their software and how users use it, these organizations show their trust in the community. And the community reciprocate that trust by offering their time and skills to improving the software.

Developing Trust while Developing Software

Trust is the key to a dedicated community, and a dedicated community to a successful open source project. But as in any relationship, trust must continuously be earned and developed. That means that companies and organizations must not only keep their software open source but also do whatever they can to assist and support the communities that support them. Being responsive to their needs and providing them with the information they need are just a few ways that this can be done.

But of course, mistakes sometimes happen. While this can shake the trust of some users, handling these incidents correctly and with a focus on the users can correct these situations and will only make that trust grow stronger.

With Mutual Trust Comes Mutual Success

In conclusion, open source works because the trust is mutual and the resulting success is mutual. Users reap the benefits of innovative open source software solutions and organizations reap the benefits of a thriving, trusting and dedicated community. Certainly it takes a lot of work and more often than not, trials and mistakes along the way, but in the end it’s always worth it.

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Tomáš Matějíček has announced the availability of a new release of Slax, a distribution formerly based on Slackware Linux, but recently re-designed and built on top of Debian's stable branch. The new version, Slax 9.6.0, is the latest build; it brings the usual round of security and bug-fix....

Red Hat has announced the availability of a beta release for the company's upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The beta release focuses on security, Application Streams and Linux container technologies. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta introduces the concept of Application Streams to deliver userspace packages more....