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Free Open Source Software News 1
FossNews Weekly
Issue : 23Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )Date : 08-06-2009Join Mailing List athttp://groups.google.com/group/fossnews/ 
Contents
1. Python 3.0 "Python 3000" Released2. The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 7 (Gloria)3. The Top 5 Free Network Monitoring Tools4. Blender 2.49 Released With Great Changes5. 8 Essential OpenOffice Extensions6. Digital and Analog Circuit Simulation with Ksimus7. tcpdump for Dummies8. Recovering Lost Data On Linux Or Unix Using The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT)9. Record your Skype Calls on Linux with Skype Call Recorder10. Launch of Free Software Movement – Karnataka11. 117 new Effects for GIMP 2.612. Ubuntu Desktop Course 8.04 available
1. Python 3.0 "Python 3000" Released
The Python Software Foundation has announced the much-anticipated release of Python 3.0 (a.k.a. Python 3000).Version 3.0 of the Python language breaks compatibility withPython 2.x with many deprecated features now being removedand a number of significant changes -- including numeroussyntax differences.The Python 3.0 release announcement (with download links) can be read atPython.orgalong withthe what's new web-page and3.0 change-log. http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/ http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
 
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2. The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 7 (Gloria)
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 7 (Gloria)desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the thingsthey do on their Windows desktops.The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works evenon old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 7 is a Linuxdistribution based on Ubuntu 9.04 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimediacodecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install onother distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux newbies.
 
Free Open Source Software News 3http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-linux-mint-7-gloriaIf you want to download Linux Mint 7, go 
HERE
.http://www.linuxmint.com/ 
3. The Top 5 Free Network Monitoring Tools
Awareness of what's happening on your network, and why, makes the difference between averageand excellent network administration. Great tools are needed to obtain this knowledge quickly andaccurately. Fortunately, some of the best network monitoring tools are free. This article lists the topfive.They are1. MRTG2. Cacti3. Nagios4. Ntop5. ZenossRead more athttp://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/35543.aspx
4. Blender 2.49 Released With Great Changes
A new release of Blender, the immensely popular open-source 3D modeling software, is nowavailable. This is not the much-anticipated Blender 2.5 release, but instead version 2.49, whichbrings forth several prominent changes and improvements while the developers continue work onthe next major release. As part of the 2.49 release, the Blender Game Engine (BGE) has alsoreceived improvements too.http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzI5OAhttp://www.blender.org/ 
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