New Arrivals: KDE 4.3, a Firefox Update, Chrome News, and More
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This week marked the release of a number of significant open source applications, platforms and tools. Just today, a new version 4.3 of the KDE desktop environment arrived, and it's getting good marks from early testers. Meanwhile, there were significant announcements surrounding the Google Chrome browser, Firefox, Canonical's tool set, and Phoronix's widely used test suite. Here are more details, and download destinations.
KDE 4.3. Today marked the arrival of KDE 4.3, and you can download the desktop environment here. The KDE community says it has fixed over 10,000 bugs and built in more than 2,000 feature requests, calling this release a more stable and complete product for the home and small office. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has been using this release on OpenSUSE, and says it's easy to configure and that he's happy with it. You can view a screencast of the improvements here.
Google Chrome's Browser Syncing. A new development build of Google's Chrome browser includes an early view of how it will approach browser bookmark synchronization. Especially with cross-platform versions of Chrome arriving, this promises to make it much easier to sync browser data between various computers, and sync with cloud applications. JKOnTheRun has a good look at it, here.
Firefox Update. Mozilla has announced that it has fixed a number of flaws and vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser. To pick up the updated 3.5.2 verion, in Firefox, go to Help / Check for Updates.
Canonical Systems Management and Monitoring Tool Adds Dedicated Server. Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today a new architecture and installation option for its systems management and monitoring system for Ubuntu machines - targeted at giving enterprises greater local control over their deployments. The company's Landscape Dedicated Server is available to be installed on any customer's site, to run on their local network. It provides package management, auditing and monitoring.
Phoronix Test Suite. Phoronix Media has released version 2.0 (codenamed "Sandtorg") of the Phoronix Test Suite, which encompasses hundreds of updates to its testing and performance profiling software. It's supported on Linux, OpenSolaris, BSD and Mac OS X and offers 47 test suites. Phoronix Media develops its test suite in conjunction with hardware and software makers, positioning it as a standardized platform for testing, and users can use it to identify their own system bottlenecks.
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