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Firefox 28 Release Notes

Thanks to our contributors linkCheck out "What’s New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .

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SerenityOS: Year 3 in Review

SerenityOS is a from-scratch desktop operating system that combines a Unix-like core with the look&feel of 1990s productivity software. It's written in modern C++ and goes all the way from kernel to web browser. The project aims to build everything in-house instead of relying on third-party libraries.

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PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads

PortableApps.com has hit the 1 billion portable apps downloaded milestone. That's 1,000,000,000 portable apps served to millions of users in dozens of languages all over the world. All of the 1 billion portable apps served from PortableApps.com were freeware or open source software which run on our open source, free…

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Krita 5.2

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

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PINE64 December Update

Welcome to the last community update of the year. I want to start this month’s update by thanking everyone who helped us make this challenging year a fruitful and successful one. A special thanks goes to the core community team - our mods and admins - who keep the cogs spinning on a daily basis. Marek (gamiee) and…

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Darktable 2.0 released

we’re proud to finally announce the new feature release of darktable, 2.0! the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.0.0 as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the checksums are: $ sha256sum…

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Firefox 22 released

Check out "What’s New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 22!

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KDE at 30

KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.