The second international conference of the openSUSE project takes place in Nuremberg, Germany from 20th to 23rd of October 2010. It is put under the motto

All users, contributors and friends of the openSUSE project and free software are invited to come together for four days of interaction, discussing, learning, planing and hacking. The motto should come to life and for that we explicitly like to invite contributors to other projects or distributions. Please come to Nuremberg, discuss with us, present new and innovative stuff that moves the entire free software world forward or sit back and learn and enjoy what the openSUSE project can offer for you.

A big part of the conference will be presentations aimed to FOSS contributors and users. Another part will be Birds of a Feather Sessions where people work on specific topics in an interactive discussion style. Hacking sessions of various special interest teams within the community make the real FOSS conference spirit and will give you very short nights. The entire program you can find here

The openSUSE Conference has been and will be again a place where decisions are going to be taken. We are convinced that meeting face to face gives the best opportunity to really move the project forward by discussing and taking decisions.

What else can be expected? A lot of friendly people, burning for openSUSE and free software, lots of fun while working, talking, listening and partying. You shouldn’t miss that.

MORE: en.opensuse.org

The Wine development release 1.3.2 is now available.

Whats new in this release:

• Update of the Gecko engine, now including a 64-bit version.
• New implementation of console support on Unix terminals.
• Many new functions in the C runtime dlls.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

More Info : wine-reviews.net

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated

The Debian project is pleased to announce the sixth update of its stable
distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename "lenny").  This update mainly
adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with
a few adjustment to serious problems.

Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian
GNU/Linux 5.0 but only updates some of the packages included.  There is
no need to throw away 5.0 CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-
date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date
packages to be updated.

Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have
to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are
included in this update.

New CD and DVD images containing updated packages and the regular
installation media accompanied with the package archive respectively will
be available soon at the regular locations.

Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the
aptitude (or apt) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to
one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors.  A comprehensive list of
mirrors is available at:

KDE Community Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 4.5 Series

August 31st, 2010. Today, KDE has released a series of updates to the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform. This update is the first in a series of stabilization updates to 4.5.0, coming every month, as if delivered by a cronjob. 4.5.1 brings bugfixes and translation updates on top of KDE SC 4.5.0. KDE SC 4.5.1 is a recommended update for everyone running KDE SC 4.5.0 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE SC 4 is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

To download source code or packages to install go to the KDE SC 4.5.1 Info Page.

KDE SC 4.5.1 brings a number of improvements:

Just shy of a month ago was when NVIDIA last released a proprietary Linux driver, at which point they also released a second driver that was their OpenGL 4.1 preview driver. This Saturday though NVIDIA has provided a new driver release, which is tagged as the 256.52 pre-release. This new Linux driver release isn’t overly exciting, but it does carry some prominent fixes that will please some NVIDIA customers.

The NVIDIA Linux 256.52 driver does not provide OpenGL 4.1 support, does not provide OpenCL 1.1 support (their early OpenCL 1.1 Linux drivers available to developers are in the 258.xx release stream), and does not offer CoolBits overclocking for GeForce GTX 400 series “Fermi” hardware.

What this driver update though does provide is a fix that previously prevented XvMC (X-Video Motion Compensation) from initializing (but if there’s anyone still using XvMC in NVIDIA’s binary driver, you should really update your application and driver to utilize the much superior VDPAU API), support for the xorg-server 8 video ABI used by X.Org Server 1.9, a bug that caused extremely slow OpenGL rendering when on X screens other than screen zero when a compositing manager was in use, stability problems on select GPUs such as the GeForce GT 240, a slow kernel virtual address space leak with OpenGL/CUDA/VDPAU applications, and lastly is a bug-fix for hangs when using two or more VDPAU applications simultaneously.

The NVIDIA 256.52 pre-release driver for Linux x86/x86_64 platforms can be downloaded at NvNews.net. If you missed it, earlier this week we delivered our first NVIDIA “Fermi” Linux benchmarks in this NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 review.