AntiX, a fast, lightweight and easy to install Linux Live CD distribution based on Debian Testing and MEPIS, for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems, is now at version 12.5 Alpha 2. AntiX 12.5 Alpha 2 comes with just a few changes and updates, but, more importantly, with a version for the 64-bit architecture.
ROSA Desktop, a Linux distribution based on KDE SC desktop environment and including application software sufficient to fulfill most of the typical tasks, is now at version 2012 Alpha 2.
Highlights of ROSA Desktop 2012 Alpha 2:
• Linux kernel has been updated to version 3.5.5;
• Updated drivers for Intel, NVIDIA and AMD chipsets with support for i3/i5/i7, GF6xxx and latest AMD product
phpMyAdmin, the popular tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases, has just reached version 4.0.0 Alpha 1.
The developers of phpMyAdmin have just released a new development version in a new branch of the application.
Highlights of phpMyAdmin 4.0.0 Alpha 1:
• The HTML frames have been removed;
• The navigation panel now presents a tree;
• The cur
Belle, a cross-platform Visual Novel maker that uses C++ with Qt4 for the editor and HTML5 for the engine, is now at version 0.3 Alpha.
Highlights of Belle 0.3 Alpha:
• Support for animated images (e.g.
Elive, a complete operating system for your computer, that is built on top of Debian GNU/Linux and customized to meet the needs of any user while still offering the eye-candy, with minimal hardware requirements, is now at version 2.1.32 Alpha.
The distribution is still in development and the current version only comes with a few improvements in comparison with the previous release.
Highlights of
The Document Foundation has announced that the first alpha version for LibreOffice 4.0.0 is now available for the Linux platform, bringing a lot of bugfixes and improvements.Highlights of LibreOffice 4.0.0 Alpha 1:• Attaching comments to document text ranges has been enabled;• Extra word boundary characters are now allowed;• Ink annotations from DOCX and RTF documents have been impo
Enlightenment E17, a lean, fast, modular and very extensible window manager for X11 that provides all the necessary packages to run a desktop, is now at version Alpha 8.Highlights of Enlightenment E17 Alpha 8:• Language changes now always trigger a restart;• Disabling tiling module now restores original border geometry;• Various memory leaks were fixed;• Most config dialogs hav
PHP, an HTML-embedded scripting language with syntax borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in, has been updated to version 5.5.0 Alpha 4.
Highlights for PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 4:
• Object members got trimmed by zero bytes;
• RFC has been implemented for Class Name Resolution As Scalar Via "class" Keyword;
• DateTimeImmutable has been added (a
Peter Baldwin from the ClearFoundation announced that ClearOS Community 6.4.0 Alpha 1 is now available for download.
According to the developer, this release adds a new reports engine, a storage manager, an antimalware file scanner, a basic POP/IMAP server as well as upstream proxy support.
Highlights of ClearOS Community 6.4.0 Alpha 1:
• A user and IP mapping engine has been added;
•
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