SoundKonverter, a frontend to various audio converters that can be used in various tasks including CD ripping, is now at version 1.6.4.
SoundKonverter 1.6.4 supports a large number of formats, such as flac, mp3, m4a, wma, ac3, and many others.
Audex, an audio grabber tool for CD-ROM drives based on KDE 4 that creates profiles for LAME, OGG Vorbis (oggenc), FLAC, MP4/M4A/AAC (faac) and RIFF WAVE, is now at version 0.76 Beta 1.
Audex 0.76 Beta 1 (uddebo) can be preform extracting and encoding in parallel, filename editing with local and remote CDDB/FreeDB database, and multi-profile ripping, just to name a few features.
Highlights of Au
FreeNAS, a free implementation of a minimal FreeBSD distribution, has just reached version 8.3.1 Beta 2.
FreeNAS 8.3.1 Beta 2 has introduced a large number of functional changes in comparison with the 8.0.x branch.
Highlights of FreeNAS 8.3.1 Beta 2:
• A feature to initialize disks with random data has been added;
• The iconv option has been added to rsync;
• A bug that was preve
Brasero, an application used to burn CDs and DVDs for the Gnome Desktop, designed to be as simple as possible, is now at version 3.8 Beta 2.
The Brasero has been all that active, but the developers have returned with new fixes and features, bringing the software straight into the second beta.
Highlights of Brasero 3.8 Beta 2:
• A question mark is now added to a question;
• Notificatio
Siege, an open source regression test and benchmark utility that can stress a single URL with a user-defined number of simulated users, is now at version 3.0.0 Beta 3.
Siege 3.0.0 Beta 3 reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status.
Qt Creator, a cross-platform IDE (integrated development environment) tailored to the needs of Qt developers and part of the Qt Project, is now at version 2.6 Beta.
Canonical has announced on September 27th the immediate availability for download and testing of Ubuntu Server 12.10 Beta 2, along with Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2, Lubuntu 12.10 Beta 2, and Kubuntu 12.10 Beta 2.
FreeNAS, a free implementation of a minimal FreeBSD distribution, has just reached version 8.3.0 Beta 2.
DVDStyler, a cross-platform, free DVD authoring application that allows video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs, is now at version 2.4 Beta 3.