Dagelijkse archieven: 23 augustus 2008

The Gimp 2.5.3 / 2.4.7

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The Gimp, een acroniem dat voor ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’ staat, is een fotobewerkingsprogramma en wordt door velen beschouwd als de opensource tegenhanger van Adobe Photoshop en Corel Paint Shop Pro. Het programma is beschikbaar voor verschillende besturingssystemen zoals Linux, Mac OS X en Windows. De ontwikkelaars hebben een nieuwe ontwikkelversie in de 2.5-reeks uitgebracht met 2.5.3 als het versienummer en daarnaast is er een bugfixrelease in de 2.4-reeks verschenen met 2.4.7 als het versienummer. De bijbehorende lijsten met veranderingen van beide versies zien er als volgt uit:

Changes in GIMP 2.4.7:

  • fixed issue in GIF load plug-in (bug #535888)
  • fixed event handling in MIDI controller (bug #537960)
  • fixed handling of the ‘Highlight’ tool option in Crop and Rectangle Select tools (bug #536582)
  • various fixes to the Python bindings:
    • fixed crash with Python 2.5 on 64 bit systems (bug #540629)
    • added missing validity checks (bug #536403)
    • allow to pass None for PDB_DISPLAY

    plugged a memory leak in gimp-text-get-extents-fontname PDB call

  • fixed potential timeout issues in org.gimp.GIMP.UI D-Bus service
  • fixed endianness issue in the ICO save plug-in (bug #529629)
  • translation fixes and updates (be, it, lt, nn, vi)

Changes in GIMP 2.5.3:

  • some fixes for the 64-bit Windows platform
  • optionally emulate brush dynamics when stroking a path or selection
  • further work on the scroll-beyond-image-borders feature, improving the behavior of the image display when zooming or when the image size changes
  • added links to the user manual to the Tips dialog
  • largely rewritten scaling code improves scaling quality, in particular when scaling down
  • allow to copy-on-write from the image projection
  • added “Paste as new layer” to Edit menu
  • added “New from visible” to the Layer menu allowing to create a new layer from the image projection
  • added new procedure ‘gimp-layer-new-from-visible’.
  • renamed all file plug-in executables to a have a file prefix
  • changed the HSV color selector to use the GtkHSV widget
  • changed the default for the ’trust-dirty-flag’ gimprc property
  • dropped the “Starburst” logo script
  • improved the behavior of the zoom button in the upper right corner of the image window
  • allow PDB procedures to pass an error message with their return values
  • changed all file plug-ins to pass their error messages with the return values instead of raising an error dialog
  • adapt the display of the pointer position in the statusbar to the pointer precision of the active tool
  • bug fixes and code cleanup

Website GIMP
Download http://gimp.org/downloads/

VMware Workstation 6.5 bèta build 110068

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Vmware heeft een nieuwe bètaversie van zijn virtualisatiesoftware Workstation 6.5 uitgebracht met buildnummer 110068. Dit pakket doet zijn werk onder Linux en Windows en is in staat om via een virtuele machine diverse besturingssystemen op de hostcomputer te laten draaien. Voor de gastcomputer kan je gebruikmaken van verschillende BSD-varianten, diverse Linux-distributies, Solaris en Windows. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina en deze handleiding in pdf-formaat. De lijst met aanpassingen richt zich op een compleet overzicht van alle veranderingen in de 6.5 bèta en ziet er als volgt uit:

New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems

This release provides experimental support for the following operating systems:

  • 32-bit Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 as a guest operating system
  • 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS 5.3 as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Oracle Enterprise linux 5.3 as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit and 64-bit openSUSE 10.3 as host and guest operating systems

This release provides full support for the following operating systems in addition to those operating systems supported in previous releases:

  • 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Home Basic and Premium, and Ultimate as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard, Datacenter, Enterprise, and Web Editions as guest operating systems with or without Hyper-V
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 as a host operating system
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows PE (preinstallation environment) and RE (recovery environment) as guest operating systems
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Asianux Server 3 as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS 5.0-5.2 as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0-5.2 as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6, 4.7, and 5.0-5.2 (AS, ES, WS) as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit and 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and 10 SP1 as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 as a guest operating system
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Turbolinux Server 11 as a guest operating system
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Mandriva Linux 2008 as a guest operating system
  • 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu Linux 7.10 and 8.04 as host and guest operating systems
  • 32-bit Novell Netware 6.5 SP 6 as a guest operating system
Website VMware
Download http://www.vmware.com/beta/ws65/registration.html