Engine Updates

Mephisto's Rebel 5.0, MM4 and MM5 (UCI)
Ed Schröder has several 'new' versions of old, classic software available
- "Rebel 5.0, MM4, MM5, Mephisto Amsterdam, Dallas, Glasgow and Roma are now available as UCI engines"
- these are the 2 versions mentioned back on May 25, 2012
http://www.top-5000.nl/mephisto.htm

Rocinante 2.0 (UCI)
C++ source with mixed English and Spanish names and comments; mp (Windows only); Win32/64, Linux32/64
- source-code-only release
http://sites.google.com/site/barajandotrebejos/

Chess News

Patrick Buchmann Thematic books
- updated: Italienne PP17.ctg
http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/ctg-thematique.htm

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Chad's Chess homepage down for 31 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
ChestUCI homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 338 days
Toledo Nanochess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Tony Mokonen download page down for 2 days (404 Error: not found)

Wiki Changes

Nothing new today

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Warnings:
- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

Bazaar 2.5.1
free, easy-to-use open source distributed version control system
http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/

Calibre 0.8.54
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

Comodo Dragon Internet Browser 19.1
Windows only; free; based on Google's Chrome browser, with improved security and privacy
stops cookies, no web spies, prevents browser download tracking, etc
http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php

Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle"
popular (#3) Linux distro; desktop choices: Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, or XFCE
http://fedoraproject.org/

IKVM.NET 7.1, RC 0
Java VM for Mono/.NET; enables Java code/libraries to be called by Mono/.NET languages, or develop Mono/.NET apps in Java
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.ikvm.net/ (homepage)
http://weblog.ikvm.net/ (announcement)

Inno Setup 5.5.0
open source, free installer for Windows
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

LibreOffice 3.5.4
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
Note: OpenOffice (Apache), LibreOffice (Document Foundation), and Lotus Symphony (IBM) are essentially the same
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)

Maqetta Preview 6
open source visual authoring system of HTML5 user interfaces - in the browser
this is a *preview* version (beta)
http://maqetta.org/

MySQL Community Server 5.5.25
free (Community Server Edition only!), cross-platform, very popular open source SQL database
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ (download)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-25.html (changelog)

Parted Magic 2012_05_30
open source partition editor, virus/rootkit scanner, hard drive cloner, and hard drive & RAM tester; recommended
http://partedmagic.com/

USBDeview 2.11
free utility to list all USB devices ever connected to computer; can uninstall any USB drivers local or remote
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html (homepage)
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usbdeview.zip (direct download)

Meaning of Colors

Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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