Engine Updates

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Chess News

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Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 11 days (a 110mb.com site)
Darky homepage down for 5 days (not found)
Fianchetto homepage down for 11 days (502: bad gateway)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 11 days (a 110mb.com site)
Wing homepage down for 76 days (not found)

Wiki Changes

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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

LibreOffice 3.6.7
cross platform, open source word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
Note: OpenOffice (Apache), LibreOffice (Document Foundation), and Lotus Symphony (IBM) are essentially the same program
- this is a bugfix release for older 3.6 series
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)

MariaDB 5.5.32 Stable
open source fork of MySQL; completely compatible w/MySQL; w/extra DB engines & extra features
"MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL"
MariaDB restores several significant features that Oracle has dropped from MySQL
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features)
http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-5-5-32-now-available/ (annoucement)

OLPC OS 13.2.0
Fedora-based Linux distro; GNOME, Sugar desktop; #190 in popularity
- this is part of the famous "one laptop per child" [OLPC] initiative
http://www.laptop.org/

PHP 5.5.1 Stable
PHP is a very popular and practical open source scripting language; it is primarily used for web applications
http://php.net/ (homepage)

Transmission-Qt Win 2.81
open source BitTorrent client for Windows
http://trqtw.sourceforge.net/blog/

XAMPP 1.8.3, Beta 1 for Windows
open source web-server (Apache), SQL database (MySQL) w/ admin, PHP, ftp server, Tomcat, & more
this is probably the easiest way to install a working, web-aware PHP into Windows
- this is a *beta* release supporting PHP 5.5
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

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

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