Engine Updates

Pedone 0.4 (UCI)
Win32/64, Linux32/64
- includes support for 6 pieces Syzygy egtb
- support Polyglot books
- converted from XBoard to UCI protocol
- improved evaluation and research
- optimizations for CPU BMI2
http://www.g-sei.org/pedone/

Rodin 7.0 (WB)
Win32
- "maybe around 50 or more Elo points"
- a more accurate and tuned eval function
- better time management
- improvements in some search parts
- speed optimizations
http://sites.google.com/site/clonfsp/rodin-chess-engine

Chess News

Nothing new today

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page Changes

updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner

Chess Logos List
- added Fizbo to logos by Graham Banks
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_logos_list

Linux Engine List
- added Cheese
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:linux_engine_list

Macintosh Engine List
- added Cheese
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_engine_list

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

Adblock Plus 2.6.1 for Firefox
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.214
free cross-platform flash video player
- fixes some important security vulnerabilities
- Flash is the 2nd most common avenue of infection when computers become compromised
- beware of installing unwanted 3rd party software
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Adobe Reader 11.0.07
free PDF viewer
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows (Windows download)

FOG 1.01
If you need to maintain several Windows computers with identical configuration & software
(for a school, library, business, etc.), this is the best tool to do it
http://www.fogproject.org/

Glary Utilities 5.0.0.1
free; cleanup, repair, optimize and enhance your privacy & security for Windows
http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html

GNUplot 5.0.0
open source, cross platform, command-line driven, 2D/3D graphing/plotting
- this is a *developmental* release (beta)
http://www.gnuplot.info/ (homepage)

Greenshot 1.1.9.13
free, open source screenshot capture program for Windows
http://getgreenshot.org/

Jenkins 1.564
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

MariaDB 10.0.11 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 vs MySQL)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-100 (What is MariaDB 10.0?)
http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.11/ (MariaDB 10.0.11 page)

Pinguy OS 14.04
Ubuntu-based Linux distro; GNOME desktop; #34 in popularity
http://www.pinguyos.com/

Puppy Linux -- Fatdog64 631 Final
Puppy is a popular (#10) and easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Linux distribution
Open source, boots from a CD (your Windows installation is unchanged) w/ simple instruction manual
old, slow computers run very well using Puppy's all-in-memory Linux kernel
There are many versions of Puppy available, each with a specific purpose
You don't necessarily use the latest release, you use the version with the software you want
You will need to know how to burn a disk from an ISO image
- Precise Puppy is binary-compatible with Ubuntu LTS 12.04.1
- Wary Puppy is intended to run on older hardware
- Racy Puppy is a mod of Wary Puppy, supporting the newest machines
- Slacko Puppy can use Puppy, Slackware, Salix, or Slacky software repositories
- Fatdog64 is a 64-bit Puppy distro; it is larger than most other Puppys
http://puppylinuxnews.org/ (news)
http://puppylinux.org/ (PuppyLinux homepage)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/latest.html (release notes)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/ (Fatdog homepage)

System Explorer 5.6.0
free; detailed info about Windows tasks, processes, modules, startups, IE addons, uninstallers, windows,
services, drivers, connections and opened files; graph/monitor usage of system resources in real-time
http://www.systemexplorer.net/

Meaning of Colors

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

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