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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

Eclipse 4.4, RC 1
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4RC1-201405151230/ (announcement)

Feng Office 2.6.0
free web-based open source collaboration platform
management of: project tasks, billing, documents, communication, scheduling, electronic information, etc.
- only the 'Community Edition' is free
http://www.fengoffice.com/web/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengoo/files/fengoffice/ (download)

GNUplot 5.0.0, RC 1
open source, cross platform, command-line driven, 2D/3D graphing/plotting
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.gnuplot.info/ (homepage)

Lcc for Win32/64
small, simple, fast open source Windows C compiler & development tools; cross compile capability
free for non-commercial use
- version number is unknown
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/README (changes)
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/ (website + downloads)

MPlayer for Windows (2014-05-16)
open source media player for Windows
http://muldersoft.com/#mplayer (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/muldersoft/files/MPlayer%20for%20Windows/ (download)

Ruby 1.9.3-p547
popular scripting language, often used with Rails library
- this is a security update for an older version
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Task Coach 1.3.39
open source cross-platform desktop todo manager with task or calendar viewing, project tracking, etc
http://www.taskcoach.org/

VirtualBox 4.3.12
open source, general-purpose, full virtualizer for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install one or more guest operating systems onto the same computer
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog (changelog)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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