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Update Information: February 8, 2016 (Updates)

by Ron @, Monday, February 08, 2016, 21:23

Engine Updates

Bumblebee 1.0 (UCI)
new engine by Shawn Chidester (Bitfoot, Clubfoot & Clunk)
Linux64, Win64
- although this engine is on github, no source code is available!
https://github.com/zd3nik/BumblebeeReleases/releases

Rodin 8.0 (XB)
Android, ARM, Win32?; also supports UCI, but plays weakly using it
- "> 40 Elo stronger than 7.0"
http://sites.google.com/site/clonfsp/rodin-chess-engine

Chess News

Ordo 1.0.9.8
calculates relative ratings based on game results
- new features have been added
https://github.com/michiguel/Ordo/releases

Chess Programming Blogs

Arasan: http://arasanchess.org/blogs/jan16.html

Updated Wiki Pages

Linux Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:linux_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

NOTE: I had an argument with Microsoft. They thought they owned my computer, I thought I did. Microsoft won by cheating, they clobbered my sys admin settings. All future updates of Windows-only software will no longer be listed here.

AdBlock 2.49
Google Chrome extension to block ads, thereby preventing malware infections
- not related to AdBlocck Plus
http://www.getadblock.com/

Curl 7.47.1
cross-platform, open-source tool & library to access URLs using all major protocols
https://curl.haxx.se/

Firefox 44.0.1
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

Git 2.7.1
cross-platform, distributed version control system that is free and open source
http://git-scm.com/

ImageMagick 6.9.3-3
cross-platform, open-source program to manipulate images
- create, edit, compose, or convert images files (200+ formats)
- bmp, png, jpg, gif, tiff, svg, etc.
- resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform
- adjust image, apply special effects,
- draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses & Bézier curves
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Java 8, Update 74
update of Java runtime environment and development kit (JRE or JDK)
- it is important to disable the Java plugin in your browser, or bad things may happen to you!
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Jenkins 1.647
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

Korora 23
Fedora-based Linux distro; Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE, MATE & Xfce desktops; #51 in popularity
https://kororaproject.org/

MySQL Community Server 5.7.11
free (Community Server Edition only!), cross-platform, very popular open source SQL database
- slowly losing popularity to MariaDB, a work-alike, drop-in competitor with more features
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ (download)

Pale Moon 26.0.3
open source, efficiency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows or Linux
- 32 & 64-bit versions available
http://www.palemoon.org/

PC-BSD 11.0 2016-02-07
x64-only, BSD-based Linux distro; KDE (default), Awesome, Cinnamon, Fluxbox, FVWM, GNOME, i3, IceWM, LXDE, MATE, Openbox, WMaker & Xfce desktops; #49 in popularity
- monthly release
http://www.pcbsd.org/

Puppy Linux -- Fatdog64 702 Final
Puppy is a popular (#15) 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
- Fatdog64 is a 64-bit Puppy distro; it is larger and more complete than most other Puppys
- Precise Puppy is binary-compatible with Ubuntu LTS
- 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; Slacko seems to be the flagship version
- Quirky Puppy is built from Wary and Racy and is very experimental
- Tahrpup is built from Ubuntu Trusty Tahr
- Quirky is built from Ubuntu and is intended for full installs
- Puppy is based on Slackware; available in 32- and 64-bit
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/ (Fatdog64 homepage)

Q4OS 1.4.7
Linux distro based on Debian (Stable); Trinity desktop; #34 in popularity
http://q4os.org/

Scientific 7.2
Linux distro based on Red Hat Enterprise; choice of GNOME, IceWM, KDE desktops; #64 in popularity
https://www.scientificlinux.org/

Tor Browser 5.5.1
cross-platform browser that provides some Internet anonymity for the user
- best privacy is achieved using it under Tails operating system
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

Vala/Genie 0.31.1 Beta
object-oriented system programming language that runs at the speed of C/C++
Vala syntax resembles C# and Genie syntax resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala/Genie
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)

VLC Media Player 2.2.2
open source, cross-platform multimedia player (audio/video); recommended
http://www.videolan.org/

Wine 1.8.1 Stable
Wine 1.9.2 Development
compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems
- runs on Linux, Mac OSX, BSD, some others
https://www.winehq.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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