Changing the name of an established product is something that companies do not do very often. There are a number of reasons for that, from losing part of the products visibility and brand, to causing customer and user confusion.When it comes to Open Office, we have seen quite the confusion in recent time. Back in 2010 when Oracle acquired Sun, the rights to OpenOffice went to Oracle as well. Many developers of the community did not like the move, and Oracle’s plan to create a commercial version of OpenOffice, and decided to create LibreOffice, a fork based on the original OpenOffice code.Oracle back in June 2011 decided to hand over the OpenOffice project to the Apache Foundation. This move made it clear that Oracle was not longer interested in distributing a commercial version of the Office suite, and that the company more or less had no interest in the project.Today, a new version of OpenOffice was released, and with it came a name change to Apache OpenOffice. The change log lists a lot of changes, including faster startup times, improved CSV export, file size reductions for pdfs containing monochrome bitmaps, improved printing on Unix, enhanced chart visualizations, and a license change to Apache License 2.The License has changed to our simpler, non-restrictive, Apache License 2. The Apache License will make adoption, distribution and modification of the software easier for all users and developers. Of course the software remains free, and the source code with its updates will continue to be available through the Apache Software Foundation servers.Interested users can download the latest version of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 at the official website, where it is available for all supported operating systems and languages. The Windows installer has a size of about 145 Megabytes.What’s your take on the new name change? Confusing? Or just an inevitable step that does not really hurt the Office suite further? And while we are it it: which Office suite are you currently using primarily? (via Caschy)

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When it comes to learning foreign languages, I never came upon a more learning intensive language than Japanese. This can be partially attributed to the foreign characters, and to the fact that you have to get your head around multiple alphabets and thousands of Kanji signs.Japanese learning software can help students tremendously in the task, both when memorizing and understanding the different alphabets and signs, but also when trying to improve Kanji drawing skills.Tagaini Jisho is another excellent free Japanese dictionary and Kanji lookup tool that is available as a Open Source application for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.It takes little time to get accustomed to the program. You can look up any Kanji right away in the interface by using the search form at the top right. The program accepts both English words, Japanese signs, and Romaji. You see both the Japanese Kanji and the English (sometimes German as well) meanings of the word.The software ships with stroke order animations for more than 6000 Kanji, which you can play directly in the program to learn how to draw Kanji. It lacks a drawing module though, which means that you should have a sheet of paper at hand, or an image editor open to practice the drawings.It is possible to add looked up word to a study list that the program maintains. The study list can be used in tests that the program creates for you, or as a way to learn new words or words that you have difficulties with. Personal notes and tags can be added at any point in time, which may contain custom explanations, memory hooks or related words or signs.The program in addition can display both the Katakana and the Hiragana alphabets in the interface, again with options to add individual letters to the study list.Print and export options are provided as well. When it comes to printing, options to print normally or in booklet format are available. The export options include HTML and TSV formats.Closing WordsThe program’s strength is its search feature, which you can use during your studies. The Kanji animations are also excellent to get a better understanding of how characters and signs are drawn correctly. When it comes to tests though, it is not the most sophisticated of tools just yet. Still, if you are currently learning Japanese, or have the intention to start learning the language, then this is a tool to have in your arsenal.

It took almost one and a half month to release the final version of Miro 5.0 after releasing the release candidate back in March 2012. We looked at version 5 of the Miro media player back then, and noted that the developers had added several new features in the new version of the program.Miro at its core is a media player that combines local playback support with remote features. These remote features make it interesting, as it allows you for instance to watch YouTube videos directly in the player, download those videos, subscribe to podcasts, or download torrents.That’s a lot of functionality packed into a cross-platform program, and while it may look like overkill to some, others may find that Miro is exactly the program they have been looking for when it comes to managing and playing media.No new features have been added since the release of the first release candidate of Miro 5. Existing users who upgrade to the new version find the following new features now integrated into the application:Album art and song information lookup – Retrieve information about songs and artists from the Internet, use it to clean up the music collection (using Echonest and 7Digital)Album view – A new view mode that groups songs by album or artistFaster device syncing and conversions – The new quick fill option gets music faster on devices that you connect to your PC. Miro 5 furthermore supports automatic synchronizations, and options to convert media only when necessaryDownload Vimeo HD videos from feedsUpdate to the Windows backendeMusic added to the store sectionMiro users who prefer not to use the online lookup option for new audio files, can disable it under File > Preferences > General > Automatically run online lookup for any new audio files that I add to Miro. Here it is also possible to remove existing lookup data.Closing WordsMiro 5 continues where the other versions have left of. Especially the new audio lookup options improve the media player for users who have added music to it. If you are looking for a media player that can do it all, you may want to take Miro 5 for a test run.Windows users should monitor the installation carefully, as they may end up with the AVG Toolbar otherwise installed on their system.  At the time of writing, a click on No Thanks bypasses the installation.

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The Linux Foundation is enjoying continued growth in its annual kernel development study

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The Linux Foundation has released the 2011 edition of its kernel development study. The report provides insight into the status of Linux kernel programming and the level of developer participation. It shows the volume of total growth, the relative number of contributions from major sponsors, and other relevant metrics.
The kernel has continued to see strong growth and developer engagement. The Linux Foundation celebrated the kernel’s 20th birthday last year, alongside the release of Linux 3.0. The total size of the kernel grew from 13 million lines of code and 33,000 files in 2010 to 15 million lines of code and 37,000 files in 2011.
The number of developers who are actively contributing to a given version of the kernel has steadily grown from around 400 in 2005 to over 1300 by the end of 2011. Approximately 75 percent of individual contributors are professional software developers who are paid to work on the kernel. Volunteer developers who are known to be contributing without compensation still represent a larger segment of contributions than developers from any given company.Read more on Ars Technica&hellip