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On November 8, 2007 the new the Fedora Linux "distro" has been released.

Numbered Fedora 8, it seems to have a lot of improvements and new features like Online Desktop, Codec Budy (to download the right codecs for audio and video players), Pulse Audio, improved network manager (specially for wifi networks), Compiz Fusion (3D desktop effects for linux), better Power Management and also better package management.

As a result of three months voting period, Packt Publishing announced that Drupal has won the Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award. Drupal succeeds Joomla! as the overall winner and receives a cheque for $5,000.

Packt Publishing is specialized in Open Source publications and has two books about Drupal that are highly recommended.

Full results of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award

Last days, I have been looking for a way to install GNU gettext utilities on Mac OS X. I need them to manage translations for a new software a recently began to develop using PHP. Finally, after a few hours, I found what I was looking for, it is a site called Rudix, UNIX software packages for Mac OS X.