| | The long wait is over. After more than 18 months we are finally getting an update of FlightGear. The flight simulator for Linux received a major lift through technological advances in graphics and weather modeling. | | Flight Simulator FlightGear Updated Release 2.4.0 comes with a highly realistic weather simulation module that simulates the interaction of the atmosphere with the terrain. You can make weather from downloaded or custom made METAR weather reports and experience for example the interesting effects of weather phenomena occurring between different meteorological systems. | Panorama Tool Added to digiKam Version 2.1 of the open source photo managment software digiKam is now available. The highlight of this update is a new panorama utility for combining and merging overlapping photos to create coherent larger images. | TrueCrypt 7.1 The software package TrueCrypt offers easy to use functions for encrypting hard disk partitions, USB drives, and other external storage devices. Once a filesystem is encrypted, TrueCrypt performs the decryption and encryption on-the-fly as files are accessed, without further user intervention. | Linux HowTos Step-to-step guides and how-to articles helping you with specific Linux tasks. | | | | Linux Ads | | | | Featured Articles | | | | | | Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Linux newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2011 About.com | | | | Must Reads | | | Follow me on: | | | | Advertisement | |
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