When you buy a new PC or a MAC you’ll get a fully localized copy of Windows/MacOS in your language but what about Linux distributions? If Linux vendors want to penetrate the newbies market, they must provide fully localized ISO images, there are no excuses. This is my point of view.

TimeTrex is a complete Web-based payroll and time management suite that offers employee scheduling, time and attendance (timeclock, timesheet/timecard), job costing, invoicing, and payroll in a single package. Employees can use Web browsers or timeclocks to track their time and attendance, check their own timesheet for missed punches, and respond to flagged timesheet errors. Payroll administrators can quickly generate paystubs and process payroll based off timesheet information or export timesheet data to other applications.

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License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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Changes:
This release contains additional overtime policies (consecutive days worked) and premium policies (hours worked without breaks) to better support California labor laws. It also contains hour based accrual policies, improved employee exception handling, email notifications, advanced schedule reporting, tax forms, 2008 tax formulas/tables, and custom company logos.

Dada Mail is an intuitive, Web-based email list management system, which runs on any hosting account that can execute custom CGI scripts. Dada Mail is also a conceptual art project. Dada Mail handles double opt-in/opt-out subscriptions, and can send complex announce-only and/or discussion mailing list messages. It also provides archiving, viewing, searching, resending, and syndicating (through RSS or Atom) sent messages. Dada Mail produces valid XHTML and sticks to best practices when creating email messages.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Along with improved support for multiple subscriber fields, first started with the last release, this release features a completely rewritten email templating system, which should allow you to do any sort of mail merging you so fancy. The email templating system is based on HTML::Template, which is familiar, tested, and simple for geeks and designers alike.

ttyrpld is a multi-OS kernel-level TTY key logger and screen logger with (a)synchronous replay support. It runs on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
This release changes the packet format to be compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and adds a converter for old log files.

Votorola is software for hosting open, public elections. It implements an electoral system that sits outside of government and beyond the control of parties. Its voter lists are backed by a trust network that is rooted in community neighbourhoods. It enables voters to advance their own candidates for public office, policies for executive action, and legislative bills for statutory law.

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License: MIT/X Consortium License

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Changes:
The utilities 'vosnap' and 'vocount' were added to the command line administrative interface. Snapshots of elections may now be captured in archival format, and results tallied.

…Unlike previous years, where we focused on pure computing horsepower, this year we wanted to develop a machine that is small and quiet and runs on an open-source operating system…

The aim of the new ‘xvmc’ branch is to deprecate origin ‘xvmc-i915′ branch with lot of cleanups and new framework inside driver to add supports for more hardware media decode drivers in future. It also has changes that affect users. The most notable is that the origin libI915XvMC.so is replaced by a single libIntelXvMC.so entry to be used on different chipsets for different hardware decoders.