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As we can see watching a video provided by Interactive Computing Laboratory, multi-touch screens are not only supported in Windows 7 but also in Linux.

Benjamin Tissoires, Stephane Chatty and Gilles Tabart informed that multi-touch technology has been experimentally incorporated into Fedora 12 equipped with modified applications. Some changes have also been applied in X.org evdev driver module and the kernel itself which according to the authors can not be older than 2.6.31.

The next version 4.7 of Parted Magic has been released. Parted Magic is a small Linux distribution equipped with a comprehensive set of tools for managing partitions.

OpenID Foundation has informed that the number of IDs issued in this year exceeded 1 billion barrier.

Ambient Design Company has released another version of professional tools ArtRage Pro 3 for painting pictures. The program provides digital equivalents of such tools as brush, chalk, charcoal, pencil or pen. Depending on the speed a pen, the selected color is applied with a varying intensity. This feature makes it possible to create very realistic pictures. In addition, a canvas can be rotated, zoomed and moved.

The ESET company announced the release of the first beta version of one of its flagship product - NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux and Mac OS.