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New GNOME 2.24 is
an incremental
improvement.
 Last week marked the release of GNOME
2.24. Those who already use GNOME will appreciate the new additions,
but there's nothing compelling enough in the new version to convince
fans of other desktop environments to make a switch. more... and GNOME
2.24 Released and GNOME
2.24 released, mobile development platform emerges.
Richard Stallman
looks back at 25
years of the GNU project.
On September 27, 1983, Richard M.
Stallman announced his intention to found the GNU project in order to
build a free operating system. Now, 25 years later, the Free Software
Foundation is marking the anniversary of the announcement with a
month-long celebration. Looking back at the last quarter century,
Stallman expresses some guarded satisfaction with the growth of the
free software movement, but also some bemusement about how it has
grown more complex as it has faced new challenges from within and
without, and an awareness of how far it still has to go to reach its
goals. more...
Tools for editing
vector graphics in
GNU/Linux.
Over the last decade, vector graphics
have gone from being a revolutionary format to a standard method of
rendering computer images -- so much so that they are standard in the
KDE 4 desktops. This popularity is based on the fact that, because
they represent images as mathematical equations -- usually in SVG
format -- vector graphics open faster, render better on screen, and
can be resized more readily than raster graphics, in which an image
is created pixel by pixel. more...
MEPIS Linux 8.0
nears release.
A new version of MEPIS Linux, one of my
favorite KDE-based distributions, is nearing final release. Roughly a
year after the arrival of version 7.0, distribution founder and
maintainer Warren Woodford has just issued MEPIS 8.0 beta 2, based on
a Debian Lenny core. more... and Second
MEPIS 8.0 Beta
Uploaded For Testing.
And Walmart Makes
Three: Another
Music Service Plans to Shut Down DRM Support.
Following in the footsteps of MSN Music
and Yahoo! Music, Walmart has notified customers that it will be
shutting off its DRM servers in less than two weeks. Walmart's been
selling DRM-free music since February, but anyone who bought music
before that date will not be able to transfer those songs to
“unauthorized computers,” or access the songs after changing
operating systems. more...
Lessons learned
from five years of
Fedora.
The Fedora Project is celebrating its
fifth birthday today. Congrats, Fedora! It seems like just yesterday
I was covering the first release to see how (or if) Fedora would
distinguish itself from Red Hat Linux. more...
VLC goes to nine
point two.
Sometimes I get the feeling that I only
know about 5% of what VLC can do. Everyone knows it's a dependable,
free, cross-platform media player. But read through the release notes
for the latest version, 0.9.2, and you will see a dizzying array of
server, network streaming, and conversion functions, most of which I
have never even touched -- and the new VLC exposes a lot more of that
functionality. more...
Misc.
digiKam
has a new tool to convert RAW camera files to DNG...
Java
Sound & Music Software for Linux, Part 3.
Interview With
TualatriX - Maker
of Ubuntu Tweak!
A Guide Through
The Linux
Sound API Jungle.
21
of the Best Free Linux Financial Software.
Nokia
renames Trolltech and Qtopia.
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 Ohio Linux Fest -
October 10th and
11th, 2008: Columbus, Ohio.
On October 10th and 11th, 2008 the Ohio
Linux Fest (OLF) 2008 Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) 2008 will occur. This is
the sixth edition of this event, held every year in Columbus Ohio. I
like OLF, because it is not only a community event, staged and run by
volunteers, but it is also a family event, with people of all ages
invited and involved. more... and Ohio
LinuxFest 2008 Preview.
Android Walks Out
of the Mist.
The first phone to implement Google's
Open Source Android mobile platform — the eagerly-anticipated
T-Mobile G1 — made its maiden voyage today, launching to the
expected fanfare and with the surprise appearance of Google founders
Larry Page and Sergey Brin — on rollerblades. more... and What Android
Could Bring
to Your Phone and Google's
Android: It's not just for phones.
SGI relicenses
OpenGL: "A huge
gift to the free software community".
After nine months, an open secret can
finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D
acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was released by SGI in 1999, has
been running on licenses that were accepted by neither the Free
Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative. more... and SGI Further
Opens its
OpenGL Contributions.
OpenGL 3 &
DirectX 11: The War
Is Over.
Given the prevalence of DirectX
nowadays, we tend to forget that 10 years ago an all-out war was
being waged between Microsoft and Silicon Graphics in the field of 3D
APIs. The two companies were both trying to win over developers, with
Microsoft using its financial muscle and SGI relying on its
experience and its reputation in the field of real-time 3D. more...
Test drive: Picasa
3 gets off-,
online photo sharing right.
Google announced major updates
yesterday to both components of its Picasa ecosystem: its desktop
client and Web Albums, a service for displaying and sharing photos
online. Google's Picasa announcement is two-fold, involving a desktop
client and web service that are now much more closely integrated
more... and Picasa
3.0 Beta: More Speed, Better Photo Repairs and Better RAW Support.
A First Look at
OpenOffice.org 3.0.
Free, alternative office suite
OpenOffice.org's latest version 3.0 is now available for download by
testers. OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 1 offers several new
features and improvements from its last major release, including
better Mac support and collaboration capabilities. more... and OpenOffice
3.0
release candidate 2 out today.
Flash Player 10
Coming Around the
Final Bend.
Adobe has issued its second release
candidate of Flash Player 10, which should be approaching the finish
line. Developers have not only fixed a number of bugs, but added a
few new features. more...
Ubuntu Intrepid
Ibex Alpha 6 - Good
News for Laptop Users.
I installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
Alpha 6 on both of my laptops over the weekend, and it looks very
good. more... and Ubuntu
8.10 Alpha 6 Screenshot Tour.
Misc.
Nmap
4.75 recognizes iPhones and visualizes networks.
Java
Sound & Music Software for Linux, Part 2.
Free
BBC Dirac Codec in Version 1.0.
Dirac
1.0.0 released.
Projects on the
Move: Sweet
Home 3D.
VLC
gets a new look on Windows and Linux.
Cinelerra
4 arrives.
VirtualBox
update brings improved performance and 64-bit support.
GIMP
User Filter allows use of Photoshop filters.
Using
Linux for Photography, where we stand.
X.Org
7.4 Finally Released.
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 Software Freedom
Day 2008.
Software Freedom Day is a global,
grassroots effort to tell people about the virtues and availability
of Free and Open Source Software. It is a "world wide
celebration of Free and Open Source Software and the community behind
it." more...
How free software
makes money!
While Microsoft keeps churning out
newer and newer versions of Windows at more and more unreasonable
prices, the ‘Free Software Movement’ marches on. Ever wondered
why a perfectly respectable system like Ubuntu Linux ships completely
free of cost all the way from Africa? more...
Sun releases
source code for xVM
hypervisor.
Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to release
the code for its open-source server virtualization software
Wednesday, and will make a commercial version of the xVM Server
available next month. more... and Sun
updates xVM virtualization software.
VirtualBox 2.0.
SUN released a new major release of
their virtual machine software VirtualBox. Highlights in this release
are 64bit guest support, a new GUI and also an enterprise
subscription model. more...
Boxee aims to
shake up the home
theater.
Boxee is a new entrant into the
increasingly crowded open source media center space. The company's
eponymous application is billed as a "social media center"
-- melding a smorgasbord of social networking services into an
XBMC-based media center designed for the couch-centric user. Boxee
has bigger goals in mind, but you can take an early look at it now by
applying for the invitation-only testing program. more... and Boxee,
a media center for the modern world.
Automatic backup
for sporadically
connected clients with Box Backup.
If you're a frequent business traveler
who keeps important company files on your laptop, using a centralized
management solution to back up files automatically during a fixed
time interval won't work. Instead, consider Box Backup, which backs
up files from a laptop directly to a backup server over an encrypted
link. more...
Dropbox for Linux
Adds Online Backup
to Desktop.
Dropbox, the free, web-based backup
service previously available only for Windows and Mac computers, has
added a free, open-source client for Linux to its offerings. more...
Dell puts Linux
and Atom in Vostro
PCs for emerging markets.
Dell is using the Linux operating
system and Intel processors including the Atom in new Vostro PCs for
emerging markets more... and New
Vostro Systems for Emerging Economies: Ubuntu in More Countries.
Google Launches
New Browser.
Google has launched a new open source
browser, Chrome. The new browser boasts a minimalistic UI, a new
Javascript engine dubbed V8, and sandboxed tabs to prevent one tab
from crashing the browser. Chrome uses components from Apple's webkit
and Mozilla Firefox. more... and The
Google Chrome
comic book.
Magazine.
Full Circle - the Ubuntu Community
Magazine Issue
16 and pdf.
Misc.
LUGs
Emphasize the "Festive" at Ohio LinuxFest.
10
Beautiful Themes for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.
Top Free Linux
Online Courses.
21
of the Best Free to Download Closed-Source Applications.
The
7 Best Closed-Source Apps for Linux.
BasKet
- opensource note pad for openSUSE.
Dell
Inspiron Mini 9 Review.
Movie industry
wary of Real
DVD ripper.
Now
playing: DVD movies, Windows audio files on Ubuntu Linux.
Canonical
to fund upstream Linux usability improvements.
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