What do I use to test out webm? Since I already have quite a few avi videos I decided to convert some of them. I was amazed at the quality of webm conversions but realized that medium quality avi files aren't the best source material. How about DVD quality video? How about Sita Sings the Blues?

One of the topics of ongoing interest in the kernel community is that of maintaining quality. It is trivially obvious that we need to maintain and even improve quality. It is less obvious how best to do so. One broad approach that has found some real success is to increase the visibility of various aspects of the kernel.

Every once in a while, an article or post will appear, claiming that Linux is just not good enough for everyday use. The reason?

Years ago some companies realized they can sell music online. They started selling music in lower quality formats and never made enough effort to offer full CD quality audio, which is pretty much a standard we agreed on about 30 years ago. When some stores do offer CD quality, they often want more money for it, treating it as premium.

An interesting conundrum struck me the other day: if Free Software is so prevalent, and there are so many devoted FOSS game development teams, why is it that independent developers using proprietary engines are able to pump out games of a higher quality? In this article, I attempt to deconstruct the issue somewhat.

I discovered the animated short film, Trusted Computing, today. Great movie! It is licensed under a Creative Commons (Sampling Plus 1.0) license that I wouldn't categorize as free but certainly more permissive than the standard copyrights. However, I was irritated by the lack of a truly high quality OGG video, whereas proprietary formats such as the Quicktime .mov had such quality copies.

Iwspy is used to set a list of addresses to monitor in a wireless network interface and to read back quality of link information for each of those. This information is the same as the one available in /proc/net/wireless : quality of the link, signal strength and noise level.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 high quality free Linux eCommerce applications. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to set up their own online shop.

Save for Web allows to find compromise between minimal file size and acceptable quality of image quickly. While adjusting various settings, you may explore how image quality and file size change. Options to reduce file size of an image include setting compression quality, number or colors, resizing, cropping, Exif information removal, etc.