My recent post about old the beginnings of Gnome and my natural tendency to look at the Roadmap for the next version of Gnome and Ubuntu when an Ubuntu release comes out have led me to a conclusion: Gnome is pretty much finished.
Read more »Where do we go from here now that Gnome has grown up?
http://www.ibeentoubuntu.com –
- Login to post comments
Screenlets work with Compiz widget layer in Ubuntu Gutsy
http://www.ubuntugeek.com –
Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as “the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk”. Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, … the possibilities are endless.
Read more »- Login to post comments
OLPC: one excuse per child
http://www.itwire.com –
Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop per Child project, is in the news again, this time trying to rationalise the appearance of Windows XP on the laptop manufactured by the project.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Helping the Needy Get Nerdy
http://www.linuxjournal.com –
Free Geek is a not-for-profit community organization that recycles used technology to provide computers, education, Internet access and job skills training to those in need in exchange for community service.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Red Hat-Ubuntu pairing would have potential
http://blogs.the451group.com –
I’m starting to see some big potential for symbiosis between two Linux and open source leaders: Red Hat and Ubuntu. Red Hat’s departure from the consumer desktop Linux market comes at the same time Ubuntu continues rolling in the same market with the release of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron this week.
Read more »
Thinking Of Switching?: Linux Ubuntu vs. Windows Vista vs. OSX Leopard
http://www.athensexchange.com –
Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.2 and Windows Vista Service Pack One were both released in February of 2008. Linux Ubuntu released the latest version of its operating system, nicknamed Hardy Heron, in April. I tried out each of these three operating systems to see how they compared.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Mark Shuttleworth: The Heron takes flight
http://www.markshuttleworth.com –
Hearty congratulations to the entire Ubuntu community on the successful launch of 8.04 LTS. This was our best release cycle ever, from the planning at UDS-Boston last year, at which we had many different teams and companies, to the beta process which attracted so much in the way of testing and patches. I think we can be justifiably proud of the quality of 8.04 LTS.
Read more »Three Linux HTML editors reviewed
http://www.linux.com –
Today's Web development tools offer capabilities that go beyond basic HTML editing. I compared three Web editors for Linux -- Screem 0.16.1, Bluefish 1.0.7, and Quanta Plus 3.5.7 -- to determine how well they handle today's Web editing needs.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
WebKit GTK+ port passes Acid3 on Linux
http://arstechnica.com –
The GTK+ port of WebKit is the first open source HTML render to fully pass the Acid3 test on the Linux platform. WebKit, which is Apple's increasingly popular fork of KDE's KHTML rendering engine, is used by Apple's Safari web browser and the iPhone.
Read more »Conditions of contributing source codes to GNU
http://git.savannah.gnu.org –
Legal Issues about Contributing Code to GNU --- Project GNU has to be careful to obey intellectual property laws, even though these laws are wrong and people generally should share useful information without hesitation, because we are in the public eye. This means that if you want to contribute software, you have to do something to give us legal permission to use it.
Read more »
GNU Emacs 23.0.60 git repo
http://git.sv.gnu.org –
This directory tree holds version 23.0.60 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. See also emacs-tiny-tools.git: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs-tiny-tools.git;a=tree;h=a78de25444...
Read more »- Login to post comments
Free Software Festival this Saturday in Costa Rica
http://www.costaricapages.com –
It seems the author didn't understand the philosophy of free software. Free software is about freedom. Think free speech, not free beer. Feel free to explain it in comments... -- via http://linuxaucoin.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-software-festival-this-satu...
Read more »- Login to post comments
Remote Lisp Hacking
http://lispy-shrek.blogspot.com –
"You have several machines from which you would like to hack on a lisp project but do not wish to run seperate instances of /emacs/slime/sbcl/ on each machine. You'd like to use the single running emacs instance and view it remotely from any of those machines. How to best achieve this? ..."
Read more »- Login to post comments
Who gets top billing? GNOME or KDE?
http://zonker.opensuse.org –
If you support multiple desktops, which one gets top billing? Kind of like Lennon and McCartney (please tell me that most of my readers are old enough to get the reference…), it doesn’t really matter very much — there’s so much awesome in each one that it’s just not possible to detract from the choices with an arbitrary decision about which one should go first.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Microsoft No Longer Able to Hide Financial Decline, More Losses to GNU/Linux in Russia
http://boycottnovell.com –
On several occasions in the past we wrote about Microsoft hiding evidence of its real financial health. Well, this old paper-and-ink routine seems to have run out of stamina because Microsoft reported a significant drop in profits and its stock tanked. Here it is from Microsoft’s ‘back yard’ press, whose bias — if any — typically works in Microsoft’s favour.
Read more »- Login to post comments
