Most people in the hacking community are well aware that patents represent one of the most serious threats to free software. But the situation is actually even worse than it seems, thanks to the proliferation of what are called patent thickets. To understand why these are so bad, and why they represent a particular problem for software, it is necessary to go back to the beginning of patent law.
Read more »
When video gets ugly
http://mybroadband.co.za –
Forget the browser wars, the operating system wars and the mobile phone wars. The one to watch now is the battle over video formats.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Wine 1.2 gets a first release candidate
http://www.h-online.com –
The Wine developers have released a first release candidate for version 1.2 of their Windows API implementation, marking the beginning of the code freeze period
Read more »- Login to post comments
GNOME desktop navigation guide – Orca
http://www.ghacks.net –
For those who are less than fortunate and have severe vision problems, using a computer can be a task that is nearly impossible without either the help of others or some form of assisted technology. One of those technologies is Orca.
Read more »- Login to post comments
winetricks 20100526 released
http://www.wine-reviews.net –
winetricks 20100526 was released today: new verbs alldlls=builtin, forcemono, mmdevapi=disabled, utorrent.. Steam now defaults to embedded chrome instead of ie, so we don't need as many prereqs. Update Mono to 2.6.4. See the changelog for a full list of changes in this release.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Retrieve Data from your Database into .NET objects using NHibernate
https://www.packtpub.com –
.NET developers will learn about the use and optimization of NHibernate. Users will be shown how to integrate their .NET projects to create a rich, efficient, object-oriented data access layer quickly and efficiently.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Show me the money...
http://opensource.com –
Every day I come to work, I get excited about the possibilities of the power of participation: to solve complex problems, to share knowledge, to bring people together. I believe together we can solve many of the most complex problems our world faces.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Technical Limitations of Client-Side-Decorations
http://blog.martin-graesslin.com –
All windows have KWin decorations and they should not have them. Yakuake has a kind of own CSD – you see the controls at the bottom. The window manager may reparent the window and the window has no control over it.
Read more »- Login to post comments
HP confirms WebOS tablet
http://www.h-online.com –
According to HP Taiwan personal computing systems group Vice President Monty Wong, Hewlett-Packard plans to bring a WebOS-based Internet tablet to the market by October of this year
Read more »- Login to post comments
How to Make Awesome Wallpapers in the Gimp
http://linuxandall.wordpress.com –
GIMP is my image editor/creator of choice on both Windows and Linux however I prefer Photoshop on Mac. If you have any experience of Photoshop you will know how to use these tools, brushes and effects in it.
Read more »- Login to post comments
How to install globalmenu in Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid)/9.10(Karmic)
http://www.ubuntugeek.com –
Global Menu is the globally-shared menu bar of all applications launched in your desktop session.
Read more »- Login to post comments
OpenBSD is switching to GCC4
http://marc.info –
OpenBSD -- free software multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system, emphasizing portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography, is switching on amd64 and sparc64 architectures over to GCC 4.2.1 (last GPLv2 licensed version).
Read more »- Login to post comments
Transmission 2.00b1 is available
https://trac.transmissionbt.com –
New beta release of free software cross-platform BitTorrent client, containing an big amount of changes. Better scheduling of connections, peer exchange working in local networks, handling of tracker errors and many user-interface changes.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Miro Video Converter 2.0 supports WebM/VP8
http://www.h-online.com –
The Miro developers have released version 2.0 of their open source Miro Video Converter video transcoding utility, making it the first converter to support the new open WebM / VP8 video format introduced by Google with the WebM Project
Read more »- Login to post comments
Open source innovation on the cutting edge
http://www.infoworld.com –
Think open source doesn’t innovate? Here are seven projects exploring exciting new directions in computing -- for free
Read more »- Login to post comments
