If you’re anything like me, you’ll be aware that some things are just plain nasty to do in Linux (vs Windows or Mac). I’ve been trying desperately to get my webcam working. I’ve had problems with supported hardware, then issues getting anything to see a supported one, and now I just need usable software.
If you’d like to skip out some of the hard work, check out this article at LinuxPlanet!
I love F-Spot. I moved off Picasa when I migrated to Linux last year because the Linux version was bad so went through several photo-management apps quickly before learning that F-Spot’s 3rd-party support (Flickr, etc) was immensely powerful. I saw this review at FOSSwire and thought I’d share:
Nowadays, people have a lot of media. Music, videos and photos. One application for Linux for managing a library of photos is F-Spot. I thought I would take it for a spin, under Fedora 8 and GNOME.
F-Spot ships with almost all modern distributions that use GNOME, so it’s pretty likely you won’t have to do anything to get it installed at all, just have a look under Applications > Graphics or similar. If not, install the f-spot package.
On opening the application for the first time, you’ll be asked to import some photos. I’ve got a collection of around 1400 snaps, so I chose to import the folder containing them into F-Spot.
One of the things Carl and I toyed with when discussing CandyFOSS is doing dual-reviews — where we both review the distribution at the same time. Cool, right?
Today we’re taking a look at PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniMe, the latest and greatest from the PCLinuxOS guys, just minimalised so you only get what you need and you add what you want on top of it. The download consists of a pleasing sub-300meg ISO file, with tools and tutorials around to help you put it on a 512meg USB flash drive (something that can’t be said for full 700meg CD images). Read More
As per the announcement a few minutes ago, Wine 0.9.55 has been released, including the following changes:
- Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation. - Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit. - Several fixes to the animation control. - A bunch of fixes for regression test failures. - Lots of bug fixes.
On a personal note, I can’t wait until this hits the Hardy repos as it fixes a few regressions that have affected things here.
Have a look at this great little comparison between the biggest four names in virtualization.
This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels Workstation.
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This article looked at four different products for virtualization in Linux, specifically Ubuntu Linux. The findings were interesting - the only product that requires the purchase of a licence for personal use, Parallels, actually performed the worst of the group. Qemu did well for a completely free-as-in-speech application, although VMware and VirtualBox blew the competition away in terms of performance.
While the Eee PC was very successful and ran Linux, it was not clear if Asus planned to continue to use Linux in future products. Asus’s recent announcement of three new Linux-based products indicates their commitment to using Linux.
… And beta 4 just two weeks on! I’m so excited!
The targeted release date for Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now February 11 and follow on Beta 4 is “tentatively” scheduled for February 26, according to Firefox meeting notes posted on Mozilla.org Tuesday.
With that, it appears Firefox 3 will be released in early 2008 as planned, although no exact date has been announced.
I’ve always considered the repositories one of the strongest parts of “modern” Linux but until now, most have only been used for distributing free apps.
Now Canonical are moving to enable developers to distribute their closed-source applications through Synaptic; something that could really spur on the enterprise and newbie-home-user support for Ubuntu.
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, will on Thursday begin making commercial applications available to Ubuntu users directly through the desktop, in a step designed to simplify software installation.
Possibly the best video editing platforms for Linux, Cinelerra, is being overhauled by its own community:
The community surrounding Cinelerra, one of the premier non-linear video editors for Linux, has decided to strike off in its own direction and rewrite Cinelerra under a new codebase.
Cinelerra has its roots in Broadcast 2000, a rewrite of Broadcast 2.1 in the late 1990s by its owner Heroine Virtual Ltd. (HV), a mysterious group that has stated its anonymity is necessary to keep the division between personal and professional projects. The Broadcast 2000 name was discontinued in September 2001, and Cinelerra 1.0.0 appeared in August 2002 using the same codebase.
So here’s a nice story. New family webdev business starting up utilising FOSS to save themselves ton of cash.
My wife and I started a web development company back in June of this past year 2007. In doing so we sought out using open source applications to help us run our business from the beginning to help us save money. […] what open source applications we have been able to use instead saving us an estimated about of $100,000 and counting