The X11 suite of graphical display capabilities sets policy but does not define application; this is to say it provides a vehicle to transport graphics using a protocol. There are advantages and disadvantages to such a method beyond the scope of this material excepting one particular advantage: the implementation of the X suite allows for the….
If you care about Linux in any way, you’ve probably heard that The Linux Foundation has bought Linux.com from Sourceforge. The domain is at the forefront in representing Linux and its community, and they’ve promised to bring fresh, new concepts utilizing technologies that integrate aspects of the social web with its newly launched “ideaforge”.
What’s new in this release: * Joystick support on Mac OS X. * Implementation of iphlpapi on Solaris. * A number of 64-bit improvements. * Obsolete LinuxThreads support has been removed. * Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows. * Various bug fixes.
Building software from source – that’s a bit old-school, isn’t it? Who wants to wrestle with the command line, hunting down dependencies and coaxing the GCC compiler into running properly? Well, it does sound like a strange thing to do in this world of binary packages and online repositories.
Anonymous writes “According to Channelweb, the bloom might be off the rose in the Novell-Microsoft relationship: the two companies didn’t sign a single, solitary large customer to a Novell Linux deal during the most recent quarter. ‘So Novell, one of the biggest Linux distributors in the world, and Microsoft, one of the biggest companies in world history, couldn’t find a single large customer on Planet Earth to buy into Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Server software. Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian has stepped up and, rather than point fingers at Microsoft for that performance, put the blame on his company and its inability to strengthen its reseller channel.'”
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Hey Linux kernel! You’re 15! You know what that means—look band on fond times, recompile, and gather all of your copyright-reform-loving, terminal-typing friends and have a rager!
An anonymous reader writes “Following the long-awaited release of FFmpeg 0.5, Phoronix has conducted an interview with three FFmpeg developers (Diego Biurrun, Baptiste Coudurier, and Robert Swain) about this project’s recent release. In this interview they talk about moving to a 3/6-month release cycle, the criteria for version 1.0, Blu-Ray support on Linux, OpenCL and GPGPU acceleration, multi-threading FFmpeg, video APIs, their own video codecs, and legal challenges they have run into.”
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Paper – don’t you just hate it? We live in the ‘information age’, and yet the much promised era of the paperless office still seems decades away. Our desks are cluttered with notes, reminders and scraps of random information that desperately need to be sorted, but it’s hard to find the time.
Ynot_82 writes “The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Windows platform to Linux. Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the migration is due to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015. Of the move, Lt. Col. Guimard had this comment: ‘”Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority.”‘”
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Ynot_82 writes “The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Windows platform to Linux. Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the migration is due to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015. Of the move, Lt. Col. Guimard had this comment: ‘”Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users,” said Lt. Col. Guimard. “Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority.”‘”
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