Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 11th Jul 2008 22:30 UTC, submitted by pas de calais
"Recently a blog post entitled 'Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy' has come across my feed-radar a few times. It's yet another in the long line of 'Linux ain't ready yet' jeremiads and it doesn't really say anything new yet it got on my nerves. Why?" Ryan Cartwright at Freesoftware Magazine is on fine form with this wonderfully splenetic broadside. Read the full tirade at FSM.
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Inkscape is practically a zombie in terms of development - appears to have life, but not much happening.
I was surprised when I saw this line. Maybe you mean some other similar project? I can assure that Inkscape is VERY busy, and is one of the more active projects on Sourceforge. It has many contributors, and is currently one of the fortunate participants in GSoC. Right now, it is going through huge changes, now that the big change from its internal rendering library to Cairo has finally started.
Possibly it only seems quiet now that it has begun using Launchpad for issue tracking rather than SF.net.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/08/10 23:34 UTC
"The 'Llano' processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU - instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an 'application processor unit', or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11-compatible GPU with four out-of-order CPU cores on a single, 32nm processor die."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/08/10 19:38 UTC
"The scuttlebutt is that IBM seemed perfectly content to wait until May to launch the Power7-based Power Systems servers, but something changed and compelled the company to move up the announcement of its first machines using the eight-core processor to today. Big Blue is not in a habit of explaining its motives or its timing for product launches, but it seems clear that IBM wanted to get out in front of a whole lot of processor and systems launches that are expected between now and the summer."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/08/10 19:33 UTC
Mozilla has announced that they are going to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger definitively. "Mac OS X 10.4 was released in April of 2005 and a lot has changed since then," Josh Aas writes, "We would like to take advantage of more modern technologies on Mac OS X and 10.4 support has been a hindrance. Where we can work around supporting 10.4, doing so consumes valuable time and effort. Neither Chrome nor Safari has to deal with this."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/05/10 23:46 UTC
"The ancient bug was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy in January 2010 and involves a utility that allows newer versions of Windows to run very old programs. Mr Ormandy has found a way to exploit this utility in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 as well as Windows Vista and Windows 7. The patch for this vulnerability will appear in the February security update. Five of the vulnerabilities being patched at the same time allow attackers to effectively hijack a Windows PC and run their own programs on it."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/05/10 21:50 UTC, submitted by tyrione
"Today, Clang completed its first complete self-host! We built all of LLVM and Clang with Clang (over 550k lines of C++ code). The resulting binaries passed all of Clang and LLVM's regression test suites, and the Clang-built Clang could then build all of LLVM and Clang again. The third-stage Clang was also fully-functional, completing the bootstrap."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/05/10 21:43 UTC
With all the virtualization schemes running on top of Linux, how do they exploit the underlying kernel for I/O virtualization? The answer is virtio, which provides an efficient abstraction for hypervisors and a common set of I/O virtualization drivers. Discover virtio, and learn why Linux will soon be the hypervisor of choice.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/05/10 21:41 UTC
"The Mono Project releases the first preview of Moonlight 3.0, giving application developers a first look at the open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 technology for the Linux platform." Sadly, it's still Firefox-only.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/04/10 23:13 UTC
"In a definitive defeat for film studios - and in a first case of its kind worldwide - Australia's Federal Court has ruled that ISPs have no obligation to act on copyright infringement notices or to disconnect subscribers after receiving multiple letters. If copyright holders want justice for illegal file-sharing, they need to start by targeting the right people: those who committed the infringement."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/04/10 23:12 UTC
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, an advocate of Web 2.0, used Twitter early Thursday to announce his resignation. He was named CEO in 2006 as Sun faced a switch in strategic direction away from proprietary systems and toward open source code, including its valued Solaris 10 operating system. "Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it", he said in a tweet to his followers, reported the New York Times on its Web site at 1:12 a.m. Thursday. He added a bit of haiku: "Financial crisis, Stalled too many customers, CEO no more."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/04/10 17:18 UTC
"The venerable GNU Image Manipulation Program is undergoing a significant transformation. The next major release, version 2.8, will introduce an improved user interface with an optional single-window mode. Although this update is still under heavy development, users can get an early look by compiling the latest source code of the development version from the GIMP's version control repository."
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2005-07-06
So I brought my laptop over with a hacked OSX partition (i have an iMac at home in the living room that is frequently used, just couldn't justify the cost to performance for a macbook myself), and showed him all the phenomenal apps I use regularly that are far beyond equivalents on any other platform (dragthing, transmit, textmate, etc). It was like opening his eyes to a whole new world, sure, these things are 15-20$ each, but thats the price of eating out for lunch, or going to a movie.
It boggles my mind when linux fans rave about app quality on linux.
He is right, there are limited numbers of free applications - but the free applications that do exist are quality. Adium X, a gorgeous application which exploits the power of opensource whilst at the same time, ensuring that the application fits into the whole Mac OS X experience.
The applications that are available are small in price (as you mentioned) - I mean, lets be honest, iWorks can be picked up for under $100; Office 2008 can be picked up for $200 and can be installed on three computers. There are numerous little applications for $15-$20.
People rant about how great Linux software is, and yet ignore the amount of abandonware out there; imagine you're using an application and find yourself high and dry because the developer has lost inspiration - you're screwed as an end user. Inkscape is practically a zombie in terms of development - appears to have life, but not much happening. Passepartout, another dead application that never livd up to the hype. Pan, great Usenet, too bad it was abandoned.
The list goes on and on. Free and opensource software is useless without someone to maintain and develop it. I'd sooner pay for software and get it developed than being left high and dry because someone has lost their drive to develop.