Category Archives: Linux
Raising Money for Open Source Projects: How Can We Improve?
One of the things I admire about the FLOSS community is the willingness to dig in and tackle problems facing a project, whether they're technical, structural (hosting, etc.), governance, licensing, and so on. But it would occasionally be a better idea to try to recruit expertise from the outside than to try to re-invent the [...]
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Facebook Friends PHP: Introducing HipHop
Are you a fan of PHP? Facebook is. The company has been working behind the scenes to create HipHop, a runtime compiler for PHP to improve the language's performance on Facebook's servers. The company is also friending the rest of the PHP community with its work by releasing its project as open source.
Rumors have been [...]
Video editing in Linux: a look at PiTiVi and Kdenlive
Video editing on Linux has long gotten a bad rap. A few years ago, the only real options for video editing were either deeply limited in features and polish, or incredibly complex to set up and use.
While Linux still lacks a direct competitor to tools like Apple's iMovie or Final Cut Pro, the current crop [...]
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Defective by Design is Defective
Once again the Defective by Design have sprung into action to denounce another product from Apple, and once again nobody really cares.
Defective by Design is a marketing campaign sponsored by the Free Software Foundation. While the FSF does plenty of good work, DBD is increasingly out of touch with the majority of users. Contrast the [...]
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Apache Unleashes SpamAssassin 3.3.0
What's better than an Apple iTablet, or whatever Cupertino is releasing today? A spam-free inbox, and you can get that (or very close) for free thanks to the Apache Foundation. Yesterday marked the first major SpamAssassin release since 2007 when the Apache Foundation unleashed SpamAssassin 3.3.0.
SpamAssassin is a set of Perl programs that filters mail [...]
KDE 4.4 Kreeps Kloser to Komplete
The KDE team is getting very close to a final release of KDE 4.4. The second release candidate came out yesterday as a testing platform for users and developers to find and squash bugs before the final release date of February 9th.
The 4.4 release brings quite a few changes over 4.3, new applications, enhancements, and [...]
Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts