Hello and thank you for visiting Linux News Watch!! Linux News Watch is full of articles and the latest news that pertains to one of your favorite Linux Distributions.Can you do high-quality photo correction with an application that is simple enough for normal (meaning non-photo-gearhead) people to use? Jacek Poplawski thinks so, and that's why he created Delaboratory, a point-and-click photo adjustment app that does not require a lifetime's worth of darkroom experience to understand ...
Last week the Mozilla Foundation released version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License. Immediately recognized as a free software license by the Free Software Foundation and approved as an Open Source license by the Open Source Initiative, MPL 2.0 is a well-crafted modern license that ought to be considered by... ...
ShareTweet The recently released Linux Mint 12 offers a two pronged approach to supporting those who prefer the traditional Gnome desktop. Firstly, the Mint Gnome Shell Extensions (MGSE) transform Gnome 3 into something resembling Gnome 2. Secondly it ships with Mate, the Gnome 2.0 fork project. more>> Linux Journal – The Original Magazine of the ...
ShareTweet smitty777 writes “Rick Falkvinge, better known as the leader for Sweden’s Pirate Party, recommends doing away with copyright laws since no one is following them anyway. FTA: ‘…he uses examples from the buttonmakers guild in 1600s France to justify eliminating the five major parts of copyright law today. The first two are cover duplication ...
We’ve scheduled several training classes to help you ring in the New Year. ...
The Tizen project has announced the release of an initial set of source repositories and an alpha SDK. "Today we are posting a set of pre-release tools to give application developers an early look at Tizen ...
ShareTweet I’m looking to see if it’s possible to run Solaris guests in Xen. For Xen (community edition) Solaris 11 can run in Dom0 For SPARC systems as well as x86 systems (Oracle Solaris 11 OS already has the paravirtualized drivers installed as part of the OS). http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/DomU_Support_for_Xen For Citrix Xen Server Solaris can run ...
Jay Flood has announced the release of Porteus 1.1, a Slackware-based live CD with a choice of Trinity (a KDE 3 fork), KDE 4 and LXDE desktops: "The Porteus community is pleased to announce the official and final release of Porteus version 1.1. This release is available in.... ...
ShareTweet CNET reports (citing this BBC video account) that some aircraft engineers in Australia are concerned about small cracks that have appeared on the wing ribs of some Airbus A380 airplanes, a report says. They’re calling for the whole fleet to be grounded, but Airbus says the cracks are harmless. Read more of this story ...
ShareTweet A few days ago I had to abort rsync the hard way, by shutting down the machine it was running on (as I was late for work…), in the middle of syncing and since then it gives me an error 23 (that is: partial transfer due to error). Doh, I knew that already. However, ...
ShareTweet theodp writes “New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced his intention to take a coding class in 2012 via Twitter (‘My New Year’s resolution is to learn to code with Codecademy in 2012! Join me.’). So, is this just a PR coup for Codeacademy, or could EE grad (Johns Hopkins, ’64) Bloomberg — ...
ShareTweet I used to have a paperweight sitting on my desk that read something like “Robert H. Lane, appointed President of Commodore Computers….” It was the sort of thing that they gave to executives. A brass plaque of their appointment as it appeared in the Wall Street Journal or the Globe and Mail. more>> Linux ...
ShareTweet After playing for a few hours with "multisystem usb creator" and two USBs to prepare a working openSUSE live USB. I am interested in the process of creating live linux USBs I swapped files between the two USBs, until testing proved, that if the original initrd is used, the USB will boot. Most of ...
ShareTweet An anonymous reader writes “Massachusetts Lt. Governor Tim Murray recently crashed his Ford Crown Victoria while reportedly traveling 108 mph. The car was pretty much shredded, but Murray walked away without major injuries. According to data from the car’s black box, Murray and the Crown Vic experienced the equivalent of 40 gravities during the ...
Some undergrads with coding skills get approached by 10 to 20 companies before they even graduate... ...
The Butter/Better/B-tree Filesystem, Btrfs, is supposedly destined to become the default Linux filesystem. What makes it special, and what's wrong with good old tried-and-true Ext2/3/4? ...
Wind River announced three modular versions of its Android development platform. Wind River Solution Accelerators for Android are available in User Experience, Connectivity and Medical modules, offering features such as multi-windowing support, DLNA media sharing, multimedia and sync interfaces, firmware management, IEEE 11073-compliant medical data exchange, and 30 percent faster... ...
The antivirus vendor has confirmed that the hacked source code was for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2, two older, outdated products geared for the business market. ...
Matt Soos writes that the speed advantages that developers enjoy from AMD’s OpenCL comes at the expense of an implementation that is rather painful to deal with. The OpenCL architecture is clean, usable and user-friendly. Unfortunately, the current AMD OpenCL implementation is bad. ...
There is no doubt that Linux is seeing healthy adoption at the server level, and arriving in many variants and embedded applications, but it's worth noting that it is seeing growth at the desktop level as well. Netmarketshare has published its latest round of statistics on desktop Linux usage, with data updated through December ...