Month: May 2008

openSUSE 11 RC1, commit spree, GFax 0.7.7 and some crap

openSUSE 11 RC1 is out. Grab while hot. A word about the man with 500 commits on a single day. I pray that our gnome-terminal loving fellows will worship chpe. George Farris announced a beta of GFax 0.7.7 which includes a couple of my patches and supports faxing from any application using cups. Cool, someone…
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Linux Desktop Statement of the Day…

GNOME wants to be more like Mac OS X. KDE wants to be more like Windows Vista. Is there some truth between these lines?

Idea for individual desktop wallpapers in GNOME now GSOC project

Wow, quite proud that my initial proposal to work on individual workspace/desktop wallpapers has become a real Google Summer of Code 2008 project. It is also available as a bug since 2001. The lucky one to bring you the bling is James Sharp. I hope we will see some refactoring of the splattered code related…
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Adobe pushes Flash towards Free Open Source

A pretty magnificent press release out of Adobe’s garage announcing a cooperative effort to push Flash and it’s formats into the free open source world… It is a brilliant move and what I have been telling regarding Flash’s future since years. I am pretty sure this is the result of some pushing by avid heads…
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