Archive for: August 2006

Gamasutra - Improvements Include: improved workflow to keep animation vector based from beginning to end, importing SWF file as visemes (with transparency support), importing .MP3 audio file, full vector process support (import and export), enhanced SWF
Source: www.gamasutra.com

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A southern Indian state plans to switch all school computers from Microsoft Windows to the free Linux operating system, an official said Thursday. The changeover on computers used in some 12,500 high schools in the state of Kerala is set …

… Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com 3. Planet Ubuntu: http://planet.ubuntu.com - Ubuntu developers’ blog 4. Ubuntu-specific enterprise-level support …
Source: www.prweb.com

Many of us enjoy exercising our electronic toys as much as our minds, but sometimes we lack the software tools necessary to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve problems as they arise. This article shows how a simple Knoppix configuration can become …

IT Jungle, NY - Aug 10, 2006… To make Mac OS X, Apple weaves a layer of FreeBSD services–FreeBSD being one of the three major distributions of BSD Unix–and then adds its own graphical …
Source: www.itjungle.com

Apple NDAs Leopard
SYS-CON Media, NJ - Aug 11, …

Playfuls - Linspire announced the availability of Freespire 1.0, a free, Debian-based desktop Linux operating system that optionally combines open source software with legally-licensed proprietary drivers, codecs and applications in its core distribution
Source: www.playfuls.com

HP does Debian at …

An anonymous submittor says “Today’s young generation can use Linux on the desktop provided it works with their iPod. Linux on the desktop still hasn’t reached that stage and has to be compatible with multimedia applications like iTunes and iPod …

Linux Insider - to include the virtualization technology in its newest offering, SLE 10, but he suggested the company may have been better off planning to limit Xen to its OpenSuse operating system , which serves as …

Last month, I wrote a column about Microsoft ending support for all pre-2000 releases of Windows.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Mandriva: Say Hello to 3D 
“The 3D-Desktop has been a hot topic since Novell showed-off their XGL/Compiz integration for NLD 10 at a Solutions Linux …

NewsForge, CA - Aug 19, 2006I think one of the most interesting times I have had using Kubuntu is watching in the Kubuntu chat channel how people respond to new users using Kubuntu. …
Source: os.newsforge.com

Ubuntu 6.06.1 Screenshot Tour
NewsForge, CA - Aug 14, 2006This …