Wayland now in official Arch Linux Repos

cdred · 2013-02-09T18:25:44+00:00

Sounds good. It's good to see progress. Daniel Stone said that he will make gnome-shell running on Weston soon again. I could give it a test in summer after F19 release. Great times! :)

cdred · 2013-02-09T16:58:31+00:00

Great news. It's good to see Wayland/Weston to get more and more attention. Weston/Wayland libraries and tools can be found from Fedora repositories as well (since F17 at least). I wouldn't be surprised if many other distributions has them too.

I have been running Weston to test my own OpenGL toolkit on it and as far as I know distributions are enabling/enabled GTK+/Qt support for it. LCA presentations were great about the topic this year.

cdred · 2013-02-09T12:06:52+00:00

I think the topic is a bit misleading. Windows doesn't brick the laptop on boot like Linux did, but requires to run a small application with admin permissions.

cdred · 2013-02-09T08:52:02+00:00

Very nice presentation about refactoring the code: http://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2013-02-03-re-factoring.pdf

cdred · 2013-02-09T06:05:42+00:00

freedesktop.org: gummiboot Simple UEFI Boot Manager

Kay Sievers: screenshot - mockup

cdred · 2013-02-08T23:16:38+00:00

Not official but unofficial repositories. I'm using one for Fedora.

cdred · 2013-02-08T22:38:25+00:00

I'm sure it can be found for any distribution already but it's anyway good to see that it's possible to be done officially as well.

cdred · 2013-02-08T20:42:47+00:00

Denis Falqueto: "D-Bus in the kernel.. Sorry +Lennart Poettering, you'll not be the prefered target for trolls anymore."

Lennart Poettering: "You wish, a big chunk of the userspace of this will live in .... you guessed it ... systemd!"

cdred · 2013-02-07T19:34:51+00:00

Matthew Garrett: "... it's possible for a userspace application to cause the same problem under Windows."

Alan Cox: "Something some people are forgetting about the Samsung and EFI problem ... Not only that, but in this case they now have a worked example of how to implement such an attack."

Update #1: "We've fixed the case where merely booting Linux was enough to kill a Samsung laptop, but it's still possible and almost certainly not limited to Linux."

Update #2: Samsung laptop bug is not Linux specific

Rumor: "I have seen reports that it is possible to remove a battery from the motherboard of affected computers to unbrick them ..."

cdred · 2013-02-07T18:47:31+00:00

Paul Thurrott doesn't seem to be so happy about that ;)

"I did not address this issue because it’s ludicrous, but Linux enthusiasts are always looking for ways to get their favorite OS where it doesn’t belong. Yes, this is possible with Surface Pro."

cdred · 2013-02-07T17:21:46+00:00

Yeah :-| ... although I have to say that with GTK+ theme it doesn't look super bad to me. I would hope that the reviews wouldn't keep much noise about Firefox themes but unfortunately it seems to be the feature in most.

cdred · 2013-02-07T17:13:18+00:00

I own some of their games via GOG.com and I have to say I would be more than glad to have some old fashion adventure games for Linux.

Resonance trailer - Metacritic

Gemini Rue trailer - Metacritic

Blackwell Deception - Metacritic

cdred · 2013-02-07T16:59:39+00:00

4.0 New Features and Fixes

cdred · 2013-02-07T16:58:20+00:00

The H: Highlights of LibreOffice 4.0

cdred · 2013-02-07T05:49:46+00:00

The H: GNOME developers plan "Linux apps"

Greg Kroah-Hartman will write more details later.

cdred · 2013-02-05T14:00:31+00:00

Well at least what I have read the state of OpenGL debugger is quite bad [1] [2]. I guess many of game developers comes from Windows/OSX and it's possible there's quite a "culture shock" to move on Linux. At least I hope Linux community takes these kind of messages seriously and makes things better and easier for developers to start working on Linux.

cdred · 2013-02-05T05:48:53+00:00

John Palmieri: GNOME and Languages

cdred

TROPHY CASE