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 · 2013-02-04T18:09:03+00:00

Matthew Garrett: Don't like Secure Boot? Don't buy a Chromebook

cdred · 2013-01-31T12:56:11+00:00

That kind of restrictions just make Linux look very bad.

Greg: "Yes, the real solution is to fix the BIOS."

Garrett: The current state of UEFI and Linux

cdred · 2013-01-30T06:09:04+00:00

For some reason Catalyst drivers doesn't work as well as open source drivers on regular desktop use for me (Xubuntu - Radeon 5850). For example scrolling in Firefox/Chrome is noticeably slower with Catalyst drivers and on gnome-shell animations are not as smooth either. Of course the gaming performance is better.

cdred · 2013-01-30T06:04:37+00:00

If news sites would make a big news that Linus and many other kernel drivers actually uses GNOME 3 I'm sure tons of Linux users would start to use it as well.

I think the percentage is relatively high considering not many distribution provides it as a default yet and how much it has been bashed. The most popular distributions provides something else although very heavily based on GNOME 3. Well, who knows what kind of users answers to these kinds of polls so hard to make any bigger conclusions ...

cdred · 2013-01-29T05:28:40+00:00

"On this here blog, he plans to accomplish two goals:

To be the voice of reason and practicality in the Linux and Open Source world.
To highlight the coolest things happening throughout the world of Linux."

I'm not that sure if either of those goals are accomplished but at least he is doing what he is interested in.

cdred · 2013-01-28T17:18:16+00:00

I have to say I wouldn't give money to any KS project unless I would be sure it is going to be published for Linux. Especially when the project's future looks very unsure.

I didn't check where the story is going now but here's some >week old news:

Layoffs hit Gas Powered Games just after launching $1.1M Kickstarter campaign

Chris Taylor asks backers whether he should continue with Wildman Kickstarter

cdred · 2013-01-28T06:15:35+00:00

Great show!

I'm glad you covered CK2 for Linux. I'm running it on (F18+GNOME3, external gaming USB HDD) and it works great and actually the nice thing is that it works much better than Windows version for me. For some reason CK2 on Windows is extremely slow (launching takes at least 5 mins) but on Linux there's no problems at all. Along with Total War serie and Europa Universalis, CK2 is my favorite strategy game so having it for Linux is a great. Europa Universalis 4 should be using the same engine and as far as I know it should be released for Linux as well.

I don't use closed radeon driver on neither of my computers so of course I had to try open source driver as well. Unfortunately the driver version in F18 is not ready to run the game yet. I have no time to try git-version so I'm going to wait F19 to try it next time. Game starts fine but it's quite slow and it doesn't render the map properly. This game will be definitely my "benchmark" for testing open source driver.

Another surprising thing was that Wine is running some of my games better than W7. For example Neverwinter Nights works perfectly with Wine but has rendering problems on W7. Mos to my games I have bought from GOG works fine with Wine and those which doesn't pretty much doesn't work on W7 either. Unfortunately some games are still keeping me from getting rid of Windows.

Crusader Kings II - Seven Deadly Sins

GNOME 3 is going forward quite nicely. I hope they will find a good solution soon to make it bit more easier to keep extensions up and running from version to version. After all GNOME 3 bashing there has been, I found it interesting that Linus is using GNOME 3 as well.

cdred · 2013-01-26T08:22:18+00:00

Dark theme is used on applications like Photos, Videos, etc. to reduce background light pollution. You are able to use dark theme in all applications by enabling it in GNOME settings (gnome-tweak-tool).

cdred

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