Some people hate the idea of adding proprietary software to their desktop Linux. For these people, there are Linux distributions such as gNewSense that use only free software. For the rest of us, who use distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu, there are times we either want to, or feel forced to, add proprietary [...]
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Desktop Linux: When and how to add proprietary software to your desktop Linux
July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Applications · Desktop · Linux · Multimedia · Office Software · Operating System
Patching the Patch: Trouble with the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard update
June 16th, 2010 · Comments Off
I was very pleased to see Apple’s new Mac OS X Snow Leopard patch this morning. It fixed numerous minor, but annoying problems with my Mac Mini and my wife’s MacBook Pro. It also cleaned up numerous security problems. That’s the good news. The bad news is it also introduced a serious security bug by [...]
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Ubuntu would welcome Adobe to Linux
April 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
I recently suggested that, given Apple and Adobe’s growing war over iPad and iPhone applications, it would make sense for Adobe to move not only its end-user applications, but its Creative Suite development stack to Linux. While I don’t know if Adobe is considering it, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, would welcome Adobe. Gerry [...]
Tags: Adobe · Apple · Applications · Canonical · Development · Linux · Multimedia · Operating System · Photography
Hey Adobe, Dump Apple, Go Linux
April 21st, 2010 · Comments Off
Who can blame Adobe for being ticked off? They wanted a slice of the lucrative Apple iPad/iPhone application business, and Apple won’t let Adobe applications, or even Flash, on either platform. So, first Adobe started cussing Apple out, then Adobe started thinking about suing Apple, and, now, they’re talking about abandoning the iPad/iPhone platforms. That’s [...]
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Google open-sourcing VP8 video may change Internet video forever
April 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
For a while now, Internet video was simple. You used Adobe Flash, with its 95% plus market share and that was that. Then things changed. The next Web standard, HTML 5 came along, but it didn’t spell out that Flash, or anything else would, be the video codec standard. Then, Apple refused to have anything [...]
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