August 18, 2009
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The other day, Novell’s Mono Project, announced the beta release of Moonlight 2. IN theory, this enables Linux users to watch Microsoft Silverlight encoded content. Of course, that begs the question: “What Silverlight content?” Moonlight 2 beta sounds great. Novell … Continue reading
May 13, 2009
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Over the years, Adobe has become more Linux friendly. First, Adobe released an excellent version of its Flash Player for Linux, and, more recently, the company launched a version of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) for Linux. Now, however, with Strobe, … Continue reading
February 13, 2009
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When I first looked at Moonlight, Novell’s open-source version of Microsoft’s Sliverlight, I liked it, but I didn’t really see much of a point to it. Silverlight, Microsoft’s latest answer to Adobe Flash, isn’t used in many sites. What I … Continue reading
February 11, 2009
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f you’re like me, you don’t like proprietary video and audio codecs. Be that as it may, some sites, like NBC’s Olympics site, use Microsoft’s proprietary Silverlight streaming technology. Until recently, if you were using Linux that meant you couldn’t … Continue reading
December 29, 2008
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I can do many things with the greatest of ease on the Linux desktop. But, as I discovered while doing my community Linux overview, recording a Linux desktop video isn’t one of them. Oh, boy, is it ever not one … Continue reading
February 3, 2006
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Photoshop? The application most people want, at this date, to be ported to Linux from Windows is Photoshop? Color me surprised! When Novell Inc. started its survey of what applications people wanted ported to Linux, both Novell CoolSolutions site editor … Continue reading