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"A while back I announced the creation of a schedule for GIMP 2.8 development. I've made sure to keep this schedule up to date, and after a bunch of initial adjustments such as postponing some feature and adding others, the schedule has now stabilized a bit." ... "As far as development goes I have continued working on the UI in general and single-window mode in particular. There is now only one major thing missing before single-window mode is ready for some real usage"

"As a developer you want your product to be useful, not only to yourself, but also to your community. It may be a vanity thing, but that's how it works." ... "When I slowly constructed my project and my community I delved deeply into the way FOSS works. I learned a lot from Linus and the way he makes his kernel tick."

"We've read the article at Webupd8.org with Mark Shuttleworth, and here is our opinion on the matter." ... "You have a kernel team because you think you need one, you feel the need to change the kernel. How many serious security flaws have there been in Ubuntu? And how many were specific to Ubuntu?"

"With Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) so far our first impressions aren't good. 10.04 booted to the "Install" prompt from a LiveCD in 4 minutes and 23 seconds, compared to a solid 40 seconds on Debian Squeeze ("testing" repository)"

Hello, my name is Jacob Lludkrab, I am an advocate for Free Software. I am writing to you in hopes that this email might reach the Combat Arms developers, or those in charge of the licensing of Combat Arms. Will you please forward it to the appropriate recipients? Nexon having developed in part “Counter-Strike: Online”, have knowledge of the GoldSrc engine, which is based on id Software’s Quake engine. With this recent history of gaming engines, the developers must be aware of the decision by id Software" ...

"With the up coming release of GIMP 3.0, I think that GIMP should be renamed to simply “Wilber.” Though it would no longer be an acronym for “GNU Image Manipulation Program”, but it would totally eliminate any possibly offensive terminology in exchange for a name everyone can love, especially the young, and it would give GIMP a chance at the big times."

"First, if you are unfamiliar with the problem, go to YouTube, pick any video, and double-click on the video, or click on the little fullscreen icon, and you’ll see that the video begins to get really slow, and choppy, from dropping frames."

"... this Firefox version, carries the code name "Namoroka" Alpha 1, and it is also currently referred to as Firefox.next. And like other Firefox Alphas, it does not bare the Firefox logo. This release uses the Gecko 1.9.2 engine and will likely include several interface improvements in later versions, such as new graphical tab-switching behavior, which was removed from 3.5 with Beta 2."

"I can not believe how many people think Ubuntu’s brown, Ubuntu is not brown! It’s ORANGE! Go ahead, if you’re running Ubuntu right now, open Nautilus and compare the title-bar color to the different shades of orange to the left."

"A lot of people say calling Debian, Fedora, or Slackware, GNU/Linux opposed to calling it Linux, makes it harder to explain to people. An example, Bob could tell Sarah “You should use Fedora. It will work with your hardware, it’s fast, and it’s free” and Sarah might ask “What’s Fedora?” and Bob would tell her “It’s Linux.” and Sarah will understand. Wrong."

"Author’s Choice of Terminology License. Rationale, hardly, but a few points I’d like to write about. I originally thought it was all about restricting the user to call the operating system GNU/Linux. ... I found interesting. Because section 4 of the GNU GPL version 3 doesn’t restrict sub-licensing with the GPL."

Just finished watching “Revolution OS” again, after a year or more. I still can’t believe that with all the work the GNU Project put into the GNU operating system, that Linus Torvalds could come along, with a Kernel of all things, and take the credit away from the Free Software Foundation, and thus, also taking away the credit from the X.Org, Apache, etc. developers.

[Cue flamethrowers and asbestos undies... - Sander]

Now, some of you — free/open-source software enthusiasts — may have seen such posts back and forth between Bryan Lunduke — from “The Linux Action Show” — and the “Linux Hater” — from his lame blog (in his own words) — let me analyze this for a second.

"I found this on Reddit and I was amazed nobody is talking about it over here. Well the site http://www.hmrgroup.co.uk/ is been using this logo which is strictly forbidden by the Ubuntu trademark policy..."

"As with the last Firefox 3.5 (formerly known as Firefox 3.1) beta, there's improvements to the private browsing mode, the performance has increased, pages render faster, pages with JavaScript code run much faster, with the new Tracemonkey engine. And a few major improvements."

Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Macintosh operating systems have software built-in necessary for tracking and reporting usage statistics. Thankfully GNU/Linux doesn’t include such software. But, we also can’t see what kind of market share GNU/Linux holds. So, I want to share with everyone, a way to tell when GNU/Linux has entered the mainstream. It’s called “The Simpsons Test.” We’ve all probably seen the episode of The Simpsons “The Burns and the Bees” Here’s how it works...

I personally hope that the Conficker/Downup/Downadup/Kido computer worm — that surfaced in October 2008 and targets the Microsoft Windows operating system, that activates on April 1st — shows Windows users just how insecure the Windows operating system is, and how slow Microsoft is to react to it, and “patch” it. ... businesses stop production because of this worm ... become spam websites, displaying advertisements and sending out thousands of spam and denial of service emails. ... GNU/Linux might actually become mainstream, maybe even over night.

As with the last Firefox 3.1 beta, there's improvements to the private browsing mode, the performance has increased, pages render faster, pages with JavaScript code run much faster, with the new Tracemonkey engine. Use of operating system sounds. 93/100 on the Acid 3 test. "Add Tab" button, Many extensions for Firefox 3.0 are already compatible with Firefox 3.1 beta 3.

For those of you whom use GNU/Linux, you might know of a little program called Cinelerra. Cinelerra is free software, licensed on the GNU General Public License. Some of you may have seen this video on YouTube… If not, you should watch it, and then continue reading on. Here is the video I’ll be working with…

Free software is great. Almost everyone using a computer will agree. If it's Firefox, AVG, GIMP, Cinelerra, or GNU/Linux as the entire operating system itself. People agree it's great. With these four programs being among the best, and most used. How much would you pay for these programs if they weren't free? Here is our personal answer to that question.