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Since the GIMP edits JPEG images superbly but obliterates their IPTC metadata captions, and gThumb, my main image editor of the past three years, outputs horrible resized images in version 3.0.1 in Debian Wheezy, I need a new image editing application.

Thu Aug 9 22:34:59 UTC 2012 ... So, here's a bunch of updates that fix all of the reported issues in the beta, and we'll call this the 14.0 release candidate 1.

XWayland, the implementation that allows for X11 applications to run inside Wayland by running a root-less X.Org Server, will be talked about next month for possible upstreaming in the X.Org Server...

A number of updates were published this morning to the OpenBenchmarking.org live server...

While lately I've been busy with trying out the Retina MacBook Pro under Linux, which has been a big problem and I'm not recommending the rMBP for Linux users at this time (more details soon), it looks like the new MacBook Air might also have some Linux woes. Outside of Apple, the Sony Vaio Z Ivy Bridge laptop also has some Linux problems of its own...

Prior to commencing the weekend, the Enlightenment crew released a new round of alpha releases for EFL 1.7...

Which is most popular Desktop Environment on Ubuntu? Check out an analysis of real data to know usage pattern of Ubuntu users.

In the week ending 11 August - the CDE desktop was open sourced, plans were made for GNOME OS, Linux Mint forked Nautilus, and Damn Small Linux reappeared. Also, Digia acquired Qt from Nokia and LibreOffice 3.6.0 arrived

Following the news shared today that Ubuntu's delayed their Wayland System Compositor adoption from Ubuntu 12.10 to at least Ubuntu 13.04 there was the more positive news that there's an updated third-party spin of an Ubuntu derivative running Wayland. This article has some more information on that new "RebeccaBlack OS" release along with screenshots that provide a glimpse of where the Wayland adoption is at today.

10 things to do after installing Fuduntu

An interview with RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady about his Linux setup. He's an Ubuntu user who dreams of a more functional cloud and sees a space for Linux to offer that kind of cloud integration.

The Microsoft-powered police surveillance system being installed in New York City is an impressive bit of innovation... The system, dubbed the Domain Awareness System (DAS), sounds like science fiction: Part Minority Report, part 1984. It connects thousands of security cameras in the city owned by the NYPD and private businesses, collecting and archiving up to 30 days worth of their archival footage at a time.

What a KDE does in a Gnome blog? Normally it gets FUD, but this time we are going to praise it! I got double hit from KDE yesterday. First by the awesome news that Digia Committed to Thriving Qt Ecosystem and secondly by trying Rebecca Black.

No doubt that they will eventually go mainstream, but for now, these boards are a hacker’s delight.

Banshee media player is one of Gnome’s most popular and important applications that ensures the seamless playback of audio and video files in harmony with the Gnome DE. Bertrand Lorentz who is one of the main developers, offered to give us a snapshot of what is going on right now for the project and what was discussed on the recent major conferences that he was present.

Ubuntu 12.10 will not be shipping with a Wayland-based system compositor as was once hoped for, but the experimental system compositor can be enabled from a PPA in a very primitive state.

A Plasma crash marred the experience for me, and there was nothing else outstanding to compensate for that.

Insync is a Google Drive client for Mac, Windows and mobile devices that recently got support for Linux (beta). Besides full sync support for Google's cloud storage service, Google Drive, which includes Google documents (unlike Grive) that it downloads as .doc, .xls, .ppt, etc., Insync for Linux also comes with Nautilus integration, tray / Ubuntu AppIndicator support that displays recent changes, errors and the sync status and support for multiple accounts.

I just pushed #RapidDisk release 2.4 to the git repo. The changelog can be found here: http://rapiddisk.org/index.php?title=Changelog

Based on the events of recent weeks, it very much looks like Microsoft is heading to make Windows a closed ecosystem (a la Apple). They want to make both the hardware and the OS and third-party applications can only be sold with their approval and only through their App Store (with a 30% commission to Microsoft).