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This week at LWN: Maemo Summit 2009: Fremantle, Harmattan, and N900

This article was contributed by Nathan Willis Nokia's second annual Maemo Summit brought together 400 developers and power users of the Linux-based tablet community in Amsterdam over the October 9-11 weekend. Maemo Community Manager Quim Gil said the ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, LXer,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Quim (footballer),  Intel,  Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Fast labels and Card layout with Gimplabels

Akkana Peck’s Gimplabels is a set of scripts for the Gimp image editor that make creating labels and business cards a snap. A .tar package is available on the Web site, but the contents are simply a Gimp script named labels.scm and the utilities needed ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, LXer,  23 Oct 2009

Home Automation with Linux

Home automation may sound like a science-fiction dream, but in reality it is not only commonplace, but relatively simple to get started, especially with Linux. Smart control of household appliances and utilities begins at the low end with ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, LXer,  17 Oct 2009

This week at LWN: Tornado and Grand Central Dispatch: a quick look

for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { printf("%u\n",i); } which could be expressed as a block ready for GCD as follows: dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0); dispatch_apply(count, queue, ^(size_t i) { ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, LXer,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  FriendFeed,  Yahoo!,  Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc

This week at LWN: Developing applications "Quickly"

quickly command [options] It has commands that create a new project, start an editing session, package it, make a public release, and so on. quickly create ubuntu-project myapp Quickly then creates a ./myapp directory, and fills it with: bin/ ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, LXer,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Ars Technica

This week at LWN: Toward a long-term SUSE-based distribution

This article was contributed by Nathan Willis A group of SUSE Linux users put plans in motion last week to create a free, community-managed server distribution that maintains compatibility with Novell's enterprise offerings, but guarantees the ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, LXer,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Red Hat, Inc.

Free Desktop Publishing with Scribus

Scribus is the leading open source solution for desktop publishing (DTP); it supports professional features like press-ready color separations and PDF output, as well as every media file type under the sun. With Scribus you can design high-end ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, LXer,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Labels from the command line with LabelNation

Ever tire of laying out a sheet of address labels in OpenOffice.org or Word templates when you’re in a hurry? Karl Fogel’s LabelNation may be able to help. It is a small free software tool that whips out printer-ready label layouts from the command ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, LXer,  27 Aug 2009

Intuition

He still couldn't shake the previous night's dream. He had been worried for a while, thinking that's what was going on, but the dream made it all too real. He saw them, heard them. It was too intense. He had to find out for sure. He had to know the ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, Associated Content,  29 Jul 2009

This week at LWN: Transmageddon and Arista pursue simple transcoding

This article was contributed by Nathan Willis Christian Schaller's Transmageddon and Daniel Taylor's Arista are both easy-to-use video file conversion tools for GNOME, but they share more than just a vision for simple file transcoding. Rather than ...

From NATHAN WILLIS, LXer,  4 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Daniel Taylor,  RPM, Inc.

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