"Chromium developers have started porting Chromium to X11 alternatives
such as Wayland. Tiago Vignatti sent a message to the freedesktop
mailing list, 'Today we are launching publicly Ozone-Wayland, which is
the implementation of Chromium's Ozone for supporting Wayland graphics
system. Different projects based on Chromium/Blink like the Chrome
browser, ChromeOS, among others can be enabled now using Wayland.'"
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/07/2212245
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hi there
Came across this post regarding the Raspberry Pi as PVR:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=18090
The tutorial is for the "Digital Now TinyUSB2 DVB-T" card. However,
further down in that thread, it is also mentioned that the "Hauppauge
WinTV MiniStick (DVB-T tuner)" can be used as well:
http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview.asp?partid=8604
I might look into this at some stage, as recording TV is currently the
only feature that I miss from my Raspberry Media Center. :-)
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"France's National Gendarmerie — the national law enforcement agency —
is now running 37,000 desktop PCs with a custom distribution of Linux,
and by summer of 2014, the agency plans to switch over all 72,000 of
its desktop machines. The agency claims that the TCO of open source
software is about 40 percent less than proprietary software from
Microsoft, referring to their article published by EU's
Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations. Initially
Gendarmerie has moved to Windows versions of cross-platform OSS
applications such as OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird. Now they
are completing the process by changing the OS. This is one of the
largest known government deployments of Linux on the desktop."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/10/03/185235
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"It's been over a week since Barry Kauler announced his retirement
(again) and the Puppy project's future is now very unclear. Saying
Woof and Puppy are now in "maintenance mode," where essential fixes
are made, Kauler stated no new features or releases will be planned.
Instead, he'd like to develop for the Ubuntu phone."
-- source: http://ostatic.com/blog/puppy-project-in-peril-as-founder-retires
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
'The enterprise software and hardware company has unveiled the
"DukePad," a tablet powered by a Raspberry Pi and JavaSE Embedded 8.
It's not actually for sale, but Oracle described it a few days ago in
a technical keynote at its JavaOne conference and posted all the
details on the OpenJDKWiki. In addition to providing instructions,
open source software, and pointers to the necessary hardware, Oracle
said it is "working with suppliers to make available pre-made kits
that can be more easily assembled."'
-- source: http://bit.ly/14MAWjj
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"SimpleScreenRecorder is a Qt screen recorder for Linux which, despite
its name, comes with more features than other similar tools. The
application is very easy to use and the default settings should be
enough for most cases, so usually you won't need to change any
settings."
-- source: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/simplescreenrecorder-powerful-screen.html
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Select to copy and middle-click to paste. That's very convenient
usability feature associated with UNIX graphical environments. But it
is confusing for new users, so the ability to middle-click paste was
briefly removed from GNOME 3.10. It was restored few days later, but
with clear message: middle-click paste will be permanently removed
from next GNOME version."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/09/24/1252243
Man, that's one of my favorite feature!!
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
