The GIMP UI Redesign

"The GIMP UI Redesign Team has created a blog to collect ideas for a new design of the most popular image manipulation program. Everyone is free to submit suggestions to be published in the blog.…

Linuxlookup Weekly Wrap-up for Sept 15 2007

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Microsoft and Novell Open Interoperability Lab

- EVE Online to…

SCO Files for Bankruptcy

The SCO Group, Inc., a leading provider of UNIX software technology and mobile services, today announced that it filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States…

Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML

"Google welcomes the ISO decision to not approve the fast track of Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed standard DIS 29500 (ECMA 376). Our engineers conducted an independent analysis of the OOXML…

Wine 0.9.45 Released

Many improvements to the crypto dlls (should make iTunes work), the usual assortment of Direct3D improvements, a number of fixes to sound support, many more WordPad features and lots of bug fixes…

Linux's Free System Is Now Easier to Use, but not for everyone

"This column is written for mainstream, nontechie users of digital technology. These folks aren't necessarily novices, and they aren't afraid of computers. They also aren't stupid. They simply…

GTK+ 2.12.0 Released

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application…

Adobe Reader 8.1.1 Released

"We're pleased to announce the release of Adobe Reader 8.1.1 on Linux and Sparc Solaris. This release comes packed with scores of new tools and features and improvements in the user interface and…

Fedora 8 Test 2

A veritable "sea" of choices await you in this release. First up is the "Fedora" installable 'choose your own adventure' style set of isos and trees for i386, x86_64, and ppc(64). Next up we…

Ubuntu Technical Board votes on Compiz for Ubuntu 7.10

The Ubuntu Technical Board voted yesterday to ship Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy") with Compiz enabled by default. Although Compiz has been featured in Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe prerelesases, the board has had…