Desktop / Graphics
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GIMP User Manual 0.12 Released
After three months of hard work we are proud to announce a new release of the user manual for GIMP 2.2.
- New content (incl. spelling and grammar fixes) for German, French, Italian,…
The missing link in mainstream desktop Linux adoption
Well, in fact, there isn’t one missing link. But in this FOSSwire article, I’m going to look at one major issue standing in the way of getting desktop Linux any serious market share. And that is…
Blender 2.43 Released
Blender is an open source tool for 3D-modeling, rigging, animation, fluid and object simulation and rendering. All of that and some more, in under 15MB. Check out their website and this great…
X.Org community releases X11R7.2
The X.Org community is proud to announce the release of X11R7.2, the third modular release of the X Window System.
X11R7.2 supports Linux, BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and GNU Hurd…
Xfce 4.4.0 Released
After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.4.0 has just been released. Xfce 4.4 features new tools such as the much awaited Thunar file manager as well as several huge improvements of its…
What’s Really Happening With Linux On The Desktop?
IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, today announced that LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit will deliver compelling conference content that will address one of the hottest…
Some unpleasant X.org vulnerabilities
iDefense Lab security researchers discovered that the expressions computing the parameters for ALLOCATE_LOCAL() in those functions are using client-provided value in an expression that is subject…
The year of the Linux desktop
You'll see these words in more than one article penned by the pundits. Every year since about 2003 has been called the year of the Linux desktop - and then, when that fails to transpire, those who…
The Linux desktop is dead
Linux is unlikely ever to be a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows on the desktop for corporate IT departments, according to leading CIOs.
Just this week new research by the National…
Linux desktop grows up, eyes corporate users
"People have to justify Windows to get it, and even then I challenge them a bit," said Dave Jenkins, Backcountry.com's chief technology officer. Nearly 70% of the online retailer's 200 or so…