Free Culture in Evolution: Openclipart and The Open Font Library Openclipart and The Open Font Library

Nov 19, 2013

Compared with free software, free culture is often overlooked; however, once you start looking around the Openclipart and Open Font Library sites – two of the oldest and most successful free culture sites – you soon start to realize that free culture has evolved right alongside free software, providing free content to use with free tools.

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2D Animation Tools Simply Moving

Nov 19, 2013

With the right tool and a bit of artistic talent, you can create two-dimensional cartoons, even without Flash. In this article, we present four animation programs and look at how well they perform in practice.

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Canonical: Mir Isn't Quite Ready

Oct 07, 2013

Ubuntu's replacement for the X graphics system will have to wait for a later release.

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Canonical Ditches Wayland for Mir

Jul 15, 2013

Canonical ditches Wayland for a brand new graphics stack.

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3D Molecular Visualizer Four 3D molecular visualizers compared

May 31, 2013

Modern chemistry and biochemistry are hard to understand without 3D models. In this article, we look at programs that bring order to the chaos of connected atoms by arranging them in functional sections and in three dimensions.

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Fine Art HDR Processing Luminance HDR offers top-notch high dynamic range imaging

May 31, 2013

Processing images with a high dynamic range – that is, an image with a wide range of values between its bright and dark areas – is possible with open source Luminance HDR.

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Is Wayland the New X? Looking into the Future of Display Server Protocols

Mar 25, 2013

Display server expert Daniel Stone explains what is really happening with the future of graphical display protocols on Linux.

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Exploring Red Hat’s Flavor Enhancer SPICE

Jan 15, 2013

Red Hat peps up performance of multimedia applications on remote desktops with SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments).

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