NVIDIA Drops Xf86-video-nv Support: No Open Source for New Cards
Mar 30, 2010Andy Ritger, NVIDIA manager responsible for the Linux graphics cards, as announced on the X.org mailing list that the graphics chip company will no longer develop the open source 2D video drivers for its chips. He recommends using the VESA X driver instead.
more »Braindump Brings Ideas to Computer
Mar 19, 2010KDE developer Cyrille Berger now provides his Braindump whiteboard program in its first public release. The GPL software is based on KOffice technology.
more »Adobe Updates Reader and Acrobat to Address Security Problems
Jan 13, 2010Adobe has put its attention to solving the vulnerability problems in its PDF Reader and Acrobat software.
more »Clutter 1.1.4 Understands OpenGL Better
Jan 06, 2010On the way to GNOME 2.30 and Moblin 2.2, the Clutter project has released a new developers snapshot version of its 3D toolkit with many improved details.
more »Digikam 1.0 on Time for Christmas
Dec 22, 2009DigiKam main developer Gilles Caulier has released version 1.0 of the KDE photo management software just in time for Christmas 2009.
more »Opera 10.10 Unite! File sharing with Opera 10.10 Unite
Dec 21, 2009Version 10.10 of the Opera web suite lets you put a server in your browser.
more »Nouveau Driver Comes to Kernel 2.6.33
Dec 15, 2009Good news for anyone with a NVIDIA graphics card: the Nouveau driver goes into Kernel 2.6.33 and supports DRM.
more »Graphics Application Krita Gets Photoshop Import
Dec 03, 2009Following the release of KOffice 2.1, developers of the free office suite met last weekend in Norway's Oslo. Among them were the five strong team from Krita.
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