Graphics vendor embraces new reality in Linux graphics

Integrate graphical information beside the data it represents with conditional formatting and sparklines.

The Laidout graphic application simplifies the design of books and booklets.

The Free Font Movement is transforming free software, one character at a time.

You don’t always need a full-fledged YouTube or Flickr clone to share videos or images. Sometimes all you want is a quick place to upload, so you can link to your media or share it online. MediaCrush gives you just that, as well as some more interesting perks.

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.

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.

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