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you mean this?

If you need 16 or 32 bits/channel now you may use cinepaint, a fork of GIMP. It is also available as Darwin/Fink/X11 Mac port.

It would be nice to see ODE integrated into Blender instead of SOLID. ODE is a complete dynamics simulator, not just a collision detector.

Maybe SOLID should be replaced by a ODE/OPCODE combination - but that would be incompatible with the existing blender games.

>> and win98se for games

Bochs for the old dos games, and Wine for new ones (like, counter strike or warcraft 3 --ok, not so *new* ones) and you're free of the windows 98 price tag and dual boot

But there's a huge benefit to this tech-race. More digital cameras. People with them, use them a lot more than they did with film. No cost to take, no cost to view, low cost to print or mail. I wrote an open-source project to make building galleries free-and-easy (primarily for my family initially, see it at Picture Pager on SourceForge) and that too is a benefit of digitals... they gain from the open source world.

So the only downside of 8MP cameras is that they're the Ferraris or Porsches of consumer-land. They push the technology, in a few years us mere mortals will benefit, but serious drivers and photographers benefit, at least slightly, now while bearing the hefty early-adopter price.

It would be nice to see ODE integrated into Blender instead of SOLID. ODE is a complete dynamics simulator, not just a collision detector.

SOLID is a nice library, but its license terms are still unfriendly to commercial products. The author wants a couple thousand dollars to license it for even a shareware game, which is just silly when ODE is free under a BSD-style license. ODE's collision subsystem isn't quite as, well, solid as SOLID, but it's good enough for many applications.

Curious. After I've set up my workstation, I've never even had to mess with the control panel again.

Sure, the default setup is bad. The Panel (not the control panel, the taskbar-cum-start-menu thing) is a mess, Keramik is a classic exercise in bad taste, and I don't particularly like those icons.

I moved the Panel to the top, got rid of the taskbar - replacing it with the wonderful KTicker, who keeps me up with Slashdot news when I can't waste the time, and watches for my keywords in other RDF sources - changed the buttons to submenus with the tools I need, and added a quickbrowser.

The quickbrowser is a bliss. This should have been the default interface for browsing files since the beginning. I have my work files organized by directories (that can be created on the fly when saving'em), and gretl my way into academic fame. For text editing, I use LyX.

Did I mention I love the PIM tools? My screen's always chock full of KNote yellow-stickers, TeaCooker helps me not to burn food, and Korganizer helps me not to forget deadlines.

I mean, except for LyX and gretl, these tools are all standard in a KDE install. You can imagine what the optionals are. I'm just dropping out of an underpaid internship where I had to do some work with Windows, and it was just a pain after experiencing KDE.

Sad but true - Linux excels precisely in UI, though it loses in performance and hardware support and other things they've boasted.

This was not mentioned in the thread above, but seems to be a very interesting contender: "St. Petersburg Linux" (SPB Linux) -- a USB Key based Linux distribution (the latest beta uses Kernel 2.6).

Another distro I have seen mentioned - flonix - has done from a non-commercial to a commercial one: http://www.flonix.com - with it's USB key based solution not available freely.

Says I don't have real installed, and I do have realplayer installed.

Kile, the KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment, is a pretty powerful LaTeX IDE for KDE. It has toolbars and menus that will be of major assistance, and has commands that automate certain things, like creating a skeletal structure for your document.

Of course, you'll need more than that--an IDE can't teach you everything. I particularly like this LaTeX tutorial--it was the first one I found when I first started learning LaTeX a little over a year ago, and it's pretty good for starting one off.

If you want 16 bit/channel support, use CinePaint . I think this used to be referred to as Film-Gimp.

I'm an artist who codes, and I hate it when people assume people like me don't exist. (Or that we're not "real coders" or "real artists.") It's extremely depressing, especially given the fact that back in the 60s and 70s, any artist working with technology (such as early computers and video systems) was practically assumed to be a hacker. In those days, if you wanted a unique image, you had to either break out the punch cards or the soldering iron.

Now we have software that fills most people's needs. But sadly, these days people don't realize how influenced and constrained they are by their tools. Just look at Flash, and how it coerces you into an aesthetic. And when people run into limitations, it just never occurs to them to create their own tools or plugins.

As a die-hard Mac user, I started writing After Effects plugins seven or eight years ago, and since then I've created fast-selling commercial tools, proprietary tools and several artware projects. As someone who went to one of the country's top art schools, I consider myself equal parts artist and coder.

And I'm not alone. Artists involved with the high-end of the computer graphics world (that is, people in visual effects) love OSX and Linux. Most of the big FX houses have switched to a pipeline that relies heavily on Linux, and the largest firms have tons of proprietary technology. On the other end of the spectrum, software-as-art (or "artware") is an exploding field, and tons of very visually-minded people are exploring software as an expressive venue. Here in Chicago we have the Version festival (Version04) which celebrates NewMedia and artware, and similar events, groups and artists exist worldwide.

As someone who runs primarily OSX (along with Linux and *ugg* XP for professional reasons), I find Gimp2 to be interesting but still too half-baked. On the other hand, Cinepaint, which began as a hacked version of the Gimp, is a good reason for an artist to dip into the X11 side of things. With support for 16bit integer, 16bit float and 32bit float, you can work with film, deep photos, HDR -- and navigate image sequences really easily.

Now, all of that said, there is NO excuse for a bad UI. But don't assume that all artists are good GUI designers -- user interface is more of a cognitive science problem than an artistic problem. And the Gimp could use some concentrated work in that area...

"CinePaint is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry -- used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films." -- CinePaint

Some of the things CinePaint has that the GIMP lacks:

• 8/16/32-bits of color per channel (up to 128-bits RGBA)
• a more Photoshop-like interface
• widely used by professionals (Sony Pictures Imageworks, Hammerhead Productions, Rhythm & Hues), not just geeks and hobbyists
• a respectable name ;-)
• developers and sponsers from motion picture studios

Also, CMYK support is coming soon. BTW, I'm not a pro user of Photoshop, the GIMP, or CinePaint. I learned about CinePaint from these Slashdot stories:

Linux In Hollywood: Status Report

Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint

Some of the things CinePaint has that the GIMP lacks:

• 8/16/32-bits of color per channel (up to 128-bits RGBA)
• a more Photoshop-like interface
• widely used by professionals (Sony Pictures Imageworks, Hammerhead Productions, Rhythm & Hues), not just geeks and hobbyists
• a respectable name ;-)
• developers and sponsers from motion picture studios

Also, CMYK support is coming soon. BTW, I'm not a pro user of Photoshop, the GIMP, or CinePaint. I learned about CinePaint from these Slashdot stories:

Linux In Hollywood: Status Report

Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint

Inkscape, from the website, looks good. It is an open source, cross-platform vector graphics tool. While vector graphics is a niche market (back in the day it was supposed to be the next great thing but that never happened) I actually have a use for a cross-platform vector graphics program. Thank you for mentioning it.

before I get persuaded to use Gimp again for my photography projects, I would need --in addition to the author's peeves -- full 16-bit per channel support, high-quality scanning/printing drivers with integrated GUI (a'la SilverFast), and a 'crop and rotate' feature (as seen in PS/PSE)

Sounds like you want to check out CinePaint (the project formerly known as film gimp).

CinePaint supports 16-bit and even 32-bit color per channel.

Or better still, ffmpeg (the "libavcodec" and "libavformat" libraries that are components of ffmpeg are also used by mplayer/mencoder, so adding them there will 'automatically' add them to MPlayer, as well as other projects, at the same time.)

I really wish the Theora project would quit grinding to a near halt after every reluctant release...they're now, what, nearly 2 years behind their original schedule to go "beta"? (The Theora mailing list has gone 'dead' again...)

The "handout" linked at the BBC site says that they intend to use the "MXF" file format (for streaming applications), and that MPlayer has "some support" for MXF, though of course without the codec supported, that doesn't mean much.

I wonder how Theora/VP3 and Dirac compare in quality? Anyone know if Dirac will be relatively easy to incorporate into Ogg files/streams (and conversely Theora into MXF streams?)

I notice Dirac is based on wavelets - is it related to Tarkin (Xiph's even-deader-than-Theora, purely experimental wavelet-based video codec)?

No, that is not the point. You know what I do if I want to install gimp?

apt-get install gimp

you know it's pretty much that easy in os x too. just visit http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ After downloading the gimp-2.0.dmg file, you drag Gimp.app to /Applications and just double click it! the only pre-requirement is you need X11 installed. that's IT. not too bad.

The codec source code is licensed under dual MPL/GPL licenses.

Actually, it appears to be triple licensed, under GPL, LGPL, and MPL.

At least, that's what it says on its Sourceforge site.

I set up a similar setup for my fiancee so that she could see me at work and get a smile by getting to see my picture. (she lives in another state and we don't get to see each other that often) The utility that I use is a fantastic open source tool called Dorgem.

It has text overlays, transparent graphic overlays, motion detection, automatic capture, ftp upload, and most text fields can use replacements like %dd, %hh, %mm, etc etc etc to insert the date, the time, or various other things. You can even read from a file and have it overlay the title of the current song playing in Winamp.

I didn't notice any features in their screen captures of TinCam that weren't filled in Dorgem.

Cheers!
--Clint

They have this now. It's called Freenet

For windows and linux at least, dc++ is a better solution. download

Not so on Linux... typing "apt-get install foo" is propably the most user-friendly method around, but it requires configuring and using apt from commandline (bad), and it's only avaible on Debian (which I personally don't like... but that's just my taste).

I don't disagree with you about install methods, but you're mistaken about apt. I have used apt on both SuSE http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ and RedHat http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/ with great success. It's still not perfect, but it's better than tracking down each and every rpm by hand.

You're seeming to neglect just how large the open source community is. For every project you listed above as being well thought out, I could list a dozen more. However, the vast majority of open source projects *are* ill conceived and thrown together with little or no thought given to structure. For a very large sample that follows this norm just browse around freshmeat and sourceforge for awhile.

MUTE would be a great application for filesharing on the Internet2 !

http://mute-net.sourceforge.net

With Aegis the baseline code "always" works; it has to pass all the build tests to become baseline.

You can't add a new feature without first defining a test for it to pass, you can't fix a bug without defining a test that the old baseline failed and the new baseline passes.

So marketing can walk up and say "release now" or "add these features" and you can do either. But you can't "release these features now" because the system won't let you.

When marketing say "release now" they can only have the bits that work. And when they say "add these features" they can only get those features when they work.

Sam

Here is a story about the group Hezbollah using a game based on the open source genesis3d game engine. It is called special forces, link HERE

The only development happens at: http://iportage.sourceforge.net/

The Gentoo guys are just sitting on the patches ?

Performs on-the-fly syntax checks of the files being edited using the external syntax check tool (usually the compiler). Highlights erroneous lines and displays associated error messages.

try XScorch or Atomic Tanks

http://porthole.sourceforge.net/


http://www.nongnu.org/kportage/

I would like to draw Slashdot readers' attention to the GNU/Liberty Basic Compiler Collection as a free alternative to proprietary implementations.

> What's it about?

Download the 80min presentation for USC Cinema-Television. Many of the concepts for the project are detailed in that seminar audio. This is an anti-violent project dedicated at tackling some pretty difficult content, from the perspective of an outcast.

> "Doom for Columbine" doesn't immediately strike me as an appropriate name.

I think it fits, as the project is about Columbine and the project is dedicated to the victims.

You wish is my command. Here's the source code plus there's a PALM version at the bottom of the list. In case you want to type it in yourself, SmallBASIC accepts traditional BASIC syntax. Someone event did a SmallBASIC port of Super Star Trek for you!

You wish is my command. Here's the source code plus there's a PALM version at the bottom of the list. In case you want to type it in yourself, SmallBASIC accepts traditional BASIC syntax. Someone event did a SmallBASIC port of Super Star Trek for you!

There is a linux for iPod project on SourceForge. There is also some screenshots available.

There is a linux for iPod project on SourceForge. There is also some screenshots available.

The only working client I've actually found is one2ohmygod which is a java client. Works really nicely.

I added a song download button (see the project page's feature request forum for my crumby patch) and if and when my flatmates start upgrading to the new itunes, I'll add itunes new auth support (if someone else doesn't first).

Yes, the name sucks, but the client works nicely :)

That would be cool.
But then they can't include VBA .. fine.
Use Gambas or StarOffice Basic instead (if that is allowed)
I am a Corel Enthusiast - shame it crashed no end .. it was a love/hate affair.

The only problem with TerraTerm and Terraterm SSH is that they don't support SSH2. A *real* bummer. I use Console for a nice frontend to cmd on XP, and ssh windows. Full cmd line support, without the full cygwin install. If something strange happens, I'll grab the newest version of the cygwin1.dll file, which usually fixes any issues that I'm having.

The only problem with TerraTerm and Terraterm SSH is that they don't support SSH2. A *real* bummer. I use Console for a nice frontend to cmd on XP, and ssh windows. Full cmd line support, without the full cygwin install. If something strange happens, I'll grab the newest version of the cygwin1.dll file, which usually fixes any issues that I'm having.

Gr. I prove myself wrong again. I just found some non-Gecko XUL implementations.

Portal to XUL -- link repository for XUL and XUL-like things.

What kinf of PDA is yours? A PalmOS-based one? I'm using JPluck and Plucker to download Slashdot (among other sites) and read it offline on my Tungsten E. It works perfectly and they both are free software.

Why poke his eye out when you can make him see the light?

Hint: iPods do run linux. Yay.

It is a work in progress though, and it would require tons of work to implement things right.

http://mute-net.sourceforge.net

It protects your privacy and makes it hard for anyone to know where a file is coming from. You do sacrifice some speed for privacy, but you can't have everything.

There's versions for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

And just a suggestion, if you really want your privacy, you better start running Linux.

(and the text based xfer is base 64 so it adds about 1/8 extra data to a file and allows packets to pass through other nodes easily since everything is passed within the network protocol)

http://mute-net.sourceforge.net
There's versions for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

http://mute-net.sourceforge.net

It protects your privacy and makes it hard for anyone to know where a file is coming from. You do sacrifice some speed for privacy, but you can't have everything.

There's versions for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

And just a suggestion, if you really want your privacy, you better start running Linux.