En tant que contributeur à divers logiciels libres, j’en ai marre de voir comment ils sont traités dans la « presse » en ligne. J’ai procrastiné un mois sur la publication de ce billet: le rédiger me prend déjà toute ma motivation pour combattre le sentiment de DonQuichottude par rapport au phénomène, surtout lorsque je crains d’être fustigé pour ce qui pourrait être perçu comme une attaque personnelle envers les sites de nouvelles que je vais citer plus bas.
Category Archives: Linux
Fedora 18: now keyboard-friendly to everybody
It is fashionable these days, especially for the Slashdot crowd, bloggers, kernel hackers and other people depending on “feature X that has not fully polished”, to throw mud at the efforts that have been made towards redesigning the Fedora Linux installer.
The new GStreamer SDK is out, with Android support
Time flies! It’s been only a few months since the first release, and yet my pals at Collabora and Fluendo have just announced the availability of another major release of the GStreamer Software Development Kit.
Lightworks is not anywhere close to open-source
I’ve seen everybody hail Lightworks as the messiah that will make all other open source video editors irrelevant. So far, I didn’t blog about this (because frankly, life’s too short to be pessimistic, and I was also quite curious as to how it would play out and wanted to give EditShare the benefit of the doubt—after all, I’m a fan of video editing software in general).
PulseAudio 2.0 + Empathy = awesome
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for months. You may remember me being a fan of SFLphone. Well, turns out that for the past year, I’ve been using only Empathy to do my VoIP calls. All you need to do is install telepathy-rakia to have SIP support (and then you can use Ctrl+M to start dialing a number). Even though Empathy is not perfect, I like it: it’s a standard component of the GNOME desktop, it uses GStreamer and PulseAudio, and it keeps getting better every six months.
Le SSD du pauvre
Un de mes amis possède encore son netbook Dell Mini 9. Or, il y a un an ou deux, le SSD bon marché à l’intérieur a rendu l’âme (même le BIOS voit le disque dur comme étant de capacité 0 MB).
Investigating Liferea’s startup performance
Fedora pour un habitué d’Ubuntu, prise deux
Vous vous souviendrez peut-être de la première tentative un peu infructueuse, suivie de mon désenchantement envers Ubuntu/Canonical m’ayant amené à sérieusement réévaluer Fedora 15 comme plateforme de choix pour être à la pointe des avancées de GNOME et de Linux en général.
Dissent on Novacut
On Planet Ubuntu today, I’ve seen an interesting take on the Novacut project. You don’t often get to see someone have the guts to stand up and say these things.
The glorious history of FLOSS video editors
In case you have been living under a rock and have not seen my talk at LGM this year, you have probably missed this important piece of information: