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After LGM

I'm just back from LGM, at least not yet, I'm waiting for my train.

This conference has been extremely interesting. Scribus, Inkscape, The Gimp, hugin (and friends), Krita where amongst these tools that users really like. I'm still impressed seeing jimmac demoing how to use Inkscape. I tried to do the same I completely got lost ; and I'm passing on Gimping too. At least I got a book "Gimp 2 Efficace" (in French) to learn more. Thanks to the conference sponsor.

On the developer side, GEGL looks yummy. For now, I'm actually thinking letting it demosaic the Bayer CFA extracted from RAW file to concentrate on the other features. After all most applications are likely to be willing to provide their own (which is already part of the spec), so why bothering.

Krita looks very interesting, and to the question "Will it provide Corel Painter features?" the answer is "yes". See Boud's post.

Also amazing is how John Bintz and MenTaLguY show us their work flow to draw comics using Free Software on Linux. This involve Sane, Inkscape and some programming language for the automation to generate the final work.

Syndicated 2007-05-06 21:29:58 from Diary of a CrazyFrench

Wining numbers

Today's winning numbers are:

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

That could be your old-style GPG fingerprint. That could be something else.

See BoingBoing for a related story.

Syndicated 2007-05-02 13:30:20 from Diary of a CrazyFrench

Libre Graphics Meeting

I will be talking at the Libre Graphics Meeting this week-end in Montreal. See you there!

Syndicated 2007-04-30 22:49:38 from Diary of a CrazyFrench

Intel UMPC running Linux

I'm sure you didn't miss Intel MID, Intel's answer to the wave of UMPC and Internet Tablet. It features Linux, Matchbox and Hildon, all glued together with a distribution based on the Chinese RedFlag. But the more interesting thing is that the core chipset is based on a Pentium M and GMA945, which is much more horse power than, say, the Nokia 800.

Read more about it here, here, here

Now interesting challenge: while I'm sure it will be relatively easy to have AbiWord and Gnumeric running on it, like they already do on Maemo, but how about porting OpenOffice.org? Sure it will be contrived, but we have a 256MB of RAM, 500MB of storage and a 600-800MHz CPU based on a Pentium M (with half the cache on than the one found in laptops) which should be more than enough.

Syndicated 2007-04-19 00:56:14 from Diary of a CrazyFrench

WebKit with Cairo

Adobe, to be able to make their proprietary[1] platform for application developement, using Flash, did use the Open Source WebKit (that same HTML engin that Apple use for Safari, that is based on KHTML). The paradox is that to have WebKit work on Windows, they used Cairo as a backend. The good news is that Cairo is likely to get better and that WebKit using Cairo is likely to help greatly a Gtk based version.

Changes are available for people to use.

Notes

[1] in that case it is more about the silo than the code

Syndicated 2007-04-09 14:36:38 from Diary of a CrazyFrench

Visiting Prague

Monday I'll fly out to Prague for the week.

If you are there and wish to have some $BEVERAGE, you know the drill.

Syndicated 2007-04-08 17:11:37 from Diary of a CrazyFrench

A star is born!

Don't miss Dave Neary's interview on Linux.com.

Dave, in Kristiansen, Norway, during Guadec 2004

Syndicated 2007-03-30 21:18:52 from Diary of a CrazyFrench

exempi 0.5.1

I just released exempi 0.5.1. It adds a missing API and fix a serious bug that -Weffc++ revealed. And it also implement parsing structures.

Download .tar.gz - GPG Signature

If you want the SVN, help yourself. http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/niepce/trunk/exempi/

Submit a bug

Syndicated 2007-03-28 01:26:31 from Diary of a CrazyFrench

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