Andy Wingo: embracing conway's law
Most of you have heard of "Conway's Law", the pithy observation that the structure of things that people build reflects the social structure of the people that build them. The extent to which there is...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Pitivi 0.95 — Enfant Suisse
Hey everyone! It’s time for a new Pitivi release, 0.95. This one packs a lot of bugfixes and architectural work to further stabilize the GES backend. In this blog post, I’ll give you an overview of the...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Inking an old friend
When I was young, I read a lot of comic books. One of my favorite séries was Cubitus:Over fifteen years ago, Michel Grant, a local comic book artist passionate about teaching, made a quick sketch of...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Core, Plugins, RTSP Server, Editing Services, Python...
Pre-built binary images of the 1.6.1 stable release of GStreamer are now available for Windows 32/64-bit, iOS and Mac OS X and Android. The builds are available for download from: Android, iOS, Mac OS...
View ArticleGStreamer: Official GStreamer GitHub mirror available
Due to popular demand in the past, we now have an official mirror of all GStreamer GIT repositories on GitHub: https://github.com/GStreamer. These are synced every 12-24 hours with the main...
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Bastien Nocera: Contents Apps Hackfest 2015
As you might already have noticed from the posts on Planet GNOME, and can find again on the hackfest's page, we spent some time in the MediaLab Prado discussing and hacking on Content...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Core, Plugins, RTSP Server, Editing Services, Python...
The GStreamer team is proud to announce the second bugfix release in the stable 1.6 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and it is...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: BBC Radio’s adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation...
Other than for self-improvement, I’m not a big fan of books (nor podcasts) in general, because of the big time investment required. THIS, however, is such an amazing masterpiece of a radio adaptation...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Core, Plugins, RTSP Server, Editing Services, Python...
Pre-built binary images of the 1.6.2 stable release of GStreamer are now available for Windows 32/64-bit, iOS and Mac OS X and Android. The builds are available for download from: Android, iOS, Mac OS...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Core, Plugins, RTSP Server, Editing Services, Python...
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the unstable 1.7 release series. The 1.7 release series is adding new features on top of the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of...
View ArticleArun Raghavan: A Quick Update
Happy 2016 everyone!While I did mention a while back (almost two years ago, wow) that I was taking a break, I realised recently that I hadn’t posted an update from when I started again.For the last...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: gom is now usable from JavaScript/gjs
Prodded by me while I snoozed on his sofa and with his cat warming me up, a day before the Content Applications hackfest, Florian Müllner started working on fixing a long-standing gjs bug that made it...
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Bastien Nocera: Support for "Airplane mode" keys
As we were working on audio jack notifications, and were wondering whether the type of notification we'd pop up in this case could be reused in othercases, I encountered a feature request that could...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: the half strap: self-hosting and guile
or, "why does building guile take so friggin long"Happy new year's, hackfolk! I don't know about y'all, but I'm feeling pretty good about 2016. Let's make some cool stuff!Today's article is about Guile...
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Arun Raghavan: Audio Devices and Configuration
This one’s going to be a bit of a long post. You might want to grab a cup of coffee before you jump in!Over the last few years, I’ve spent some time getting PulseAudio up and running on a few...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice...
A couple of weeks I visited my mother back home in Norway. She had gotten a new laptop some time ago that my brother-in-law had set up for her. As usual when I come for a visit I was asked to look at...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Fedora Workstation Next Steps: Wayland and Graphics
So I realized I hadn’t posted a Wayland update in a while. So we are still making good progress on Wayland, but the old saying that the last 10% is 90% of the work is definitely true here. So there was...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Fedora Workstation update
So as we quickly approach the Fedora Workstation 23 release I been running Wayland exclusively for over a week now. Despite a few glitches it now works well enough for me to not have to switch back...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Fedora Workstation 23 and LibreOffice
Another major piece of engineering that I have covered that we did for Fedora Workstation 23 is the GTK3 port of LibreOffice. Those of you who follow Caolán McNamaras blog are probably aware of the...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: The Steam Machines has arrived! And you should get one!
So yesterday, the 10th of November, was the official launch day of the Steam Machines. The hardware are meant to be dedicated game machines for the living room taking advantage of the Steam ecosystem,...
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