Open Source Color Management is broken
Since I am now in the business of photography and image processing (see my travel photography blog here), I thought
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What a GNU C Compiler Bug looks like
Back in December a Linux Mint user sent a strange bug report to the darktable mailing list. Apparently the GNU C Compiler (GCC) on his system exited with an unexpected error message, breaking the build process.
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Forgotten FOSS Games: Boson
In 1999 “Boson, our attempt to make a Real Time Strategy game (RTS) for the KDE project” was announced on the kde-announce mailing list. You don’t remember KDE having a full 3D RTS? Here’s why.
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How I sped up the PNG export in darktable using perf
I do a lot of photo editing nowadays, mostly for my travel blog over at One Man, One Map. I’ve always had the impression that the PNG export in darktable might be slower than it has to be, but it had become a real issue since I’ve upgraded my desktop PC to a six-core Ryzen 7 1600X CPU and an NVIDIA GTX 950 GPU.
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My Ubuntu for mobile devices post mortem analysis
Now that Ubuntu phones and tablets are gone, I would like to offer my thoughts on why I personally think the project failed and what one may learn from it.
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Google Summer of Code starts in four days, many open source project ideas still available
If you couldn’t find anything interesting in the 54 Google Summer of Code ideas by the KDE project, here’s some more.
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Free Software Foundation okay with new GitHub terms, but recommends other services
In a statement issued on March 14, 2017, the Free Software Foundation declares that the new GitHub Terms of Service don’t conflict with copyleft, but still recommends to use other hosting sites.
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Meet the “Cat Supremacy License” for software
A recent thread on the debian-curiosa mailing list brought up this license after a Debian ftpmaster rejected the braillegraph 0.1
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A look at the Year 2036/2038 problems and time proofness in various systems
On January 19, 2038 all signed 32-bit timestamps representing time and date relative to the “UNIX epoch” will roll over. Just 68 years later, in 2106, all unsigned 32-bit values will do so. But even before that, timestamps used by the Network Time Protocol will roll over in 2036. Since it’s only 19 years to Armageddon, I’ll lok at what this means for Linux, Windows and other systems and how problems are being solved.
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The KDE project has 54 ideas for Google Summer of Code
Google’s “Summer of Code” (GSoC) will be happening for the thirtheenth time this year, and the KDE project is yet again one of the 201 participating open source organizations. The project’s list of ideas students may tackle has currently grown to 54 entries.
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