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LimeWire Lives Again 278

Posted by Soulskill from the there's-a-lesson-here dept.
Slayer Silver Wolf writes with this excerpt from TorrentFreak: "'On October 26 the remaining LimeWire developers were forced to shut down the company's servers and modify remote settings in the filesharing client to try to harm the Gnutella network. They were then laid off. Shortly after, a horde of piratical monkeys climbed aboard the abandoned ship, mended its sails, polished its cannons, and released it free to the community.' And so, LimeWire Pirate Edition (LPE) was born. Based on the LimeWire 5.6 beta that was briefly released earlier this year and then withdrawn when Lime Wire LLC lost its lawsuit, LPE is now in the wild. In many ways, it is better than the version killed by the RIAA."

Comment Nothing to see here.. move along (Score 4, Informative) 370

by kazade84 (#33653472) Attached to: DX11 Coming To Linux (But Not XP)

This isn't really that exciting. Firstly it doesn't benefit Wine at all. Wine supports other platforms than Linux and other drivers than Gallium3D and Mesa and so this is useless to them, if that isn't enough the Wine source structure isn't built for this kind of swap out, specifically because Wine limits X interaction to a single DLL, winex11, and the WineD3D stuff doesn't have direct access to X. The Wine D3D developers have long said that a D3D state tracker won't help them.

Secondly, it's not gonna help porting games to Linux either. D3D is only one part of the DX API and a game does a lot more than just draw stuff. Arguably swapping out D3D for OGL is relatively straightforward in comparison to swapping out sound API, file IO API, network IO API, message handling, etc. etc. that's why some games allow you to switch between the graphics API.

Submission + - Europe embraces Open Document format (ffii.org)

Submitted by Elektroschock
Elektroschock writes: The European legislature has decided to support the open document format as to advance electronic business. It asks the European Commission take concrete steps to support the adoption of ODF 1.2 and its spread. Open Document is an open standard implemented in the latest incarnations of Microsoft Office, Open Office, Google Docs, Abiword and many other products.
Microsoft

Submission + - Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 10.04 (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence
Barence writes: PC Pro has performed a comprehensive test of Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 10.04. They've tested and scored the two operating systems on a number of criteria, including usability, bundled apps, performance, compatibility and business. The final result is much closer than you might expect. "Ubuntu is clearly an operating system on the rise," PC Pro concludes. "If we repeat this feature in a year’s time, will it have closed the gap? We wouldn’t bet against it."

Submission + - HDCP possibly broken (engadget.com)

Submitted by allaunjsilverfox2
allaunjsilverfox2 writes: Engadget reports that unknown persons/groups have broken the Master Key for HDCP. If true, it could have wide ranging implications for devices everywhere.
AMD

Submission + - Breaking : ARM Enters Laptop Market (itproportal.com)

Submitted by siliconbits
siliconbits writes: ARM's starting to look A LOT like AMD.... ITProPortal writes that "ARM has just announced a partnership with a Chinese company to produce 40nm SoC chips for netbooks, laptops and computers. The SoC uses a 2Ghz dual core Cortex A9 processor and consumes around 2w. The first products will be demoed at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. "
Open Source

Submission + - Mark Shuttleworth Announces UTouch Framework - Lin (linuxpromagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Canonical found Mark Shuttleworth today announced the UTouch gesture suite that will make its first appearance in the 10.10.10 build of Ubuntu. The code is published under GPLv3 and LGPLv3.

"There's no reason why anyone else can't ship them as well," Shuttleworth said. "There's nothing in there proprietary to Canonical," he added.

Shuttleworth explained that UTouch goes beyond standard touch frameworks by allowing users to chain a series of gestures into a sophisticated series of commands known as "gesture sentences."
Ubuntu

Submission + - Ubuntu 10.10 Will Support Multi-Touch (techie-buzz.com)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Canonical has officially announced that Ubuntu 10.10 will support multi-touch. The multi-touch support will be provided by the Canonical UTouch Support. They have also introduced a four finger gesture language. The new gesture language will allow users to chain together different gestures to make complex commands.
GNU is Not Unix

Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse 225

Posted by CmdrTaco from the do-the-dance-of-joy dept.
fishthegeek writes "The Software Freedom Conservancy has received a judgement against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for $90,000 in damages, $50,000 in costs plus a donation of all of the offending HDTV's that were using BusyBox in violation of the GPL. Given that WDE is nearly bankrupt it's likely that most if not all of the cash will disappear in a legal 'poof,' but it is a victory regardless."
Wine

Wine 1.2 Released 427

Posted by Soulskill from the pop-the-cork dept.
David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."

Submission + - Pandora's Box Opened at last (pandorapress.net)

Submitted by neogramps
neogramps writes: It's been a long time coming but the first Pandora consoles are finally rolling off of the production line (well this one actually walked out the door to a customer who lived near the "factory").

Initial estimates had put production and development at taking two months, but Murphy had other ideas. Banking issues, design problems, problems communicating with the Chinese moulding company, escalating assembly costs and even a volcano all managed to get in the way, but the small and dediced team soldiered on, and just over a year and a half later, the wait is coming to an end for the four thousand pre-orderers.

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