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Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland 640

Posted by Soulskill from the no-longer-marks-the-spot dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Ubuntu will move away from the traditional X.org display environment to Wayland — a more modern alternative. The move means there is now little reason for GNOME developers to recommend Ubuntu as an operating system. Shuttleworth said, 'We're confident we’ll be able to retain the ability to run X applications in a compatibility mode, so this is not a transition that needs to reset the world of desktop free software. Nor is it a transition everyone needs to make at the same time: for the same reason we'll keep investing in the 2D experience on Ubuntu despite also believing that Unity, with all its GL dependencies, is the best interface for the desktop. We'll help GNOME and KDE with the transition, there's no reason for them not to be there on day one either.'"
AMD

Submission + - State of graphics drivers on Linux? (slashdot.org)

Submitted by frambris
frambris writes: It seems that wherever I look, people recommends getting a computer with an nVidia GPU because their drivers, although binary blob, do work pretty well. Now I am looking for a new laptop and the one the has caught my eye is the HP Envy 17" (good CPU, two hard drive bays, slot-in Blu-Ray drive and backlit keyboard). I like everything about it except that it has not got a nVidia GPU, it has instead an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850. I have struggled with ATI proprietary drivers before and got it working sometimes.

How are the ATI drivers today? Both the proprietary and opensource one(s?)?

I use Fedora 64-bit.
Media

X264 Project Announces Blu-ray Encoding Support 139

Posted by timothy from the news-from-mid-spectrum dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The x264 project has announced the first free software encoder to be able to generate Blu-ray compliant video. In addition, the announcement comes with a torrent of an x264-encoded Blu-ray disc containing entirely free content, such as the Open Movie Project videos. While there are still no free software Blu-ray authoring tools, hopefully this will change now that video and audio are taken care of so that everyone will be able to make their own Blu-rays without expensive proprietary software. Additionally, it seems the Criterion Collection is a friend of free software, having sponsored the effort to confirm x264's compliance with the Blu-ray spec."
Supercomputing

Slimming Down a Supercomputer 64

Posted by timothy from the render-farm-porn dept.
1sockchuck writes "Happy Feet animator Dr. D Studios has packed a large amount of supercomputing power into a smaller package in its new render farm in Sydney, Australia. The digital production shop has consolidated the 150 blade chassis used in the 2007 dancing penguin feature into just 24 chassis, entirely housed in a hot-aisle containment pod. The Dr. D render farm has moved from its previous home at Equinix to the E3 Pegasus data center in Sydney. ITNews has a video and photos of the E3 facility."
GUI

IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193

Posted by timothy from the one-keybinding-to-rule-them-all dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I am currently looking to move from text editing with vim to a full fledged IDE with gdb integration, integrated command line, etc. Extending VIM with these capabilities is a mortal sin, so I am looking for a linux based GUI IDE. I do not want to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM though. How do I have my cake and eat it too?"
Censorship

Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking 802

Posted by kdawson from the to-name-but-a-few dept.
eldavojohn writes "A formal complaint was filed in California (caged PDF) last week by John Lindstein naming David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology International as defendants. Lindstein claims that for sixteen years (from age 8) he was forced to work as a slave at Gold Base, a secret CoS site run by Golden Era Productions with 'razor wire, security guard patrols, surveillance posts, and three roll calls each day.' The pay was $50 a week. The allegations include 'Violations of wage and hour laws as well as unfair/illegal business practices actionable under California B&P 17200 Et. Seq.' and a complaint under the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which abolished slavery. Members of the group Anonymous praised the summons."

Comment Or any other non-windows system (Score 1) 736

by frambris (#30260474) Attached to: Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?"

I switched to Linux a few years back and do the same routine. "I don't use Outlook so I don't really can tell. Sorry". But then they get all clever and say "Here, let me show you" and grab my mouse (which is left handed for starters) and go "...errr... your Windows looks strange". And I go "Strange, or better?" and they leave confused and call the real PC-support.

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