Qt 4.7 has not been released yet, but the curious can download the beta or even grab a snapshot from git. The big news in this point seven release is Qt Quick - a new approach to user interfaces.
Over the last few years there have been quite a few articles discussing the uses and advancements of the rdesktop application for Linux users. Rdesktop is an application designed to allow Linux users to access the remote desktop feature of Windows based machines, specifically servers.
What is your strategy on cross compilation toolchains? Here we explore a
few options:
DIY - requires you to manually start each step, unless you're comfortable enough to script the process. As each step takes ages, this can be a tedious job. However, it gives you full control and insight into each step.
In the ongoing saga of What doesn't work after the upgrade? I tried to run my
logo-overlay script
the other day to add the Linux Journal logo to a video
and, as you may have guessed, it didn't work.
In this case I'd been forewarned...
Ubuntu just released the beta 1 version of their new LTS (Long Term Support) Distribution, Lucid 10.04. The theme is based on "light" and it looks great. Here's what to expect and what not to expect when you first install this new flavor of Ubuntu:
For a few years I have been trying to create a "distributed cluster storage
system" (see below) on standard Linux hardware.
I have been unsuccessful. I have looked into buying one and they do exist,
but are so expensive I can't afford one.
They also are designed for much larger enterprises and have tons of features I don't want or need.
I am hoping the Linux community can help me create this low cost
"distributed cluster storage system" which I think other small businesses could use.
Please help me solve this so we can publish the solution to the open source
community.
Introducing Linux Journal's penguin gallery contest. That's right -- penguins. Real, virtual, 2D, 3D, with fish, without fish, etc., etc. Submit your penguin photo or artwork and be entered to win some pretty cool LJ goodies.
Some time back I wrote about creating a number of
konsoles automatically using dcop.
Although we were at the time well into the KDE4 era I had
not yet upgraded since there were still things
that weren't quite working with KDE4, most of these have now
been fixed so I've upgraded some of my systems to KDE4,
which means it's time to update the original code to
now use dbus.
There are many dialog programs out there, Zenity, Kdialog,
xdialog, etc. I love programs like these. They make it so easy to
spice up a shell script with a little GUI action. Today I'm going to
go look at a dialog program called gxmessage.
Audio processing and synthesis plugins are always a lively topic for musicians. Many contemporary music-makers rely completely upon their plugin collection for all their sound sources and processing routines, and it is not at all uncommon to discover that some of these composers have never learned to play a traditional instrument. However you feel about audio plugins they are a fact of life in modern music production.
