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Nokia announced Qt Extended mobile platform

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

It seems that Nokia is going to produce a competitor of Android platform:
Nokia announced today the launch of Qt Extended 4.4, a complete mobile and embedded development platform based on the open source Qt toolkit. It is designed with a modular architecture that provides building blocks for assembling a Linux-based software stack for various embedded [...]

VMWare and kernel 2.6.24.X

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Last week I upgrade my Fedora Core 8 to the latest stable kernel 2.6.24.3-12. As result the compilation of VMWare module vmmon gave that error:
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:172: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:176: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] [...]

Skype for Linux with video support

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Recently I installed the latest Skype for Linux (2.0.0.43) on my both systems: Fedora 8 and Kubuntu 7.04. I was surprised because the video calls really work. We talked with one of my friends about 40 minutes (he uses Windows). The quality of sound and picture is good (we both have DSL Internet connection). Not [...]

Shuttle $199 Linux PC

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Shuttle has announced a budget PC in compact form-factor with funny skins. Just for $199 you will get “an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB hard drive. What it won’t have: an optical drive or a PCI Express slot. Despite that, it’s a pretty good-looking box, [...]

Accessing the Nokia N800 camera

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Linux-based Internet Tablet Nokia N800 is very popular. Even coming N810 is not going to replace it completely (I’m not talking about windows-based Origami). Using Maemo SDK it’s fairly simple develop new applications or porting existing ones. For sure to be success you need a right documentation. Following article from IBM.com explains obviously how [...]

Meet Werewolf

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Today I upgraded my work PC up to Fedora 8 (Werewolf). Unlike previous upgrades I tried to use yum. I run the procedure according to Upgrading Fedora Using Yum. It took about 3 - 4 hours and finished successfully. After rebooting I just install a plug-in to listen MP3
yum update alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
and patched VMWave to [...]

Printing from RedHat 9 to Xerox Workcenter M123

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Today I spent some time to setup Xerox Workcenter M123 in the RedHat 9. The difficulty was in the cups version. There is an old one which doesn’t allow to pick up PPD file during configuration. So, everything I did manually. But printer didn’t print test page. It just waited a few seconds and skipped [...]

Top 10 Linux Distributions for Audio Production

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Here is a top 10 of Linux Distribution to make a professional Multimedia Stations:

JackLab Audio Distribution
Musix GNU+Linux
Ubuntu Studio
Linux MultiMedia Studio
DeMuDI
Dyne:bolic
64 Studio
StartCom MultiMedia Edition
APODIO
m-dist

So, you have enough alternatives to MS Windows based commercial software for professional music processing.
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