|
|
Developer Linux News for May 20, 2010
-
Qbo, Based On Linux, To Join Growing Field Of Open Source Robots (May 20, 2010, 22:32)
OStatic: "Now, one of the more interesting new
open source robots is Qbo (shown), a Linux-based robot from the
folks at thecorpora.com."
-
Google begins Chrome 6 development (May 20, 2010, 21:32)
CNet: "A few days ago, Chrome turned 6. Version
6, that is, though only on the developer preview channel for
Windows, Mac, and Linux."
-
Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8 (May 20, 2010, 21:02)
Free Software Foundation: "Two months ago, we
published an open letter to Google, "Free VP8, and use it on
YouTube" — today we're happy to congratulate Google for
making this request a reality."
-
Intel Core 2, Core i7 Optimizations For GCC 4.6 (May 20, 2010, 17:32)
Phoronix: "CodeSourcery, a company that works
on GCC for various companies like with Texas Instruments for
bringing the GNU Toolchain to new CPUs and also offers their own
software development environment, has shared their intentions to
provide a new set of GCC optimizations for Intel's Core 2 and Core
i7 processors."
-
AusCert 2010: Brilliant engineers in Microsoft walled-garden
(May 20, 2010, 16:32)
Network World: "Linux communities are hostile
and Microsoft is a walled garden "stuffed-full of brilliant
engineers", according to a former Linux, now Microsoft engineer,
Crispin Cowan."
-
The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8 (May 20, 2010, 14:32)
Diary Of An x264 Developer: "Back in my
original post about Internet video, I made some initial comments on
the hope that VP8 would solve the problems of web video by
providing a supposed patent-free video format with significantly
better compression than the current options of Theora and
Dirac."
-
Introducing WebM, an open web media project (May 20, 2010, 10:32)
WEBM Project: "Though video is also now core to
the web experience, there is unfortunately no open and free video
format that is on par with the leading commercial choices. To that
end, we are excited to introduce WebM, a broadly-backed community
effort to develop a world-class media format for the open web."
|
