Wine, ChromeOS and Cross-Platform Computing in the Cloud Age

Wine has been around for more than two decades and works pretty well on most Linux desktops, laptops and servers (not that there is really any good reason for running a Windows app on a Linux server). But since Wine depends on parts of the Linux operating system that are not always available in the Linux variants used to power many smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and Chromebooks, configuring Wine for them is more problematic.

Popcorn Time: Open Source Torrent Streaming Netflix For Pirates

Popcorn Time lets you stream torrent movies on your Linux desktop

Gizmodo reports that a new open source application called Popcorn Time lets you stream torrent movies in Linux, as well as Windows and OS X. This is the first time I've ever heard of an application that could actually stream torrent video content, but I'm sure the movie industry isn't going to be happy about it.

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Wine Announcement

The Wine development release 1.7.14 is now available.

Wine 1.7.14 Arrives With More Task Scheduler Support

New Animation with Open source

Five Funny Little Linux Network Testers and Monitors

Adios, Nedit

And I'm not the first to notice this. This is probably because the latest version, NEdit 5.5, was released in 2004. So I need a new programmer's editor.

SXSW: Pitivi Aims To Bring Real Video Editing to Linux

Quite obviously, musicians and the people around them have a great need for video editing software — not only because YouTube is a popular place to listen to music, but because videos have so much promotional value. Tour diaries, talk-to-the-camera confessionals, live show videos, viral stunts, and other types of videos are all part of the gameplan for recording artists these days.

Musl Libc 1.0 Is Going To Be Released Real Soon

I've been informed by the musl development camp that they intend to release version 1.0 of their standard C library in the next few weeks.

Bluefish – Powerful Editor for Developers

Bluefish is a powerful text editor aimed towards developers with features such as syntax highlighting, indentation, support for projects, auto-completion and more. Considering Linux is saturated with various text editors and integrated development environments ranging from the simplest to the more complex and feature-rich ones, let’s see what Bluefish offers for programmers and not only.

Docker Releases Version 0.9 With Major Improvements

I love Docker, it's a fantastic concept, and so far the execution and progress of the project has been flawless. I also love FreeBSD; FreeBSD is a clean and powerful system with advanced features like Dtrace, ZFS, and Jails. Combine the two and it sounds better than chocolate and peanut butter. With the recent version 0.9 release, Docker announced the infrastructure support to glue the two together, along with KVM, OpenVZ, Solaris Zones, and nearly any other environment for application isolation through an execution driver API.