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4. Changes in Fedora for Desktop Users
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| 4.1.7. Shotwell replaces Gthumb and F-Spot
| as default photo organizer
| Shotwell is a free and open source photo
| organizer designed for the GNOME desktop
| environment and has replaced Gthumb and F-
| Spot by default in Fedora 13. It supports
| the following features:
|
| * import photos from any digital camera
| supported by gPhoto
| * automatically organize events
| containing photos taken at the same
| time
| * use tags to organize your photo
| collection
| * edit non-destructively when altering
| photos, without ruining originals or
| using disk space for each copy
| * publish photos to Facebook, Flickr or
| Picasa
| * one-click auto-enhancement
| * rotate, mirror, and crop photos
| * reduce red-eye and adjust the
| exposure, saturation, tint, and
| temperature of your photos
| * edit any photo, even if it's not
| imported to the Shotwell library
|
| For more information about Shotwell, refer
| to http://yorba.org/shotwell/. Gthumb and
| F-Spot continue to be maintained and
| available in the Fedora repository. They
| are not installed by default anymore.
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http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_in_Fedora_for_Desktop_Users.html#sect-Release_Notes-Fedora_Desktop
Evolution Express (for MeeGo)
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| Some ramblings about the creation of a new
| user interface for mail, calendaring etc.
| specifically for MeeGo; something I've been
| working on, amongst other things, for the
| last three months.
|
| [...]
|
| Initially for Moblin 2.1 we tried a more
| invasive re-working of the user-experience:
| called Anjal. That was not uniformly
| positive, missing many features (by
| design), and didn't have enough time to
| mature. As such, it was decided by the
| MeeGo team that we should try a new
| approach. This would take Evolution, and
| adapt it's UI for the netbook screen-size,
| tweaking all the relevant defaults. We
| would merge the best features from Anjal,
| and then build from there. The result is
| some great MeeGo, netbook goodness, despite
| being done at high speed over three months.
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http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/evolution-express-for-meego.html
Banshee for MeeGo
http://abock.org/2010/05/26/banshee-for-meego
Novell Revenues, Linux Business Slide
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| It's been a tough quarter quarter for
| Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) as questions about
| its future ownership remain on the table.
| Novell is also facing pricing pressure on
| its Linux business as renewals come up on
| Microsoft's SUSE Linux Enterprise
| subscriptions.
|
| Novell this week reported its second-
| quarter fiscal 2010 earnings, showing a
| decline in revenue, which came in at $204
| million for the quarter, a drop from the
| $216 million it brought in a year earlier.
| On the positive side, net income hit $20
| million or $0.06 per share, which is an
| improvement over the $16 million or $0.05
| per share Novell reported for the second
| quarter of 2009.
|
| But the slide in revenue continues for
| Novell, which provided third-quarter
| revenue guidance for revenues between $205
| million and $210 million.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3884966/Novell-Revenues-Linux-Business-Slide.htm
Recent:
Novell Sells: But Whoâs Buying?
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| Right, so, Novell is up for sale and thereâs | a couple dozen potential buyers.
|
| First, let me tell you what is not going to
| happen:
|
| Microsoft is not going to buy Novell.
|
| Novell has served their purpose to
| Microsoft, which is basically acting as a
| lap-dog and providing Microsoft with good PR
| while simultaneously dividing and hurting
| the FLOSS community.
|
| Microsoft could not have hoped for a better
| partner in the Open Source space, but Novell
| is of ever-diminishing use to their Redmond
| masters: anyone naÃve enough to accept
| Microsoftâs âgolly-gee-weâve-changedâ
| overtures has done so and Microsoft is now
| backing off âinteroperabilityâ talk and
| going back to the âcustomers just want one
| solution from one providerâ strategy in
| public (which they never changed in private,
| mind you.)
|
| Furthermore, Microsoft wants nothing to do
| directly with selling Linux. Novell served
| as a DMZ between the GPL and Microsoft, and
| staring across a DMZ is about as close to
| Linux as Microsoft wants to get. Microsoft
| is not about to get into the business of
| directly distributing/selling/supporting
| Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| OpenSUSE is greatly diminished under this
| scenario: as a community-only distro and
| without corporate backing, itâs looking at
| the bottom end of the Top 10 List. With
| Novellâs stained name out of the picture,
| OpenSUSE may become acceptable to people who
| actually care about FLOSS, so I wonât count
| it out of the picture.
|
| Team Apologista takes a major hit, but sadly
| probably not a finishing blow. I wouldnât be
| surprised to see a Mono-based spinoff.
| Thereâs money to be made there and Lord
| knows Team Apologista has some players with
| personal, professional and emotional
| investment in Mono that guarantees they
| wonât be giving up that fight.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/05/novell-sells-but-whos-buying/
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