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In my previous post I have reviewed AdesClrPicker in Windows, and now I’m doing a review in Linux. I will be testing it under Ubuntu 7.04 – the Feisty Fawn.

Before I begin, I need to note that AdesClrPicker is not developed to run on Linux, it’s a Windows application. So if you encounter any kind of problems, bugs while running it on Linux Ades Design is not responsible, neither am I!

Here’s a short list of what we need:

1. Ubuntu 7.04 installed on your machine
2. Wine – Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
3. Latest Firefox version installed in Wine

I have tried using AdesClrPicker in native Linux applications and the picker can detect and pick color but it cannot send color codes to the AdesClrPicker which is running in Wine. Since it was developed for Windows users this kind of things incompatibility might happen. Just remember that AdesClrPicker does work fine in Windows OS. Having said that let’s go to the first step and run it:

we start AdesClrPicker:

blackman@blacky:~$ wine AdesClrPicker.exe

we start Firefox in wine:

blackman@blacky:~$ wine /home/blackman/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe

So, after starting Firefox in Wine we can now pick colors and make use of this wonderful and yet very small in size application – AdesClrPicker!

Screenshots:

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Links:

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AdesClrPicker

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Who said you can’t make money by supporting free community-based Linux distributions?

HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat.

HP announced in August 2005 it would be offering support services for Debian, which has been one of the most popular and widest deployed community-based Linux distributions since its inception.GNU/Linux.

In fiscal 2006, $25 million in hardware sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) were directly related to HP’s Debian support.

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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, in a recent IRC interview was asked about the MS $3 initiative. Here’s what he said:

clever move. http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_april24_2007. he gets it. free software is a far better platform for education than the $3 offer.

• far more applications, means you can teach many more things with technology, not just word processing and spreadsheets. for example, databases, programming languages, art apps, music, astronomy, statistics… you name it
• source code, means you can learn far more about how that technology works, important for super-star students who will rocket ahead of even their teachers
• localisations, means you can teach in your n indigenous languages

in short, education departments that really care about education have lots of reasons to choose free software rather than the cheap (and usage-limited) windows offer

I think this is very true, I would add that students will learn a lot more then just learning how to use softwares like Windows OS,MS Office and solitaire. Choosing Open Source they will have chance not only to learn how to use softwares that rock, but also they have the chance to see and may be some of them will learn how to make one! This is something like teaching how to fish instead of giving one for free!

If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some of the other surprises (just as an example: we were apparently unlucky enough to hit what looks like a previously unknown hardware errata in one of the ethernet drivers that got updated etc). Read the rest of this entry »