Wrt media codecs: Fluendo is offering free (beer) patent-licensed codecs for gstreamer. Mostly free as in speech as well, the source for the MP3 codec is available under the MIT license, but there are some restrictions due to the patent license. See http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2005-05.html and http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=333
Printing: HP aims to offer open source drivers for all (most?) of its new printers via hplip, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpinkjet Year of Desktop linux: Based on those signs I have good hopes for 2007 ;-) There is also an increasing number of sightings of pre-installed Linux notebooks. Waldo Bastian Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:desktop_architects- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Kegel >Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:11 AM >To: Desktop Architects >Subject: [Desktop_architects] Desktop linux talk slides > >Hi all, >I'm giving talks about Desktop Linux and Wine this weekend. >A draft of the slides are up at >http://kegel.com/linux/scale4/ and >http://kegel.com/wine/scale4/ > >Comments welcome... there's still time to fix 'em. >Thanks, >Dan > >-- >Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv > >_______________________________________________ >Desktop_architects mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
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