On 2/10/06, Bastian, Waldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Thanks for the tip. That makes two sources for free-as-in-beer licensed codecs! Looks like it might not be something Ubuntu can ship, though: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/12/2156206 > Printing: HP aims to offer open source drivers for all (most?) of its > new printers via hplip, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpinkjet Yes, it looks like they're putting a lot of effort into it. Nevertheless, the HP deskjet my wife bought last year doesn't work with FC5 or Ubuntu 05.10, so they have a ways to go. > 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. Yay! - Dan -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
