Professional Photo Editor for Linux

LightZone : Professional Photo Editor. « Tux Enclave.

Light Crafts, the producing company of LightZone, announced yesterday the availability of a beta release for the photo-editing software. With the help of this version, Linux users now have all the LightZone tools for editing and improving digital photos that Windows and Mac users have already had, including the ZoneMapper and Re-Light tools. LightZone

Up and running on Ubuntu 7.10 RC1

Well, I was able to use the live cd and get the the system installed with no issues, unlike my last experience with Beta 3. Everything with this release is looking pretty good. Although, I still think Ubuntu performance is pretty slow compared to some other distros. I’m really looking forward to the final release so I can install it on my laptop and see if video works better than it does in 7.04.

I got Gutsy Beta to install, but I had to use the alternative install CD

After redownloading the live install CD and verifying MD5SUMs, the install still hung at the partitioner stage. So I downloaded the alternative install image and was able to get it to install. Since installing, I haven’t had a single stability issue with it. It’s looking like a nice update to Feisty, but overall I wouldn’t say there is anything really ground breaking about it.

We’re only 15 days away from the final release and I am looking forward to installing it on my laptop to see if video driver issues become of thing of the past.

ATI open sourcing their Radeon drivers

For us who use Linux and are stuck with ATI cards in our laptops, this comes as great and welcome news!

 AMD briefed Linux.com this morning on a pending announcement regarding the open sourcing of drivers for ATI graphics cards. It’s official — AMD will make code and specifications for ATI graphics cards available on the Internet on September 10.

Full Story: http://www.linux.com/feature/119049

I saw you searching for Kenosha Linux

I was reviewing my referer logs this morning and saw that someone came here searching google for Kenosha Linux. Now that person is either searching for a distribution call Kenosha Linux, or more than likely looking info on other people in Kenosha who use Linux. Well, you found one. Feel free to contact me if you wish.

I’m still very interested in helping to start a Kenosha Area Linux Users Group.

Jupiter Linux

Well, the crew at The Linux Action Show are putting their money where their mouth is and have have announced they are building their own Linux distro. Development is still in the very early stages, but the decided name of the distribution will be Jupiter Linux and it will be based on Ubuntu’s Gutsy Gibbon and the Gnome desktop environment. If your interested in watching a distribution unfold in front of you, head to the development forums. Or if you want to contribute to the development, post your skills on the wiki.

Anyways, the world still needs the killer Linux desktop, and maybe this will be it!