OPEN SOURCE MAC NEWS

LibreOffice (for Mac)

PC Magazine - ‎Nov 27, 2012‎
For one thing, LibreOffice costs nothing, it exports to the latest Microsoft Office formats in addition to its native ODT format, and it's the obvious first choice for any organization that requires the use of open formats and open-source software ...

Mac Game of the Week: Battle for Wesnoth is an open source classic

tuaw.com - ‎Nov 15, 2012‎
Battle for Wesnoth is one of my favorite Mac games of all time, and best of all, it's completely and totally free. It's an open source game back when creating open source games was the thing to do, but unlike most other open source games, it has ...

Open vs. Closed Systems: What the Future Holds

Tech.pinions - ‎Nov 28, 2012‎
In traditional computers, the Mac was at long last gaining ground on Windows. Today, things are a muddle and it is far from clear which model will dominate the next phase.

Splashtop comes to Ubuntu Linux with a speedy remote desktop option

PCWorld (blog) - ‎17 hours ago‎
Today she covers business and tech in all its forms, with an emphasis on Linux and open source software. More by Katherine Noyes.

Mactheripper and Lion/Mountain Lion

Destructoid (blog) - ‎21 hours ago‎
Method 2 - Handbrake Handbrake is open source multimedia transcoder which is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Unlike Mactheripper, handbrake merely handles unprotected DVD and it encodes DVD to compress DVD into a different format like MP4.

A Halloween treat for Linux and Mac users: CrossOver is free today

PCWorld - ‎Oct 31, 2012‎
One solution for getting Windows software to run on these other platforms is the free and open source Wine compatibility layer, as I noted when Wine 1.4 was released earlier this year.

Microsoft Open-Sources Reactive Extensions Programming Model

eWeek - ‎Nov 7, 2012‎
The Rx development team will be on assignment with the MS Open Tech Hub, an engineering program to accelerate the open development of the project and collaborate with open-source communities. The Rx source code will be hosted on Microsoft's ... The ...

Cross-device cross-platform incompatibility incongruence

ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
Nov 8, 2012

Written by
Adrian Bridgwater

Paragon Software argues that the open-source community has been addressing storage interoperability issues for more than ten years now, creating drivers for various unsupported operating systems.

GStreamer SDK Now Offers Support for Developing Multimedia Playback on ...

MarketWatch (press release) - ‎18 hours ago‎
BARCELONA, Spain, Nov 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Collabora Ltd. and Fluendo S.A., two leading companies in open source multimedia, are pleased to announce the GStreamer SDK now enables building multimedia playback applications for Android Operating ...

Wonkbook: Austerity-crisis negotiations stall out

Washington Post (blog) - ‎3 hours ago‎
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters that Obama has already offered a plan to slice $340 billion from federal health programs, in part by charging wealthy seniors more for Medicare, and that he is open to additional proposals for ...

Glu Mobile Launches Contract Killer Zombies 2

Reuters - ‎56 minutes ago‎
Multiple Mission Types: Save civilians, find provisions and clear escape routes to open new locations. Heavy Artillery: Collect shotguns, machine guns, sniper rifles, grenades, axes, ... ZOMBIES DEFENSE on a wide range of platforms including iOS ...

GnuCash finance app comes to Android (sort of)

Liliputing - ‎Nov 2, 2012‎
GnuCash is an open source accounting app for Linux, Windows, and Mac computers. It's sort of an open source alternative to Quicken, allowing you to track your income and spending, run reports, view graphics, and do much, much more. Now there's a ...

Windows 8 can run on Apple Macs

The Australian - ‎Oct 31, 2012‎
Parallels from the Swiss company of the same name and Fusion from VMware of the US along with a couple of freebies: Boot Camp from Apple and the open-source Virtual Box from Oracle. Three of these, Parallels, Fusion and VirtualBox, use virtualisation ...

Endless Space: When Triple-A Developers Go Indie

Gamasutra - ‎23 minutes ago‎
In order to maximize the reach and potential customer base, the game needed to be PC and Mac-based, with ideally the possibility of being able to port it elsewhere.

Where are all the open-source mobile projects?

Register - ‎Nov 2, 2012‎
It's a good point, but there's plenty of open-source software written for the Windows and Mac OS X platforms, neither of which is open in the way the server market has been.

Linux Gains Netflix Support, Unofficially

The VAR Guy - ‎Nov 19, 2012‎
Still, this could be a very big deal in the open source world, where for years users have vainly pleaded with Netflix for a Linux client, while also trying to implement their own solutions with little success.

What will a video games industry run by Apple look like?

Macworld UK
3 hours ago

Written by
Mark Hattersley

From locked-down hardware, to ignoring graphics card advances, to ignoring utilitarian function (the first thing any Mac gamer will do is replace the Mighty Mouse with something that works for games), through to ignoring Mac-friendly developers like ...

Google updates all Chrome editions

The H
3 hours ago

Written by
Fabian Scherschel

An overview over the different desktop Chrome release channels and platform is available from the Chromium Project, the open source upstream of Chrome. The listing includes download links for the different versions of the browser. All versions of ...

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Global Economic Intersection (blog) - ‎5 hours ago‎
... effort of American International Group (AIG) that recruited the support of some former officials of the federally-owned Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) who finally succeeded in persuading the federal cabinet to open Canada's mortgage ...

Microsoft open sources Reactive Extensions

The H - ‎Nov 8, 2012‎
Microsoft are moving part of the Rx development team to work at the MS Open Tech Hub to continue Rx development and collaborate with any open source communities who want to adopt Rx. The Rx project source code is available from rx.codeplex.com and ...

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