It’s Synfig crowdfunding time! Again!
Synfig, our favourite 2D animation suite, is looking for donations to keep development rolling.
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Age of Makers
The late 70s and early 80s were arguably the golden age of computer nerdiness. This was an age of innovation and invention: the first mouse-driven interface, the first GUI, and even the first touchscreen are all products of that era. In those early days, you programmed your own drivers, wrote your own applications, and hacked…
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Terasology – The Beautiful Minecraft Clone
Now that Minecraft and Mojang belong to Microsoft, things don’t bode well for multiplatfom playing or open modding and APIs within the game. That’s why plenty of players are looking for alternatives to jump ship to so they can continue enjoying their “social lego” world-building activities. Well, good news, everyone! Alternatives exist, and at least…
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AmayaOS releases version 0.06 of its Free Operating System
The AmayaOS team has just released version 0.06 of their free Unix-like (but not Linux) operating system. Apart from bug crushing and performance enhancements, the team have added a windows manager of sorts (that works in a text terminal) and a text editor called WAMA that can be run within the windows manager. The creators…
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Arty FX from OpenAV needs your donation!
Arty FX is a plugin bundle of artistic real-time audio effects. The aim of this plugin collection is to allow you to design your sounds just as you desire, using a fast and efficient workflow. Arty FX belongs to the OpenAV suite of sound utilities we talked about a few days ago and the creator,…
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OpenAV – Professional Grade Audio Software for Linux
Harry van Haaren is busy developing a modern suite of music software applications for musicians who use Linux and who want to use Free and Open Source software for their creations. So far Harry has developed Lupp, a music creation tool intended for live use; Fabla, an open-source LV2 drum sampler plugin instrument; Sorcer, a…
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A New & Improved Pling is here!
Today we rolled out a new version of Pling with new features and a cleaner, easier interface. Probably one of the first things you’ll notice is that we have improved the search and browse experience with filters and the possibility of ordering projects alphabetically and by popularity. [Show slideshow] Distribute and Fund You can now…
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Crowdfunding and Saturation
Over at Linux Magazine, Bruce Byfield has published an interesting article on Open Source and crowdfunding. Go ahead and read it. It is a brief, insightful and well-reasoned article. He mentions the saturation effect as a potential stumbling block that may slow or even eventually kill this financing model for Open Source projects. But metaphors…
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“Raras pero no Invisibles” joins Pling!
The makers of the documentary “Raras, pero no Invisibles” (“Rare but not Invisible”) have joined Pling. “Raras…” is a documentary that explores the plight of patients with rare illnesses. While diseases such as cancer and coronary illnesses receive billions in donations and funding for research and treatment each year, conditions such Tarlov Cysts, Dravet Syndrome…
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AmayaOS – A new Unix-like OS is now on Pling!
Based on the FreeNOS Kernel, AmayaOS is a Unix-like microkernel-based operating system written in C++ that aspires to become a full-fledged and efficient system for old or underpowered hardware. The project, started by 14-year old programmer Daniel MartÃn, counts on a crew of enthusiastic developers located mainly in Spain, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. This group…
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Netrunner 14 is out!
The Netrunner team members have just announced the availability of version 14 of their operating system. This version is dubbed “Frontier” and comes with an appropriately futuristic space exploration theme. [Show slideshow] Netrunner is a modern Linux-based operating system that comes with a bleeding edge desktop environment, combining beauty, stability and kickass functionality. You can…
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Universidad Quantum joins Pling
Universidad Quantum is an online teaching portal that offers all kinds of courses for free or for very low fees. Quantum lists quite a few tech courses (such as Moodle for teachers, or the use of QR codes in education) in its roster, but also offers languages (they are currently running a free course to…
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