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Daf Harries asks Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner: what was the seed that got GNOME 3 going? How does modularity cause problems? And how do new contributors learn a project’s design philosophy? Continue reading 'How We Got Here: Part I of a Design History of GNOME 3 & the Shell'As stated in my last blog post , we have been looking at different options for optimizing D-Bus. After some internal discussion and reviewing of the feedback we got, we think the best solution is to get the best ideas from AF_DBUS , but without having to create a new socket family, which wasn’t very well welcomed by the Linux kernel developers . This brought us to having to choose a transport that allowed us to do that, so we decided on Netlink (an IPC mechanism for kernel to user-space communications). The Netlink protocol is a family of socket based IPC mechanism that can be used to communicate between the kernel and user-space processes and between user-space processes themselves. It was created as a replacement for ioctl and to receive messages sent by the kernel. It is a datagram-oriented service with both SOCK_RAW and SOCK_DGRAM valid socket types.
Planet GNOME
User Interface Design, Usability, Human Factors, & Ergonomics
In production and development, open source is a philosophy, [ 1 ] [ not in citation given ] [ 2 ] [ not in citation given ] or pragmatic methodology [ 2 ] [ not in citation given ] that promotes free redistribution and access to an end product's design and implementation details. [ 3 ] Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet , and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code . [ citation needed ] Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. [ 4 ] The open-source software movement was born to describe the environment that the new copyright , licensing , domain , and consumer issues created. [ citation needed ]
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Daze of Our Lives
Linux Magazine
Worldwide, data is growing at a tremendous rate. However, one recent study has pointed out that the size of files is not necessarily growing at the same rate; meaning the number of files is growing rapidly. How do we manage all of this data and files? While the answer to that question is complex, one place we can start is with Extended File Attributes.Open Source Software - Find, Evaluate, Collaborate - OStatic
How successful is the open source content management system (CMS) Drupal ? Well, in a recent interview , Drupal founder Dries Buytaert noted that nearly 790,000 people in 228 countries contribute to the platform, and it powers more than a million online sites. The White House, NASA and Twitter use it, and OStatic is also built on Drupal. In an interview we did with Buytaert , he described the core contributors to the project as on the "same scale as the Linux kernel."GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching , image composition and image authoring . It works on many operating systems, in many languages. ( more... ) This is the official GIMP web site.

