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I’ve just received a new update today from the Chromium daily PPA for Ubuntu, and I can say that it’s progressing at a good rate to integrate itself into the Linux desktop. Here’s a screenshot:

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As you can see, it already has the minimize, maximize and close buttons (top right) that are fully integrated into Chromium,, no more Gnome window borders (you can still toggle this) that make the browser look ugly. Great Job!

Here’s another screenshot with Gnome’s window border:

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Looks ugly uh!? So, in your opinion which one looks better?

Has many of you may know, a new project has gotten a lot of attention lately in the Linux world. That project’s name is Gnote.  Gnote is an experimental port of Tomboy to C++, it’s the same note taking application, minus things not done yet, including panel applet, boatload of addins and synchronization, but just be patient and you will have a full port of Tomboy soon.

Today I’ve decided to give Gnote a try and install it on my system, I used the unofficial Gnote PPA for Ubuntu provided by Vadim Peretokin, at the moment it still hasn’t been updated to the latest version of Gnote, but I’m sure it will soon. My first impressions were good, it loaded a lot faster than Tomboy, 2.324 seconds versus the 0.280 seconds of Gnote and it was also  three times lighter than Tomboy, maybe because of all of the Mono bloat that Tomboy depends on…

After this, I realized that Gnote was all that I needed for taking notes and decided to remove Tomboy and therefore remove the hole Mono stack from my system too. Tomboy was the only application holding me back from removing this patent trap from my system. Oh!, and F-Spot, that was removed a long time ago, I don’t need anything to organize my pictures… Here’s the result:

trmanco@trmanco-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get purge libmono0 mono-common
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libglitz-glx1 gvfs-bin libglitz1 python-dateutil python-enchant python-vobject libgdiplus
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libart2.24-cil* libflickrnet2.1.5-cil* libgconf2.24-cil* libglade2.0-cil* libglib2.0-cil* libgmime2.2a-cil* libgnome-keyring1.0-cil*
libgnome-vfs2.24-cil* libgnome2.24-cil* libgnomepanel2.24-cil* libgtk2.0-cil* libgtkhtml3.16-cil* libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil* libmono-addins0.2-cil*
libmono-cairo1.0-cil* libmono-cairo2.0-cil* libmono-corlib1.0-cil* libmono-corlib2.0-cil* libmono-data-tds1.0-cil* libmono-data-tds2.0-cil*
libmono-data1.0-cil* libmono-data2.0-cil* libmono-getoptions1.0-cil* libmono-getoptions2.0-cil* libmono-posix1.0-cil* libmono-posix2.0-cil*
libmono-security1.0-cil* libmono-security2.0-cil* libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil* libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil* libmono-sqlite2.0-cil* libmono-system-data1.0-cil*
libmono-system-data2.0-cil* libmono-system-web1.0-cil* libmono-system-web2.0-cil* libmono-system1.0-cil* libmono-system2.0-cil* libmono0* libmono1.0-cil*
libmono2.0-cil* libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil* libndesk-dbus1.0-cil* mono-2.0-gac* mono-2.0-runtime* mono-common* mono-gac* mono-jit* mono-runtime* tomboy*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 49 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 51.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Yeah!! And some more…

(Reading database … 136324 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing tomboy …
Purging configuration files for tomboy …
Removing libgnomepanel2.24-cil …
Removing libgnome2.24-cil …
Removing libart2.24-cil …
Removing libflickrnet2.1.5-cil …
Removing libflickrnet2.1.5-cil from Mono
Purging configuration files for libflickrnet2.1.5-cil …
Removing libgconf2.24-cil …
Removing libglade2.0-cil …
Removing libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil …
Removing libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil from Mono
Removing libgtkhtml3.16-cil …
Removing libgtk2.0-cil …
Removing libgnome-vfs2.24-cil …
Removing libgmime2.2a-cil …
Removing libgmime2.2a-cil from Mono
Removing libglib2.0-cil …
Removing libgnome-keyring1.0-cil …
Removing libgnome-keyring1.0-cil from Mono
Removing libmono-addins0.2-cil …
Removing libmono-addins0.2-cil from Mono
Removing libmono-cairo1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-cairo2.0-cil …
Removing libmono1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-system-web1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-data1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-system-data1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil …
Removing libmono-data-tds1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-security1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-posix1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-getoptions1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-system1.0-cil …
Removing libmono-corlib1.0-cil …
Removing libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil …
Removing libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil from Mono
Removing libndesk-dbus1.0-cil …
Removing libndesk-dbus1.0-cil from Mono
Removing mono-2.0-runtime …
Removing libmono-system-web2.0-cil …
Removing libmono2.0-cil …
Removing mono-gac …
* Removing packages from mono
Removing libmono-sqlite2.0-cil …
Removing libmono-data2.0-cil …
Removing libmono-system-data2.0-cil …
Removing libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil …
Removing libmono-data-tds2.0-cil …
Removing libmono-posix2.0-cil …
Removing libmono-getoptions2.0-cil …
Removing mono-2.0-gac …
Removing mono-runtime …
Removing libmono-security2.0-cil …
Removing libmono-system2.0-cil …
Removing libmono-corlib2.0-cil …
Removing libmono0 …
Purging configuration files for libmono0 …
Removing mono-jit …
Removing mono-common …
update-binfmts: warning: no executable /usr/bin/cli found, but continuing
anyway as you request
Purging configuration files for mono-common …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Processing triggers for libc6 …
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
trmanco@trmanco-desktop:~$

Hmm, let’s see… I not only removed bloat from my computer, but also removed a patent trap and gained 52MB of disk space, it may not sound much, but for netbooks that have limited hardrives, this is the way to go!! Roy has already covered this at Boycottnovell, he also mentioned me on his post.

Oh, and by the way, for those who want to create conflicts with Mono packages and therefore prevent Mono from being installed, go for Mononono.

The Internet Archive has finished converting all of its video files to the free open video format Ogg/Theora along with Ogg/Vorbis for audio. They are finally moving towards a free Internet, with no DRM’ ed media.

We have rebuilt all of our nearly 200,000 videos at the archive!

We will make a new Ogg Theora (with Vorbis audio) opensource/free-based video derivative. This derivative will play natively in Firefox 3.1 release (v3.1 is due around the end of 2008).

http://internetarchive.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/new-strategy-for-internet-archive-movies/

Rederiving our movies to Ogg Theora and more!

The Archive actively supports the free software ecosystem, and is now busy re-deriving copies of all their videos into both Ogg Theora and H.264 (mp4) codecs. So far they have more than 40% of the videos converted, and hope to have the rest done by December 2008. This makes each of these videos easily accessible on the OLPC XO, by looking in the left margin for the download/stream link for the Ogg Video version. As each is converted, it immediately becomes accessible at www.archive.org/details/movies.

http://internetarchive.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/rederiving-our-movies-to-ogg-theora-and-more/

On the other hand, Firefox 3.1 and the OLPC will benifit a lot from this:

Firefox 3.1 to support open video and audio

[...]

The Wikimedia Foundation only hosts videos and audio files that are available in open formats, most notably the open source standards Ogg Vorbis (audio) and Ogg Theora (video) developed by the non-profit Xiph.Org Foundation. These standards are unencumbered by patents and can be used by anyone freely to build any kind of video or audio technology. As such, they provide a secure baseline for innovation.
The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the Firefox web browser, agrees. We’re very happy to share the message below, posted by Wikimedian and long-time free software supporter Greg Maxwell on the Foundation-l mailing list.  Some background about Ogg, Theora, Vorbis, and free software in general can be found on Wikipedia. You can also view some samples of Ogg Theora videos on the Wikimedia Commons.

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/31/firefox-31-to-support-open-video-and-audio/

Internet Archive Videos Formatted in Ogg Theora for OLPC

I think it’s great that the Internet Archive is making such an outstanding contribution to the free software and content ecosystem. Looking through some of the videos which are already available I realized how valuable these are and I’m sure many children with XOs from around the world will have a great experience enjoying them.

http://www.olpcnews.com/content/reference/internet_archive_ogg_videos.html

This just made my day…

Apple Web Ad: Bean Counter

Click here if you can’t see the video.

Apple Web Ad: V Word

Click here if you can’t see the video.

More info on MacDailyNews.