Wine 2.15

• Wine Announcement

  The Wine development release 2.15 is now available.

• Wine 2.15 Adds Support for AES Encryption

  Coming a few days late, Wine 2.15 is now available as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot leading up to the Wine 3.0 release in a few months.

Today in Techrights

• Patent Scope Recognised as Essential For Patent Quality, But Software Patents Continue to be Granted
• Litigation and Patenting Versus Research and Development
• The Federal Circuit Has Become the Go-To Place For Patent Appeals Arising From USPTO Errors
• The Truly Odd Concept of Design Patents, Which the US Supreme Court Might Crush Very Soon
• Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished
• The Notorious 1-Click Buying Patent Expired Rather Than Invalidated
• PTAB Crushes Software Patents and Patent Extremists Are Not Happy About It
• Software Patents and Patent Trolls Are Almost the Same Problem (Still)
• Links 20/8/2017: KStars 2.8.1, Fedora Design Interns

today's leftovers

• New Computing Systems for Linux, BSD

  Raptor Computing Systems has announced that Talos II secure workstations, rack-mount development kits, mainboard bundles and mainboards are now available. Designed by Raptor Engineering, the Talos product line specializes in high-performance, secure and affordable computing systems for Linux or Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) platforms.

• Apple laptops have become garbage

• Home computing for $5/month

  For this, I want a portable computer that I primarily use to consume content; if I want to do any creation more complex than writing or spreadsheets, I'm happy to use it to connect to another device (ssh, vnc, etc.).

• Portable Linux Gaming, Entroware’s Kratos

  Pedro spent a full week poking the Entroware Kratos with a stick. We eventually talked him into comparing it against his daily driver.

• 11 Open Source Tools for Writers

• 3 Free Color-Picker Tools for the Linux Desktop

  Color pickers are tools that help you identify and pick colors from your desktop. This is very useful when doing image editing, web development work or other creative endeavors. There are several ways to pick colors on the Linux desktop, but we will show you three specific tools that will get the job done for you in an efficient manner.

• The Linux default industry standard

  Upon reading Open Source Application of the Week: Openshot Video Editor, I am wondering where I should put my stand on software diversity. There is one side that argues diversity of projects is important. The more alternatives we see, the healthier the Linux open source environment. The other side says, the more similar projects you get, the more you are at the risk of not channelling all your efforts into a single good one. Let’s take the above link as an example. It announces the progress done on the Openshot Video Editor. If you want to promote Linux widely, you can say that Linux needs an excellent and compelling video editor for people to switch from Windows or MacOS to Linux. Aside this background, is it good to focus efforts on the progress of Openshot and other related (minor) video editor projects, or is better to channelise all energy on the quasi standard project with the most probability to compete with the mainstream, i.e. Kdenlive?

• Oak Associates Ltd Buys DXC Technology Co, Red Hat Inc, Total System Services Inc, Sells NVIDIA Corp, Transocean, Becton, Dickinson and Co

• Surveying Shares of Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)

• Flock 2017 – I’m waiting for you, Cape Cod!

• [Videos] GUADEC 2017

• DebConf17 - Video Archive

• laser-cutter sprint

  So I'm overcoming my jetlag after DebConf17 by helping to make the Alioth sprint happen, and while it's good to witness work on the upcoming git.debian.org replacement, I'm rather minding my own business instead of getting involved…

• Google Confirms Android 8.0 Launch on August 21, Could Be Dubbed "Oreo"

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