(LGPL License Option Added to Qt) Espoo, Finland — Nokia today announced that its Qt cross-platform User Interface (UI) and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009. Previously, Qt has been made [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Linux category.
X.Org Flash plugin font problems
I noticed on one of my systems running Debian Linux, some fonts where not displayed correctly (or not at all) when viewing pages using Flash. This page led me to a solution for this problem. In my case, I only needed to install the gsfonts-x11 package. Now Flash appears to be working correctly.
Linux on a Toshiba Satellite A45-S130: Part II
Part II – Electric Boogaloo In Part I, our intrepid hero used Knoppix’s Linux Live CD to determine that the Toshiba Satellite A45-S130 would run Linux without any problems with incompatible hardware. At the end of Part I, we were led to believe our hero would next repartition the hard drive and possibly install Mandrake [...]
Linux on a Toshiba Satellite A45-S130: Part I
Part I – Will it even work? I bought this Toshiba laptop back February because it supposedly works well with Linux. After 8 months of muddling along with Windows XP, I decided to get serious and install Linux. Rather than going through the trouble of repartitioning the hard disk and installing Linux only to find [...]
Building XEmacs 21.1.14 on a Mandrake Linux 8.2 System
I recently ran in to a couple of problems building XEmacs 21.1.14 under Mandrake Linux 8.2. While running configure, I got the following: *** PANIC *** The C compiler can no longer build working executables. *** PANIC *** Please examine the tail of config.log for runtime errors. *** PANIC *** The most likely reason for [...]
