Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Early Christmas, Part II

Okay, as expected, some more goodness:

And presumably there will be another very important release before new year, more on that soon :)

Early Christmas again :)

In case you missed, there’s a bunch of goodness released recently, for instance:

  • Hugin 2009.4 with basic lens calibration and control points cleanup
  • Enblend/Enfuse 4.0 with OpenMP support (multicore processing), new docs, multilayer TIFF support and more
  • FFADO 2.0.0 that supports lots of Firewire audio interfaces, including some of the evil hostile MOTU

I do have a suspicion that we are going to see some more interesting stuff next week despite of the coming holiday season. Um, and I already owe you two reviews :)

Back from CG event

For some reason I never attended previous “CG event” conferences in Moscow and now I’m back from one. I was actually expecting a lot of marketing stuff, but it turned out really, really interesting with lots of insights into game/movie VFX production, tools, workflows, project management and so on. And there are ideas we could borrow for LGM too :)

What hits the fan

Apparently, RMS did it again. What strucks me in all the recent discussions around RMS, Linus and GNOME is people who believe that RMS is right because of what he has done in the past. Just how much difficult is it to understand that it matters what a person says and not who the person is?

I still remember him sitting in our office in March 2008 with a childish sour face because the name of the company contained a “Linux”, but not a “GNU”. Sure, we all have our funny ways, but sometimes things you do grow big and become politics. And if you can’t handle politics, it’s better not to pretend you can get away with funny.

To whom it may…

Franco is back and kicking. We are going to release Qtpfsgui 2.0pre under a new name really soon now :)