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Bruce Byfield discusses animation in OpenOffice.org Impress in a Linux Journal article.

"Animation is one of the less-known features in OpenOffice.org Impress. Its most obvious uses are for transitions for individual objects on a slide (rather than for the entire slide), or for dramatic emphasis and calling attention to objects.

By Bruce Byfield on October 14, 2008 Share Comments A common charge against free and open source software is that it lacks the ability to innovate.

jammag writes "When Linux journalist Bruce Byfield tried to dig for details about the security breach in Fedora's servers, a Red Hat publicist told him the official statement — written in non-informative corporate-speak — was all he would get.

In the wake of Red Hat's tight-lipped handling of the breach, even Fedora's board was unhappy, as Byfield details.

By Bruce Byfield on September 08, 2008 Share Comments Download management is one of the larger categories on the Firefox Add-ons site , but while hundreds of extensions fall under this category, they are a ...

By Bruce Byfield on August 11, 2008 Share Comments The Free Software Foundation can cross off another item on its high priority list of applications that free software needs in order to compete.

StoneLion writes "After months of development and controversy, the KDE project announced the release of KDE 4.1 today.

Linux.com (a Slashdot sister site) took a hands-on look at the new code, and reviewer Jeremy LaCroix says, 'KDE 4.1 simply rocks.'" Bruce Byfield's review is quite positive, as well.

By Bruce Byfield on July 21, 2008 Share Comments Where most computer science departments emphasize theory and mention free and open source software only indirectly, Seneca College in Toronto, Canada, offers a ...

By Bruce Byfield on July 16, 2008 Share Comments The reasons for the user revolt against KDE 4, which we reported on yesterday , are still being sorted out.

Joe Barr writes "Bruce Byfield reports at Linux.com that a Swedish developer, Goran Fransson, has 'given a deposition in the Barracuda-Trend Micro case that appears to seriously undermine Trend Micro's patent on gateway virus scanning.' Gransson has resurrected a product (still in its shrinkwrap) sold by Ten Four, the company he worked for at the time, to prove that it provided gateway virus scanning in January 1995.

Trend Micro's patent application was filed in September of that year.

By Bruce Byfield on June 04, 2008 Share Comments Note-taking applications are far from scarce on GNU/Linux desktops.