2008 Google Summer of Code Highlights 101
andrewmin writes "SoC 2008 has begun, and with 175 organizations and 1125 students it looks better than ever before. Here's a quick run-down of a few programs that, if they are finished, will definitely be making their way onto your machine."
stop hating on mplayer (Score:5, Interesting)
I also dont understand the need for a frontend to aptitude, apt + front end is just as powerful, its only dependency resolution that hasn't been well implemented in other front ends.
Pidgin projects are cool (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:definitely be making their way onto your machin (Score:3, Interesting)
Me and GRUB have never gotten along, but maybe me and GRUB2 will...
Aside from that, that list is just a bunch of Gadgets/Widget/Nonsense... im not sure why the Editor/Poster just didnt do a write-up and link to http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ [google.com] or something a little more diverse and interesting.
Comment removed (Score:3, Interesting)
Cross-Platform? (Score:1, Interesting)
The "choice is good" mantra doesn't apply. Windows should look and act like Windows, and Mac OS X should look and act like Mac OS X.
Next thing you know, we have idiots coding things without the OS built-in GUI and we end up with crappy programs that look out of place and behave completely different to the whole OS and all other programs.
Re:Pidgin projects are cool (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Pidgin projects are cool (Score:4, Interesting)
Multithreading way more important. (Score:2, Interesting)
What a waste (Score:2, Interesting)
The rest of the crud the article mentioned? Wow... what a completely uninspiring and underwhelming list.
Oooh
Not that I have a problem with people working on its... its their time. But none of this is remotely 'must have' software.
Re:GRUB GUI? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:E17? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Record Speech as Tomboy Notes (Score:2, Interesting)
1. Whether it's a Tomboy project or not is really irrelevant because the speech-to-text part will probably be a library, anyway.
2. Putting the functionality in a note-taking application is probably a good choice because the software doesn't need to do real-time conversion. You record the note, close it, allow the software to convert to speech while you're working on stuff, and when you come back two days later to look at the idea you rattled off, the text is magically there. If the software is written correctly, it would even take your changes to the text as training forthe engine.
Re:Cross-Platform? (Score:3, Interesting)