{"id":90,"date":"2007-05-17T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T09:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=90"},"modified":"2007-05-17T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T09:56:12","slug":"envy-in-open-source-projects-15-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/envy-in-open-source-projects-15-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Envy in \u201cOpen Source Projects: 15 To Watch\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning ridgeland<\/strong>, a user of UbuntuForums, sent me an email with a link to one of Matt Hartley<\/strong>‘s article, \u201cOpen Source Projects: 15 To Watch\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Reading this article made me very happy. Knowing that my work is appreciated is by far one of the most satisfying experiences I can have.<\/p>\n

Here is the introduction of the article, just to give you an idea of what the article is about:<\/p>\n

Within the past few years, the software movement known as \u201copen source\u201d has gained serious traction over its proprietary cousins. As it has taken hold of the mainstream, many of these applications \u2013 like Firefox and Thunderbird \u2013 are used everyday, without a second thought as to their origins.<\/p>\n

But what about the apps that are headed toward center stage, yet are still under development even though they demonstrate considerable promise? Here\u2019s a survey of some of these programs, including what they do and how they\u2019ll affect open source as a functional alternative in the future: <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here is the part about Envy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

11) Envy
\nEnvy is a video driver installation utility that helped to take the pain out of installing NVIDIA and ATI drivers for thousands of Ubuntu and Debian users alike. Always under constant development, the creator of this project has been able to provide a real model of open source software efficiency.
\nTo me, what stood out the most was the level of support the creator of this utility offers. It’s almost beyond comprehension how much time he has invested in helping people get their video card issues straightened out.
\nReasons to watch this open source project: Utilities like Envy, quite frankly, make or break Linux adoption for the new user. And because of the success rate that people have had with Envy instead of using Ubuntu’s Feisty restricted option, which has a mixed success rate, new users will be giving the Linux platform a second chance \u2013 all thanks to Envy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning ridgeland, a user of UbuntuForums, sent me an email with a link to one of Matt Hartley‘s article, \u201cOpen Source Projects: 15 To Watch\u201d. Reading this article made me very happy. Knowing that my work is appreciated is by far one of the most satisfying experiences I can have. Here is the introduction […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-python","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}