{"id":160,"date":"2005-02-07T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=160"},"modified":"2005-02-07T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T20:08:22","slug":"stop-the-presses-two-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Presses! Two Breaking News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have not one, but <em>two<\/em> big stories:<\/p>\n<p>1. First of all, <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/02\/07\/1130225\">Slackware 10.1 was released<\/a> today. You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/slackware.at\/data\/slackware-10.1\/ANNOUNCE.10_1\">announcement<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/slackware.at\/data\/slackware-10.1\/ChangeLog.txt\">ChangeLog<\/a> (complete with a personal note from Patrick Volkerding, Slackware developer). You can download the whole thing; just go to <a href=\"http:\/\/alphageek.dyndns.org\/linux\/slackware-mirrors.shtml\">AlphaGeek&#8217;s mirrors list<\/a> to grab the ISOs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2. Another piece of news which I think is going to be very significant is the announcement by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trolltech.no\">TrollTech<\/a> that they extended the Qt dual licensing model to Qt\/Windows.  So, what does that mean?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trolltech.com\/products\/qt\/index.html\">Qt<\/a> is a programmer&#8217;s toolkit for the building of graphical applications. It has programming code for widgets such as the OK button, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc., and is the backbone of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kde.org\">K Desktop Environment<\/a>.  Qt is a very high quality toolkit that was previously available only under a proprietary license in Windows. However, if you used an Unix operating system, you had a choice: if you wanted to release your applications as Free Software, you could have a Qt license under the terms of the GNU GPL. On the other hand if you wwanted to release your application as proprietary software, Qt could sell you a proprietary Qt license, at a price.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, you didn&#8217;t have that choice under Windows. You had to buy the proprietary license. Now, you can also get the choice of either GPL or proprietary in Windows.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is a very good development who could potentially spur the creation of scores of high quality Free Software apps for Windows.  Even we might expect, in due time, a release of KDE for Windows :D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have not one, but two big stories: 1. First of all, Slackware 10.1 was released today. You can read the announcement and the ChangeLog (complete with a personal note from Patrick Volkerding, Slackware developer). You can download the whole thing; just go to AlphaGeek&#8217;s mirrors list to grab the ISOs. 2. Another piece&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}