Top 3 Features of Mozilla Firefox 4
Developers have proposed an out-of-the-world browsing experience for Mozilla Firefox 4. Here is a user who peeks into those features and gives us insight. Taragana.com looks at Mozilla initiatives that might make it into Firefox 4.
Wayland: Nano Display and Compositing Manager
Kristian Hogsberg, Red Hat Xorg developer and the key person behind successful projects such as AIGLX, has now started working on a new project called Wayland, a tiny display server and compositing manager.
Windows 7 Preview
A long and detailed preview of Windows 7 appeared on ActiveWin. Many screenshots included. "It's safe to say I am overwhelmed, overjoyed and most of all excited about Windows 7", the author concludes.
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Russinovich on MinWin; New Taskbar on Build 6801
Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference might be over, but that doesn't mean news about Windows 7 suddenly stops coming in. We have news for you on the elusive MinWin kernel, which created a sort of crazy hype a year ago, and Rafael Rivera found a way to enable the new taskbar on the pre-beta build handed out to PDC attendees. This build, carrying number 6801, didn't have the latest taskbar revamp - you needed a newer build for that, build 6933, which hasn't been released to the public.
Healing the Rift Between Wikipedia and Creative Commons
Open Enterprise: "There is an irony at the heart of the open content world: that the two biggest successes there -- Wikipedia and the Creative Commons movement -- cannot share content."
Is a Political Endorsement Appropriate for a Technical Site?
O'Reilly Radar: "A number of people have responded to my endorsement of Barack Obama with complaints that it is inappropriate for a tech publisher to publish on political issues. While most of the people responding to the post have either been supportive, or thoughtfully countered one or more of my arguments, a number of people have threatened to stop buying from O'Reilly as a result of my endorsement."
What's Up With the GNOME Linux Desktop?
InternetNews: "It takes money and it takes new ideas to build a better desktop, both of which are being raised by the open source GNOME Foundation. GNOME is one of the most popular Linux desktop GUIs and is included in nearly every Linux distribution."
Examining Alternative Linux Distributions
InformIT: "Have you tried the major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora/RHEL, and OpenSUSE/SLED? Were they not quite right for your needs? The major distros are not the only game in town. Find out the good, the bad, and the ugly about three of the best-known alternatives to the "big" user distros."
BD+ Busted - Blu-ray on Linux One Step Closer?
Hardware 2.0: "A small group of dedicated researchers over on the Doom9 forum have successfully defeated BD+, the Blu-ray copy-protection system. This was the copy-protection mechanism that Richard Doherty, a media analyst with Envisioneering Group, claimed wouldn’t likely be broken for 10 years."
FSF Releases New Version of GNU Free Documentation License
FSF.org: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the release of version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL). This version of the license allows public wikis to relicense their FDL-covered materials under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 3.0 license."
Bilski: What It Means, Part 1 -- Red Hat on What It Means for FOSS
Groklaw: "First, in a simplified nutshell, here is what Bilski means to everyone: You can't get patents any more on a pure mental process. You can no longer patent a process that you can think through all in your mind. In other words, abstract ideas are not patentable."
The Robot: Successful Installation of Debian onto the Alix 3c2 Board
Adam's Tech Talk: "The Alix 3c2 main board arrived in good health and works well. On the underside is a 512MB CF card and an Atheros MiniPCI Wifi. I've soldered single core wire to the I2C bus pinout. GND, CLK, Data & +3v."
Faces Behind Popular Programming Languages
yabBlog: "After the popularity of Faces behind Popular Linux Distros, here's another article about faces behind popular programming language."
5 Things Every Linux Adminstrator Knows
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "There are 5 things that every good Linux Administrator knows. Do you know what they are? They are in no particular order of importance:"
3 Out of 10 Asus PCs Run Desktop Linux
Cyber Cynic: "I don't get it. Why in the world are people reporting that seven out of ten Asus PCs is news. Hello. Wake up call. Nine in ten PCs, counting Macs as PCs, are already running Windows. The news, the real news, is that three out of ten Asus PCs are being sold with Linux."
Innovation past and future: the Hidden Cost of Venture Capital
Standards Blog: "If you hail from one of the hot beds of high tech - Silicon Valley, say, or (in my case) the Route 128/495 area of Massachusetts, you've doubtless heard the phrase "serial entrepreneur...But should this really be a compliment?"
Asus (Re)Spins $200 Netbook
LinuxDevices: "Netbook pioneer Asus will introduce a new version of its Eee PC (left) next year for just $200, says company president Jerry Shen. The company has also teamed up with Intel to launch a new website, intended to bring about the "world's first community-designed PCs.""
Federal Circuit Reins in Business Method Patents
Freedom to Tinker: "The decision is surprising because the Federal Circuit has until recently been strongly in favor of expanding patent rights."
Mono's SIMD Support: Making Mono safe for Gaming
Miguel de Icaza's web log: "I believe we are the first VM for managed code that provides an object-oriented API to the underlying CPU SIMD instructions. In short, this means that developers will be able to use the types in the Mono.Simd library and have those mapped directly to efficient vector operations on the hardware that supports it."
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