“Yesterday Mozilla received the official Guinness World Record certificate for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.” From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!”
“Basically the main aim for Gtk+ 3.0 is to clean up everything..New features are planned for versions coming afterwards….One notable idea though is to flag all dropped functions as “deprecated” in an upcoming GTK+ 2.x release. The GNOME release team also plans to drop unnecessary/old code and to clean up the code base, and again the plan is to make this transition as smooth as possible. Additionally, it is planned to come up with a two-sided release schedule: there will be a release every six months, but there will also be long time rhythm for larger aims and features.”
Apparently the 2nd largest bank in the US doesn’t support Firefox on its websites. According to Tara Burke, a BoA spokeswoman, “we will be initiating a full support model for Firefox version 2.x in the very near future.” LOL.
“After nearly a year of hard work, Sabayon team has released their new Gentoo based Linux, SabayonLinux 3.5 on 1st July 2008. Sabayon is the most successful project in making Gentoo beginner friendly. Sabayon differs from Gentoo in the following areas.
“In summary, OpenSUSE 11.0 is a stable and powerful Linux distribution, but one that doesn’t accommodate the inexperienced Linux user. It may be just the thing for your servers, but day-to-day and even business desktop users may want to lean toward a more user-friendly distribution.”
“…many new users simply ignore because it’s got too much of a geek stigma is Debian. This is one of the original distros, first pubbed back in the early ’90s, with a long history of development. And in fact, many of the new distro darling packages are based on Debian, including Ubuntu. Debian’s maturity, however, has several advantages…”
‘Ideally, a team can configure a package once, reproduce it, and test it automatically through the openSUSE code repository, with several different Linux distributions supported. Build Service 1.0 allows developers to create Linux packages for openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Debian, Fedor, Mandriva, Red Hat, Ubuntu and CentOS. All other build services are based around one Linux OS, so having an ability to upstream projects for eight different popular Linux distributions should be popular among developers.”
A bloggers list of top proposed features in Fedora 10:
More information about the software portal is available at: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2008-July/msg00034.html.
Screenshots of it:
The answer to the how do I? question comes to this:
Canonical hooks up with ValuSoft to distribute Ubuntu in the US. A boxes set includes an Ubuntu 8.04 CD, quick start guide, and “60 days of support from the ValuSoft team, trained and backed by the Canonical support guys. The support covers installation and getting started using Ubuntu and is priced at $19.99.”
“1. To display a static green arrow over the open TSA security lanes at Detroit Metro I kid you not, at the main security checkpoint to get into Detroit Metro there are monitors over each metal detector. The ONLY thing those monitors ever display is a big green arrow pointing down. Oh, occasionally they display a blue screen with a Windows error notice.”
“Last Friday, OpenMoko launched its highly anticipated FreeRunner smartphone, a Linux-based handset that’s completely open in both hardware and software, and is designed to encourage third-party modification and customization. Although the FreeRunner’s software platform is still incomplete, the device has attracted considerable attention from mobile software developers and Linux enthusiasts.”
“The Australian Open Source community has called for the consideration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the implementation of the Rudd Government’s Digital Education Revolution Policy. In an open letter that was submitted last week to the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gilliard, members of the community expressed its support of the Government’s investment in Australian ICT capabilities, education and training.”
“THE THREAT OF REPRISALS from Microsoft lawyers has stopped Becta, the UK’s technology quango for schools, from publishing the details of the three-year megadeal it agreed with Microsoft in April. Microsoft already forbids Becta from saying how much money UK schools spend on its software. The US multinational has also forbidden the British people from knowing how much it is charging their schools for its software.”
“Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. has touted its “green computing” image following a recent independent test that ranked Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5’s power efficiency over Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on three different hardware platforms.
The server tests rated power consumption on IBM, Dell and HP machines in three conditions: active mode optimized for power savings, active mode optimized for performance and quiet mode.”
