Extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, whatever you want to call ‘em, Firefox 3 has ‘em. In fact, though it may seem that many of your favorites haven’t yet updated, you might be in luck. By visiting the home pages of several of the plug-ins I use, I found that most of them had either a functional, stable [...]
As Bill Gates prepares to walk away from Microsoft, both the man and the company he founded will face challenges getting along without each other, according to the new issue of Newsweek magazine.
Gates, who is stepping down from his full-time role at Microsoft this week to focus on his $37 billion charitable foundation, is the [...]
BOSTON–Linux specialist Red Hat has announced it is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will complement, rather than compete with, its existing virtualization strategy.
Launched here on the first day of the company’s annual user conference, the Embedded Linux Hypervisor is currently in beta, and no commitment has been made as to when the [...]
People have been wondering about Jerry Yang all week. He’s been quiet since the NYTimes article calling for his head was published last weekend.
This isn’t an issue of him simply being out of town. He was in Washington D.C. on Wednesday meeting with Congressional members (Sen. Herb Kohl (D., Wis.), Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin [...]
MontaVista Software, a specialist in embedded Linux commercialisation, has announced that MontaVista Mobilinux 5.0 has been optimised to develop low-cost, low-power consumer products on the Freescale i.MX31 processor.
Designed for wireless devices running computationally intensive multimedia applications such as portable media players and portable navigation devices, the i.MX31 applications processor and MontaVista Mobilinux offer power-saving capabilities [...]
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed two more copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of the developers of the Linux-based BusyBox utility suite. The suits have been filed against Bell Microproducts and SuperMicro Computer for alleged GPL violations, according to a Linux-Watch story.
Each of the companies have violated redistribution stipulations of the GNU General [...]
Are there many high quality commercial games available for Linux? That’s one of the frequently asked questions we receive in our mailbox every week.
It is true to say that the number of commercial games released for Linux each year remains small compared to other platforms. Nevertheless, we faced lots of difficult choices compiling a list of 42 of the [...]
pshuke writes “After 15 years of development, Wine version 1.0 has been released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. While perfect windows compatibility has not yet been achieved, full support for Photoshop CS2, Excel Viewer 2003, Word Viewer 2003 and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 have [...]
“The Mozilla Developer News blog is reporting Firefox 3 will be released on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you’re invited to the party! From the website: ‘After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready.
It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 [...]
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