I upgraded my iBook G4 last week. Installed Ubuntu 7.04 ‘Feisty Fawn’
The little devil works better than ever! Thanks to the great work of the Ubuntu developers and the rest of the Free Software Community, I can now enjoy Compiz on my iBook. The touchpad works much better out of the box and [...]
News.com reports that Adobe is planning to open-source the Flash tool Flex next Wednesday.
Just like the ActionScript virtual machine, Flex will be released under the Mozilla Public License. Are my predictions comming true? Is this the start of open-source Flash?
Google has released a set of patches that improve the open source relational database MySQL.
MySQL has been used by Google for a very long time and over time Google’s engineers have added new functionality to the MySQL database, mostly in the areas of high availability and manageability. Last Monday Google decided to release their changes [...]
April 19th 2007, people from across the globe rush to the Ubuntu website and start downloading the latest Ubuntu release. With this new version of Ubuntu, Canonical wants to deliver the next step in the evolution of Linux on the desktop. Can they make it true? In this review we take a look at ‘Feisty Fawn’ and see what Canonical and the community delivered.
When talking to people about Free Software, the discussion always leads to a point where I’m trying to convince the person I’m talking to that Open Source software is better for a business than proprietary software. And by business I don’t just mean a company selling or developing software, I mean any company.
There’s a great article over at The Register about Vista’s advanced heuristic detection.
Apparently Vista checks whether or not a program needs admin rights to run by checking its filename…. Yeah that scared me too. To quote Microsoft:
Windows Vista heuristically detects installation programs and requests administrator credentials or approval from the administrator user in order to [...]
For those of you living in a cave for the past six months, yesterday was the official release date of Ubuntu 7.04 ‘Feisty Fawn’! Rejoice and celebrate this day!
Get more information about this exciting new release for www.ubuntu.com, check out the preview on this site or wait until our review is
completed! ISO files are available [...]
Microsoft recently unveiled Silverlight, their answer to Adobe’s Flash. While the most obvious thing about Silverlight has already been addressed (missing Linux support), another will be the upcomming battle between MS and Adobe. By positioning Silverlight directly as a competitor to Flash, Microsoft has already started the first round of what could become a battle [...]
Ever wondered how many different versions of Tux, the ubercool Linux penguin, there are? Then head over to the Tux Factory.
The site is in french but we all know that images have no language.
Apple has delayed the next Mac OSX release ‘Leopard’ until October 2007, instead of releasing at the WWDC in June.
According to the official statement by Apple, rushing out the iPhone required some borrowing some key engineers from the Mac OSX team and as a result Leopard won’t be finished in time.
Yeah, sure.
Seeing what a [...]