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Submission + - Demonology '08 (kuro5hin.org)

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Guilty Rim Loon

on Friday January 11, 2008 @07:38PM

Guilty Rim Loon writes: "In the new year the Berkeley Software Distribution family of Unix-like operating systems is growing at a phenomenal rate and excitement over the possibilities for this operating system family is in the air. After unprecedented development and adoption as well as major shifts in the marketplace, it's time to take a look at what's new with this demonic family of operating systems. Don't fear, the word demon means Unix goodness at just the right price."

Firefox 3.0 Makes Leap Forward 401

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 25, 2007 @11:46AM from the go-you-crazy-dino-go dept.

Kurtz'sKompund writes "Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.0 has passed a major milestone! The Places feature has been added to the alpha client slated for release next week. Places is a complete re-work of the bookmarking and history browser functions. It was at one point slated for Firefox 2.0, but will instead see release in Mozilla's next major version. '"We enabled the Places implementation of bookmarks on the trunk," said the Places team in a post to the Mozilla developer center blog. "Although there is still much to be done, this is an important milestone for us." Firefox 3.0 alpha 5 is scheduled to launch June 1. Because Places uses the open-source SQLite database engine to store and retrieve bookmarks and history entries, it's incompatible with earlier Firefox editions' bookmarks. Alpha users must convert their existing entries, Mozilla developers said."

Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu 608

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 22, 2007 @05:29PM from the one-unhappy-penguin dept.

narramissic writes "After 13 years as a loyal Red Hat user, Eric Raymond, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, is switching to the Ubuntu distribution. In a message distributed to Linux mailing lists and news organizations, Raymond cited technical issues with Red Hat, such as the way repositories are maintained, the submission process and 'stagnant' development of Red Hat's packaging technology, as well as governance problems, the failure to gain desktop market share and the failure to include proprietary media formats. 'Over the last five years, I've watched Red Hat/Fedora throw away what was at one time a near-unassailable lead in technical prowess, market share and community prestige,' Raymond wrote. 'The blunders have been legion on both technical and political levels.'"

Sun To Choose GPL For Open-Sourcing Java 407

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @11:10PM from the open-'er-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "Sun is about to announce its plans for open-sourcing Java SE and ME, according to CRN — and they're going to use the GPL, not their own CDDL or another less-restrictive license."

Comment Re:I'll take four (Score -1) 922

by TRoLLaXoR on Wednesday December 29, 2004 @10:10AM (#11208439) Attached to: Think Secret Predicts Sub-$500 Headless Mac

s/last year/from '95 through '97

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