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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 More info (Score -1) 329

by Pan T. Hose on Saturday October 08, 2005 @05:06PM (#13747823) Attached to: Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked

You can find a lot of useful informations here. Enjoy.

Journal Journal: Perl 6 Implemented ... in Haskell

Journal by Pan T. Hose on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @11:46AM

I submitted this story few minutes ago and it got instantly rejected, so let me repost it here in my journal:

Comment Good Job! (Score 1) 42

by The Turd Report on Monday February 21, 2005 @04:50PM (#11738868) Attached to: Jenna Kathleen Marotti

Congratz on the new kid. :)

Journal Journal: Modbombing on Unprecedented Scale 4

Journal by Pan T. Hose on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @10:07AM

I have already described many strange moderations in the past, I have posted results of my research, but I haven't seen anything like this ever before.

Journal Journal: Proper Blind Test of $2500 AC Power Cords 2

Journal by Pan T. Hose on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @11:10AM

I submitted this story few hours ago and it just got rejected. Fortunately I saved the text so writing it was not a total waste of time and I can at least repost it here:

Journal Journal: Slashdot Forces Typographical Errors 2

Journal by Pan T. Hose on Thursday February 10, 2005 @10:18AM

Somewhen after this post and before this one, Slashdot started to silently convert dashes to double hyphens,

Comment Yeah (Score 1) 439

by slashfucker on Wednesday February 09, 2005 @10:12PM (#11625487) Attached to: Mac mini Maximized With 3.5" Drives

Next up, a kit to make your Ferrari look just like a Pontiac Fiero!

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

Journal Journal: Will I write a novel in November? 4

Journal by Pan T. Hose on Saturday October 23, 2004 @08:03PM

I thought so but later doubted it. Now I am unsure.

Journal Journal: I doubt I will write a novel in November

Journal by Pan T. Hose on Saturday October 23, 2004 @07:59PM

I thought I would write a novel in November but I have just come to the conclusion thah it might be sadly much less likely than I previously thought.

Journal Journal: Foreigners Influencing US Presidential Election 1

Journal by Pan T. Hose on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @09:11AM

In a recent Guardian article, Oliver Burkeman thoroughly explains how non-Americans could hypothetically have a chance of influencing the outcome of the United States Presidential Election by writing to undecided voters in the crucial state of Ohio and contacting the US media. In the first three days after publishing, more than 11,000 people requested addresses, but

Journal Journal: I think I will write a novel in November

Journal by Pan T. Hose on Monday October 18, 2004 @03:25PM

I think I will write a novel in November, The National Novel Writing Month, mentioned on Slashdot in the Kamikaze Novel Writing story. It seems like a good idea. I might need some practicing but there is over a week left. OK, here we go.

The night was...

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