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Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation 239

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 26, 2007 @05:47PM from the fewer-fowl-feather-firefox's-flanks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a 'new separate organizational setting' as the Mozilla Foundation focuses more and more on Mozilla Firefox. Citing a blog post by Chief Lizard Wrangler Mitchell Baker, MozillaZine outlines the three possibilities for Thunderbird that are being considered: 'one is to create a entirely new non-profit, which would offer maximum independence for Thunderbird but is organisationally complex. A second option is to create a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation for Thunderbird, which would keep the Mozilla Foundation involved but may mean that Thunderbird continues to be neglected in favour of Firefox. A final option is to recast Thunderbird as community project, similar to SeaMonkey, and set up a small independent services and consulting company to continue development. However, there are concerns over how the Thunderbird product, project and company would interact'. Lead Thunderbird developer Scott MacGregor favours the third option."

Submission + - Linux Gains Completely Fair Scheduler (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by SchedFred on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @05:47PM

SchedFred writes: KernelTrap is reporting that Ingo Molnar's Completely Fair Scheduler, or CFS, was just merged into the Linux Kernel. The new CPU scheduler includes a pluggable framework that completely replaces Molnar's earlier O(1) scheduler, and is described to "model an 'ideal, precise multi-tasking CPU' on real hardware. CFS tries to run the task with the 'gravest need' for more CPU time. So CFS always tries to split up CPU time between runnable tasks as close to 'ideal multitasking hardware' as possible." The new CPU scheduler should improve the desktop Linux experience, and will be part of the upcoming 2.6.23 kernel.

Comment Zero-sum game (Score 1) 630

by crrobinson14 on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:48AM (#15120987) Attached to: Aero To Be Unavailable To Pirates

This is a zero-sum play by Microsoft. They're doing this to increase Windows revenues because they've sold about all they can sell, so growing the revenue base is getting much harder. But how many of these hackers will actually buy a legitimate copy once they're forced to?

Microsoft has this habit of making bold plans that eventually backfire. Software Assurance and .Net (the original .Net, Passport-based centralized authentication controlled by Microsoft) are two examples of this. I see a danger area here. They could actually HELP increase Linux adoption rates by forcing hackers to stop using Windows. All those thieves out there are surely not going to go legit just to get Aero.

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