Fennec: No More Mozilla Browser for Windows Mobile
The lead developer of Mozilla's mobile group has announced in his blog that development of Fennec on Windows Mobile has been put indefinitely on hold.
Stuart Parmenter, responsible for mobile device development at the Mozilla Foundation, shared with everyone in his blog the reasons for the Windows Mobile retraction. According to Parmenter, "Microsoft has unfortunately decided to close off development to native applications." It seems that anyone wishing to write a program for Microsoft's mobile platform has to do so in Silverlight or XNA (mainly for games).
Even though Parmeter finds the new Windows platform "interesting," neither of the two programming options could be considered for a well performing mobile Firefox. Fennec development would then be concentrated appropriately on the Android and Maemo/MeeGo platforms, which do have corresponding SDKs that allow programming of native applications.
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SCO Rises from the Swamp
Longtime litigator revives an ancient suit against IBM alleging Linux infringes on Unix copyrights.
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UberStudent Project Releases UberStudent 3.0
Specialty distro keeps the focus on advanced learning.
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openSUSE Conference Approaches
The openSUSE Conference will be held July 18-22, 2013, at the Olympic Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Drupal.org Hacked
Security breached at home sites of the CMS project.
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Oracle Takes Action on Java Security
Lead Java developer vows policy changes and more attention to fixing problems.
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Google and NASA Partner in Quantum Computing Project
Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
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Mageia Project Announces Mageia 3 Linux
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
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FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
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Debian 7.0 Debuts
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
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Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.