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more »Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Provides New Features
Dec 09, 2008The second beta of Firefox 3.1 has arrived with a new JavaScript engine, data security mode and web worker threads.
more »Rehearsing for Big Opening: Opera 10 Alpha
Dec 05, 2008Opera measures up. With a new, faster version of the Presto engine and a 100/100 score in the Acid3 test, the browser might easily get under its competition’s skin.
more »Why Can't Computers Just Work All the Time?
Dec 04, 2008The feud between Minix inventor and operating system czar Andrew W. Tanenbaum and Linux Torvalds is legendary in the OS world. Before Linux there was Minix. Torvalds used to be a Minix user who set up his first Linux version in 1991 on Professor Tanenbaum’s operating system. Mr. Tanenbaum has now agreed to write a guest editorial for Linux Magazine. His opinion has not changed over the years: Linux (and Windows) are “unreliable.”
more »Fresh Moonlight
Dec 04, 2008Moonlight is the name of Novell's Linux implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight 1.0 technology. Moonlight is now available in a Beta version for 32 and 64 Bit Linux systems, albeit only for Firefox users.
more »Songbird 1.0 Takes Flight
Dec 04, 2008After many years of development, the Songbird open source software is finally released as version 1.0.
more »OpenSolaris Live CD 2008.11 with Distro Toolbox and Automated Install
Dec 03, 2008The OpenSolaris project has issued its second solid release with the Live CD 2008.11, which integrates subprojects such as the installer and package manager.
more »Mandriva Fires Two Developers
Dec 03, 2008Mandriva's financial situation appears to be none too rosy. At the end of the year, the distributor will terminate the employment of two of its freelance workers, Adam Williams, effectively the Community Manager, and Package Manager Oden Eriksson.
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