Being an Android fan, I couldn’t resist buying the latest and greatest in tablets on this platform, the Motorola Xoom. This post will give you some more insights on how I think this device and its platform performs, its strong and weak points and how I feel it has enriched my life. So let’s get [...]
Some time ago, The Linux Foundation opened up a contest for creating a promotion video for Linux… These are the winners, enjoy… 1st place: 2nd place (my favorite): 3rd place (also better than the winner imho :p): Congratulations to these authors! – Extra (this movie was included in the 5 finalists, but unfortunately didn’t make [...]
I’ve stumbled upon an interesting article lining out the 2009 roadmap for CodeWeavers. CodeWeavers is the commercial implementation of the Wine project, allowing Windows applications to run on Linux & Mac platforms. The CodeWeavers people have already put in great support for DirectX 9 in their latest version for gaming, and it seems they are [...]
Over at Computerworld, there’s a very interesting article about the new version of Samba. For the first time, there is a real alternative for Microsoft Active Directory on Linux. While the FOSS world already has a certain amount of Directory Servers like Apache Directory Server, Fedora Directory Server, OpenDS and others, none of them have [...]
Over at informationweek.com one of their authors has posted an article about what needs fixing in Linux. While I’m not going to repeat what they said there (I’m sure you all can quite read it for yourselves). I do want to discuss a few things about it here. It seems that this writer does not [...]
More good news in Linux-land. It seems that Moonlight, the open-source version of the Microsoft Silverlight platform, is soon going to be releasing a beta version of their 1.0 branch. This is very good news indeed, as it will enable Linux users to run Silverlight websites natively. Since the development is sponsored by Novell, and [...]
Adobe has announced yesterday the release of a 64-bit version of their popular Flash player. Currently the player is in beta-phase. This version is currently only available for Linux users, and can be obtained here. This decission was made because 64-bit Linux distributions don’t ship with a 32-bit browser by default. Neither do they usually [...]
Wonderful news from the Open Source World… Ubuntu 8.10 has been released on Thursday. Using kernel version 2.6.27, Gnome 2.24 and Xorg 7.4, this new version has some cutting edge technology under the hood! On the software side, you can expect the usual goodies like OpenOffice (still version 2.x though), FireFox 3, The Gimp and [...]
The head Linux kernel developer & creator, Linus Torvalds, has added a large amount of patches into the main development branch of Linux. One of the patches allows the new file-system to present itself as ext4, instead of ext4dev, which suggests that this new Ext-version is finally getting out of development phase. However this does [...]
Yesterday, Microsoft announced in a press release the newest version of Silverlight, which is available for download starting from today. This new version, which is supposed to be an even more fierceful competitor for Adobe’s popular Flash player, looks very promising. Among one of the most eye-catching improvements is the promise that this new version [...]
