06.23.08
Links 23/06/2008: Small Update on Free Software in Kerala; Iceweasel 3 Download Day!
GNU/Linux
- [Kerala] All set for Linux users’ meet
- Developing the Neuros OSD: It Takes a Village
In retrospect, Born comments that they “presumably saw it as a threat to their proprietary software business.” As a result, Neuros wasn’t allowed to release any code if they wanted to.
The problems stemmed from Neuros’ adoption of Texas Instrument’s dual-core DM270 chipset for the Recorder and OSD. The chip was actually chosen with open source in mind—the “theory”, Born explains, is that any proprietary multimedia code would run on the DM270′s specialized multimedia chip (the DSP, digital signal processor), while open source code—a Linux-based firmware —would run on the DM270′s ARM chip. ARM is a commonplace architecture powering a large portion of the world’s PDAs, MP3 players, and cell phones.
- Installing applications on Linux
F/OSS
- Morals, Force and Freedomware
- Taking advantage of Open Source is the future for homebrew programmers and smart consumers.
- Iceweasel goes 3.0 too
Debian’s “Iceweasel” build of Firefox 3.0 is out.
- Review: Firefox 3.0
- Older Microsoft programs can act strangely
Actually, Virginia, this is fairly common. It usually happens when you have an older version of Microsoft Office (or Microsoft Works). Microsoft really wants all three programs — Office, Outlook and Outlook Express — to be the same version. When they’re not, odd things can happen. Among them is that Windows will often forget which e-mail client it has and hide the ability to change it.
Your best bet is to make sure you have the latest of everything — which is not cheap. You might want to look at OpenOffice (http://openoffice.org) as a replacement. It’s free and powerful. It does all the same stuff that Microsoft Office does.
Also free is Thunderbird (www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird), an e-mail program to replace Outlook Express. It’s another great program from the folks who gave us Firefox.
- Jaspersoft sings OEM agreement with Red Hat
Microsoft
- The future is bleak without XP
- Will Microsoft ever stop selling XP?
- Patch-blocking bug also stymies Microsoft’s WSUS
- My picks for Bill Gates’s 5 dumbest moves
GooHooSoft
- Ad Giant Publicis Applauds Google-Yahoo Deal
- Microsoft executive lashes out at Yahoo-Google deal
- Hard Looks in Yahoo-Google Ad Deal
- Google Being the Guy in Clothes at the Nude Beach?
