We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what we’ve called ‘trustworthy’ in previous posts), and the platform (the focus of Beta 1, how developers around the world will build the next billion web pages and the next waves of great services).
Hopefully IE8 will fix some quirks from IE7 and us (web developers) can have a decent time. Also i would love to see Microsoft making the minimal browser requirement on their sites to be ie7 so we can dump that nightmare called IE6
I'm a little late with this news, but hey, it's a news worth mentioning.
As announced on the website of the Syllable OS project, Genode has been ported to the server version of Syllable OS. Kaj de Vos of the Syllable project also considers the incorporation of Genode into the desktop version of Syllable, which would be a very interesting synergy.
Maybe this will speed up the development of Syllable OS.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
For those of you who don't know Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. It is not an emulator (the name says it all Wine Is Not an Emulator ) but a free implementation of Windows's Api on Unix.
It seems that Foresight it's an interesting distribution but still has it's quirks.
By any standard, Foresight Linux is a well-designed, throughly modern distribution that takes full advantage of GNOME's steady improvements in usability and customization over the last few years. (...) However, once you venture outside daily use, in some ways Foresight is less user-friendly than many leading distributions. (...) These problems should be solved.
You can read about the Summer Of Code projects status, the QT/KDE 4 port and many others. Also don't forget to lend a hand if you can in updating the FreeBSD FAQ.
Laptopmag.com held an interview with David Liu regarding the recent release of gOS 3 beta, the possible competition from the Ubuntu Netbook Remix and about the future of Linux on the desktop.
A new 64 bit version of MenuetOS was released that brings support for USB2.0 printers
For those of you that don't know what MenuetOS is here's a resume from their website
MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language, and released under the License. It supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications.
