10th anniversary of OpenSource
Posted on February 9, 2008
Today(February 9th) is the 10th anniversary of the slogan OpenSource since Bruce Perens made it heard by public on February 9th 1998。
In a recent article, Mr Perens reviewed what has happened in the last ten years and commented on some of the big issues. Bruce Perens said that the core of the OpenSource is the end-user. It’s the end-user that makes everything possible.
OpenSource and FreeSoftware have influenced the whole IT industry in the last 10 years, and they have changed people’s understanding of the word innovation.
“Innovation has gone public. Many companies, institutions, and individuals share innovation on a daily basis, entirely in the open, through Free Software development communities.”
What’s gonna happen in the next 10 year? Nobody knows. But it’s said that in the next four year, about 80% of the software will be open source.
Bruce Perens also admitted that “Microsoft is still a problem”.
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Mobile Firefox screenshots
Posted on January 28, 2008
The mozilla has released the mobile Firefox screenshots.
In the screenshots we may see lots convenient features compared to the Opera MINI。
These shots are the ‘touch screen’ edition. The standard edition will released at a later time.
As we can see in the image, the toolbar contains the main functions. And we can learn that the mobile version will support Tabs.
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KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote
Posted on January 28, 2008
Aaron Seigo - President of KDE e.V. and Trolltech developer are introducing the new features of the KDE 4.0.
I’ve been trying to get used to the new KDE 4 in the last several days, but it gave me nothing but inconveniences and bugs. Lots of the wonderful apps in KDE 3.X can not run in the new desktop environment. It will take quite a long time than I had expected to dominate it.
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Nokia acquired Trolltech
Posted on January 28, 2008
Nokia today announced that it has acquired Trolltech, which is the originator of the famous and widely used QT framework。Nokia will offer NOK 16 about $153 million for the acquisition.
The deal will accelerate Nokia’s cross-platform software strategy both on mobile platform and PC platform.
As the core product of Trolltech, QT is the most basis of the well known Linux KDE desktop, which has announced several days ago that it will support the Windows and the Mac OS X operating system.
Nokia has occupied about 40% of the world’s mobile device market by the year of 2007.
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HP new dual-core costs only $465
Posted on January 27, 2008
The hardware pre-installed with the Eee PC makes the cheap notebook only a toy to the children. Here comes the real cheap adult toy—HP Presario F579WM Notebook PC。
The new HP notebook has a AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 120G hard drive, 1Gb of RAM, Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW, 15.4″ WXGA screen and more.
It costs only $465. And the price could be lowered if it has the pre-installed Windows vista Home Premium replaced by a Linux distribution.
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