I did a screencast yesterday of getting Firefox 2.0 yourself on Linux, at FOSSwire, which also features a lot of Linux/FOSS tutorials, tips, reviews, articles etc.
If you want to know how to install Firefox on Linux yourself, then this screencast is for you!
Enjoy.
It’s here. I’m going to test it out shortly, but Flash Player 9 Beta 2 for Linux is here according to Adobe.
I’ve just finished a mammoth sized review of Mandriva Free 2007.
Steve Ballmer says:
“The fact that that product [Linux as an OS] uses our patented intellectual property is a problem for our shareholders. We spend $7 billion a year on R&D, our shareholders expect us to protect or license or get economic benefit from our patented innovations. So how do we somehow get the appropriate economic return for our patented innovation, and how do we do interoperability. The truth is, because of the complex licensing around the GPL, we actually didn’t want to do one without the other.”
I say:
Face it, Mr Steve. You’ve sold out and had to finally not only admit Linux is here to stay, but you had to do something about it. And go on, prove that FOSS violates your patents – give me some real evidence and I might be convinced.
Greed is a nasty human tendency, isn’t it?
UPDATE: It seems Ballmer really is off his rocker not in agreement with Novell on this, as this open letter from Novell tells us. I am slightly reassured.
If anyone wants to use BoxCheck (a Firefox extension that allows you to shift-click to select multiple tick boxes on web forms) on Firefox 2.0, I’ve updated it to make it compatible.
Note that this is hacked – all I’ve done is change the supported versions in the script to work with 2.0. It works for me, but if it eats your Firefox, don’t come complaining (execute FF with -safe-mode to remove it if it kills it).
You will have to add me to the list of allowed sites to install software, but don’t worry, it’s pure BoxCheck just with a hacked install file (you can verify for yourself, just Save Target As the .xpi, rename to .zip and explore it).
Tutorial on how to hack your favourite FF 1.5.x extensions to work with FF 2.0 coming soon.
Apparently, Sun are announcing and releasing GPL’ed Java today (possibly at 16:30 my time, GMT, but I could well have done the conversion wrong).
This will be awesome and will hopefully not only strengthen Java as a platform as Linux developers move to Java and build cross-platform applications, but hopefully it will also get Linux working even better out of the box.
Very interesting…
Listen to the special Novell Open Audio report here.
Apple just upgraded the MacBook to Core 2 Duo. And I didn’t even realise the Core 2 did 64-bit either!
I want one.
But I also want Leopard, so I’ll see you in the spring, MacBook Core 2 Duo… with 64-bit Leopard and all my KDE apps running on top of OS X.
In completely unrelated news, I now officially consider myself a Linux geek as I successfully compiled my own kernel and got it to run on my spare machine under Ubuntu.
Beat that kernel name! Hosted on ZooomrThe fact that the code is exactly the same as the vanilla 2.6.18.2 release is completely irrelevant and coincidental! 😛
The tutorial I used to build the kernel is here.
Come on, you know what this is about.
But I’m really not sure where I stand on this.
On the one hand, there’s a chance that this could help FOSS and interoperability, but at the same time, Microsoft is a company. Companies want to make profit – as much of the damn stuff as possible; and MS will make more profit in a world without FOSS. I just can’t help thinking this is the first stage of embrance, extend and extinguish.
I really hope Novell aren’t stabbing the community in the back. Only time will tell, I guess.
I’ll certainly be listening to the Novell Open Audio on this subject, to hear their point of view.
If you’re using the new Firefox 2.0 on Linux and you’re wondering where the backspace functionality to go back one page went, well, apparently they changed it to fit with other Linux conventions.
If you want the old backspace goes back a page feature (I like it this way), then there’s thankfully a really easy fix!
Browse to about:config. Search for browser.backspace_action and change the value to 0.
Enjoy!
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