Well, the flexible devfs (device filesystem in kernel mode) which saw light since 2.4.x have been removed from the the main kernel tree. The removal of devfs have been discussed for more than a year, mainly because it was deprecrated by udev (which does the devfs job but in user-level), and partly because devfs is […]
News sources from the net revealed that the latest ThunderHawk Pocket PC 2.1 from BitStream will have Java 1.5.0 support. The PocketPC reportedly includes Java 1.5.0 full-desktop capabilities so that applets behave exactly the same on mobile devices as they do on desktop devices. Previously PocketPC users have to be content with 3rd party JVM […]
I read about this announcement from MozillaZine. The release focuses on minor bugfix on previous Mozilla Firefox release 1.0.4. The most notable bugfix included in this test build is the spoofable Javascript Dialog Box vulnerability that would lead attacker into tricking and trick the user into entering his/her account information inside the fake password dialog […]
Well I dont know how to write a good english essay, let alone write an inspiring one. But the story I want to present below is quite related to start a good and decent open source project that will definitely pay off. Take a lesson from the Matchbox project which was published on Newsforge a […]
Mozilla Firefox browser which is developed by Mozilla Foundation faced criticism by Debian Developers because of its official trademark policy is seen by them as excessively prohibitive. This have still being debated in the Debian Community. Most of the concerns came around whether Mozilla’s trademark policy allows them to modify the software for updates and […]
Nokia enters the BSD camp by ZDNet‘s Dana Blankenhorn — Amid all the hoopla about Nokia tying up with Apple and open source, developing a version of the Safari browser for its Series 60 cell phones, what has not been mentioned is its impact on the continuing BSD vs. GPL debate.Apple’s own open source work […]