It's official! Gnome 3.10 is out. For the past one week the Gnome announce mailing list was filled with test releases for all sorts of packages within the Gnome ecosystem.
Gnome 3.10 arrives with initial experimental support for the futuristic Wayland, a replacement for the X Window System and over 30,000 other changes.
Expect it in an official repo near you soon. More details can be found in the release notes
from the people-apparently-still-care-about-desktops dept.
Friday, September 27, 2013
Monday, May 14, 2012
1,000,000,000 : The VLC project celebrates a billion downloads!
The Video Lan Project, the open source project behind VLC the uber popular- here in Kenya anyway - media player reached one billion downloads of the app over the weekend.
That's huge but the bigger picture is even huger! This statistics may not reflect the total number of VLCs in the wild as the stats counter was only started in February 2005 a couple of versions in.
Here's the link to the counter page http://www.videolan.org/vlc/stats/downloads.html
From the a-dollar-for-every-download dept.
The Bit-Torrent KIller?
Two Russian brothers and their friend have founded a company that has dveloped technologyb that will thwart illegal downloads
Dmitry Shuvaev,Alexei and Andrei Klimenko's start up Pirate Pay has already attracted $US100,000 from Microsoft’s seed investment fund, and further investment from the Bortnik Fund.
It's however unclear exactly how the technology work although it's been hinted that they might be operating a cloud based Denial Of Service attack that specifically targets Bit Torrent.
Only time will tell how this puns out. Open Sorcery Daily though isn't exactly holding it's breathe.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Nairobi GNU/Linux User Group holds first meet up.
The Nairobi GNU/Linux usergroup held it's first met up on Saturday 5th May at KFC Kimathi street.
Posted a more detailed account of the meeting on my personal blog.
From the lug-of-extraordinary-gentlemen dept.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Foxing the Enterprise: With 10 Firefox takes on the enterprise
Mozilla, the company behing the FOSS world beating browser Firefox, announced Wednesday that they will be releasing the ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments with Firefox 10. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these organizations with a version of Firefox that receives security updates but does not make changes to the Web or Firefox Add-ons platform. We have worked with many organizations to ensure that the ESR balances their need for the latest security updates with the desire to have a lighter application certification burden.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
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