Archive for the ‘Open source’ Category

Firefox, Gecko, HTML5 and more: An (Email) Interview with Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler

If it were not for Mozilla and its numerous open source projects that saved us from the IE Dark Ages, the browser market today would definitely be very different. In 2010, the Firefox browser is facing some pretty tough competition from the likes of Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8 (v9 is actually good), Safari and [...]

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Top 5 Netbook Linux Distros: 2010 Edition (with Gallery)

Who could have, just a year ago, predicted the dramatic changes in the netbook operating system world? The release of Windows 7 and cheaper hardware launched an exciting race for users between Linux and Windows, forcing both to take it up a notch, especially in the aesthetics department. This year might be the year of [...]

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KDE 4.4 Review, Screenshot Tour (and KDE 4.0 Comparison)

Note: I refuse to call the reviewed product the KDE Software Compilation. Sorry, I just feel it’s an ugly name for such a beautiful piece of software. 21,000 closed bugs later, the KDE team has announced the new KDE 4.4 and I simply had to take a look. After all, the last time I took [...]

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Linux and FOSS-related Predictions for 2010

First, I’d like to wish a Happy New Year to everyone! 2009 has been a very interesting year (at least as far as tech goes) and I’m sure we will see some amazing stuff this year, that is why I would like to make a few brave predictions. I am very excited about 2010, we [...]

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Google Chrome (Chromium) bookmark syncing now available on Linux!

While yours truly still remains in the Firefox camp, the speed of Google Chrome development is almost scary. Bookmark syncing (via Xmarks in my case) is a must-have for users like me (and likely some of you) who are constantly on the go and use multiple machines to do their work. Now you can sync [...]

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