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Lots of OSS news to get to this morning. First, after something like fifty-seven years of beta testing, OpenOffice 2.0 was released, uh, four days ago. Not sure how I missed that exactly. I still haven't even tried it though, because it's a 75MB installer for Windows, and my dial-up ISP won't let me finish a download like that without an executive order signed and sealed by President Nixon. And he's been dead for years.
Slashdot reports that a new OSS operating system called MINIX 3 is out. It uses an insanely tiny kernel, divides the user-mode into modules, and is just generally awesome:
MINIX 3 is available for download as a compressed CD image, and can be run directly from the CD-ROM. If you want to install it, you need a partition no larger than a Gigabyte. It's only 10 to 13MB, so give it a shot.
musikCube has jumped past the anticipated 0.93 version to a release candidate for 1.0. If you still haven't tried it, musikCube is an OSS mp3 player/collator with a simple, powerful interface, fantastic playback quality, plug-in support, and an infinitely customizable playlist generator. Yes, it's yet another mp3 player, but in only in the way that the sun is yet another star in the sky.
Finally, any minute now we should see the code freeze for Firefox 1.5 RC1. My last few holdout extensions auto-updated themselves yesterday and now work in Fx 1.5 beta 2, which is a good sign in itself. I think the really beautiful thing about 1.5 is that you can't immediately tell that it's any different from 1.0.7, but as you come across the changes, they're universally good. It works from a technical and end-user standpoint, something it seems like you never see in non-OSS software updates.
by AC - permalink
Lots of OSS news to get to this morning. First, after something like fifty-seven years of beta testing, OpenOffice 2.0 was released, uh, four days ago. Not sure how I missed that exactly. I still haven't even tried it though, because it's a 75MB installer for Windows, and my dial-up ISP won't let me finish a download like that without an executive order signed and sealed by President Nixon. And he's been dead for years.
Slashdot reports that a new OSS operating system called MINIX 3 is out. It uses an insanely tiny kernel, divides the user-mode into modules, and is just generally awesome:
...each device driver runs as a separate user-mode process so a bug in a driver (by far the biggest source of bugs in any operating system), cannot bring down the entire OS. In fact, most of the time when a driver crashes it is automatically replaced without requiring any user intervention, without requiring rebooting, and without affecting running programs.
MINIX 3 is available for download as a compressed CD image, and can be run directly from the CD-ROM. If you want to install it, you need a partition no larger than a Gigabyte. It's only 10 to 13MB, so give it a shot.
musikCube has jumped past the anticipated 0.93 version to a release candidate for 1.0. If you still haven't tried it, musikCube is an OSS mp3 player/collator with a simple, powerful interface, fantastic playback quality, plug-in support, and an infinitely customizable playlist generator. Yes, it's yet another mp3 player, but in only in the way that the sun is yet another star in the sky.
Finally, any minute now we should see the code freeze for Firefox 1.5 RC1. My last few holdout extensions auto-updated themselves yesterday and now work in Fx 1.5 beta 2, which is a good sign in itself. I think the really beautiful thing about 1.5 is that you can't immediately tell that it's any different from 1.0.7, but as you come across the changes, they're universally good. It works from a technical and end-user standpoint, something it seems like you never see in non-OSS software updates.
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