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 Mono Project Delivers Moonlight 3.0 Preview: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Wolfman dept.:
We have just released our first preview of Moonlight 3.0.
This release contains many updates to our 3.0 support, mostly on the infrastructure level necessary to support the rest of the features.
In the release:
MP4 demuxer support. The demuxer is in place but there are no codecs for it yet (unless you build from source code and configure Moonlight to pick up the codecs from ffmpeg).
Initial work on UI Virtualization.
Platform Abstraction Layer: the Moonlight core is now separated from the windowing system engine. This should make it possible for developers to port Moonligh to other windowing/graphics systems that are not X11/Gtk+ centric.
The new 3.0 Binding/BindingExpression support is in.
Many updates to the 3.0 APIs
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iPhone App Store bars mention of Google Android: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Tyrell Corp. dept.:
Apple has told a tiny mobile software developer that its application cannot be included in the iPhone App Store if it mentions Google Android.
Flash of Genius offers a mobile app aimed at students preparing for their college entrance exams. "Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab" debuted on the iPhone, and at the end of last year, a version was introduced for Android as well.
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UK.gov tweaks open source policy small print: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Baby Steps dept.:
The government published the latest revision to its policy today, after it brought in new measures to promote open standards and encourage the reuse of software on 25 February 2009.
Measures outlined in the strategy - which took five years to be overhauled - included an education programme, guidance on procurement from the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council, headed up by John Suffolk, and assessment of new products. It also aimed to spotlight open standards by ensuring systems were interoperable and avoided product lock-in.
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Apache mulls end of 1.3, 2.0 releases: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Goodbye Old Friends dept.:
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) may stop releasing new versions of the older 1.3 and 2.0 series of its flagship Web server product with most development now focused on the 2.2 series.
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French Military Contributes To Thunderbird 3: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Mon Dieu! dept.:
Thunderbird 3 contains code from the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook. The French government is beginning to move to other open source software, including Linux instead of Windows and OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office.
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Red Hat Open Sources Desktop Application Protocol SPICE: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Spicey dept.:
Red Hat has open sourced a virtual desktop protocol it acquired last year, called the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment (SPICE), in the hope of fostering its wider adoption.
Red Hat is using SPICE as one of the components of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops application, which should be released within a few months, according to Jim Brennan, senior product marketing manager at Red Hat.
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FreeBSD 8.0 Released: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Other White Meat dept.:
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights: Xen DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection, TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS v13, a new USB stack, multicast updates including IGMPv3, vimage — a new virtualization container, Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 and others, trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control), and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the x86-64 platform. The GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to 2.26.3, KDE to 4.3.1, and Firefox to 3.5.5.
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Chromium Extensions Open for Uploads: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Gravy dept.:
During the last few months, our team has been working hard to support extensions in Google Chrome's beta channel. Today, we are getting one step closer to this goal; developers can now upload their extensions to Google Chrome's extension gallery. We are making the upload flow available early to make sure that developers have the time to publish their extensions ahead of our full launch.
You can find all the info to write an extension in our docs. Once your extension is ready for the gallery, you'll need to upload a zip file of your code and an icon that helps users distinguish your extension. You'll also have the option to submit text, screenshots and/or YouTube videos that describe the functionality of your extension. All types of extensions are welcome in the gallery, provided they comply with our Terms of Service.
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Android 2.0 SDK Released: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Sarah Connor dept.:
Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync, account manager and contacts APIs, you can write applications to enable users to sync their devices to various contact sources. You can also give users a faster way to communicate with others by embedding Quick Contact within your application. With the new Bluetooth API, you can now easily add peer-to-peer connectivity or gaming to your applications.
Note: Also, Finds Sarah Connor
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WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the From the Top dept.:
WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software...
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