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 OpenOffice dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04: Linux Posted by: comforteagle
From the Keep it Speedy dept.:
According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community have decided to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs.
...The developers have been removing applications that are irrelevant on a netbook. While document editing is clearly a not irrelevant on a netbook, the developers feel that with netbooks being used mostly for internet related works, Google Docs will suffice.
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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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US House Overwhelmingly Passes Cybersecurity Bill: Tech Posted by: comforteagle
From the One Ping Only dept.:
The Caucus, a NY Times Blog, is reporting on the overwhelming majority vote (422 yeas) the House gave a new cybersecurity bill. The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act, H.R. 4061 has a number of interesting provisions. Representative Michael Arcuri, a Democrat of New York who sponsored the bill called cybersecurity the 'Manhattan Project of our generation' and estimated the US needs 500 to 1,000 more 'cyber warriors' every year in order to keep up with potential enemies.
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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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Facebook Releases HipHop for PHP: Languages Posted by: comforteagle
From the Hiphp Hophp dept.:
Today I'm excited to share the project a small team of amazing people and I have been working on for the past two years; HipHop for PHP. With HipHop we've reduced the CPU usage on our Web servers on average by about fifty percent, depending on the page. Less CPU means fewer servers, which means less overhead. This project has had a tremendous impact on Facebook. We feel the Web at large can benefit from HipHop, so we are releasing it as open source this evening in hope that it brings a new focus toward scaling large complex websites with PHP. While HipHop has shown us incredible results, it's certainly not complete and you should be comfortable with beta software before trying it out.
HipHop for PHP isn't technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features — such as eval() — in exchange for improved performance. HipHop includes a code transformer, a reimplementation of PHP's runtime system, and a rewrite of many common PHP Extensions to take advantage of these performance optimizations.
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Facebook rewrites PHP runtime: Languages Posted by: comforteagle
From the Need for Speed dept.:
A week ago, I let ya'll know that the core PHP team had been brought to Facebook's main campus. That team were forced to sign NDA's, and taken to a very quiet, secluded meeting room where some cool new Facebook-backed open source project was described.
Well, I was able to put all the pieces together on this one, finally, and I now understand exactly what is up: Facebook has rewritten the PHP runtime from scratch. This coming Tuesday, they will make a big announcement around this project, and will make it available as open source software. I'm not really sure of any of the details of the project, but I do know that Facebook hired someone two years ago to do this, and I'm relatively sure this was a one-man project during that entire time.
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Denmark Chooses ODF Document Format: Standards Posted by: comforteagle
From the Mmm Danish dept.:
The winner is chosen. ODF runs the victory as public open document standard.
The settlement is in place Friday morning shortly before the debate question that otherwise would have twisted the arm of the government and force through a dual solution with ODF and OOXML-strict as open standards.
Future documentformat in the state are those who can live up to a set of requirements which the parties have agreed under intense negotiation. And provisionally, only ODF format that meets these requirements.
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Oracle's big bear hug for Java bodes really well: Java Posted by: comforteagle
From the R&D&J dept.:
..."I don't think it's essential that we find a way to make money from [specific Sun] components," Ellison said Wednesday. "We have the money to invest in Java, because Java is a very profitable business for us already. Exactly where additional revenues will come from is less important than simply growing our middleware installed base."
To achieve that growth, Oracle plans to invest $4.3 billion on R&D in the coming year, according to Oracle president Charles Phillips. That's up from $2.8 billion last year -- so you can bet some of that cash will be heading Java's way soon.
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Chrome apes IE8, adds clickjacking, XSS defenses: Google Posted by: comforteagle
From the Endless "Beta" dept.:
Google yesterday announced it has added several new security features to Chrome, including two that were first popularized by rival Microsoft in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) last year.
...Of the five features, two are notable because they're already part of IE8, a browser many consider behind the times -- and one that has trouble keeping up with competitors, such as Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox, which are upgraded more frequently.
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