Archive for September, 2008

Installing Google Android SDK 1.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

” This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones (like T-Mobile’s G1) and offer them on the Android Market. “

More details, come to HowtoForge.com/…

Fedora 10 Release Pushed Back

Red Hat has pushed back the release of Fedora 10 Beta by one week and the final release of Fedora 10 “Cambridge”. The beta release is now scheduled to make it out on 30th of September and the final release on the 25th of November. Filling the void between the beta and final releases is a preview release that’s tentatively slated for the 4th of November. The Fedora 10 release schedule can be viewed on the Fedora Wiki.

GNOME 2.24 Desktop Released!

As expected, GNOME 2.24 has been released this afternoon. The GNOME 2.24.0 desktop environment incorporates the Empathy Instant Messenger application, the Ekiga 3.0 VoIP client, improved file browsing in Nautilus, Deskbar enhancements, RandR 1.2 control support, and numerous other improvements. The complete run-down of changes for GNOME 2.24 can be read in the 2.24 release notes.

gOS 3 Gadgets Final Release

Our friends at Good OS have today released version 3.0 of gOS. gOS 3.0 integrates Google Gadgets onto this Ubuntu-based distribution with a focus on providing an easy to use Web 2.0 experience atop Linux. Google Gadgets for Linux was released earlier this year. gOS 3.0 can be downloaded from their project web-site.

Quick Firefox update on its way to fix saved credentials access issues

A bug, found in yesterday’s Firefox 3.0.2 update, that prevents access to saved passwords that include international characters either in the web address the password is saved for, the login, or the password itself, has prompted planning for a quick Firefox update.

Mike Beltzner, Firefox lead, explains in a post to the mozilla.dev.planning group:

The symptom is that users who have password data stores with non-ASCII data saved as something other than UTF-8 (more common for people who have saved passwords on IDN domains or non en-US domains) will not be able to access their saved passwords or create any new saved passwords. There is no permanent dataloss, the saved data is just inaccessible. While this doesn’t affect all Firefox users, it is a significant regression and has triggered a fast-release Firefox 3.0.3 which will contain a single fix for this issue.

A fix is ready, and as soons as QA gives the go ahead, it will be available as Firefox 3.0.3 for users to update, most likely, some time next week.

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

More details, come to HowtoForge.com/…

Google Chrome Memory Usage – Good and Bad

A lot of smart people are doing some serious tire kicking on Google Chrome. Now with several days of testing under their belts, we’re seeing many observations about Google Chrome’s memory usage. I’ve just posted a techie document about memory over on the developer website as an initial brain-dump of our current thinking about memory usage within Google Chrome. This article is a quick summary.

More detail come to blog.chromium.org/…

WINE 1.1.5 Adds Substantial JS Support

Added two weeks ago in WINE 1.1.4 was improved WinHTTP support and additional JavaScript support for supporting Google Chrome on Linux through WINE along with additional changes and bug-fixes. With the just-released WINE 1.1.5 release the JavaScript work continues with what is described as a “substantial JavaScript implementation.” Additionally, there is partial support for layered windows, the ability to have Unicode file export with the registry editor, proper exception handling in widl-generated code, and a-synchronous requests and cookies support in WinHTTP. As always, there is also a variety of bug-fixes that have been bundled into this bi-weekly development release. The release announcement can be read at WINE HQ.

Ubuntu's BulletProofX Takes Simpler Step Forward

Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was a feature known as BulletProofX, which provides a fail-safe mode that is by default used when the X server fails to properly initialize. In this original implementation, it would default back to using the VESA display driver with 256 colors and then proceed to run the displayconfig-gtk utility. While this is nice for the end-user as it keeps them from touching a terminal to debug an X server problem, for experienced users it inhibits them from easily debugging the problem. This Canonical implementation also had frustrated other users. However, with the forthcoming Ubuntu 8.10 release, it has received some much-needed improvements while making BulletProofX more simple.

More details, come to Phoronix.com/…

Firefox 3.1 gets cool web page transformations support

 

Today’s Shiretoko (Firefox 3.1 codename) nightly introduces support for simple web elements transformations as CSS extensions originally proposed and implemented by the WebKit project.

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