Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Solaris 10 to be Open Source Solaris 10 to be Open Source Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 14, @09:48AM from the here's-hoping-people dept. An anonymous reader writes "It looks as though Sun is going to open source their new Solaris 10 operating system. It seems to include eveything except some device drivers. They plan to model the Darwin and Fedora projects. Sounds very interesting." [Slashdot:] 1:42:23 PM

DrumKits Electro released (Oisoft Rekords Java Virtual Drum Machine). Total project downloads to date: 3048 Project description: Virtual Drum Machine in Java by Oisoft Rekords. A real-time drum machine and audio sequencer. You can compose music with this new kind of soundtracker [Download] [Release Notes] By oisoftrekords@users.sourceforge.net (Oisoft Rekords). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 1:35:22 PM

Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 14, @08:23AM from the do-you-see-what-I-see dept. bluephone writes "Today Mozilla.org has unleashed a triple threat; Firefox 1.0PR, Thunderbird 0.8, and Mozilla Suite 1.7.3. Wow. Lots of news in all three fronts. so, for your release notes, sys-requirements, what's new, and download links, here you go. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Mozilla Suite. Enjoy."  [Slashdot:] 10:20:11 AM

Mozilla Nears Firefox Finale. With a preview of Firefox 1.0 ready for release, the open-source development group says it is also preparing for a grassroots marketing push. [eWEEK Technology News] 10:06:21 AM

Novell to Help Port Applications to Linux. To help bolster its Linux operating system, Novell and partners are setting up a new initiative to help customers and companies port applications to Linux. [eWEEK Technology News] "Under the initiative, leading software and hardware vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and Scali Inc. will work with Novell help their software partners deploy their platforms and solutions on SUSE Linux, according to Novell Inc."  Looks like Novell is getting some solid support on its move to Linux. 10:00:19 AM

phpcollegeex PhpCollegeExchange 0.1.4d released (phpCollegeExchange). Total project downloads to date: 56 Project description: A community driven college website that is slashdotesqe with a textbook exchange, housing finder, professor evaluations, community calendar, and anything useful for college students. PHP & MySQL, example at www.westernbookexchange.com. [Download] [Release Notes] By david_degner@users.sourceforge.net (David Smith). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 9:49:52 AM