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March 27, 2004 |
Suse Linux Professional 9. 28 Mar 2004: "Suse Linux comes with most of the applications you'd need, including Open Office 1.1.0. Kmail provides the email, but oddly, the Mozilla web browser isn't installed by default. A video player is installed, but won't play mpeg4 (like DivX) files as standard. Most other files, including audio, are supported without a problem, and KDE's Konqueror file browser was fast and a pleasure to use. The typical web plug-ins for Java, Flash and Real Player are also configured and ready.&q... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
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The Firefox opportunity.
The future of "great Windows applications," we're told, lies with Longhorn's next-generation presentation subsystem, Avalon, which will reboot software development sometime in the latter half of this decade. Of course, even Microsoft can't wait until then. Consider InfoPath. It's a great Windows application and a rich Internet client that had to ship in 2003. Its foundation is none other than Internet Explorer -- or rather, the suite of components and Internet standards on which Internet Explorer depends. Could InfoPath have been built on a Mozilla foundation instead? You bet. And the result wouldn't just be a great Windows application. It would be a great application, period. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] After I wrote this column, I checked out an interesting new application that I wish had been built on a Mozilla foundation: Onfolio. You can't fault Onfolio's creator, J.J. Allaire, for targeting the overwhelming majority platform: IE/Win. Of course as a .NET app, Onfolio targets a minority within that majority. We live in interesting times! ... [Jon's Radio]
12:48:08 PM
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Microsoft to Offer Blog Search Tool. Mercury News: Microsoft plans search site for Weblogs. Microsoft became the first big Internet company Friday to say that it would create a special search Web site just for Weblogs. The company said MSN Blogbot will debut in the first half of the year, along with MSN Newsbot, a search site devoted to news. Another Microsoft "innovation" that's already been invented -- see, for example Technorati and Feedster -- but overall I'm glad to see the big guys getting behind blogging as a form ... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
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Home Media Center, Open Source PVR. JOEL JOHNSON -- The Australian company D1 has begun selling the 'Home Media Centre,' a small PC pre-installed with MythTV. MythTV turns relatively high-end PCs with the proper TV capturing equipment into very nice PVRs, with even more features than TiVo and its ilk. It is someone questionable whether or... [Gizmodo]
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