tim ferro
ramblings of a code monkey, fanboy, and uber-geek

“Microsoft Tuesday revealed Windows 7 at its annual Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. Windows 7 is designed to replace Windows Vista as the main operating system for Windows-based PC users.

With Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard also under development, we met up with Ian Moulster, Windows Live Commercial Lead for Microsoft to talk through some of Microsoft’s key ideas and discover what the next-generation of operating systems aim to offer both Mac and PC users.” - Source

“The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available.
This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development
and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that
long road!

While compatibility is not perfect yet, thousands of applications have
been reported to work very well. Check http://appdb.winehq.org to see
the details for your favorite applications.” - Source

” Fedora 9 beta is available for download today, with a final release scheduled for April 29. The latest version of the free (as in beer) cousin of Red Hat Linux comes with a number of major updates, including support for the latest versions of the KDE and GNOME desktop environments.” - Source

“Amazon’s MP3 store got officially Linux-friendly last week, adding support for Debian 4 Etch, Fedora 8, Open SUSE 10.3, and Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. So who’s still locked out of the store?” - Source

“The wacky developers behind the popular Ubuntu linux distribution have chosen a code name for Ubuntu 8.10, or the version that will be released after the next version. Following the longstanding tradition of giving each new version a two word name with an adjective followed by an animal, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Ubuntu 8.10 will be known as Intrepid Ibex. No, really.” - Source

“The first alpha release of Fedora 9 (codenamed Sulphur) was announced this morning on the Fedora mailing list. This alpha, which provides a first look at the features of Fedora’s next release, includes GNOME 2.21, KDE 4.0, Firefox 3 beta 2, version 2.6.24 of the Linux kernel, and many other improvements.” - Source

“On January 11th, 2008, at roughly 7 am ET, KDE 4 became available for download. Not that we were refreshing our browsers or anything in anticipation. Packages are currently available for Kubuntu (Hardy and Gutsy), Debian (in the experimental branch), Fedora (in the Rawhide repository), Gentoo and openSuSE. ArkLinux and Mandriva packages will be available soon.” - Source

“Oh Canonical, it seems like just yesterday that you pushed out Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. And now the first alpha version of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is already available for download? They grow up so quickly.” - Source