Wine 1.0 almost here!
June 12th, 2008No less than 15 years in the making the final release candidate for Wine 1.0 (RC5) is scheduled to be released this Friday with Wine 1.0 to follow in a few days. What an amazing accomplishment! Congrats to the WineHQ developers.
Update June 17, 2008: Wine 1.0 has been released. Read the article over at WineHQ.
Nokia: new firmware for the N95 8GB?
June 12th, 2008It has been 5 months since Nokia released the 15.0.015 firmware for the N95 8GB. Isn’t it time, Nokia, to come up with a 2x.x.x release given the issues in the 15.x.x release? How much longer do we have to wait? Or are we, your customers, no longer important now that we have forked over the substantial amount of money for the N95 8GB?
With the imminent release of the iPhone 3G you really need to step up your efforts to keep your N95 customers on board. I know this N95 user will definitely test the iPhone 3G when it becomes available in one month. And given the way you, Nokia, handle the N95 why would I expect anything else for the N96?
Via not so Open Source after all
June 12th, 2008A while back Phoronix reported that Via would jump on the Open Source bandwagon. Well, think again. Xavier Bachelot posted today that “via can probably be considered dead” and that “they are still ‘collecting the idea inside the VIA Linux group’ and they still don’t know what they ‘can do for the first step’”. Way to go Via…
Red Hat’s patent settlement a victory for the Open Source Community
June 12th, 2008In case you missed it go read Pamela Jones’ great analysis of Red Hat’s settlement. Kudo’s to Red Hat & Mark Webbink for making this happen. For a good laugh read Greg DeKoenigsberg’s screenplay of the whole affair.