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Developer Linux News for Jul 31, 2009
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Editor's Note: Congratulations One Billion Firefoxes! (Jul 31, 2009, 23:03)
If it weren't for Firefox what would we have? We would doubtless
still have a range of browser choices, but it's hard to imagine
that anything else would have risen so fast and so far.
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Does openSUSE need a default desktop? (Jul 31, 2009, 20:33)
Disassociated Press: "The most popular feature
in openFATE (at least of this writing) is a proposal from KDE e.V.
member Frank Karlitschek to make KDE the “default” in
openSUSE. Michael Loeffler has also blogged about this and put it
on the opensuse-project mailing list."
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Javascript: The Open Source Solution for Multiple Mobile Platforms? (Jul 31, 2009, 18:33)
Linux Magazine: "There is a never ending debate
about which platform is best: Android, iPhone, Palm, BlackBerry,
Windows Mobile, or Symbian. But what if the correct answer is
… JavaScript? Is this a joke?"
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CentOS team responds to community reaction (CentOS is not going away) (Jul 31, 2009, 14:02)
TechSentry: "CentOS is not dead or going away.
The signers of the Open Letter are fully committed to continue the
CentOS Project. Updates and new releases will continue."
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Firefox nears 1 billion downloads (Jul 31, 2009, 13:51)
Netstat -vat: "Mozilla's Firefox is nearly a
major milestone - 1 Billion downloads. That's BILLION with a
B."
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Fun with NULL pointers, part 1 (Jul 31, 2009, 07:32)
LWN.net: "This vulnerability, which affects the
2.6.30 kernel (and a test version of the RHEL5 "2.6.18" kernel), is
interesting in a number of ways. This article will look in detail
at how the exploit works and the surprising chain of failures which
made it possible."
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Nearly Two Dozen X.Org Drivers Get Updated (Jul 31, 2009, 03:02)
Phoronix: "In time for the X.Org 7.5 release
(whenever that may come), David Airlie has put out new driver
releases for nineteen of the X.Org video drivers."
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