Category Archives: Freedom

whatwg video support for your phone

Above is a video that I took of Chris Double’s awesome whatwg video work running on my N810. Note that I didn’t have to do anything special to get this to work. I took the two patches, applied them to … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Freedom, GNOME, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, N800, N810, Open Web, Red Hat, Video, XULRunner | 11 Comments

why you should heart miro

You should care about Miro. For me, it’s become the mainstay of my video playing experience, be it to play TED talks (there’s a whole set of channels for that) Wired Science (yep, a channel for that too) or Timo’s … Continue reading

Posted in Freedom, GNOME, Linux, Miro, Mozilla, Open Web, Video | 12 Comments

Mozilla at FISL

We’re going to have a few Mozilla people and events at FISL this year. If you’re a Mozilla contributor or enthusiast, let us know you’re going to be there by adding yourself to the list! Here’s a rundown of the … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, FISL, Freedom, GNOME, Linux, Mozilla, Open Web, Speaking, XULRunner | 3 Comments

huge list of random firefox links

Firefox 3 goes on a diet, eats less memory than IE and Opera Ryan Paul talks about what a big changes we’ve made since Firefox 2 in our memory handling and also compares against other browsers as well. Nice to … Continue reading

Posted in Apple, Design, Firefox, Freedom, GNOME, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, WebKit | 3 Comments

the word of the day is ‘jackassery’

I’m glad I’m not a comcast customer. Because, come on.

Posted in Comcast, Freedom, Jackassery, Open Web | 1 Comment

my talk at SCALE 2008

I did a talk at SCALE on Saturday, talking about the future of Firefox 3 on Linux and in general. There was a good attendance and the audience seemed like they really understood what Firefox meant to the future of … Continue reading

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bringing the web to video

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the use of video on the web, especially around the tag that’s part of the proposed HTML5 spec. Specifically around what codecs, if any, to include in the spec. Ian Hickson removed … Continue reading

Posted in Freedom, Mozilla, Open Web, Video | 12 Comments

delight

I have no idea if this is a verbatim quote or not, but I loved this little snippit on boingboing about Yahoo! talking to record execs. (If nothing else it aligns with what little I know about how Yahoo! fanatically … Continue reading

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a new road for AMD and ATI

Back at the Red Hat Summit, Henri Richard said that AMD (and the former ATI) were going to come up with a plan to better support open source. Today we see the results of that promise and I have to … Continue reading

Posted in AMD, Fedora, Freedom, GNOME, Red Hat | 95 Comments

Fedora 7-11: brought to you by revisor

As Max points out, someone composed a complete set of Fedora 7 CDs: 11 in total. Our last release, Fedora Core 6 only included 5 CDs. So that gives you a sense of the number of packages that have been … Continue reading

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