Since Stuart landed the Qt port into mozilla-central the other day and Ryan Paul wrote an article on Qt and Mozilla I thought it might be worth it to add some context to that work.
Ryan’s article contains this quote from Nokia developer Oleg Romaxa:
“Nokia will use the best browser for the job,” he said. “Currently, [...]
Since we’ve announced ogg theora support for the next version of Firefox I thought it might be worth it to point out that there has been a lot of recent work to improve the state of the theora video encoder. We’re only including a decoder, which just displays the video stream that is handed [...]
Havoc mentioned that he had talked to me about the emerging GNOME duality after coming back from GUADEC. He also suggested that I post something about it. I’ll try to put my thoughts down here on paper.
First of all, I think that the GNOME project is in a really strange place right now. [...]
I gave my keynote at GUADEC yesterday. I tried to make it fun and interactive for the audience, lots of questions, lots of heckling on my part and I tried to make fun of Miguel every chance I got.
At the end I gave some demos of various bits of what’s coming down the pipe [...]
Sounds like the board of the GNOME Foundation has decided to hire the awesome Stormy Peters as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. There’s a press release about the hire.
Good luck, Stormy!
Ari Jaaksi talks about Linux on Phones and what’s going on at Nokia.
He mentions that he’s working with us at Mozilla – very true. And good fodder for another post on another day.
He also touches on an important topic for me, which is the difference between between being “open” and being “good.” Being [...]
Over the last few months some of our contributors have been hacking away on trying to get Mozilla running on directfb systems on top of gtk. You can see Niranjan’s latest post on the topic here as well as the DirectFB Porting Page in our wiki. Sounds like they have things mostly up [...]
Mike Shaver put up an excellent piece on the current status of the fsync issues on Linux. It’s worth a read if you care about such things.
Rob Campbell posted a howto for people who want to run Mozilla unit tests on Linux. If you’ve ever wondered how to do it, it’s a decent overview on how to get started. And it’s pretty relevant to what I posted yesterday.
Almost every single Firefox user on Linux gets their builds directly from the various distributions. Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian (down-branded), Novell, Foresight, etc. And in those cases users generally have a pretty good experience. But that’s not always the case.
I’ve always seen this position as both good and bad. It’s [...]