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Category Archives: GNOME
building the complete browser for everyone everywhere
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 … Continue reading
ogg theora encoder improvements
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. … Continue reading
the new GNOME duality
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, … Continue reading
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yesterday’s guadec keynote – more links
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 … Continue reading
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gnome foundation hires stormy peters as executive director
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!
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some random mozilla-related links for your enjoyment
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 … Continue reading
more background on fsync on linux
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.
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mozilla unit testing on linux
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 … Continue reading
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system components, fsync and distribution-specific changes: a cautionary tale
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 … Continue reading