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Neil Lee has updated his optimized Firefox builds for Firefox 3. The architecture-specific versions of Firefox 2 had been dubbed BonEcho, but Firefox 3 brings a new moniker: Minefield. I’m unsure as to the intended implications of the name (it sounds like the perfect way to refer to an alpha release), but I’ve been running the Intel version with great results.
If you were a user of BonEcho, you were used to the icon being visibly different than the standard Firefox icon. The icon for Minefield, designed by Adam Betts, is a slight variation on the standard icon and not immediately discernible as a deviation from the original. This has confused a few people, but it’s definitely a less jarring transition. You still get the title “Minefield” wherever Firefox would have shown up in the interface, so you know what you’re running.
As far as performance, I haven’t run any solid benchmarks but have noticed what seems like a significant decrease in initial load time and and improvement in general responsiveness when comparing clean installations (no addons) of Minefield to the standard Firefox 3 build.
When I went to grab Minefield, I also discovered a link to the GrApple theme. It’s designed to look like Safari and, being a Safari fan, I’ve fallen in love with it. If you’re not overly attached to the default Firefox 3 look (which I didn’t mind to start with), there are great screenshots of the multiple versions available.
Minefield is currently available in G5 and Intel flavors. Neil is also working on a set of instructions for building your own optimized Firefox builds at home for the DIY speed enthusiast.
Clarification: As pointed out in the comments, the name “Minefield” has been used for Mozilla builds for a while. These optimized builds use the codenames so as not to infringe on any Firefox trademarks.
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260 employees and several years later, Microsoft still can’t manage to document its software to comply with a United Says Department of Justice order, as detailed in a progress (?) report but more comprehensively covered on Groklaw. Groklaw writes:
It appears from that record that no matter what Microsoft tries or how diligently they work at it or how many employees they assign to this noble task of providing interoperability documentation, it just can’t be done. Microsoft is like Sisyphus of old, working every day with all its might to get that boulder to the top of the hill, only to see it fall back down again, throughout eternity. Of course, you might point out that his troubles are a myth. Microsoft’s are real. You think?…
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Red Hat’s Jim Whitehurst pounded the pulpit this week about the need to expand open source into the largest software developer market on the planet: The enterprise. Oracle, Microsoft, et al. write lots of software, but their contributions to the software world are infinitesimal compared with the development done at real software shops like Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, etc.
Whitehurst said:
The vast majority of software written today is written in enterprise and not for resale. And the vast majority of that is never actually used. The waste in IT software development is extraordinary….Ultimately, for open source to provide value to all of our customers worldwide, we need to get our customers not only as users of open source products but truly engaged in open source and taking part in the development community.
Exactly. Jim knows what he’s speaking about: He comes from the enterprise world, having served as COO of Delta Airlines for several years. If Red Hat can become the hub to that development world, it will dominate the market…in a positive way.
All of which made this email I received from the head of public relations at a large enterprise so intriguing:
… Source:The Open Road
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You just can’t please everyone. I read this post from an irate Joomla! user who is incensed that he has to pay - drum roll, please! - $25 to $300 for a Joomla! theme. Let’s be clear: This theme is not required to use the Joomla! web content …
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Red Hat’s Jim Whitehurst pounded the pulpit this week about the need to expand open source into the largest software developer market on the planet: The enterprise. Oracle, Microsoft, et al. write lots of software, but their contributions to the software world are infinitesimal compared with the development done at real software shops like Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, etc.
Whitehurst said:
The vast majority of software written this day is written in enterprise and not for resale. And the vast majority of that’s never actually used. The waste in IT software development is extraordinary….Ultimately, for open source to provide value to all of our customers worldwide, we need to get our customers not only as users of open source products but truly engaged in open source and taking part in the development community.
Exactly. Jim knows what he’s speaking about: He comes from the enterprise world, having served as COO of Delta Airlines for several years. If Red Hat can become the hub to that development world, it will dominate the market…in a positive way.
All of which made this email I received from the head of public relations at a big enterprise so intriguing:
… Source:The Open Road
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