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Songbird: 1.0

They’ve gone quite a long way: Songbird, the open-source cross platform music player based upon the technical foundation of Mozilla, finally has seen its 1.0.0 release, available for…

3. Dezember 2008

OpenSolaris: 2008.11 unveiled?

Though it seems an official announcement is still missing, opensolaris.org as well as genunix.org report that OpenSolaris 2008.11 finally has been made publicly available. Release notes are available…

2. Dezember 2008

encapsulated.

[…] Old shelters—television, magazines, movies—won’t protect you anymore. You might try scribbling in a journal, on a napkin, maybe even in the margins of this book. That’s when…

28. November 2008

tool/suspend()

Schweres Knirschen, als sich die Tür endlich, Millimeter für Millimeter, aufstemmen läßt, weit genug für ihn, sich durch den schmalen Spalt in das Dunkel zu zwängen, das Dunkel…

27. November 2008

OpenSolaris 2008.11: some light, some shadows

Once again, I’ve been through an enjoyable week of test-driving OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release in a production environment on my developer notebook. And, once again, now I am kind…

21. November 2008

NetBeans: 6.5 unveiled

Without further ado: Yesterday, on November 19, 2008, NetBeans 6.5 finally was made publicly available, putting an end to quite an interesting period of development and NetCAT testing….

20. November 2008

NetBeans 6.5: IDE und Dokumentation in de_DE

Version 6.5 der NetBeans-IDE nimmt langsam Gestalt an, wird wohl demnächst das Licht der (interessierten?) Öffentlichkeit erblicken, und bringt neben der üblichen langen Liste an behobenen Fehlern und…

12. November 2008

XFCE 4.4.3 on OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release

Playing with OpenSolaris once again, I surely also wanted to make use of my favorite desktop environment XFCE on that platform. Unfortunately, so far there are no up-to-date…

6. November 2008