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Ubuntu 9.04 beta available
The beta includes the new Gnome 2.26 desktop and a new CD burning suite called brasero. Improvements made to boot performance, uses the 2.6.28 kernel, as well as turn key mail servers. Other visual improvements have been made as well as X.org 1.6 is included.
Windows 7 may allow IE8 to be disabled
Don’t like IE then you might be able to ditch it in Windows 7, a leaked beta has the feature to turn off IE8. Some speculated it because of the whole EU thing. The 7048 build of the beta has this feature, although not available in the public beta it’s easy enough to find on your favorite torrent site.
Source: CNet News – Microsoft may let Windows 7 users turn browser off
ArsTechnica Review of Windows 7
ArsTechnica has a rather extensive review of Windows 7, including the new taskbar, window management, and improvements to explorer and the control panel.
Windows 7 Beta
Microsoft’s newest version of Windows is in public beta and I’ve decided to have a look at it. I’ve installed in it a Virtual Machine on Sun’x VirtualBox. It looks like it doesn’t work on Vmware Server less than version 2.
The install process was very simple, insert the disk and click install and wait. After it copies all files it restarts and then asks the standard questions about time, username, password, serial key, and automatic updates. After that you will be greeted by the new desktop. The first thing you’ll notice is the taskbar is cleaner and when you open programs it displays icons instead of names of the programs, then you hover over the icons to see a preview of the window. Although the Aero interface wasn’t available in the virtual machine it is still part of 7.
I’ve very limited experience with Vista but this version of Windows seems like it fixed some of the problems with Vista and made other improvements along the way. I took a few screenshots of the install screen and of the desktop.
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is ready for download
The newest beta for Firefox was announced Monday. The biggest new feature is the Private Browsing mode, which for the paranoid is a welcome improvement as it doesn’t keep any traces of your activity on the browser. It has focused on improving on standards compliance. It scored 93/100 on the Acid3 web standards test. For reference Firefox 3.0.4 scored 71/100 and IE 6 a mesealy 12/100. Other improvements are:
- New support for web worker threads: allow web developers to use JavaScript in the background to not affect page load times.
- The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is now on by default for web content.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications
From limited testing on my part it does seem a little snappy and it doesn’t eat up nearly as much memory. Get the beta here: Mozilla Developer Center
