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Fedora 11 Coming Soon

Fedora 10 codes Cambridge, recently released last few months with additional hot features. Now, Fedora developers are on the go to release the next version of Fedora. Fedora 11 Final Version is estimated complete in May 2009. Meanwhile, Fedora 11 will start its release in February, and the beta version is planned that will present in March 2009. In order to ensure the reliability of Fedora 11 Final Version, there are features that will detail expressed in April before the final version released.

Fedora community will meet each other in the next weekend FUDCon, an informal developer event which performs the technical presentation, hackfest, and meeting plans about the distribution of this open source software. The event also provides an opportunity for Fedora contributor to interact each other to discuss the new version of Fedora. Read the rest of this entry »

Kenai Site Hosting for Open Source Project

Sun Microsystems attempted to compete with Google Code and GitHub, through Kenai Project, a hosting site for open source project from Sun, which is launched in beta version. According to Nick Sieger, project engineer of Kenai, the main objective of this project is not to compete with the existing hosting sites.

Developers can become the host of their project without additional cost at the site, plus the ease of Subversion and Mercurial control system. It also provides traffic tracking service, forums and other features. Project Kenai is an awareness of Sun, as the largest open-source company in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Firefox 3.1, Support Open Source Video

Mozilla will soon release a new version of Firefox, which can support the use of open source video software. Firefox 3.1 will be released next year and will have support tag HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) which will be used for attaching video feature in a web page. Firefox 3.1 will also support free video format, Ogg Theora.

Firefox developers said that the party will start working with Theora and will include a new feature in Firefox 3.1 browser. While the codes for Ogg Theora video so far is still in development and will use the common cross-platform code. When the code is finished, Firefox users don’t have to download the plug-in to play Theora video content. So, web developers do not need to use JavaScript anymore to launch the video.