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Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel was released in late 2003 and since then the developers have stuck with the 2.6.x.y version numbering. It’s been five years with the stable Linux 2.6 kernel, but a proposal has been made on the Linux kernel mailing list to change this scheme. Novel’s Greg Kroah-Hartman has proposed the numbering version be time-based instead of the blunt and non descriptive format currently followed. Instead of having say the Linux 2.6.28 kernel it could be called 2009.0.0 (or 2009.1.0). The next kernel update would then be called 2009.1.0 (or 2009.2.0). In response to Greg’s …
Internet, Mobile Phone, Open Source, Tech »
For now its being called Fennec, currently it is only available to Nokia N800 and N810 users. Fennec has a full-screen mode that provides the entirety of the screen for your browsing pleasure like in Opera. Tabs and controls will receive a new mobile-specific treatment as well. Instead of hovering above in buttons. We will need to wait and see how this thing handles on continuous browsing. Fennec’s goals is to carry over as much functionality from Firefox 3 as possible.
It supports pop-up blocking and other such standard features. Fennec supports add-ons. Are …
Auto, Internet, Mobile Phone, Open Source, Tech »
Google Android is a linux kernel based operating system and development environment that is both open source and free. The web gaint is now teaming up with Wind River Systems and Itnel to introduce Android into car infotainment systems. Today infotainment systems are more than vedio and music, they also have features ranging from GPS to IM. It is this phenomenon of merging technologies that google is trying to utilise to enter the Autosegment.
Now let us look at it from a differentperspective , one in which we analyse how it …

