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Archive for October 28th, 2007

Mozilla’s Prism to Bridge the Gap Between Web and App

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

According to a story by Linux Insider, Mozilla is working on creating a new application to take any web applications without re-coding and make the user experience more like that of a regular application.

For Linux, as well as other non-Windows operating systems, these kinds of applications and the move to web applications could greatly speed adoption. One of the main issues with changing your main operating system is the applications that you use everyday or need for your job, and if you could use those effortlessly on any operating system it would not only speed the adoption of operating systems such as Linux, but also increase competition in the operating system market for all operating systems, because it would be easy to switch to whatever operating system you want.

Tell the Linux Driver Project what is broken.

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

The Linux Driver Project has created a page on their wiki for anyone to list the devices they know don’t work on Linux. After the initial wave of business interested in having drivers made for their products, the Linux Driver Project is now in need of more work to do. Go add the devices you wish would work on Linux and they might sometime soon.