Some good news from browser makers today to put a cap on a great year for browser development and innovation.
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Another Linux distribution looks to be hitting the net in the next few days, dubbed PyroLinux. The site looks impressive but I’m seriously underwhelmed by what I’m reading about the OS itself. For starters, it’s based on Ubuntu and seems to have just added some packages in by default, including non-free drivers and codecs (a la Mint) and some “fancy” apps like Avant Window Navigator dock.
Whilst I’m all for diversity in Linux distros I would prefer if people actually had something to show, or at least had a semi-original idea, before submitting their distro on Digg and trying to build hype. I mean, really, why on Earth would anyone want to use PyroLinux? To save themselves the 5 minutes it would take to install AWN?
Seems like Auran is in a bit of trouble. The developer of the new MMO Fury, as well as classic RTS Dark Reign, is in a bit of financial difficulty and look to be pinning their hopes on changes to Fury (new content and payment model) to get them out of it. Hopefully they do recover - the Australian games industry just keeps running into obstacles and a prominent developer shutting down cannot be a good thing.
In case you’ve been living under a rock - or simply don’t care about mobile development - Google recently released a public preview of Android, a new platform for mobile devices built on top of a Linux kernel. You may have heard of it before as it turns out that Android is the thing everyone assumed to be the Google “gPhone”. Well, they’re not releasing a phone but with a ton of device makers on board to use Android (sounds like everyone except Apple, surprise, surprise) I don’t think anyone is going to mind.
I have just finished upgrading this blog to Wordpress 2.3. As of now I have only completed the actual migration - I have yet to start taking advantage of any of the new features of version 2.3 (such as tags) so expect those to be slowly rolled out this week.
I have also started work on a completely revised theme for the site which I hope to get finished in the next week or so. I’m using The Morning After as a base and making some pretty heavy customisations as well as a bunch of cosmetic changes. The interesting thing is that many aspects of the theme are a step backwards for me in some ways, such as the CSS being far more complex than it needs to be and the semantics of the markup being all out of wack. Still, it’s a good base visually and structurally.
It’s taken a while but Futurama will finally be returning to a TV screen near you. Amazon has product information listed for Futurama the Movie - Bender’s Big Score