recipe: install Firefox 3 Beta 2 in Ubuntu
recipe January 1st, 2008
Firefox is a free, award-winning web browser from the Mozilla Corporation. This “recipe” will tell you how to install the newest version of the Firefox in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).
Update: If you are using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), Firefox 3 preBeta 3 is now in Ubuntu’s universe repository, so there is no need to enable additional repositories. Simply run “sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-gnome-support” with the universe repository enabled to install it.
Tags: internet
openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3 Release
event January 1st, 2008
openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2 Release
event January 1st, 2008
Changes since openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1
- Linux 2.6.24_rc8_git2
- updated gcc 4.3 SVN
- updated binutils SVN
- Alsa 1.0.16rc1
- D-Bus 1.2rc2
- Sax2 ported to Qt4
Important updates and package additions compared to 10.3:
- Beagle - 0.3.2 - desktop search daemon
- Mono - 1.2.6 - Mono application runtime and development stack
- QEMU - 0.9.1 - virtual machine and cpu emulator
- Qt - 4.4 Preview - C++ application framework for writing applications
- Wine - 0.9.54 - compatibility layer for running MS Windows programs
Source http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News
Tags: openSUSE
openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1 Release
event January 1st, 2008
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Final Release
event January 1st, 2008
Planned Features for 3.0 Release
- OpenDocument:
- ODF 1.2 Specification
- ODF formula specification
- ODF Toolkit: installation set, aka ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/Packaging_Modularization
- ODF Toolkit: Java tools for odf
- Bibliographic
- Basic API & UNO support for bibliographic enhancements
- New field type to support formatted text
- Bibliographic enhancements Stage 2
- Performance Improvements
- Threading Framework, see Effort/Revise_OOo_Multi-Threading
- Drawing Engine
- Impress
- Office 12 Import Filter
- Table support in Impress
- Presenter Screen
- Calc
- Office 12 Import Filter
- Compliance with ODF formula specification
- GETPIVOTDATA function
- Writer
- new Notes2 module
- Office 12 import filter
- Web-Html
- ODF documents’ metadata editor
- Preview of hyperlinks inside the document
- MediaWiki Extension
- Extensions:
- API enhancements
- GUI enhancements - The GUI should be redesigned to get a more modern look. A good guideline is the new IBM Lotus Symphony that uses dynamic panels. This is better than MS Office’s “ribbon”, at least for documents, because it saves space on the top (normally documents are vertical).
- Option page
- Better VBA?
- MacOSX Aqua Port
- Windows_Vista Enhancements:
- new File Dialog
- visualization of Meta data in Explorer
- Web services
- Web Services wizard?
- %%%OpenOffice.org%%% Repackaging
- Repackaging step one
Source http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features
Tags: office
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate Release
event January 1st, 2008
OpenOffice.org 3 Release Candidate
Planned Features for 3.0 Release
- OpenDocument:
- ODF 1.2 Specification
- ODF formula specification
- ODF Toolkit: installation set, aka ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/Packaging_Modularization
- ODF Toolkit: Java tools for odf
- Bibliographic
- Basic API & UNO support for bibliographic enhancements
- New field type to support formatted text
- Bibliographic enhancements Stage 2
- Performance Improvements
- Threading Framework, see Effort/Revise_OOo_Multi-Threading
- Drawing Engine
- Impress
- Office 12 Import Filter
- Table support in Impress
- Presenter Screen
- Calc
- Office 12 Import Filter
- Compliance with ODF formula specification
- GETPIVOTDATA function
- Writer
- new Notes2 module
- Office 12 import filter
- Web-Html
- ODF documents’ metadata editor
- Preview of hyperlinks inside the document
- MediaWiki Extension
- Extensions:
- API enhancements
- GUI enhancements - The GUI should be redesigned to get a more modern look. A good guideline is the new IBM Lotus Symphony that uses dynamic panels. This is better than MS Office’s “ribbon”, at least for documents, because it saves space on the top (normally documents are vertical).
- Option page
- Better VBA?
- MacOSX Aqua Port
- Windows_Vista Enhancements:
- new File Dialog
- visualization of Meta data in Explorer
- Web services
- Web Services wizard?
- %%%OpenOffice.org%%% Repackaging
- Repackaging step one
Source http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features
Tags: office
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Release
event January 1st, 2008
Planned Features for 3.0 Release
- OpenDocument:
- ODF 1.2 Specification
- ODF formula specification
- ODF Toolkit: installation set, aka ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/Packaging_Modularization
- ODF Toolkit: Java tools for odf
- Bibliographic
- Basic API & UNO support for bibliographic enhancements
- New field type to support formatted text
- Bibliographic enhancements Stage 2
- Performance Improvements
- Threading Framework, see Effort/Revise_OOo_Multi-Threading
- Drawing Engine
- Impress
- Office 12 Import Filter
- Table support in Impress
- Presenter Screen
- Calc
- Office 12 Import Filter
- Compliance with ODF formula specification
- GETPIVOTDATA function
- Writer
- new Notes2 module
- Office 12 import filter
- Web-Html
- ODF documents’ metadata editor
- Preview of hyperlinks inside the document
- MediaWiki Extension
- Extensions:
- API enhancements
- GUI enhancements - The GUI should be redesigned to get a more modern look. A good guideline is the new IBM Lotus Symphony that uses dynamic panels. This is better than MS Office’s “ribbon”, at least for documents, because it saves space on the top (normally documents are vertical).
- Option page
- Better VBA?
- MacOSX Aqua Port
- Windows_Vista Enhancements:
- new File Dialog
- visualization of Meta data in Explorer
- Web services
- Web Services wizard?
- %%%OpenOffice.org%%% Repackaging
- Repackaging step one
Source http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features
Tags: office