Microsoft has finally come in peace with the European Union on the issue of the web browsers. The issue that started in 1998, was about Microsoft killing competition in the European browser market. Microsoft was criticized by the European Union for bundling their operating systems with their default web browser, Internet Explorer. Many felt that, this move of Microsoft could kill the competition in the web browser market and that users should be given the choice when it comes to choosing a web browser.

Mozilla has launched Thunderbird 3 this week, a new big thing by Mozilla after Firefox. We are all familiar with the beta version of this email client, this time its full version. Packed with so many features, it is going to prove it fatal for Microsoft Outlook that is nowhere near to Mozilla Thunderbird.

The Hi-Tech Squad recently wrote about the plans to move FreeNAS from FreeBSD to Linux. But it looks like this isn’t the end of the story… Today Olivier Cochard-Labbé made a great announcement, FreeNAS will live on with FreeBSD and production ready ZFS support will be added with the upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0. At the same time a new Linux version of FreeNAS will be created called OpenMediaVault!

Harryd has blogged about the future of FreeNAS and it looks like the future is Linux not FreeBSD. In short… FreeNAS 0.8 will be based on Debian GNU/Linux! Volker (the core developer) started an intermediate project called CoreNAS. FreeNAS 0.8 will be based on that.

The wait for the Gmail’s push for mobile phones has come to an end and on Tuesday, Google had expanded its sync services over the air with Google mail capabilities which was restricted to only iPhone and Windows mobile so far. Initially Google sync came in order to synchronize the calendar and contact details and now it has expanded with Gmail messages too. These Google sync messages can be received on your mobile and the user is alerted of the incoming messages as per the mobile’s setting as to whether …

Ahead of the release of the newest version v4, open-source web browser Firefox was downloaded for a billionth time on Friday. This milestone had accounted for all the downloads of the software ever since its release in the year 2004.
With Firefox occupying almost one-third of the web browser market, this new milestone comes as yet another credit to the developers.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer rules the realm with an overall usage of 60% by web browser users while Opera, Google Chrome and Apple Safari account for the remaining 10%.
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SourceForge.net has released the winners of the Community Choice Awards ‘09 and PortableApps.com: Portable Software/USB has swept the awards with 4 wins. The full winners list is:

Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins – phpMyAdmin
Best Project for Academia – XMind
Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything – PortableApps.com: Portable Software/USB
Best Project for Multimedia – Audacity
Best Tool or Utility for Developers – Notepad++
Best Visual Design – PortableApps.com: Portable Software/USB
Best Project for Gamers – ScummVM
Best Project for the Enterprise – Firebird
Best Project for Government – OpenOffice.org
Best Commercial Open Source Project – …

A dependable backup tool is not a luxury – everyone needs to have one. But that doesn’t mean you need to spend a fortune to get the feature set that meets your needs. Jack Wallen, of TechRepublic, introduces some great Linux backup solutions, including a few that are cross platform.
1: fwbackups
This is, by far, the easiest of all the Linux backup solutions. It is cross platform, has a user-friendly interface, and can do single backups or recurring scheduled backups.
2: Bacula
Bacula is a powerful Linux backup solution, and it’s one …

It was once said that the computers on Apollo 11 had less computing power than a modern pocket calculator and now we can read to machine code and see! The code for the Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC has been transcribed, by Google, from scanned images of printouts for both the Command Module (codenamed Comanche054), which reached moon orbit and was the return vehicle; and the Lunar Module (Luminary099), which took astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon.
You can see Google Blog entry about it here.
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Dell is ‘working very closely’ with Intel and Canonical on potential Moblin products and also plans to evaluate Chrome, although “there’s still lots of questions about the OS”
It looks like there’ll be Linux-powered netbooks, MIDS and more in Dell’s future, but Moblin rather than Chrome OS appears to be the distro de jour.
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