I’m a 23 year old computer science student from Norway. I founded Ubuntu Eee, which is now EasyPeasy, back in ’07. It was the first 3rd party netbook distro. Now there’s more competition with Google Chrome OS, Meego and Ubuntu Unity :)

2) How did you get into GNOME?

I’ve been an avid user of Gnome since ’05. It’s also the most important project in EasyPeasy.

3) Why are you coming to GUADEC?

I’ve been to a couple of conferences regarding linux and other tech. The one I’ve gotten the most out of was GUADEC / Desktop Summit on Gran Canaria last year. I hope to get as much out of it this year.

4) In 1 sentence, describe what your most favorite recent GNOME project has been. (Doesn’t have to be yours!)

SparkleShare is a great project in itself and is also an awesome foundation for lots of new cloud features.

5) Will this be your first time visiting the Netherlands?

No, been there several times. I was just there on a eurorail following the World Cup maches around Europe. Never been to Haag though.

An hour ago I found Grooveshark. It’s Spotify with these changes:

• It’s in your web browser, meaning no download. Perfect for people on the go who want their digital life in the cloud
• You and (even better) others can upload to the service. If there’s a song you want on the go which isn’t available, upload it – but someone else have probably already done it..
• Don’t seem to see a point to go premium (no higher bit rate, no ads (using adblock))
• If I want to go Premium, it’s over 3 times cheaper than on Spotify. It’s only $3
• It has Requiem for a dream, which I have been forced to go to youtube to enjoy
• Oh yeah, and there’s a WordPress plugin..
• UPDATE 1: Playlists can be ordered in “playlist order” meaning you can create a “mixed tape”

The negative

• I get an error saying song can’t be played sometimes (trying again fixes it)
• No keyboard shortcuts
• iPhone app isn’t out yet
• The sound quality can be (or is always?)  better in Spotify. Example: Alice Cooper with Poison

Jolicloud is a social installation client which seamlessly installs different types of applications (Adobe Air, Debian packages, web applications). You’re able to see what friends install and recommend applications to others. It’s a nice client which tries to add a sense of web 2.0 to application maintenance.

What is easypeasy

easypeasy is an operating system for netbooks. It’s optimized for speed while including everything you need out of the box. easypeasy 1.5 was just released and included features like very fast filesystem (ext4), which brings faster boot, and 3D in 3D rendering (UXA).

Install Jolicloud in easypeasy

While it’s possible to get Jolicloud as a standalone linux distribution, it’s not recommended as their release is old and don’t bring features like ext4 and UXA (see above). If you want the social installation client, the solution is to install Jolicloud into easypeasy.

1. Download and install this file
2. Log out and back in
3. You’ll find Jolicloud under Internet

Troubleshooting

Yeah, I’m not able to install it the file above

Ugg, you’re netbook isn’t updated on what hip and trendy. Go to Administration > Update Manager and click Check. Now try installing the file again

You can download easypeasy 1.5 over at www.geteasypeasy.com

New in easypeasy 1.5

So, what are your first impressions?

Let’s get this metrics party started with
Facebook

• 2 905 fans
• 7% women / 93% men. That’s one percent more women fans since January
• Become a fan

Twitter

• 406 tweets
• 1 301 followers
• Follow us

Youtube

• 25 fan videos

Distrowatch

• There’s about 300 linux distributions on distrowatch.com
• Easy Peasy is the 36th most popular distro

Forums

• 1949 users. 1000 more then back in January
• 4 new forum users every day
• 7012 posts divided into 1690 topics

Downloads

• Sourceforge is down, so I have to get back to you with this
• Easy Peasy has been downloaded over 627.000 times

Norway won Eurovision in 1995 with the song Nocturne by Secret Garden

But one of our best and most fun contribution was in 2005 with In My Dreams by Wig Wam. We ended up in sixth place

10 years ago we sent Stig Van Eijk with the song Living My Life Without You. We were sure we were going to win that year, but it went terrible. But today, ten years later, we’re back to believing we have the winner song with Fairytale by Alexander Rybak

What song in this years Eurovision is your favorite?

A brand new look

• New icon theme, a modified version of Victor Castillejos Gnome Colors, by lassegs
• New wallpaper which is part of the new visual profile (i.e. on Twitter), also by lassegs
• New splash screen and login screen, still by lassegs

Fixed bugs

• Lots of bugs fixed
• And upgrades. Many upgrades, like Songbird and Flash

New webpage

• I think it looks good

Now we can really start working on Easy Peasy 2.0

Drawed by Lasse Sætre

We want to move web down to the desktop, as you’re using Easy Peasy on a netbook you shouldn’t have to start Firefox to start sufring. We add an Easy Peasy profile on the top right. The dekstop will be open and module based so anyone will be able to write the next great module. Default modules should include Facebook, Twitter, Email, Chat and RSS feeds.

We also want people to start using Gnome Do. We believe that average Joe doesn’t use is today because he’s afraid of keyboard shortcuts, so we’ve decided to move the great Gnome Do application to the desktop (and map it to the Home/Windows/Super key for you keyboard shortcut lovers). That means that while your doing anything, you can click the Easy Peasy logo in the top left or click the Home button on the keyboard and start typing: Search your computer, Google, Translate, Set your Twitter status, etc. all from your desktop.

Please comment with your ideas and feedback!

and we’re proud to announce that we’ve reached over half a million downloads!

• I’ve merged my personal and the Easy Peasy twitter accounts
• The repositories, forums, wiki and this blog has been down for a week because we were shut down by our host Dreamhost. They suddenly came to the conclusion that our wiki was using too much CPU (?) so they closed it all down without warning. We’re sorry for the problems this must have had for you as an user, and can comfort you with that we will move away from Dreamhost and create mirrors.
• We’ve gotten several servers for free around the world. Thanks to all server contributors!
• Funny Opera Face Gestures with @aleksaas
  
• We’re looking into how to trick Japanese people into using Easy Peasy. If you’re Japanese and want to help out (with culture and language), please leave a comment!
  
• Easy Peasy 1.1 Release Candidate 2 has been out for a week without complains, which means Easy Peasy 1.1 Gold will be released shortly.

Here’s a screenshot of the new webpage, to keep you from bouncing off the walls :p

• New webpage (really much needed (!) ): Lasse has made a great design and a unified look for, forums, wiki, backgrounds, presentations etc.

• Easy Peasy 1.1: Only a screenshot :) We’re trying to get a release candidate ready for the weekend!

• Easy Peasy 2.0: We’re also working towards Easy Peasy 2.0, where we’re implementing some really exciting features

How does the screenshot look? Like the background, like that the logo has been moved to the top left corner, like the icon theme?

Enter http://filesharer.org and post a mug shot of yourself!

• Built on Ubuntu 9.04
• Better looking
• More net / netbook features
• New file system which brings faster booting, loading and work flow
• A whole new notification system, as shown in the movie below
  
• A simple new menu which can be used to set preferences for notification icons, such as where they pop up on the taskbar
• File synchronization through Dropbox

• Ferry, for making netbook specific scripts and doing the packaging
• Christopher, for ironing out the bugs I create
• Massismo, for the good looking logo
• Andy, for accepting the position as head of marketing
• Rikard, for doing an amazing job as head of the forums
• Chris, Merethe and Tor, for helping with the rebranding
• Marie, mom, Daniel, Mimir, Svein, for help with selecting the logo
• Lars and Thomas, for publicity
• Anyone else who has contributed their time submitting logos, commenting, editing the wiki, helping others in the forums etc.
• And everyone who has contributed funds

Wiki

• The main page has well over a million views
• It’s translated into 21 languages
• There’s 1010 pages where 202 are real articles
• 5 edits per page (5 221 edits)
• 428 file uploads
• 4,2 million page views
• 678 registered wiki editors
• Most viewed pages are: Main page, Get Easy Peasy, User Guides
• Google Pagerank 5 (even though it’s not the front page of Ubuntu Eee any longer)
• A visitor is on the wiki for a average of 1,5 minutes
• There has been over 2 million pages views in total
• Where 1,3 million are unique page views

Facebook

• 2 329 fans,  6% female / 94% male
• 42% between the age of 25 and 34 (29%: 18-24)
• 12 new fans every day
• 15 fan photos

Forums

• Maximum number of users online at the same time is 141
• 914 registrated users
• 3048 posts divied into 641 topics
• 15 posts divived into 3 topics every day

Twitter

• 101 updates
• 1,2 every day
• 904 followers
• About 400 replies

Youtube

• Not too many hits, there’s a few films
  

Google Trends

Not too many changes here..

• Easy Peasy is already more popular than PCLinuxOS
• It’s hard to rebrand. Ubuntu Eee is 3 times more popular than Easy Peasy
• The use of Easy Peasy on the web already means the operating system
• Google search with ‘easy peasy’ does not give good results yet (thanks Serola)

Bittorrent

Since the release of Ubuntu 8.04.1 has Ubuntu Eee not only been shared though Mininova, but has been hosted by Mininova as a featured download

• The torrent is only 8 days old, and is shared by 5 times more than there’s downloaders Thanks!

Sourceforge

• Ranked as the 431 most popular software on Sourceforge
• 317 000 is the total amount of downloads
• Which equals 117 Tera Bytes

Donations

• We’ve got a total of $7 032 in 2008. Thank you!
• The accounts can be viewed by anyone

Google blog search

• 7 288 has blogged about Easy Peasy
• 16 184 has blogged about Ubuntu Eee

Google news

• 38 news articles about Easy Peasy, some faulty because of use of the term
• 15 for Ubuntu Eee
• Which sums up to about 50 news articles about the operating system

Users

• 317 000 direct downloads +

Again, thank everyone for helping out – together we’re creating the best operating system for netbooks.

If you have an idea for the web-page, please launch your favorite image editor and create a mockup. Design it a way that you can actually create :) Don’t waste your time on it – it’s just a mock up. Thanks for contributing your time!

The image can be uploaded on the wiki. The design is going to be used on the webpage, the forums, the wiki and so on. So we need a generic design, we’ll make a less generic front page afterwards.

Thanks again!

There’s going to be some small changes to it, but this is more or less how Easy Peasy will be re-branded.

I’ve been in several discussions with lots of people and all the nomineeses logoes are really well liked: Thanks to all the nominees for using your time on the project!

• macs
  

• elfor

Chris / cs

Andy (a girl in snowy Portland, Oregon) and Marc (a dude in Los Angeles, California)

No logo submission yet, only good samples and ideas

Some samples:

• http://andiverse.carbonmade.com/projects/2108928 (entry for 2008 Drupalcon logo contest)
• http://www.poketo.com/shop/
• http://meyouand.us/

You can see some of that is illustration, some layout, and some graphic assets.
Our idea is this: An Easy Peasy mascot, “Professor Easy,” who is a robot with a beard. He can look good with just one color (for print) or thousands of colors (web, where color is free ;D).
We want him to gracefully deconstruct for small pieces (like those little “corner” stickers on laptops). We want him to help people find their way on website navigation, and understand the Easy Peasy mission and culture (making computing simple and easy, just like a professor helps you get hard concepts).
Professor Easy is lovable and cute, our inspiration is the Songbird (open source music player) mascot:
http://blog.songbirdnest.com/category/culture/

Congratulations to the nominees! You now have a regular work week (Friday night UTC) to work on your great logos and go off as the champion :) I’ll keep in touch with you over email

And I’m sorry if your logo wansn’t selected. I know an EeePC isn’t much of a price and would like to thank all of you who have contributed your time and creative mind! There’s 60 contributors with a total of  abou 500 logo submission! The Ubuntu Eee community is truly amazing

Dear Jon

Thank you for your e-mail regarding your proposed use of Easy Peasy.

It is unlikely that we would take action against you if you comply with the following;

- always use Easy Peasy as two words (I see that it is sometimes written on your website as 1 conjoined word  ‘easypeasy’ – this would need to change)
- no use of easyPeasy (lower case ‘easy’ and capitalised ‘P’ for ‘peasy’
- no use of orange/white – i see your website contains an orange/white logo – this would have to stop
- no use of our font (known as Cooper Black)

Please note that in the event that, for example, confusion arose between  your brand and our brands or you moved into a business sector in which we trade, or you did not comply with the above, then we reserve the right to take action against you.

Please feel free to submit your proposed logo to me for comments prior to use.

Kind regards

Kirsten Doherty
Trade Mark Attorney

Thanks for contributing your creative mind and time!
Please submit your logos over at the wiki (there’s a Upload file option in the sidebar)

Here’s some ideas I’ve got. This is totally ignorable, but I just wanted to give you something to get going

• Easy Peasy can sound childish, so the logo must look professinal
• The complete saying is Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy. What about a glass of lemonade?
• Or A PC with Easy on the back?
• Or…

The script back in 2007 was downloaded about 3 000 times, the first release of Ubuntu Eee was downloaded about 60 000 times and Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 has been downloaded over 225 000 times!

With this is Ubuntu Eee ready for it’s next leap. We want to bring the ease of Ubuntu Eee to all netbooks.
Because that’s what it’s been about: it’s easy. It’s the operating system you install and start using, real plug and play. The new release will be rebranded and released on January 1st. We wanted Easy in the new name. We’ve gone over it for several months, though the answer was right in front of us: It’s an Easy (operating system for a) PC – Ubuntu Eee will be rebranded as Easy Peasy.

Some loves the new name while some think it sounds childish. That’s why we have to make a really good looking and professional logo and webpage.

That means there’s been a donation every 15 minutes around the clock for half a week.

Thank you!

Please remember that you can follow every cent

Have you donated?

Read more

We’re trying something new. Instead of making an operating system where the once with money get their software included, we try to get a small sum from all users and stay un-biased.

The idea is that everyone donates $ 5. It’s a fundraiser from today till Tuesday.
Tell your friends and read more about it over at Ubuntu Eee’s home page

It’s been whished for more than once, and several people didn’t understand why we didn’t have one. But now I’m happy to announce our Forums over at http://forums.ubuntu-eee.com. There’s already well over 300 posts – so get yourself over there and involve yourself in forming Ubuntu Eee 8.10 and get help solving your netbook problems.

There was an interview with me over at Intel.com at the end of October, be sure to check it out :)

I made made an Ubuntu Eee Tab over at Netvibes. Here you can follow what’s being said about Ubuntu Eee and what’s happening in the Ubuntu Eee community – in real time

It was a happy day when Christopher accepted to be the Bug Supervisor of Ubuntu Eee. It was a sad day for the annoying bugs in Ubuntu Eee though. He’s doing a fantastic job. Before he started it was over 70% unread bugs and now it’s about 60%. Bugs aren’t only being read but also fixed at an amazing pace.

I’m in contact with Dropbox about having their great piece of software built into Ubuntu Eee. This means you’ll get an operating system with free cloud syncronization out of the box

I added a Google Ad to the wiki a couple of days ago to increase our funds. The ad was in the left sidebar and 50% of the time was it an ad for ourself. We didn’t get any revenue from it though. Now I’m testing with an ad on the front page of the wiki, nowhere else. I’ve kept the selfpromoting ads in the left sidebar.

Ubuntu Eee 8.10 will be released 01.01.09 01:01 PM (CET)

Gartner’s estimate is that there will be sold 15.6 million netbooks in 2009, meaning 2009 really will be the year of the netbooks – and we’ll work together to delivering the best OS for these people on the go.

As many know, won’t the name be Ubuntu Eee because of trademark issues. People are involving themselfs in forming Ubuntu Eee 8.10 over at the forums, why not head over and include yourself? :)

Ubuntu Eee 8.10 will not only be for Asus Eee’s, but for all netbooks out there on the 1st of January.

As I’m not blogging every day and I think some people want to keep an even closer look at what’s happening with Ubuntu Eee, I’ve set up a Twitter account. I will strive to keep it up to date 24/7 :) It’s available here: http://twitter.com/ubuntueee

So sadly the naming discussion continues…

The minuscule laptop — dubbed the NB100 — will feature an 8.9-inch, 1024 x 600 display, a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive and WiFi. The NB100 will be offered in three colors, Cosmic Black, Champagne Gold, and Bright Silver, thus making its casing the only difference between this and every other middling, mediocre netbook on the market. Prices are set to start at £260 (or about $472), and the laptops will be on shelves this October.

Source: jun4rui

• Base it on Ubuntu Intrepid – you can read more about these features over at ubuntu.com
  
  • Nautilus file manager has tab support and Eject icons for removable drives in Places sidebar
  • File Roller archive manager now supports ALZ, RZIP, CAB, TAR.7Z file types also
  • This release brings much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, and mice.
  • Linux kernel 2.6.27. This is a significant release with better hardware and numerous bug-fixes which is believed will provide overall improvement for Ubuntu 8.10.
  • Encrypted private directory
  • Guest session
  • Network Manager 0.7, which comes with long-expected features
  • “Last successful boot” recovery entry
  • DKMS. Allows kernel drivers to be automatically rebuilt when new kernels are released.
  • Samba 3.2
  • PAM authentication framework
• OpenOffice 3 ?
  
• More closed source codecs, sun java and windows fonts ?
• Customized kernel by Adam
• Fixes fixes and customizations run at boot time by Ferry Hendrikx
• Netbook remix mode / Regular desktop mode – changer

Do you have ideas for what we should include?

Screenshots from phoronix and tombuntu

We got a lot for help making an Ubuntu Eee feature page. Thank you! Dani’s work is now not only a feature work but also our front page. Looks great – thanks Dani :)

Iuri has taken the time to make us a donation page where the Ubuntu Eee logo is filled up with donations in real time. This will go live soon as well

With the release of the new donation page, Planet Ubuntu Eee, a download page and a forum we’re up at ubuntu-eee.com v2.0 :)

Some few people might experience trouble booting from the SD card, that’s because Ubuntu Eee on the card thinks it’s the the second storage media. So if a memory stick or external hard drive is plugged in, it doesn’t understand where it is :p Here’s the fix

Here’s the names I like – which do you like? Why?

LinAir by Kaien – Linux + Air
Fjord by Mimir – Norwegian (wikipedia)
Rune by Mimir – Norwegian tradition (wikipedia)
Flock by Daniel – We’re all working in a flock / community
Frost by Daniel – Just a nice word
Maroon by Marie – Color. Just a nice word
Ion by Clint – For small machines / netbooks
Aurora by Clint – Just a nice word. Kind of taken (wikipedia)
Swift by capawi – It’s swift
kiwi by capawi – Fruit or Bird. Just a nice word
Ramvi OS by Mattias – Me :)
Owl by dresler – Bird. Just a nice word
Iris by dresler – Eye or flower. Just a nice word
Colibri by McGivrer – Bird. Just a nice word
Troll by Thomas – Norwegian myth (wikipedia)
Urban by mikó – Because netbooks are urban? ;)

Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 went gold on the 5th of September.
This news was only published on ubuntu-eee.com, not on this blog. This made several people confused about if the second release candidate was the same as the final release or …

Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC2 = Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 final release

However, there was a problem with the first thousand downloaded versions, where you couldn’t upgrade nor install software. Here’s the fix.

I’ve been contacted by Canonical, owner of Ubuntu, because of Ubuntu Eee’s obious resemblance to the Ubuntu name and logo. Read the e-mail here.

I have kind of been waiting for this. What they’re saying is that we need to re-brand Ubuntu Eee: new logo, new name and new domain. They’re really kind in the email and allow us to use their marketing team for our new logo. They’re not that stricked with the new name and domain neither. We can even call it Ubuntu for Eee if we want.

But as we’re increasing our scope and are working on being the obvious choice for any netbook owner, we will ned a new name and logo anyway. This is where you, dear reader, come into the picture. We need a great name for our great distro. Please comment with your ideas! I’m not going to say that no ideas are stupid, ’cause some are, but that’s not a problem! :) Please share any idea!

Personally I don’t like names which mean something. Like Ubuntu Eee, which only says: It’s Ubuntu for the Asus Eee. And not like Netbook OS. Or Ububook. I like Mint linux’s name. Doesn’t say a thing about the the OS.

1. Create a linux distribution which doesn’t scare new users, which fully supports the Asus Eee and gives the user the best software available – even if it isn’t open source and to
2. build a big community who both cares and contributes back to the project.

Mission accomplished

1. With the release of Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1, this task is completed. Ubuntu Eee is easy to install, easy to learn and easy to use.
2. The newest statistics show that the community really cares about Ubuntu Eee and contributes greatly back to the project.

Increasing our scope

People have been asking if Ubuntu Eee can be run on other netbooks, like the Acer Aspire One. While it might run, the Aspire One isn’t supported.  Our new mission is to

• fully support all netbooks and be the obious choice of OS for new netbook owners

The branding wasn’t suppost to be changed untill Ubuntu Eee 9.04, but it has now been proponed because of the email from Canonical.

Hi Jon,

Just to introduce myself, I am a member of the trademark team at Canonical. As you are no doubt aware, Canonical owns a number of trademarks and these include UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, EDUBUNTU, and XUBUNTU. The trademarks are registered in both word and logo form. This policy encompasses all marks, in word and logo form, collectively referred to as “Trademarks”.

Your Ubuntu-eee project has been brought to our attention:

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/

As much we do appreciate your enthusiastic support of Ubuntu and appreciate the time and effort you have devoted to the project, we’re afraid that there are trademark issues with your project. We’ve tried to define a reasonable trademark policy that allows people to customise Ubuntu, and use the marks to promote the project, while at the same preserving the integrity of the marks.

In terms of our trademark policy you cannot use the Ubuntu circle of friends logo in combination with other marks or logos. It concerns us because, among other things, it implies a connection and endorsement that doesn’t exist and we believe that this is potentially confusing to users. The circle of friends logo you have used replacing the circles with the letter e is in breach of this. We’d be happy to offer the assistance of our marketing team if you would like help in redesigning your logo.

In terms of our project name, Ubuntu-eee, is in breach of our trademark policy. Ubuntu-eee implies an official endorsement, which is not the case. We do encourage people to make custom versions of Ubuntu, and we have established the “remix” concept and terminology to allow use of the trademark if the changes are minimal or include only software from the Ubuntu repositories. It is of course fine to host repositories and distribute the software – the issue is that you are attaching the brand, quality and assurance messages of the Ubuntu marks to something which is not Ubuntu. We wouldn’t have a problem with you naming your project Ubuntu for eee or Ubuntu-eee remix, for example.

Regarding the url, again, there is a trademark issue with this as in terms of our policy we do not allow the word Ubuntu to be used in a domain name or url and Ubuntu-eee is in breach of this.

Again,we’d like to stress that we do appreciate your enthusiasm for Ubuntu, however, the Ubuntu name and logo to refer to your own project (i.e, not Ubuntu) needs to be changed.

We trust that you will understand our position in this regard. If you have any questions or would like to discuss it further, please let us know.

Kind regards,

Michelle
The Trademark Team

Get it while it’s hot:

The Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 Release Candidate 2: Torrent download

Everything from the “The road from Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 RC to GOLD” should be fixed.

Please report bugs over at Launchpad, thanks

Firefox is endangered – please consider checking out my post about Google Chrome

As Google Chrome is really fast and less of a memory hogg. Maybe it’s the browser Ubuntu Eee? I’m thinking about the Ubuntu Eee 8.10 release.

What do you think?

Firefox won’t disappear tomorrow, but with time the fox will disappear.

Why will the fox die out?

Mozilla, the developer of Firefox, have developed their own rendering system: Gecko. Google Chrome however uses WebKit for its rendering.

Wait, wait, wait – rendering system?

A browser can be divided into two parts. What you see around and on top and the main area – where the web page is. Around the web page you find stuff such as: Addons, Tabs, etc. In the main area the rendering occurs. Because of this, web pages do not look the same in different browsers. The goal is that of course that the web page is rendered in the same way in all browsers, which is a web developers wet dream. A web page is written in codes, such as a headline: <h1> Wait, wait, wait – rendering system?</ H1>. The different browsers to disagree on what this <h1> code and how it should appear / rendered on your screen.

Ok, keep on

So Google Chrome uses another open source renderings system: WebKit. Gecko (Firefox’s rendering system) can compete with WebKit today. But WebKit will evolve to become a standard of the Web that Gecko won’t be able to measure up against. To find out why, we’ll have to look at who’s behind WebKit.

The fact that Google is supporting the WebKit development can be enough to kill Firefox, but little Mozilla (the developer of the Gecko) must not only compete against big Google. The biggest contributor to WebKit is Apple, which uses WebKit for the Saferi browser on their Macs, PCs and iPhones, and if if that wasn’t enough, Nokia also supports WebKit.

What do you think? Does Mozilla stand a chance against Google, Apple and Nokia?

Firefox forsvinner nok ikke imorgen, men med tiden kan reven dimme ut.

Hvorfor kan reven dø?

Mozilla, utvikleren av Firefox, har utviklet sitt eget rendringssystem: Gecko, mens Google Chrome bruker WebKit til sin rendring.

Vent, vent vent – rendringssystem?

En nettleser kan deles inn i to deler. Det du ser rundt / pÃ¥ toppen og det som foregÃ¥r i hovedomrÃ¥det – altsÃ¥ nettsiden. Det som er rundt siden er ting som: om nettleser støtter Addons, om den har Tabs osv. Det som forgÃ¥r i hovedomrÃ¥det, altsÃ¥ nettsiden, er ikke det samme uansett hvilken nettleser du bruker. Det sider ser like ut i alle nettlesere er selvfølgelig mÃ¥let (og en web-utviklers vÃ¥te drøm), men slik er det altsÃ¥ ikke. En nettside er skrevet med koder, f.eks overskrift: <h1>Vent, vent vent – rendringssystem?</h1>. De forskjellige nettleserene er uenige om hva denne <h1>-koden og hvordan den skal vises / rendres pÃ¥ skjermen din.

Ok, fortsett

Google Chrome bruker altså et annet åpen kildekode rendringssystem: WebKit. Gecko (Firefox sitt rendringsystem) kan idag konkurrere med WebKit. Men WebKit vil utvikle seg til å bli en standard for nettet som ikke Gecko vil klare å måle seg opp mot. For å finne ut hvorfor, må man se på hvem som står bak WebKit.

At Google er med WebKit-utviklingen kan være nok alene til å danke ut Firefox, men lille Mozilla (utvikleren av Gecko) må ikke bare konkurrere mot store Google. Den største bidragsyteren til WebKit er Apple, som bruker WebKit til Saferi-nettleseren sin på Mac, PC og iPhone, og som om det ikke var nok støtter også Nokia WebKit.

[bloggrevyen]

Hva tror du? Har Mozilla en sjanse mot Google, Apple og Nokia?

Asus Eee 900A?

A new model called Eee PC 900A will feature almost the same specs as the Eee PC 901 (except the Bluetooth and the 6-cell battery, that has been replace by a 4-cell battery) but in the same case used in the Eee PC 900 model. (wikipedia)

And it’s using the Atom CPU.

The commands to run

sudo lspci -v -nn

sudo lsusb

Thanks for contributing your time :)

The problem however, is that there’s no standard javascript library. So every (fancy) plugin loads it’s own library, which slows the blog heavily down. The load time of this blog was almost 10 seconds on a 1.44 mbit connection. After doing some optimizations and disabling some plugins (removing the fancy image effect, lightbox, alone took away 3 seconds) the blog now loads in 5 seconds on a 1.44 connection.

There were some bugs with the release candidate. Some will be fixed before the gold release, some will have to wait. Here’s a list bugs:

• Netbook remix doesn’t respond after suspend
  Maybe Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 shouldn’t come with Netbook Remix?
• Bluetooth utilities have been removed
  Will be fixed with gold
• «Incorrect password» after lock screen / suspend
  This will be fixed or worked around
• The RC comes with two bug reports
  This is no problem. It has been fixed. It’s just reports. They will be removed in 8.04.1 though
• Problems with /etc/sources.list meaning the upgrade manager doesn’t work
  This has to be fixed before being released
• Mic problems with 901 & 1000
  8.04.1 will go gold before this is fixed
• It should be easy to choose between netbook remix mode and regular desktop mode
  Yes it should. This will not hold the release of 8.04.1 back