YellowTAB is a German-based company developing an operating system called "Zeta". Based on the BeOS source code, for which they have obtained legal rights to use, it is meant to be the next-generation version of the now 3 years old BeOS r5.
George Staikos recently added a fun new feature to Konqueror that sidebar lovers everywhere should appreciate. Those of you running Konqueror from CVS (or a recent enough Mozilla) can go to the Dot's new configure page to add a nifty KDE Dot News side panel to their browser.
In kicking off the Macworld Expo
keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled
a new Macintosh web browser named
Safari. Jobs
said the browser was
"based on standards", "works with any Web site", has much-improved
performance over IE (page-loading speed is "three times faster",
JavaScript performs twice as fast and it launches "40% faster" - comparisons
The NewsFactor Network has
been running a series on "alternative" web browsers. The
first installment covered Mozilla and the derived
Netscape; the
second installment covers "A Night at the Opera" and
The KDE Project released two security advisories today.
A problem has been discovered in the way in which the KDE webbrowser Konqueror handles SSL certificates. SSL certificates are used by websites to prove that they are indeed the website the user thinks they are. The following advisory has been released to bring this issue under the attention of all KDE users.
KDE Security Advisory: Konqueror SSL vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2002-08-18
URL:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20020818-1.txt
Oliver Strutynski has a mission.
Frustrated by the fact that some online banks discriminate against
Konqueror, he has
announced
a website for promoting
Konqueror to banks. According to the site, "It is the purpose of
Peter-Paul Koch,
maintainer of a JavaScript/DOM/CSS testing site, recently updated
his browser
section. In it he reviews
Konqueror, together with
the other Version 5 browsers, Mozilla
and IE.
OSnews is running a nice interview with Konqueror developers Dirk Mueller, Waldo Bastian, Carsten Pfeiffer and Simon Hausmann about what the future holds in store for Konqueror. Most of the covered topics are familiar to the frequent dot.kde.org reader, but some stuff -- such as details of the Atheos port, font handling, and plans for improved CSS2 support -- is very interesting.
A new KDE IOSlave enabling easy access to Freenet has been announced by Jay Oliveri in this message to kde-devel.