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Google is already working on Blink, ‘fork’ of WebKit

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If you believed that everything was said as far as rendering engines refers to nothing. With Night and treachery, Google announced Blink, fork of WebKit is based on both Chromium as Chrome … Did someone say Opera ? Also.

500x357 Google Chrome already works in Blink, 'fork' WebKit

Apparently, this initiative of Google is due to technical issues reduce the complexity of WebKit , which has gradually grown into a monster hit continuously by the tug of war between Apple and Google. Thus, development of Blink aims “ accelerate innovation of open Web “.

But, as indicated in MuyComputer, Google this movement beyond the above. This is undoubtedly completely control a project so far was in the hands of one of its main competitors, Apple, with which, as we all know, do not get anything right.

Obviously, Blink will be an Open Source engine open to engage third , and indeed from Opera Software have already joined the initiative. However, the same could be said of Android, an open source operating system based on Linux that the Mountain View developed behind closed doors, but later released the result of each new version (which, for example, takes advantage Amazon for its own platform).

In short, there is much for that “browser wars” over. No longer will you be all in Trident, WebKit and Gecko. Moreover, yesterday Mozilla knew, in collaboration with Samsung , prepares a new rendering engine from scratch, initially aimed at Android devices equipped with ARM chips. Place your bets.

Tags: Apple, Blink, Chrome, Chromium, fork, Google, Internet, rendering engine, web browsers, Open Source, Opera Software, web, webkit

Pardus may disappear, but not before generating a fork

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Pardus is a minimalist Linux distribution that is relatively popular due to its stability, simplicity and attention to detail. This project was funded state-sponsored, and by official agencies of Turkey, but its future has been compromised .

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changing political situation is having a direct impact on the Council of Scientific and Technological Research of the country, which depended precisely Pardus. The project, Pardus 2011 was launched in July last year, and there seems to be releasing a new version, has already been reduced by those involved in the 35 last year at 5 today, and WIN the picture not too flattering .

As noted in Ostatic

, Bahadir Kandemir, one of the current developers of the project, explained that the project is slowly dying, but is hopeful that a group of users of existing forums of this distribution create a fork of the distribution that would take the baton from Pardus .

The fork of GNOME Shell Cinnamon is already stable

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developers to fork Linux Mint GNOME Shell has announced the availability of Cinnamon 1.2 , and both APIs as the desktop interface has been declared stable by the founder of Linux Mint, Clement Lefebvre .

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Cinnamon, which was created last year to outline some changes that the developers of Linux Mint wanted to apply to the desktop environment GNOME 3, is having a notable host to adapt some of the visual characteristics of the GNOME 2 . x and move to GNOME Shell and GNOME 3.

Among the improvements the new version are easy to customize Cinnamon by Cinnamon Tool Settings , which includes for example the ability to set the time format for the calendar applet.

As indicated in The H Open, the configuration tool is also used to parameterize the applets Cinnamon , which have been added as a new feature in version 1.2 and add features such as accessibility, documents Recent removable drives, trash or control of the monitor via XRandR.

applets are sort of extensions supervitaminadas with respect to extensions of GNOME 3, and Lefebvre expects all developers to implement applets, and only write extensions for “advanced purposes.”

desktop now comes with a choice of three provisions ( layouts ) different desktop. First is the traditional layout , with a lower bar to the main menu launcher, taskbar and system tray applets.

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Traditional Desk

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Desktop

Flipped

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Classic Desktop

available Flipped change the bar at the top of the screen. Finally, the available Classic uses a top bar to the top menu and system tray, but in addition also includes a bottom bar with a provision tasks even more similar to GNOME 2.

can find more about Cinnamon 1.2 both the post of The H Open as the project officer post which offers several additional catches. And of course, you can download 1.2 for your distribution Cinnamon thanks to the huge project download page.

Tags: applets, Cinnamon, Cinnamon 1.2, Cinnamon Settings, classical, extensions, flipped, GNOME 2 GNOME 3, GNOME Shell, traditional

Quantum Project, fork KDE and Qt

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continue with KDE, is that as the title of this post there is a fork budding , not just the desktop, your library …

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we saw recently with GNOME and the rescue attempt (read: fork jacket) called Mate by a user of Arch Linux and is again in the forums of this distribution which appears another user with much more ambitious plans create your own fork of KDE and Qt .

This initiative has been dubbed the project Quantum and aims broadly to create a complete operating system based on C + + and JavaScript keeping in mind the basic concepts such as design style and development, boosting areas such as ease of use, documentation, support and features, all covered under the KISS philosophy, of course.

According to the author, the reasons for this move is that he is tired of the rhythm that carries both KDE and Qt and some of the objectives brand is operating the Plasma desktop with the style of KDE 3 but with new technologies as a base.

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point of this whole project there are only two catches desktop you see, of which its author assumed by the slight use of managed memory, 183 MB of RAM , even less than Xfce -always according to its author, but has specific applications in mind: new desk, new panel, a media player and a graphical interface for libalpm, which is the package manager.

know how this will or if the author knows, developments such as Qt or eggwm Razor (also plans to do something with KWin), but perhaps more worthwhile it would help these projects to start some ordeal alone. Time will tell.

Google is already working on Blink, ‘fork’ of WebKit

Pardus may disappear, but not before generating a fork

The fork of GNOME Shell Cinnamon is already stable

Quantum Project, fork KDE and Qt

The Tor project is developing a fork of Firefox

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