We will first start with the 1.0 release of the free word processor, AbiWord, for many different platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, Win32, MacOS and QNX. Mozilla RC-1 was released also a few days ago and its developers appreciate any bugs people can submit before the final 1.0 release. OSNews reader “Number9” submitted the news about the world’s fastest computer, at NYTimes (free registration required). The computer is about 5 times faster than IBMs (previous world fastest) computer at a national lab. Another very interesting article can be found at PCMag. Given the hullabaloo around the Tablet PC, PC Magazine roundups six new tablet PCs from ACer, Fujitsu, HP, and others while it also investigates the past of such devices. The Menuet OS project released a new version and a new screenshot. Also, KlipFolio 1.0 for Windows is now released (more platforms are coming soon) and the OSNews news klip is installed by default! Thank you Serence!
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I liked Abiword when it started to have several file formats and exporting.
I shell download the 1.o version right now.
My, how times change.
I remember using a piece of “push technology” software called PointCast about six years ago that was vaguely like KlipFolio (KlipFolio is vastly superior, of course). I thought PointCast was pretty cool at the time.
At one point during the dot-com craze, Rupert Murdoch offered to buy the PointCast network for $200 million and was turned downed by the guy that owned it. A couple of years later, PointCast’s assets were sold for about $10 million (and those people probably overpaid, IMO).
Thanks Eugenia, there is so much amazing software out there that I have never even heard about. I’ll be using KlipFolio to get my news from now on – I love it.
The new menuetos screen shot looks great… i hope the hardware support is better now.. when i tried it i couldnt get it to see my mouse at ALL
Argh… Abiword’s font rendering in gtk still leaves a lot to be desired. It still seems to mangle screen fonts horribly, to the point in which I give up and use KWord… and I’m a GNOME user. Can they not just use freetype or something?
Menuet OS seems slightly prettier than when i last booted it. While i think its a neat project, i think it would do better if it had a different way of doing things under the hood. Interupts, segments, flat binaries, there are better ways of doing things in this day and age.
And in the screenshot you can see a snippet of the code from the OS itself, 2 lines which i find interesting:
call check_mouse
call check_buttons
Most, if not all input devices can be set up to set off irqs when a change happens, this makes any os which takes advantage of them much faster. Polling them wastes WAY too many cycles.
Hi and thanks for the interest. I just wan’t to correct the disinformation.
Menuet does not use polling for mouse. Those functions return immediately if no data is recorded by IRQ handlers.
Flat application binaries has the advantage of not needing paging, which can be optionally disabled, so you already have a 10% faster computer on your desktop.
so, where’s the win32 release, can’t see QNX ver there either, when is 1.0 likely to be released properly, at present it isn’t news on abisource.com
The Windows version it comes soon. They have some trouble with the plugins code.
But the QNX version is there:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-1.0.0.qpr