Adobe delivers a first beta of Flash Player 10.1 to destination operating systems Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and netbooks to x86. For cons, the media announced a wide range of smartphones is still relevant for this preview.
Similarly, the supported environments are not granted the same treatment, and regarding the hardware acceleration of video (H.264 decoding), it is proposed for the time with Windows PCs equipped with maps suitable graphic. According to Adobe, this acceleration must improve performance and help save the life of batteries.
If he had hitherto been mainly concerned with the acceleration of Flash fully supported by the GPU platform with NVIDIA, AMD to take this beta release to announce this media with platforms Technology Vision and cite several references such as ATI Radeon HD 4000, HD 5700 and HD 5800.
Remember that Flash Player 10.1 has been developed within the Open Source Project to provide a single milling for various platforms. The final version is expected in the first half of 2010, no 64-bit native support.
At the same time as the beta version of Flash Player 10.1, Adobe offers a beta version of its runtime environment for applications on the desktop, AIR 2.0. This includes Flash Player 10.1 and offers developers a range of new features with support for the detection of peripheral mass storage, user interfaces for multitouch screens, support for Web pages using HTML 5 and CSS3, APIs new to access audio from a microphone, support for the UDP network protocol.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Linux release of Fedora 12
After Ubuntu 9.10, Mandriva Linux 2010 and openSUSE 11.2 last week, it is time for Fedora 12 to enter the track at the end of 2009. A proposed free Linux distribution with a new version every six months. Its development is supported by Red Hat and Fedora is often compared to a sandbox versions for companies in the editor.
With the base kernel 2.6.31.5 Linux, Fedora 12 supports default filesystem ext4. It was already the case for Fedora 11, but the GRUB boot loader has been updated to take into account the medium. The proposed office environments are GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.2.
Red Hat announced the release of Fedora 12, highlights the key improvements. The editor cites improvements to PackageKit which allows for easier installation of software packages and supports a browser plugin so that applications can be installed via HTML tags, and therefore from a web browser.
NetworkManager has better support mobile connections, allows to quickly switch to a broadband connection to another. Fedora 12 includes the Theora video codec for 1.1 and Red Hat, "and users will be able to download and play high-definition video using software codecs and formats 100% open and free.
Other improvements are highlighted on Virtualization: best virtual disk performance and detection of storage, changes in hot virtual network interfaces, reduced memory consumption, modern infrastructure network boot.
With the base kernel 2.6.31.5 Linux, Fedora 12 supports default filesystem ext4. It was already the case for Fedora 11, but the GRUB boot loader has been updated to take into account the medium. The proposed office environments are GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.2.
Red Hat announced the release of Fedora 12, highlights the key improvements. The editor cites improvements to PackageKit which allows for easier installation of software packages and supports a browser plugin so that applications can be installed via HTML tags, and therefore from a web browser.
NetworkManager has better support mobile connections, allows to quickly switch to a broadband connection to another. Fedora 12 includes the Theora video codec for 1.1 and Red Hat, "and users will be able to download and play high-definition video using software codecs and formats 100% open and free.
Other improvements are highlighted on Virtualization: best virtual disk performance and detection of storage, changes in hot virtual network interfaces, reduced memory consumption, modern infrastructure network boot.
- Plymouth for a graphic animation to boot
- Support of Moblin
- X86 version optimized for Intel Atom (compiled for i686 architecture)
- Better management of webcams
- Compression XZ for RPMS
- Improving energy management
- Improvements for the PulseAudio sound server
- Bluetooth application
- NetBeans 6.7.1
Wooden luxury mobile phones
Company Bellperre announced a series of mobile phones Finest Woods luxury housing are made from wood. Mobile phones are made with the use of steel, yellow and pink gold or platinum, natural skin (shark, lizard, buffalo, etc.) and precious stones. Among the characteristics of the model can be mentioned 2-inch display, camera, Bluetooth, support networks, GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz. Dimensions of the apparatus are 100h44h15, 3 mm, weight 120 g. Phones Finest Woods is running Windows Mobile.
On the cost Finest Woods until the information is not available.
On the cost Finest Woods until the information is not available.
Microsoft published the code. NET Micro Framework 4.0
PDC09 summit, currently taking place in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced the release of source code. NET Micro Framework, which goes further in version 4.0. This environment allows to develop and execute applications. Net on small devices.
Now available under the Apache License 2.0. NET Micro Framework is found both in the car GPS, mobile phones or medical devices. Developers can also access the Base Class Libraries, the library used by all programming languages based on the environment. Net.
Peter Galli said however that the TCP / IP stacks, made available by the publisher EBSNet are not included in the source code, Microsoft had no right to redistribute. Should also be noted that the encryption libraries are not part of the lot, Colin Miller, product manager at Microsoft, explains that they can be replaced.
The publication of source code. NET Micro Framework does not mean that the company plans to abandon the platform. Mr. Miller said that the community wished to see the firm involved in future developments to avoid fragmentation of the project. "Therefore we will set up a specialized team consists of Microsoft employees and external contributors to continue the development of a high-quality small appliances.
Now available under the Apache License 2.0. NET Micro Framework is found both in the car GPS, mobile phones or medical devices. Developers can also access the Base Class Libraries, the library used by all programming languages based on the environment. Net.
Peter Galli said however that the TCP / IP stacks, made available by the publisher EBSNet are not included in the source code, Microsoft had no right to redistribute. Should also be noted that the encryption libraries are not part of the lot, Colin Miller, product manager at Microsoft, explains that they can be replaced.
The publication of source code. NET Micro Framework does not mean that the company plans to abandon the platform. Mr. Miller said that the community wished to see the firm involved in future developments to avoid fragmentation of the project. "Therefore we will set up a specialized team consists of Microsoft employees and external contributors to continue the development of a high-quality small appliances.
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