Stories about: RC3

Mozilla will release the next version of its Firefox browser on Tuesday and attempt to set a Guinness World Record for software downloads.

Mozilla Wednesday set next Tuesday, June 17, as the release date for Firefox 3.0, the first major upgrade of the open-source browser in nearly 20 months.

A change that Apple made in its latest update to Mac OS X forced Mozilla to issue a third release candidate for Firefox 3.0, according to notes from a status meeting the company held Tuesday.

The 2.6.19-rc4 prepatch release did not go quite as well as the developers might have liked; some confusion over the return type for an internal function led to an undesirable mixing of pointer and integer types in the depths of the block layer. As it turns out, gcc noticed this problem and duly issued warnings about it, but nobody saw them before the mistaken patch was merged and the resulting kernel shipped. This is, in other words, a problem which should have been easily avoidable.

The latest release candidate for the new Mozilla Firefox Web browser should be posted for free download early this week, as the project's developers finish last-minute code checks and tie up loose ends.

Novell has published a second release candidate (RC) of its landmark Suse Linux 10.1 release, following weeks of delays.

Despite a blogger's claim that he downloaded the official version of Firefox 1.5 Friday, the Mozilla Foundation said Internet users will have to wait a bit longer for the final version of its next upgrade.

Openoffice.org, the open-source office suite, will miss the planned Thursday launch of version 2.0 by about a week, developers said. The delay is due to a "showstopper" of a bug that emerged at the last minute, according to developers.

When we pitted Red Hat Enterprise Linux against several flavours of UnitedLinux to see how each fared as an enterprise server platform, we found each edition of the popular GNU/Linux operating system to represent a distinct method on how to build bare metal into a working server. Installation is different, configuration options are different, and hardware support varies across these Linux flavours.

When a Linux system is booted it passes through several distinct stages, known as runlevels, before the system has completed booting and is usable. Likewise, when a Linux system is shut down it passes through another set of runlevels before the system is ready to be turned off. In this column, we are going to examine runlevels and show you some tricks that can be used to avoid unnecessary reboots of your Linux system.