Tuesday 25 June 2013

Disclosure details about the NSA’s spying programs www.stopwatching.us

This was an article posted by Maxthon on the recent revelations of the extent of spying the us government has over other countries and their sovereignty.Please support this campaign.

2013-06-13 00:25:16
News last week brought light upon the NSA and the US Government’s surveillance strategies and information they had gathered from various internet and phone companies. The depth and breadth of the information accessed by the US Government – and the number of US citizens involved –  is shocking.  It underscores just how much of our daily lives are mediated through the web.

Make your voice heard! Tell the government to stop from “watching” users’ activity and disclose details about the NSA’s spying programs.
Go to www.stopwatching.us and sign the petition.

This is generating a broader conversation in the USA that we here at Maxthon think is long overdue.
- Who has access to your personal data and what do they have? What can they do with it?
- What steps are they taking to protect it?
- What role does the cloud play all of this?
- What steps can you take to protect your privacy?
So, in the coming days and weeks we’re going to be taking a look at the questions above with the goal of providing you—our  customer—a clear, plain-spoken understanding of what you need to know to live a private, secure life in a multi-device world powered by the cloud.   This is a conversation with a large signal to noise ratio. It’s too much to dispense with in one blog post.  But it’s an important conversation to have.
We want to do this for one simple reason. At Maxthon, we believe in a free web, providing the user an experience to freely and securely use internet across all devices.
Privacy and personal security is a huge part of Maxthon’s DNA:  past, present and future. We make great web browsers and the web browser is the doorway through which the entire web enters and exits your life. It has to be secure. It has to offer you the privacy you need. We are also huge proponents of using the Cloud to simplify your life.  It also has to be secure and offer you the privacy you need.
Next time:  Who has access to your personal data and what do they have? What can they do with it?
Thanks and don’t forget to sign the petition at www.stopwatching.us.

Karl Mattson
Vice President, GM
www.Maxthon.com
Karl@Maxthon.com 

Friday 21 June 2013

OpenSXCE2013.05 for SPARC EA beta OS has been released


OpenSXCE2013.05 for SPARC EA was just RELEASED as beta OS. 

Points of interest

- Live DVD, Text, USB, and virtual HD versions
- Fully modernized PCI/USB device driver hardware data support for SPARC platform
- Dtrace support
- QEMU/KVM 1.5.0 support
- LDOM server virtualization and partitioning technology support
- full 2D hardware acceleration for all legacy GPUs
- Mesa 9.1.3 OpenGL-based 3D API graphics software support (experimental, WIP)

GNOME 2.28.2 and IceWM 1.3.7 are provided along with:
VIM 7.3, Samba 3.6.15, Firefox 21, Thunderbird 17.0.6esr, GIMP, Pidgin, Rhythmbox and Glade 3. 

For office productivity, Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 is included.

http://svr4.opensxce.org/sparc/5.11/ISO/
http://svr4.opensxce.org/sparc/5.11/USB/
http://svr4.opensxce.org/sparc/5.11/VHDD/


Test it and give feedback
 
Details and developer blogs see 
 
http://svr4.opensxce.org/

Sunday 9 June 2013

XStreamOS launches illuminos based Unix distribution



 XStreamOS is Sonicle effort to mantain our own distribution of the illumos kernel, featuring a customized text install, the ZFS fileystem, Crossbow network architecture, XStreamOS bootvirtualization, zones, and a starting point to contribute and develop the illumos kernel.

Upon XStreamOS, Sonicle mantains full featured products such as XStream Server and XStream Storage.

We will be soon providing free versions of XStream Server and XStream Storage.









 It can be downloaded at their website at


http://www.sonicle.com/index.jsp?pagename=xstreamos&parent=products&language=en

Monday 3 June 2013

OpenSXCE2013.05 unix distribution just released for for x86, x86_64 EA



Opensxce has announced a new beta release based on the latest version of illumos kernel similar to OiOS 

http://www.opensxce.org/images/screenshots/OpenSXCE021.png 


http://www.opensxce.org


OpenSXCE2013.05 for x86, x86_64 EA was just RELEASED. A short
announcement to launch the beta release of x86_64 and soon to come sparc versions no documentation yet available SPARC version coming soon. 




http://svr4.opensxce.org/i386/5.11/ISO/
http://svr4.opensxce.org/i386/5.11/USB/
http://svr4.opensxce.org/i386/5.11/VHDD/

Screenshots

http://www.opensxce.org/images/screenshots/OpenSXCE049.png
http://www.opensxce.org/images/screenshots/

Developers blogg

 https://www.facebook.com/OpenSXCE?ref=stream&hc_location=timeline

 http://svr4.opensxce.org/

Try this Opensource Beta release and see what you think