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.
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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.

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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 

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/

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, virtualization, 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

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

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

Could a new Sparc chip ignite mobile Sparc laptop interest?

It was announce in January 2013 that Oracle and Fujitsu had extended their development partnership of Sparc technology with a new range of 'Athena' Sparc T5 processors for entry and mid range servers, along with Sparc M5 processors. These chips used for high end computing continues a roadmap set out by Sun Microsystems in Sparc technology. Following the takeover of Sun Microsystems the roadmap for Sparc technology remained uncertain until this announcement.

However the announcement has created a refocused interest in mobile technology for the sparc technology. Sun Micro systems sold rebranded laptops until 2005 when the company was purchased by Oracle. Specialist manufacturer Tadpole was acquired by General Dynamics who consolidated the range to specialist uses such as military field systems discontinuing large scale manufacture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadpole_Computer. Further  interest continued in Sparc by Accutech Ultrasystems who launched a range of Sun Ray end user notebooks based on SPARC / Solaris environments.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1

It remains to be seen if progression of leaner more effective notebook manufacturing techniques will once again open the business case for manufacture of Sparc based professional notebooks at a competitive point.

P.S. OiOS (Openindiana) according to Fijitsu has not yet been officially certified to run these chips for further information about support please visit kernel development project http://wiki.illumos.org

VLC Player as default player in Firer Fox

VLC Player on OiOS


As the industry slowly migrates over to HTML 5 formats many rely on Adobe Flash to play existing embedded flash content files.Adobe are not developing Flash Player in the wake of this transition but have opted for support for security updates.One option it to look at the VLC Player to opt for default playing of embedded files instead of Adobe Flash Player.To test this we headed over to Firer fox lan forums for answers at   http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=55544.

Using VLC on FF 3.6.12 we had mixed results with some files playing seamlessly,others needing prompting or not playing at all.We hope to now test more recent releases of Firerfox to see if seamless integration fares better on the more recent releases.

Opensolaris OiOS Open Source Wallpapers

Opensolaris Desktop Wallpaper Opensolaris is a free Open source distribution Produced by Sun Microsystems based on Solaris 10 used for delivering enterprise architecture and applications.It comes with a gnome desktop,compatible with many open source and propitiatory eco systems.

Many consider solaris 10 is the most desirable unix system in enterprise.OiOS has been developed under the the name of OiOS (openindiana).This system is community supported and is looking to expand its user,and development communities.Whilst planning to put into place further support services with the help of sponsors and Enterprise partners.

openindiana.org

Developers many also go to java.net