Opera Software recently released version 6.11TP of its Opera browser for the Solaris operating system. Additionally, Chimera for MacOSX changed its name to Camino and released version 0.7 of the popular Mac Gecko-based browser. Rick Caudill from Syllable uploaded a screenshot showing changes he made for the desktop of 0.4.4 version of Syllable OS. Also, the Mono project just released version 0.22 which incorporates a number of bug fixes, while SkyOS had its share on new features, drivers and fixes. Finally, Microsoft unveils new DirectX 9 enhancements: high-Level Shader Language integrated into DX.
News Soup: Opera, Camino, Syllable, Mono, SkyOS, DirectX
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I liked Chimera better. It suited it. O well.
Looks nice, but also looks like every other XP derived desktop currently out there. They should’ve stuck closer to the Amiga look AtheOS had. At least it was distinct.
does not seems faster than 0.6. but works fine and imported all my prefs. The archive is 7.6 Mb compared to 2.0 Mb for Safari; I hope they’ll be able to shrink it down one day.
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http://homepage.mac.com/softkid
window borders are changable, the default is still the amiga look. Rick is mostly working on the desktop stuff, ie the contextual menus you see there, the icons, and hes playing around with the launcher bar too.
There is also a Beta of an ATA Driver!!!
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4063437
Test it and give feedback!
Does anybody know how to set the homepage in Camino to more than one site in different tabs, like in Mozilla ? Is there a manuall somewhere ?
thx
Thomas
[i[“* Hooks for the icon transparent mode”[/i]
This is supposedly one of the new features, but those Crystal icons’ edges and shadows which are semi transperant still doesn’t look semi transperant… like on KDE…
The Syllable desktop before was pretty bare bones, it couldn’t be left as it was. Don’t worry if it ‘looks’ like WinXP; that’s just the bitmaps. They, the colour scheme, and everything else can be changed. What’s being mostly considered at the moment is fixing the technical side of things.
wow, well done Eugenia! excellent post. I didnt even know that Opera was on Solaris….been too busy using Mozilla!
keep up the good “work” 😉
cheers
peter
It’s about time those cock-smokers at Opera released a new version for Solaris. All 9 of us at the ‘World wide symposium for Solaris on the desktop’ are rejoicing!
the high level shader language thing was in the dx 9 sdk
(the one where everybody was whining about it “not being news”)
its more or less the same concept as nvidia’s cg language
I like Chimera (as a name) a lot, the only problem is it had already been used for a web browser ( http://freshmeat.net/projects/chimera-www/?topic_id=90%2C91~*~@… ). It gets worse:
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*Phoenix release*
Also stalled on name change.
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From http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=3E662F62.9000703%40mo… Don’t know what that means exactly, but I don’t think I want to know.
All true, of course. I have an interest in Syllable and think a lot of great work is being done. I was really just commenting on that one screen shot. I was expecting something updated, the old Workbench look was pretty stark by today’s standards. It was just my initial reaction that said: this could be any Linux distro, this could be anything.
That’s odd, 0.22 was released on March 5th, but later that day apparently 0.23 was released which fixed some more bugs. It seems odd that someone would have reported 0.22, as they both were released two days ago.
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.23
El Camino es no relevante! Safari is THE Macintosh browser now. For a while Omni Web was the darling alternative browser, then Chimera. Safari has made them all has beens.
Believe it or not, MS has a versions of IE and Media Player for Solaris.
Personally, I don’t see what’s so wrong with having more browsers. Especially those written by a group of developers for non-profit – meaning they never have to worry about profit. And meanwhile, Safari is written for the average Mac user – if Camino can do what Opera did on Windows and Linux – they would probably have a following. Unfortunately, they would be competing with OmniGroup…
Maybe in a short time you´ll be able to see a new “gui face” for syllable. But maybe.. i´m just speaking too much too early.
(who knows.. 
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Jim Wrote: “Believe it or not, MS has a versions of IE and Media Player for Solaris.”
They have now pulled these versions, the last IE was 5. I was always amused by the script kindly provided by MS to call Emacs as an alternative email client to OE.
The new Opera 6.11 b1 is a great improvement over 5.1b, let’s just hope this one actually comes out of beta so I can get rid of the annoying banner adverts.