Mozilla and UserLinuxFriday February 13th, 2004napolj2 writes: "Open source guru Bruce Perens is trying to start his own distribution of Linux called UserLinux. On the UserLinux whitepapers, he mentions his plans to use Mozilla, but oddly decides to use the suite over Firefox because he doesn't think Firefox will be 'attaining maturity in time for us.' The site contains a Browser Matrix to compare the different browsers, but it doesn't seem to be complete." "he doesn't think Firefox will be 'attaining maturity in time for us." nothing odd about that that why Fx is called technology preview and is 0.x. Agreed. If I were going to make a distro that I wanted others to use and trust, I wouldn't put beta software in it either. Perhaps once FF goes 1.0, it makes sense to look at it again. True, but it is very useable, and the FireFox roadmap says it will reach 1.0 by June. It struck me as odd to start a whole new distribution, a project that may go on for years, and to use a product that may not be upgraded much anymore (the frontend of it anyway). Does he say that he never plans to change? All he's saying is that he needs to get the distro's first release done before Firefox's projected 1.0 date.... Why making so much noise about that? How many other distributions include Firebird/Firefox as of now. None, as far as I know. They all include Mozilla Suite. I am sure when FF/TB reach 1.0 status, most distros will start switching over to the standalone apps. I just thought it was an interesting project and some of you might like to read about it, that's all. Nevermind. Right now firefox lacks a few useful extensions that should come installed by default or at least in the same bundle to download. I hate not to be able to specify never to reload paes frmo the net and use them from the cache. i don't know how it comes by default and I know I can change it with about:config, but anyway. some exensions fix those things they left out. [url=http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/ttlo]Amazingly[/url] someone already has. (sorry, couldn't help myself) This isn't such a big deal. I am a dumb linux newbie user who uses Mandrake linux and it was easy to change the browser to open Firefox instead of Mozilla. I did a search and replace on the shell script in /usr/bin/mozilla and replaced the mozilla path with Firefox and it worked perfectly. |