http://www.prometheon.net What can open source software do for you? Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:34:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en © rnix@prometheon.net () rnix@prometheon.net() What can open source software do for you? rnix@prometheon.net No no http://www.prometheon.net/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.prometheon.net 144 144 !$title$! http://www.prometheon.net/2008/08/01/title/ http://www.prometheon.net/2008/08/01/title/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:34:56 +0000 rnix http://www.prometheon.net/2008/08/01/title/ !$text$!]]>

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]]> http://www.prometheon.net/2008/08/01/title/feed/ Updated Active Directory MSI Installers for Firefox 3 and Pidgin 2.4.3 http://www.prometheon.net/2008/07/19/updated-active-directory-msi-installers-for-firefox-3-and-pidgin-243/ http://www.prometheon.net/2008/07/19/updated-active-directory-msi-installers-for-firefox-3-and-pidgin-243/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:11:55 +0000 rnix http://www.prometheon.net/?p=88 Firefox 3 set a Guiness Book World Record for most downloads in a day.  Approximately, 8,002,530 downloads were registered in a 24 hour period.  Like Apple with the new iPhone 3G, Mozilla couldn't quite meet demand and there was a temporary outage.  Let me tell you, both products are fabulous and worth all the hype! Sorry [...]]]>

Firefox 3 set a Guiness Book World Record for most downloads in a day.  Approximately, 8,002,530 downloads were registered in a 24 hour period.  Like Apple with the new iPhone 3G, Mozilla couldn’t quite meet demand and there was a temporary outage.  Let me tell you, both products are fabulous and worth all the hype!

Sorry it’s taken us so long, but we wanted to wait for at least one update before releasing an updated MSI installer of Firefox with the Flash and Shockwave plugins.

Firefox 3.0.1 with Flash 9 and Shockwave 11 plug-ins

Pidgin 2.4.3 with Guifications and Pidgin Encryption plug-ins

Enjoy!

]]> http://www.prometheon.net/2008/07/19/updated-active-directory-msi-installers-for-firefox-3-and-pidgin-243/feed/ Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 out http://www.prometheon.net/2008/05/17/firefox-3-release-candidate-1-out/ http://www.prometheon.net/2008/05/17/firefox-3-release-candidate-1-out/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 22:21:57 +0000 rnix http://www.prometheon.net/?p=78 I've been using Firefox 3 Beta's for some time now. This latest version is faster, uses less RAM, has more features, and overall looks fantastic. In fact, it's hard for me to go back and use anything else. There have been some noticeable improvements and performance enhancements to page rendering, handling [...]]]>

I’ve been using Firefox 3 Beta’s for some time now. This latest version is faster, uses less RAM, has more features, and overall looks fantastic. In fact, it’s hard for me to go back and use anything else. There have been some noticeable improvements and performance enhancements to page rendering, handling of complex sites with AJAX modal windows over Flash animations, and many other improvement too numerous to list here. When the browser is finally released, nearly two years will have gone by since Firefox 2’s initial release. I think the improvements have shown that t his browser was well worth the wait.

Read more here at Computerworld.

]]> http://www.prometheon.net/2008/05/17/firefox-3-release-candidate-1-out/feed/ Pidgin to get Video and VoIP support this summer http://www.prometheon.net/2008/05/17/pidgin-to-get-video-and-voip-support-this-summer/ http://www.prometheon.net/2008/05/17/pidgin-to-get-video-and-voip-support-this-summer/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 22:12:47 +0000 rnix http://www.prometheon.net/?p=77 Google's Summer of Code has announced the projects it will sponsor. Among them, is video and voice support for the venerable Pidgin instant messenger software. This is huge. One of the only features Pidgin lacks is video and voice over IP support. Prometheon customers who use both Macintosh and Windows machines end [...]]]>

Google’s Summer of Code has announced the projects it will sponsor. Among them, is video and voice support for the venerable Pidgin instant messenger software. This is huge. One of the only features Pidgin lacks is video and voice over IP support. Prometheon customers who use both Macintosh and Windows machines end up using both iChat and Pidgin when using instant messenger server products such as OpenFire. This always leaves the Windows users envious of iChat’s video and voice capabilities for conducting online meetings.

Cheers to Google for sponsoring this feature, and good luck to Michael Ruprecht on his endeavor to insert the last big feature into Pidgin!

]]> http://www.prometheon.net/2008/05/17/pidgin-to-get-video-and-voip-support-this-summer/feed/ Active Directory Windows MSI Installers for Firefox, Pidgin and GIMP http://www.prometheon.net/2008/04/22/active-directory-windows-msi-installers-for-firefox-pidgin-and-gimp/ http://www.prometheon.net/2008/04/22/active-directory-windows-msi-installers-for-firefox-pidgin-and-gimp/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:14:48 +0000 rnix http://www.prometheon.net/2008/04/22/active-directory-windows-msi-installers-for-firefox-pidgin-and-gimp/ The best way to introduce great open source software to others is not necessarily getting them to switch their entire computing lifestyle to all open source, but rather to get them trying and using a few applications at a time on Windows or Mac OS X. With that goal in mind, Firefox, Pidgin, and [...]]]>

The best way to introduce great open source software to others is not necessarily getting them to switch their entire computing lifestyle to all open source, but rather to get them trying and using a few applications at a time on Windows or Mac OS X. With that goal in mind, Firefox, Pidgin, and the GIMP are all terrific programs that can really help improve the overall computing experience on non-Linux systems and get people curious about open source software such as a Linux desktop like Ubuntu or Red Hat.

To help make deployment easier for system administrators, we’ve packaged up some leading open source software in Microsoft’s MSI installer format.

Firefox 2.0.14 with Flash 9.0.124 and Shockwave 11 plugins

Pidgin 2.4.1 with Pidgin Encryptin and Guification plugins

Gimp 2.4.5 with Online Help Manuals

ClamWin Anti-Virus .93

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