Blog of Henry Jia (贾宏宇)

Project DReaM - open sourced digital rights management (DRM) technologies from Sun
Long time no write. It's time to be back and write down some interesting things in the colorful life. During the Progress and Freedom Foundation Aspen Summit held August 21-28 in Colorado, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz made an announcement to release its entire digital rights management (DRM) technologies, known as "Project DReaM," from its internal Sun Labs program under the OSI-approved Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). See the related news for more information.

Mozilla China Foundation is coming out
Mozilla China Foundation is coming out. On March 4th, it's announced. This is the third affiliate of Mozilla Foundation besides Mozilla Europe and Mozilla Japan. Hooray!

Open source of Java
Sun has posted the source code for the next big version of Java, code-named Mustang, on the Internet under the Java Research License. See the news at http://www.computerworld.com/news/2004/story/0,11280,98335,00.html

Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 Is Now Available!
Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 is now available!

You may download it from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0rc/ to have a try.

See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1020843 for the new features introduced. And see http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5473813.html for some evaluation and interview.

Ten reasons to try Firefox
Why to use Firefox? Here are 10 reasons for you.

Firefox 1.0 is out!!!

So glad to see that Firefox 1.0 is out. The faster, better web browser in 14 languages, for Windows, MacOS X and Linux.

Thunderbird 0.8 begins to support RSS
Thunderbird 0.8 has begun to support RSS. This is quite flexible for users to read news/blogs. Here is the screen on my computer to access Mozilla RSS info with Thunderbird 0.8. Remember to select the RSS support when installing Thunderbird.

Book - Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop on JDS
So glad to see a book - "Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop on JDS" is published and sold on Oreilly.

Steve Ballmer's view on Sun/Microsoft Agreement
Here is an article of Steve Ballmer's view on Sun/Microsoft Agreement.

J2SE 5.0 (Tiger) Out of the Cage
It's great. J2SE 5.0 (Tiger) is out of the cage.

'Open Source Solaris' to debut this year
Here is the latest news on 'Open Source Solaris'. Enjoy.

Sun Close to a Linux Purchase?
An interesting news from internetnews: 'Sun Close to a Linux Purchase'.

Open-source Solaris[tm] OS Project Promised
Open-source Solaris[tm] OS Project Promised.

Create Gnome 2.8 Environment on Your Desktop
It's easy way to use Garnome to create Gnome environment on your desktop. For Gnome 2.8, the related Garnome start package is located at ftp://cipherfunk.org/pub/tarballs/garnome/garnome-2.8.0.tar.bz2.

During the build process, several steps are elemental.

1. follow the instructions in the README file after unpack the garnome-2.8.0.tar.bz2
2. set the /etc/wgetrc to enable proxies (set the ftp_proxy, http_proxy & use_proxy) if behind a firewall
3. when encounting problems, try to make sure that your environment matches the requirement, i.e. you may need docbook-xsl-1.66.0.tar.gz

Enjoy.

Gnome 2.8 is out
The latest stable version - 2.8 of Gnome is out. There are continuously many new features introduced, including removable device, network improvement and Evolution's adoption.