Fennec fox is a small fox found in Africa and as this Firefox is smaller version of bigger firefox it is called as the Firefox Fennec.

Currently the Fennec is available for Nokia’s Maemo OS for N800/N900 devices but soon it will be available for other mobile operating systems like Android, Symbian, iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile 6.0.

If you don’t have above mentioned operating system devices you can try Fennec on your PC , Linux or MAC too, Firefox released special version for testing and development purpose, so have a look at it and try it.

The entry of Firefox in mobile market is threatening for the current most popular mobile browser – Opera. Opera is very popular browser amongst mobile users including the Opera Mini and normal Opera. Now it will be very interesting to see what the Opera will do after Mozilla’s entry in mobile market.

More Information on Firefox Fennec :

Wikipedia on Firefox for Mobile.
Official Fennec page.
Firefox.com/Mobile/

Video by Firefox

Firefox also given a video for their new browser, Take a look at what they have in it.

Recently I learned ASP.Net, Its really nice technology for web application development. Google’s Orkut is ASP.Net application. But i just seen the webserver details of Orkut, they are running linux OS !!. I just shocked to see the working of ASP.Net on linux platform. So i did a bit research for it.

There exists one open source .Net development framework for Open source lovers, named MONO. Most probably Google is using Mono on their Linux servers to run the ASP.Net application.

According to Wikipedia,

Mono is a free and open source project led by Novell to create an Ecma standard compliant, .NET-compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems.

We can also use .htaccess file of linux servers to give any extension to serving pages to fool the users, this might be the case with orkut, but the WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg have seen many ASP.Net error pages on orkut in early days of orkut. (Ignore fatal error on Matt’s blog). so we can say that Google is orkut using ASP.Net for Orkut.

Google’s survey site i.e. survey.googleratings.com is using Microsoft IIS to serve the dynamic ASP.Net pages, so will Google use the ASP.Net technology in future for few more products ? It will be really interesting to see whats next.

This new version is released after 1year of last release which was 8.04, this new released do not contain any special changes like the previous one. But this time they released a special version for Notebook users, called “Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix” which is specially tested on few branded know laptops.

I just cant understand one issue here at Ubuntu’s download page. Check this image

I was just shocked that Ubuntu is preferring the users to use the older version and its support is more than the newer version. !! I don’t know why, but its strange.Same case is with the server edition of Ubuntu, the older version 8.04 is support until 2013 and the newer 9.04 if support until 2010.

According to Matt Cutts – The Google engineer, the new ubuntu 9.04 boots in just 7.83 sec !! Now its time to check it on my system which is not as high powered as the Matt’s system.

But still as always Ubuntu is free to download and it really rocks with its amazing graphics and amazing features. I am still using Ubuntu in my laptop.

If you want Ubuntu on CD for free of cost go to ShipIt.Ubuntu.com and place a order for free CDs, The Ubuntu people will send you the latest version of Ubuntu for FREE !!. I ordered on CD for me. But now due to high number of requests they paused taking orders of free CD. So download ubuntu , burn it on CD and enjoy the power of open source.

But again after few days, the gaming fever came to ground, and i installed Knoppix linux on my Laptop. I have fad of using various Operating systems. I tried many Operating systems (After computer upgrade, almost any OS was running my system) like different Linux flavors, SUN Solaris, all most all windows versions [Including Longhorn, Home Server edition, etc] I was trying Knoppix first time. Its almost same as Ubuntu, and yes its free (But, No free CDs, Download it and burn it and use it)

Currently Linux is gaining popularity. Many people , many offices are switching them selves to Linux. I am planning to do some Linux certification for my future. As a computer science student, i personally think that Open source has a bright and wide future. There are thousands of Linux versions available to download and use. Most of them are free but few are paid.

Check out the list of various linux distribution.

I recommend you to use Linux operating system over other operating system, there are many reasons. But few of the most important are “Very less virus threat (negligible)”, “Free of cost”.

Few of the Ubuntu’s new features are

• Supports 3G networks for connectivity.
• You can install Ubuntu from a Pen Drive.
• Special User account for Guests (just like guest account in Windows XP)
• and Ubuntu uses the latest Gnome 2.24 Desktop Environment for better operating system experience.

I pre-ordered the Ubuntu’s latest version CD few days ago. If you want it just go to ShipIt.Ubuntu.Com and place your order. At usual these CDs are Free.

The Ubuntu store launch new clothing and accessories for this new version. If you want to buy a T-Shirt with Ubuntu logo or a Ubuntu Pen drive then you can buy it from Shop.Ubuntu.Com