Last night, we tried to install Linux Fedora Core 2 on our home PC. We got stuck a few times. Our machine already has two Windows OS running on two partitions. We didn't want the Linux bootloader because we want to use the Windows bootloader to choose the OS. Hence we skipped the option of installing grub. After the installation, we tried to copy the boot loader using the dd command. But the OS refused to boot the next time. Then we repeated the installation with the option of creating the boot loader. Even this attempt was not successful. Apparently, an extended partition cannot be made a primary partition. Any thoughts on this?
Technical: July 2004 Archives
Few days back, George mentioned about the use of Mozilla as an application development framework. Today I read a few articles on this and found the amazing capabilities of the Mozilla browser to act as a full-fledged development platform which can be used to develop stand alone applications or browser-based cross-platform applications. The framework is called XPFE (Cross Paltform Front End) framework. It consists of a set of web-based standard technologies like XUL (XML based User Interface Language), CSS, JavaScript. and a few more components which are used in deploying, packaging. localization etc. You can read more about it at Mozdev.
Interestingly, the UI mark up language XUL is pretty much similar to the Microsoft's Longhorn markup language XAML (XML Application Markup Language). The similarity lies in the fact that we can add UI controls to a form/window using simple XML tags.
There is an exhasutive list of applications developed using the XPFE framework at Mozdev.
Mono 1.0 has been released. It is an open source implementation of the .NET framework. It includes the SDK and tools to develop and run .NET applications on Linux, Mac, Windows and Unix platforms. The Mono project which is sponsored by Novell gives a compiler, CLR, class libraries, an IDE, debugger, a blog reader and a lot more. Read more about it from the Mono project web site.
