Daily Friction #305
Get a detailed information on the hardware configuration of any Linux machine with Hardware Lister, try the new Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 3, upgrade to the newly released Drupal 6.0, jailbreak any iPhone, check out Sun’s new super supercomputer, and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
- Hardware Lister (lshw) - lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or EFI (IA-64) systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).
- Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 3 released - New Mac theme, better OS integration on Linux and Mac, major speed improvements, memory usage reduction, integrated search of addons, and thousands more changes.
- Drupal 6.0 released - After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle.
Hardware
- jailbreak any version iPhone out of the box, including 1.1.3 - This program is based on the work of everyone who
believed in free software. - Sun’s super supercomputer to launch - It got delayed a few months, but a new, somewhat unusual supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week.
Information
- Google homes in on revenues from phones - Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset, adding weight to the group’s confidence at being able to generate significant revenues from the mobile internet. If the trend continues and other handset manufacturers follow Apple’s lead in making web access easy, the number of mobile searches will overtake fixed internet searches within the next several years.
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