Red Hat CEO Is Ready To Squash Microsoft, VMware, and Oracle

Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat has some fighting words for old-school software makers like Microsoft, VMware and Oracle.

He wants them gone. Or at least, he wants their closed, proprietary software outta here.

Now that Red Hat has become the first and only pure open-source company with a billion dollars in annual revenues, his goal is  the death (more or less) of proprietary software.

HOW AWESOME !!!  Sink Em'

He Says, "We got to a billion dollars by convincing the world that open source is a viable alternative to traditional proprietary software, The next step is to make open source the default choice in this next generation of computing That's what takes us from $1 billion to $5 billion and beyond."

Open source lets software users make changes and freely share the software with others. Companies that sell old-fashioned software licenses don't let users do that.

I've personally a advocate for Open Source Software and currently run Ubuntu at home, unfortunately most consumers have absolutely no idea that they have a choice oif operating Systems, i've asked handful's of friends and I would say 75% believe windows is part of the computer they have and they have no alternative.

Windows 8 Preview Release

Windows 8 Release Preview

It's Windows reimagined and reinvented from a solid core of Windows 7 speed and reliability. It's an all-new touch interface. It's a new Windows for new devices. And it's easy to try now—whether you're installing it for the first time, or moving from Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

Check it out here.

iSWiFTER Plays Flash Games on Your iPad

iPad: We've covered Flash video-capable browsers for iOS before, but iSWiFTER just updated with the express intent to let you play Flash games on your iPad.

A quick test with the free version (to play more than 30 minutes, you need to spend $5 to upgrade to the full version) showed a little bit of fuzziness in the graphics, but otherwise really smooth gameplay on the Flash sites. You're not going to get desktop performance, but for click-and-wait games that Facebook is known for, it's more than enough. And if you're dying to get your Flash games on your iPad—because it's more of a natural experience—$5 isn't too ridiculous a price.

The download is free so you can check it out before you buy.

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3dfx Voodoo Emulation In the Works - Technology News

3dfx Voodoo Emulation In the Works - Technology News

DOSBox is arguably the best PC-with-DOS emulator available today. It's great for playing older 1980s and early 1990s PC games. But some later 1990s titles exist in a sort of grey area—too complex for DOSBox, but not necessarily available in Windows 7-compatible versions either.
Now a new hack aims to change that. The next version of DOSBox will feature a software implementation of SST-1, 3dfx Interactive's seminal Voodoo Graphics chipset from 1996, according to a Slashdot post. Head programmer "Kekko" is working with the DOSBox team and a group of VOGONS board users to develop a faithful emulation of the historically important 3D graphics accelerator cards.
This may seem like an odd choice for a project. But any hardcore gamer from the 1990s remembers how significant 3dfx was. Some of us are still recovering from the company's rather spectacular downfall. Kekko said that by adding Voodoo chipset emulation to DOSBox, it will improve compatibility with many significant titles from that era, increase portability, and add Direct3D support for Windows 95 and 98 games. It also integrates directly with DOSBox's internal renderer, meaning that full screen mode and video capture would still operate.
For now, it appears SST-1 emulation works exceedingly well. A quick run-through in the forum shows that over a dozen games, including Quake III: Arena, X-Wing Collectors Series (with the updated Windows 95 engine), Grand Theft Auto, and Tomb Raider 5 are all up and running. However, the additional code slows DOSBox itself to a crawl.
To remedy this problem, Sir Arthur's Den reports that the group is now develping a multi-threaded architecture to split the work between different CPU cores, as well as offload some of it to the GPU. They're also improving compatibility for Glide games under DOS.
You can bet we'll be keeping a close eye on this project.