Stories about: RC3

Mozilla Wednesday set next Tuesday, June 17, as the release date for Firefox 3.0, the first major upgrade of the open-source browser in nearly 20 months.

A change that Apple made in its latest update to Mac OS X forced Mozilla to issue a third release candidate for Firefox 3.0, according to notes from a status meeting the company held Tuesday.

The 2.6.19-rc4 prepatch release did not go quite as well as the developers might have liked; some confusion over the return type for an internal function led to an undesirable mixing of pointer and integer types in the depths of the block layer. As it turns out, gcc noticed this problem and duly issued warnings about it, but nobody saw them before the mistaken patch was merged and the resulting kernel shipped. This is, in other words, a problem which should have been easily avoidable.

It's been a long time coming, but Internet Explorer 7 is here at last. If you're dying to get your hands on the new browser, you can go download it right now, but there's really no need -- IE7 will soon come knocking on your door.

The latest release candidate for the new Mozilla Firefox Web browser should be posted for free download early this week, as the project's developers finish last-minute code checks and tie up loose ends.

Novell has published a second release candidate (RC) of its landmark Suse Linux 10.1 release, following weeks of delays.

Despite a blogger's claim that he downloaded the official version of Firefox 1.5 Friday, the Mozilla Foundation said Internet users will have to wait a bit longer for the final version of its next upgrade.

Openoffice.org, the open-source office suite, will miss the planned Thursday launch of version 2.0 by about a week, developers said. The delay is due to a "showstopper" of a bug that emerged at the last minute, according to developers.

At some point along the way, every independent consultant has to decide whether to remain a sole proprietor (known as a 1099 for the tax form he uses) or to incorporate. The question tends to elicit strong opinions - or it inspires fear and confusion and is thus avoided altogether.

Microsoft will issue the third and final release candidate of Windows 2000, RC3, by mid-November before it ships code to manufacturing before the end of the year.