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The new web engine is finally here as PentaCloud. Right now, it's just KHTML, KJS, Dirac, and FLAC thrown together, but the KHTML-based parts will be capable of rendering HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript using software as rarely as possible, the built-in FLAC and Dirac codecs will be modified as necessary, and the parts of PentaCloud that are dependent on KDE and Nokia Qt will be replaced with dependencies on an engine-integrated widget toolkit.... read more

As a response to the Free Software Foundation's opposition against the release of an open source application alongside an entirely proprietary version, the Open G-Net web browser will be replaced with two separate projects: a brand new KHTML-based web browser engine, and a software codec. Therefore, there will be no new Open G-Net releases, and my G-Net project will no longer be a dual-licensed web browser.... read more

I have finally officially released the first non-Mac version of Open G-Net: Open G-Net for Qt! But the bad news is that it's not yet ready for everyday use, so it's pre-alpha version 0.0.1.

George

I'm sorry I took so long to announce a new version of Open G-Net. It was mainly because of technical difficulties with setting up a virtual machine to do that, and setting up one virtual computer to develop and test the Gebix computer operating system and another to make open source higher-layer software, including a web browser. I'm announcing the Qt version because I have been able to get my development environment for non-Mac and non-Gebix open source software working. Hopefully, I should be able to release the first official non-Mac version.... read more

I'm sorry about this little mistake I made when uploading the Mac version of Open G-Net: I had used the older "segmented G" prototype logo icon for Open G-Net's project page when I should've used the much more consistent logo for the released version instead. I'm sorry about that: just a little mistake that I decided to fix!

George

I've decided to start my new web browser project by releasing the Mac version of Open G-Net first because I've been able to finally make my first Mac application out of only a few that will ever be released for the Mac in comparison with the GUX operating system kernel. I've still yet to release a GTK+ front-end version and a Nokia Qt front-end version of the same web browser for the Linux community. However, if you own a Mac but aren't a programmer, don't have Xcode, and/or don't plan on modifying any part of Open G-Net for Mac let alone contributing any improvements made using any Apple developer tools, then the application binary itself is right where you'll see it once you extract the source code, so no worries there.... read more