Aug 24 2008
I personally think the friendly rivalry between the open-source Webkit engine (which powers Safari, among other things) and Mozilla (the Gecko engine, actually) is one of the best things to happen to browser development in years. The constant one-upsmanship can only lead to better browsers. Well, Internet Explorer will constantly be the…
Jun 20 2008
About 2 years ago I wrote a piece called Five things that Desktop Linux really needs, attempting to air out my five biggest grievances with Desktop Linux. If you follow FOSS news, every year is heralded as “The Year of the Linux Desktop,” although such a thing clearly hasn’t happened…
Apr 04 2008
I love Jeff Atwood’s blog, and can even accept that he’s drank of the Microsoft Kool-Aid seemingly for both desktop and server because he’s a great writer and a great programmer.
But I admit to being troubled by his recent post. I might think it to be an April Fool’s Day…
Mar 31 2008
One of the coolest packet analyzers anywhere, Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) has reached version 1.0 after 10 years of work. It’s a cool program, really it is. Get it here.
Mar 29 2008
After 6+ months of steady development, Wordpress 2.5 has finally been released, with a number of new features, including a media library and the first administration panel redesign since 2.0.
In addition, the main Wordpress website has been redesigned to match.
Congratulations to all the hackers, testers, and volunteers who helped it happen.
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Mar 27 2008
Songbird, a cross-platform music player/manager and music store frontend based on the Mozilla XUL runtime, has reached 0.5. Get the download here. The program is a bit of a bear, but a competent app in a lot of ways.
Mar 25 2008
After a number of delays, OpenOffice 2.4.0 has been officially released. Get it here. Check the mirrors for your own OS and localization. OpenOffice 2.4.0 has not quite been released yet. Some major new features include OpenGL transitions for Impress, some major charting improvements for Calc, and block selection for Writer.
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Mar 23 2008
I recently performed some cursory Javascript benchmarks with the new version of Firefox and Safari; curious about performance, I decided to do some testing of 32-bit browsers against their 64-bit counterparts. On Windows Vista x64, the only two browsers so available to me are Internet Explorer 7 and a recent nightly…
Mar 21 2008
A recent Linux filesystem benchmark, using modern filesystems, takes a look at some hard numbers. Looks like JFS usually comes in on top.