"The most significant addition in alpha 7 is backend support for full-page zoom, which showed up in the nightly builds late last month. The alpha 7 release also includes support for SVG lighting and tile filters, redesigned XUL menus and tooltips, long-awaited color management support (still disabled by default), and support for cross-site XMLHttpRequest.."

Microsoft is in danger of looking ever more like a dinosaur, with 20th century thinking in response to 21st century threats from web driven free software.

"In a letter that recently came with Free Software Foundation's Bulletin Peter Brown poses an invitation to "help us build Libre planet - a base for free software activists and community" going on "your support will help launch Libre Planet by August 2007"."

Hear that faint crowd noise like you're one block away from a heavy-weight boxing match that just ended in round one with some chump taking a dive? That would be your customers trying to get your attention.

What does this mean if you're an enterprise hoping to hitch a free ride on an open-source project? Well, it means that you're better off paying a little money for professional support. Free support is good up to a point, but if that point ends when your job begins, you may be in a world of hurt without it.

Linux has come a long way in the last 10 years. At that time, if you were looking through the main audio and music applications on other operating systems, you would have struggled to find comparable, fully developed, apps on Linux.

This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.0 server. From the Suhosin project page:

I really wanted to install ZenWalk 4.6.1, but it was not to be. Add it to the list of distros that won't boot on my test machine, the VIA C3 1 GHz thin client.