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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Firefox 2.0 is finally final

25-Oct-06

I’ve got a quick review of Firefox 2.0 over on Linux.com today, with additional screenshot goodness for those of you who haven’t already switched over to Firefox 2.0. (What are you waiting for? Do it now!)
This is a great release, but I’m wondering when the next revolutionary feature is going to debut. As silly as [...]

A look at the Gaim 2.0 beta

25-Oct-06

I’ve been playing with Gaim betas for 2.0 since the Gaim team started releasing them last year. I started a review when the first Gaim beta was released, and then they dumped that, and released beta 2. So, I just held off on writing a review until it looked like the Gaim folks were close [...]

The anti-release

23-Oct-06

So, Firefox 2.0 is due to be released tomorrow… or today, if you believe some of the posts on Digg, Slashdot, Metafilter and everywhere else. Of course, what’s really happened is someone with way too much time on their hands is sniffing around any FTP server to see if files turn up ahead of the [...]

New shiny vs. old dependable

23-Oct-06

As I mentioned earlier, I spent a big part of the weekend upgrading my workstation from Ubuntu Dapper to Ubuntu Edgy.
I think I have a sort of situational amnesia that prevents me from remembering what a pain in the posterior upgrades really are, or I’d probably just make do with the reliable install that is [...]

I’m Edgy now…

22-Oct-06

I’ve been playing with Ubuntu Edgy for several weeks, but on test machines and the laptop that I use to browse the Web while watching DVDs — not on my main desktop.
Yesterday, I took the plunge. I decided to go for a clean install this time ’round rather than doing a dist-upgrade to Edgy. I [...]

Slackware Review

18-Oct-06

It’s been 10 long years since I started using Linux, though I didn’t start using Linux full time until 1999. Slackware Linux was the first distro I used, and I stuck with it for many years. From Slackware I tried Storm Linux (or Stormix), Mandrake, SUSE, Debian, Xandros, and a number of other distros before [...]

Comments on reviews…

17-Oct-06

I just read through some of the comments on the Nexenta review I have up on Linux.com.
There are some fairly clueful comments, and then the inevitable drive-by nitpicks. I sometimes wonder if people only read articles in an attempt to find errors.