Wishful thinking? Yes, but let's consider the possibilities. The last couple years have seen significant advances in hardware production and design. One of the more interesting (and potentially revolutionary) developments to take place this past year is the announcement of a new CPU, the STI (Sony, Toshiba, IBM) Cell processor.

The new Treo smartphone is GNU/Linux compatible and comes with Bluetooth connectivity--here's how you can set it up for your network.

It took Red Hat 16 months to produce the newest version of its premium Linux product, which went on sale in February for as much as $2,499 per computer per year. It took a group of programmers less than two weeks to release a free clone. But the move could help Red Hat as much as it appears to hurt it.

This is a partial list of new features & systems for OpenBSD 3.7, scheduled to be released in May.

After a seemingly quiet period of little to no activity concerning IronPython IronPython 0.7 has been released and is available here. From the IronPython list, by Jim Hugunin himself: "This is the release that I should have made about 2 months after IronPython 0.6 and joining MS". Elsewhere, Nemerle released a preview before 0.3.0, which is planned in a month or so. It brings a total rewrite of the type inference engine and the parser (which is about half of the compiler).

Seth Nickell posted some screenshots and videos showing the experimental Luminocity window manager & Cairo which enable a XOrg-based desktop to get accelerated GL eye candy graphics. update: more here.

There has been a lot of buzz about the seeming rise of dymanic languages. Here is an article and interview with some of the top people in their respective language field (even more here).

froglogic GmbH today announced the availability of Squish 1.3, the new version of the automated GUI testing framework for Qt applications.

Vice president of developer platform for Novell in Boston, de Icaza, 32, took a moment to discuss with Howard Wen the primary legal concerns and technical issues with Mono, its current and near-future status, and why you should consider developing your next project with it. Elsewhere, Beagle 0.0.8 was released, the first version reasy for wide consumption.

Beginning in 2006, Microsoft says it will ship with its operating system and other software products six brand new typefaces created especially for extended on-screen reading.

Even with increased popularity, the Firefox Web browser won't face as many security problems as Internet Explorer, according to the president of the Mozilla Foundation. She also replies to Slashdot questions. And now, Mozilla Firefox market share exceeds 6%.

The Net's top standards body is getting closer to speeding up XML-based software, a move that could benefit everyone from cell phone carriers to television broadcasters to the military.

Here's an enthusiastic review of Linspire 5.0. Afterwards, head over to OSDir for the screenshots.

Falko Timme wrote a tutorial describing how to create images of your Linux system with SystemImager. SystemImager lets you create images of your installations. So you can make a backup of your systems, clone your systems (if you have to maintain more than one machine with exactly the same software), or even distribute your software over the internet. To do so, you need an image server (should have enough disk space to store your images) and a so-called golden client (i.e., your "perfect system" of which you want to make an image).