Gnome has been plugging away with its 2.X series from quite some time now, updating every 6 months on a predictable schedule making incremental improvements with each release. During this period they have kept their API stable and have refrained from making fundamental changes to the project. The developers have acknowledged that at some point in the somewhat near future, they will break from this series and begin work on a new series that removes some of the old cruft and changes some fundamental approaches in how people use Gnome. Here are a few of my suggestions for what would help Gnome 3 a revolutionary leap forward.

In the Linux in Government Columm, Linspire gets a review - not as technological as some others - but for its contribution to the Linux adoption curve.

After a faltering start, Microsoft is stepping up its commitment to Intel's Itanium processor.

Fedora Core 4 Test 2 is now available on the FTP first mirror and over BitTorrent, more here.

Ian Murdoch, Debian's founding father, does not believe Ubuntu's popularity bodes well for Debian-based distros. "If anything, Ubuntu's popularity is a net negative for Debian," Murdoch told internetnews.com. "It's diverged so far from Sarge that packages built for Ubuntu often don't work on Sarge. And given the momentum behind Ubuntu, more and more packages are being built like this. The result is a potential compatibility nightmare."

Here is a tutorial about apt on rpm-based distributions. This tutorial is split into two parts: in the first it demonstrates how to install and use apt based on an example (apt on SUSE 9.2), and in the second part it will give you an overview of the packages to install and the package repositories for each distribution mentioned above.

When Firefox’s Mozilla came onto the scene four months ago it looked like an end to the constant struggle against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer security vulnerabilities was finally in sight. The promise was almost too good to be true: a viable alternative that had been designed with a security conscious approach, no pop-ups and none of IE’s vulnerabilities. read more

Most times when an object shows up for work, it's capable of performing as required, because its capabilities are advertised explicitly in its interface. However, life is not always that straightforward. This chapter will help you learn what to do when capabilities aren't readily apparent.

ReactOS 0.2.6 is out. Look at the changelog. Screenshots you will find here, here and here.

A bit of Sunday humour to lift people's spirit. A OS Car analogy article. Includes Windows, MacOSX, Linux, BeOS and Amiga.

VMware Workstation 5 now has memory sharing technology borrowed from the company's ESX Server, plus a Teams feature that connects multiple virtual machines together in order to simulate and test higher-end applications on a programmer's desktop system.

Haikunews reports that Micheal Lotz of the Haiku Project has suceeded in getting their kernel land networking stack working on Haiku itself, along with the Links web browser. The one Links binary works on BeOS R5 and on Haiku, proving binary compatibility even further.

The GPE project updated their web site with brand new screenshots of their X-based PDA interface. Elsewhere, GTK+ 2.6.5 was released with bug fixes.

Ubuntu Linux 5.04--the "Hoary Hedgehog" release--came out on Friday, April 8. Is there a reason it's #1 on distrowatch.com? Or is it not all it's cracked up to be? Read here to find out.