A KDE dev has attempted to put ext3 and reiserfs to a real world test. The results are interesting, and confirms what many of us already knew. Check out the experiment for details.

This article aims to clear up that confusion about the different font types and how Linux (and other Unix-like operating systems) incorporates them into the user experience.

There's a benchmark comparing Solaris to Red Hat at Sun's web site. Solaris 10 features a new TCP/IP stack architecture, project FireEngine. Sunay Tripathi posted some performance data on his blog as well that people might be interested in. He will also be posting details about the new architecture and how it allows Solaris 10 to perform exceptionally well on 1-2 CPU and also scale linearly across large number of CPUs. With the low end x86 platform moving soon to 8 CPU (and AMD's dual core, 8 CPU), scaling is something that can't be ignored anymore.

RISC OS 4 which is produced by RISCOS Ltd, and RISC OS 5 produced by Castle Technology are to merge in a deal announced last night. The Icon Bar has the full story.

Microsoft is going to add "edit and continue" for C# on the next Visual Studio.

After years as the unrivaled king of the digital-media world, the venerable MP3 music format is losing ground to rival technologies from Microsoft and Apple Computer.

Here's Update 1 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Recognizer Pack.

In the last weeks, Jérôme Duval has worked on completing the input_server. He is happy to announce that the input_server is in a working state now, and can even be compiled and used as a drop-in replacement for the R5 input_server. Read more. Elsewhere, YellowTAB released a Zeta magazine.

While development towards Zeta OS 1.0 advances at a steady pace, yellowTAB has decided to do an interim release called Zeta Neo, so that users can enjoy the many enhancements incorporated into the Zeta OS so far. Zeta Neo has a long list of improvements over previous versions of Zeta, including two new applications, updated and new drivers, support for IDE hard disc drives larger than 120GB, redesigned Preference panels, improved and expanded localisation support, updated development tools, and an expanded Zeta Manual.

This week Friday Gert Driesen and Philip Van Hoof were to do a presentation about Mono at Microsoft Belgium. Soon later, Microsoft's Belgium legal team cancelled the presentation. The reason was that for doing such a presentation, Microsoft Belgium needed approval of their legal team in the USA first.

Open source advocate Bruce Perens and Novell Principal Engineer Adam Loughran appeared on Hawaii's Think Tech Radio last month, discussing the economic benefits of using open source software (OSS). In the hour-long interview, which is available for download, host Don Mangiarelli provides a forum that allows a wide audience to better understand Linux, open source, and free software.

Tom Adelstein interviews Ricardo Wagemaker on DesktopLinux.com. Wagemaker, based in the UK, is founder of GCCLinux.com, a company (Global Computer Corporation) and Web site dedicated to supporting GNU/Linux--and the Java Desktop System ("JDS") in particular--as the premier entertainment and gaming environment.

The second beta of Mandrakelinux 10.1 for x86_64 has been released. Update: Here's another Mandrake 10.1 review for your reading pleasure.

Red Hat has launched a program to support embedded deployments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The "Red Hat Runtime" program targets developers looking for a well-supported Linux foundation on which to build commercial embedded systems and devices that are not particularly resource-constrained and which are based on mainstream architectures.