Apple released the iSight, a $149 firewire camera, a few days ago. I've been using it the last few days with iChat AV (I was one of the lucky ones to receive an iSight for free at WWDC) and I must say that the quality is great, much better than my other $40 Creative WebCam Pro camera I have on my PC (using it with MSN & Y! on Windows and with GnomeMeeting under Linux). Just tonight though, I found a quite funny bug in it (in my opinion) and I thought I share this with you and hoping that engineers at Apple will read this (lacking a bugzilla at Apple's site).

Many would argue that market share is not the same as user base. But it doesn't ultimately matter. What really matters is to have as many users as possible, so it will attract more developers and create an actual "market" around the platform. Less users, less money flowing, less third party development, which ultimately leads to the death of a platform. I was reading today this and this editorials, even journalists now buy the "cheap PCs with Linux" deal. Apple has to wake up before is too late and should offer a cheap solution. Apple should learn from NeXT's mistakes, not duplicate them. Update: Look inside for one more idea by some of our readers.

The Darwin team is pleased to announce the availability of the Darwin 7 Preview source code corresponding to select portions of the 2003 WWDC Panther seed. Darwin and a number of other projects are available via Web DAV (as well as regular HTTP).

A short, illustrated comparison of mounting partitions in OS X, BeOS, WinXP and Linux.

OneStat.com today reported that more and more internet users choose for screen resolution 1024x768 which is the most popular screen resolution for exploring the internet. Users with monitors set to the most common resolution 800x600 for web sites have an approximate 31.7 percent global usage share. Seeing these numbers, both web designers and also application and OS developers should take into account that their projects (not counting specialized 3D/CAD/DTP apps etc) should be designed in a way that they totally fit and are usable on 800 pixels wide.

Regarding the latest on Apple's side: The Guardian has an article, "a look inside Apple's new push for speed" Sanluisobispo says, "G5 breaks Apple's speed limit" Sunspot says. Elsewhere, Apple has quietly posted the winners of the Eighth Annual Apple Design Awards, which "honored developers for the creation of outstanding Macintosh-compatible software products." Also, this document is a high-level summary of the salient features to keep in mind while (re)targetting your programs to run on the G5.

Microsoft will roll out the final release of the first service pack for Windows Server 2003 in December, according to the user Web site WinInfo, and include a new security wizard that lets administrators lock down unnecessary processes and ports.

Zach Welch annouced a fork of Gentoo Linux in a message to the gentoo-dev mailing list. His reasoning can be found here, FAQ here, while Drobbins replies and announces top-level management restructure.

If this really works, this is the coolest hobby OS I've seen it a while. IntyOS is an operating system for the old Intellivision gaming console. There are Intellivision emulators available if you'd like to try it out, but it's acutally possible to run this on the original console if you have a (now out of production) "Intellicart" unit. Of course, there are few applications for it (clock, CPU load, "IntyAmp"), so its chances of unseating Windows on the corporate desktop are slim.

"When we pitted Red Hat Enterprise Linux against several flavors of UnitedLinux to see how each fared as an enterprise server platform, we found each edition of the popular GNU/Linux operating system to represent a distinct method on how to build bare metal into a working server. Installation is different, configuration options are different, and hardware support varies across these Linux flavors." Read the review at NWFusion.

A lot of new information on Mac OS X Panther Server is to be found at MacNN. And new Panther screenshots here. In the meantime, Wired has an article titled "Design According to Ive".

Here is a review of Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 for the Mac accompanied by a number of screenshots.

"SCO's contract dispute with IBM has been accompanied by a smear campaign against the whole GNU/Linux system. But SCO made an obvious mistake when it erroneously quoted me as saying that "Linux is a copy of Unix." Many readers immediately smelled a rat--not only because I did not say that, and not only because the person who said it was talking about published ideas (which are uncopyrightable) rather than code, but because they know I would never compare Linux with Unix." Read RMS' editorial at ZDNet.

Analysts and others are raising questions over Apple Computer's claim that its new Power Mac G5 is the world's fastest personal computer. Articles at News.com, ExtremeTech. Apple is defending their benchmarks. In the meantime, the first reference of how faster the G5 is against the G4s, is available.