W.I.L. Tech-News Highlights for 3

Operating Systems

X.org could learn a lot from Vista, Windows 7 - link. What Windows 7 can learn from Linux - link.

VirtualBox 3.0 an easy way to mix and match operating systems - link.

Linux, Unix

• • Help for Linux newcomers • •

Debunking common misconceptions among Linux newbies - link.

Linux Migration Guide: Finding Linux equivalents to your favorite Windows programs - link. Accessing Windows data from Linux and vice versa - link. Keep your Windows games - link. Finding help - link.

Linux Migration Guide: Everything you never wanted to know about Linux maintenance - link.

Sugar on a Stick is a USB drive installation of Fedora 11 that uses radically simple Sugar as an interface - link, review.

SUSE Studio provides a free and easy-to-use, Web-based user interface to roll your own customized (SUSE) Linux distribution. The resulting image can be deployed on bare metal or as a virtual appliance on a hypervisor - link, review.

Ubuntu’s Jono Bacon: Open source code priority should begin at security, then quality, then performance - link.

Mark Shuttleworth interviewed - link.

So many Linux desktops: Which one is best? - link.

Why is Linux still not as user friendly as the two other main OSes with all the people developing for Linux? - link.

Bug in Linux 2.4, 2.6 kernels since May 2001 renders all installations vulnerable - link.

Google announces OS aimed at netbooks that combines the Linux kernel with its Chrome browser - link.

Finding and trimming Linux bloat - link.

Windows and DOS

Windows 7: New features and attention to detail atone for Vista’s mistakes - link.

Free Software Foundation launches “Windows 7 Sins” campaign - link.

Mac

Snow Leopard reviews positive, upgrades Tiger too - link.

Snow Leopard: The brainiest, brawniest Mac OS X - link.

Other OS’s

Haiku, the open source recreation of the BeOS, schedules first alpha release for September 9 - link.

Benchmarks: AmigaOS 4.1 vs. MorphOS 2.3 - link.

ReactOS, the NT-compatible open source OS, version 0.3.10 released - link.

Applications

Internet applications

Opera 10 hits release candidate status - link.

Chrome for Linux improving at a brisk pace - link.

Uzbl a browser following the UNIX philosophy - link.

Pidgin 2.6.1: The best Linux IM client gets better - link.

Google releases Neatx NX server. A Neatx server can offer a desktop “in the cloud” which can be accessed from everywhere - link.

Open Source Wiki platforms discussed - link.

Office applications

Four more cool word processors, all online - link.

KMyMoney 1.0 release is imminent. It is a solid application which now has support for all of the features most personal finance users will need - link.

Desktop-oriented applications

Scribus 1.3.5 released after two years in development - link.

VLC media player 1.0.0 debuts - link.

Programming

Translating software with Pootle - link.

HTML 5: Can the center hold? - link. HTML 5 is no Flash or Silverlight killer ... yet - link.

Nokia to adopt the Qt toolkit for Maemo application and user interface layer - link.

Stallman warns about C# and Mono dependence - link.

The current state of Python 3 - link.

Security & Privacy

Secure VPN the easy way using the Linux-based Untangle router - link.

Turn an old PC into a multi-purpose LAN server with ZeroShell Linux - link.
Set up secure wireless with Zeroshell Linux - link.
Zeroshell Linux: Captive portal, internet gateway and router - link.
Bonded VPNs for higher throughput and failover with Zeroshell Linux - link.

SSL flaws revealed at Black Hat security conference - link.

Crying wolf over OpenSSH - link.

Adobe Flash flaw exploited in Web sites, researcher warns - link.

Mozilla’s content security policy - link.

Miscellaneous

Bing has not really affected the search industry at all - link.

VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds - link.

Open source saves Novell’s bacon - link.