June 12, 2008
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Fifteen years in the making, everyone’s favorite software to run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for its 1.0 release. If all goes well, Alexandre Julliard, Wine’s lead developer, says that Wine 1.0 should appear on … Continue reading
May 22, 2008
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At first, when I learned that Microsoft was not quickly supporting its own Open XML, but ODF and PDF instead, I thought it was a great joke. Microsoft went to all that trouble to make Open XML an ISO standard, … Continue reading
May 21, 2008
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Microsoft did everything it could to make its Open XML pseudo document standard an official ISO standard. Fight, cheat, whatever it took. Nothing was too low. And, at the end, Microsoft won. Too bad after all that, Microsoft can’t even … Continue reading
May 17, 2008
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I’ve loved Firefox since version 0.93. It was so much better than Internet Explorer and the other alternatives that I couldn’t imagine using anything else. But, then Firefox’s memory leaks went from annoying me to ticking me off; I started … Continue reading
May 15, 2008
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Adobe Systems is reaching out for Linux desktop users with its announcement today that the first beta of Adobe Flash Player 10, a.k.a. Astro, is now available for Linux, as well as Windows and Mac OS X. In a statement, … Continue reading
May 13, 2008
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Linspire, the San Diego, Calif.-based Linux distributor, is continuing to build up its CNR (Click-N-Run) software installation system with partnerships with Ubuntu parent Canonical and the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distribution. Linspire recently announced that its beta CNR service now supports … Continue reading