Everybody's definition of bloat will probably be somewhat different, depending on the hardware they have and how far they are willing to go and make sacrifices on the performance scale to get their desired useful, functional, friendly desktop.

Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox.

Ubuntu adds Mupen64 and gbrainy, which is another Mono application (for games) that's installed by default

Mozilla's experiment in language driven browsing, Ubiquity, has been placed on the back burner, while inspiring a simpler alternative, Taskfox

The Ubuntu developers have released the third alpha of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, code named "Lucid Lynx". The latest development milestone features the 2.6.32 Linux kernel, the open source Nouveau video driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware and a new default for the search engine

GNOME Photo Frame is a photo frame gadget for the GNOME desktop. It shows pictures on the desktop from multiple sources: local folders, F-Spot databases, Flickr API, Picasa Web Album API, Tumblr API, and RSS.

X-tile is a gnome applet for your panel (or optionally a standalone application) that allows you to select a number of windows and tile them in different ways.This is especially useful for comparing products in separate web pages,or for programmers refering to documentation as they are programming.

For the past three weeks I and my research assistant have been searching the WWW for dictation software that works under GNU/Linux. We have discovered this to be an exercise in frustration with several dead ends.