Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems as they perform functionally identical tasks.

"GNUnet is a free software framework for decentralized, peer-to-peer networking..." (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) --
- See also: How does GNUnet compare to other file-sharing applications? http://gnunet.org/faq.php3?xlang=English#compare

Mozilla has released an update to Firefox, its popular Web browser. The update is available for download either from the Firefox Web site or through Firefox itself, if you select "Check for Updates" from the Help menu.

Dan Kegel released winetricks 20080720 with the following changes. * ogg filters/codecs: flac, theora, speex, vorbis, schroedinger * divx codec update * fix made to winetrickstmp * ffdshow updated to beta 5 *
fix made to firefox3... If you use the codecs that winetricks supports this is a important update as there has been many useful fixes and updates to this area.

The 7z (7-Zip) archive format offers good compression ratios and is an open source format. This and the favored 7-Zip graphical file archive tool for Windows have popularized the format.

We see many new Linux distributions released on regular basis. Some are based upon already existing major Linux distributions while others are independent projects. But not all will attract your attention until there is something really unique about them.

Download managers, although frowned upon by some, are often useful applications for those of us who download a lot of files, or are on slower connections and want to use a dedicated application (perhaps with some tricks up its sleeve) for the downloading of files.