Air was the wallpaper we introduced in KDE 4.2, but that is just the beginning of something larger. Air is supposed to be different than what Oxygen is, something that tries to appeal to a user base looking for a more "sexy" experience than Oxygen (yeah I know you are out there :) ), but to still have the capability of merging nicely with what we have now.

Recently I've been thinking about the comments made a while back by Mark Shuttleworth that he wants to push the linux interface to be on par with Apple's Mac OS X. This statement made me relive an old thought that maybe the great Steve Jobs picked the wrong open source guts to put a proprietary GUI on.

I have been tracking one site that's devoted to web subjects and that's not inclined towards one browser or another. It's www.w3schools.com and the statistics from it are... well, very different from hitslink's.

Here we find that FF has reached over 45% and, as a matter of fact, for the first time, FF reached more market share than all versions of IE they display in the statistics combined.

If you’ve never used Window Maker on your Linux desktop, you’re missing out. I’ve dabbled in nearly every window manager/desktop environment out there, and while all have their pros and cons, I always go back to Window Maker.

These are exciting times for photography on Linux. With Krita 2.0 round the corner and GIMP getting (some) higher bit depth functionalities in its next 2.8 version. Rawstudio is not sitting still either with a couple of great projects down the line.

Everyone knows patent trolls are constantly hard at work, thanks to the potentially deep and tasty pockets of companies like Red Hat, which has continued to prove not only the success of the open source development model, but that you can build a stellar business based on that model.

GIMP 2.6.5 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. The NEWS file lists the changes in details. As usual, the source can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon; please check the Downloads section.