Our friends Dennis Kasprzyk and Guillaume Seguin announced the release of Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.6 respectively. As is the tradition we always make a release with a lot of new features and of course eye-candy to go with it.

Mozilla Labs has posted a video preview, source code, and an online demo of its forthcoming mobile web browser.

I have recently bought a Huawei E220 HSDPA access device (or a so-called “3G modem”) from Three UK. In this article I’ll share with you my experiences of using it in Ubuntu Linux distribution. And don’t worry, it works just fine

KTorrent is definitely the most full-featured BitTorrent client for KDE.

The days of parsing configuration files with awk and making quick changes to configuration files with ad-hoc scripts may finally be at an end. With Augeas you can forget about the parsing and focus completely on what settings must be changed. So if the configuration file moves a piece of data to the fourth column, you don't need to care; Augeas will still show it to you as it did before.

Package management in OpenSUSE in recent years has had its share of challenges. In OpenSUSE 10.1, the package management was an epic trainwreck. Package management in OpenSUSE 10.3 is as good as that was bad. There are various types of speed improvements. Some of them huge. There is some caching of the repository package info. Progress bars so the user knows what’s going on.

Hewlett Packard's $499-and-up 2133 Mini-Note comes from the same basic template as the Eee but falls woefully short in some aspects.

I finally found time to download and install Linux Mint 5.0 today, and happily wiped my already-feeling-outdated Ubuntu 8.04. The moral of the story is, Linux Mint 5.0 (Elyssa) is not a “rock your world” kind of distro, but it certain is easy to use as promised.