In InfoWorld's tests using complex Word and Excel documents, OpenOffice.org 3.1 failed to deliver on its promise of better Microsoft Office interoperability, severely mangling our Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel test data files. By stark contrast, SoftMaker Office showed excellent compatibility.

In order for records to be approached or even broken, if you are a Firefox user (about 60-70% of our visitors are), don't forget to grab a copy of the latest great release some time before the end of the day. Having just installed it, the software looks fantastic and it's faster than before. Out of the box it also plays all those embedded Oggs we've spread in pages since last year.

With Trickle you can control the upload and download speeds for applications such that no single application hogs all the bandwidth. This gives you the power to ensure that downloads from Firefox don't interfere with your attempts to download a file through FTP.

Illustrating the blessing and the curse of open-source software, some contriversy has arisen over Intel's Moblin (their Linux for netbooks) replacing NetworkManager with a custom program called ConnMan.

I don’t think there’s any denying that Firefox 3.5 is late to the party concerning other browsers have had features (like private browsing) FF is only getting now. Regardless, here’s my real-world review on it. Instead of getting into the super-techy details on this I’m going to concentrate on what most would care about.

GNOME Do is a popular application that started off as inspired by gnome-launchbox and the “open version” of Quicksilver. However, over the last year the project has branched out in its own innovative ways.

While StarDict touts itself as "the best dictionary program for Linux and Windows," it has a serious challenger to the title called GoldenDict.