"...Prism now provides a cross-platform way to integrate the web platform with the desktop environment, and developers don’t have to lift a finger to desktop-enable their web applications, while users have the choice to use their favorite web apps in their browser, on their desktop of choice, or in both places..."

Now Sun has open-sourced ZFS, will we see it supported in the Linux kernel? Here is an opinion from the team who integrated ZFS with FUSE/Linux.

"Eventually we think Songbird is going to be the coolest media player since sliced bread, but it sure is taking its time getting there. A new version of the open source, cross-platform jukebox software was released this week, but the latest Songbird is still stuck in the developer preview stage.

Troy Unrau, the writer of "The Road To KDE 4" series of articles tracking KDE 4 development, recently found Kubuntu was no longer up to the task of running his systems, and switched over to Mandriva Linux 2008. "Nothing is broken; everything "just works!" which is exactly why I went to Kubuntu years ago."

So here we go again, another distro has made it to the front of the queue and this time it's the relatively new release Sabayon 1.1 Professional. I tried out version 3.2 of the main distro a while back but it was only on a virtual machine and I wanted to give it a proper test drive.

"...Internet Message Access Protocol (Wikipedia page) enables email programs to read messages stored on the server. Unlike POP, with IMAP it's as if you're browsing a network drive of files on a remote server with an open, live connection to that server; whenever you open a folder or view a message, it's displayed from that server live.

When Six Apart first announced it would release an open source version of the popular blogging tool, Movable Type, it initially indicated that the open source variation would lack some of the features in the proprietary version. However the company seems to have changed its mind.

This distribution deserves more detail here, and it will get it in a later post, but so far Fluxbuntu is looking like a solid candidate for a base to build a Debian/Ubuntu derived distro for the Zonbu.