Archive for September, 2008

After bouncing back following the cancellation of a distribution release last year, once again Gentoo drops the ball. Or does it?

“Gentoo seems to be having problems with .’1′ releases – 2007.1 was cancelled and now 2008.1 has been cancelled. The Gentoo project has also announced a desire to move to a more ‘back to basics approach’ where they are doing weekly builds of Gentoo stages.

Thanks to the coders at the open source Wine project, experimental versions of Google’s Chrome browser are available for Mac OS X and Linux. These builds, dubbed Crossover Chromium, come well before Google’s official releases, and they are a little half-baked. But if you can’t wait to run Chrome on your Mac, now’s your chance.

As open source rises in popularity, so too does the likelihood that licensing violations have seeped into your applications.

Forty pupils at a new city academy, which opened just two weeks ago, have been suspended.