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I stumbled across several interesting posts/threads today about the difference between the Windows Vista & Linux kernels (one & two ). Linux has made huge strides in the past decade and these articles seem to echo my feelings that Linux is n...
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Today Team Mambo officially released version 4.6.2 of the Mambo Open
Source Content Management System. A ton of work has gone into this
release and it's nice to now see it in the hands of the community.
More information on the release...
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Today I wanted to share my most recent experience with FreeBSD. Not FreeBSD directly, but rather a project focused on bringing the FreeBSD operating system to the desktop, PC-BSD. This is a very promising project that ...
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Sun Microsystems has released Java as open source. While not a huge fan of Java myself I certainly recognize the effort it took to get here and the contribution Sun has made. This is being called the largest single source code donation ever...
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The Mozilla Foundation takes another step closer to the official 2.0 release of the popular Firefox open source web browser with the latest release candiate. Their primary target for this release candiate is the web developer community, but...
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The Openoffice.org Documentation Project is holding a competition for
templates and clipart sponsored by Worldlabel.com, and there is
prize money! Wordlabel says "The goal is to increase our trove. Frankly, we don't have
enough; users are ...
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Some recent discussion on the new official fourms for the Mambo project has lead to a number of new features. These new features are "Check for Updates", "Mambo Raw", and the "Add-On Installer". These are all bein...
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The Mozilla Foundation has just released version 2.0 Beta 1 of the FireFox web browser. Doesn't look like a huge upgrade, but there are quite a few nice little additions / changes. You can read the announcement here and download a copy ...
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Team Mambo would like to announce the availability of the Second
public Release Candidate for the new Version 4.6 of the Mambo Open
Soure CMS. The Release Candidate comes after an extended RC1
period during which the Team took feedback from a large...
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I've spent a lot of my time over the last few months working on a new WYSIWYG editor for the Mambo Open Source CMS project . The new editor, named MOStlyCE, will become the default editor in future Mambo releases. I decided to backport t...
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What in the world is Alky you ask? Good question... "Alky (pronounced "AL-KEE") is a tool that allows you to convert a Windows executable to a Mac OS X or Linux binary." Many of you are probably familiar with Wine or Cros...
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It took a little longer than originally estimated, but the next version of the Ubuntu Linux distro is now out. They took a few extra weeks to tighten up the product since this is the first version in the new LTS program (long term service) . U...
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MamboI am happy to announce that the Mambo Foundation has just released v4.5.4 of Mambo. This is the final maintenance release in the 4.5.x line. All attention is now being focused in the next minor release, version 4.6. You can read my ...
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Interesting move by Apple... they have taken away the ability to load up custom compiled version of the Darwin open source core in OS X. Read more here....
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With the recent 2nd Alpha release of the upcoming Firefox v2 browser (Bon Echo) we can see excitement already starting to build. I have seen a ton of reviews and screenshots starting to float around the web. Here is a good review with a few sc...
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I have been watching this distro mature for a while now and they have finally hit version 1. It's nice to see their progression and it looks like a solid effort. I have always heard good this about the BSD families. However, while I hav...
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Perhaps I'm a little late on this one, but this is the first I have heard of this new Linux distro. Anyway, it now appears we have a new Linux distro that combines the power of the lightweight Xfce desktop environment & Ubuntu. Here are s...
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I am a huge fan of Ubuntu Linux. As you may already Ubuntu has selected Gnome as it's default desktop environment. However, after spending a week at LinuxWorld in the booth beside KDE I thought I would give their most recent desktop a spin at...
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I'm back from LinuxWorld Boston. It was a great event overall. I met a ton of interesting people and helped lots of Mambo users. I was lucky enough chat with people from Gnome, PostgreSQL, KDE, RedHat, Intel, etc. So many great ven...
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Hello everyone,
Sorry for the posting delay. It has been a busy few weeks.
I have been working hard on the next Mambo release, 4.6. This
week I am in Boston running the Mambo booth at LinuxWorld Boston.
You can read my blogs ...
