Planète Béranger has raised the ABI issue surrounding Fedora and RHEL’s recent upgrade to Firefox 3. In short, RHEL 5.2 ships with Firefox updated to the new xulrunner-based Firefox 3, but its Eclipse and libswt3-gtk2 is still at 3.2, which depends on the old gtkmozembed interface.
This seems like a good argument in favour of adopting [...]

Looks like Microsoft is preparing for their next great leap forward in OS design. Just as Windows NT’s kernel is a clean room without any DOS baggage, Midori is based on the Singularity research kernel, that is written in .NET and utilizes a new compiler backend to output native code.
This will be rather interesting [...]

Tim Bray’s revised Wide Finder project [ongoing.org] has been ongoing for a few weeks now, and I’ve finally took the time to design and prototype an implementation.
What
The goal is to evaluate the performance of middle-of-the-road, not embarrassingly parralelizable tasks on modern-day multi-core hardware. Such as the Sun T2000 servers. Fittingly, the task is to parse [...]

I was cleaning up the code of an application that I’m packaging for Fedora, and was Googling for information on size_t (in the code, a size_t variable was being printed as a normal integer (%d), which triggered a compiler warning, and I forgot what the relevant option is. Ended up finding it in printf’s [...]

Unlike the commercial OSes (and commercially-supported Linux distributions), community Linux distributions tend to have fast-paced release cycles. Notably, Fedora and Ubuntu releases every 6 months.
Every OS upgrade entails several decision: do you do a clean install, or upgrade your current installation? Do you start with a clean home directory, or re-use your previous one? [...]