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 [...]

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? [...]

Those using Mac OS X or ROX Desktop might wonder what all the fuss is about. After all, they have had application bundles since the beginning. Everyone else will probably be wondering “what are application bundles anyway?”. First, then, a primer.
If you think of an application as an object, a thing, then you want to [...]