Linux news has an article about the future of Darwin, OS X and Apple's partnership with the open source community. The comments from Ernie Prabhakar, Darwin's open source product manager are extremely interesting.
Mitch Kapor’sannouncementof an open-source multi-platform challenger to Outlook created quite a storm on the net. Charles Cooper of ZDnet thinks his venture is fated to go down in the annals asan act of knight-errantry. Time will tell. I’m certainly curious to see what this PIM will look like.
I’ve been usingChimeraas my default browser for a little while now and I have to say I’m impressed. It’s light, fast, uses Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine and is OS X native. But where it really scores is when you enableHTTP pipelining. Sites just fly in! And if they’ve got mod_gzip enabled, it’s even faster.Slashdotbeing the prime example, as soon as I hit enter, the full page is on my screen.
Linksys get it. They release firmware for theirwireless access points and routersunder the GPL and let people hack away at it. Choosethe firmwarethatsuits youbest, or build your own.
SFLphoneis an open-source softphone forVOIP, it supports the standards likeSIPand is completely skinnable. It’s in early stages right now and has only been compiled on Linux, but support for other platforms is planned. It’ll be interesting to watch how people will tweak it and integrate it with existing applications.
