Mozilla Firefox 1.5 has been released. You can download it from one of the mirror sites or from the main site. My search plugins got clobbered during the installation process; this is reasonably easy to set right again, but be aware of this potential problem, if that’s something that would bother you much. Update, 2005/11/30, [...]
Here, readers, is a question I’ve been pondering for some time. I am addressing this question to the subset of my readers who have anything to do with commercial flavors of UNIX, a subset which I imagine is extremely small. The question periodically appears and re-appears on mailing lists: How do you change root’s shell? [...]
Paul Murphy, in ZDNet, has written an article arguing for the essential unity of all Unix-like operating systems. You know what? He’s right. Although many people claim that Linux is well on its way to replacing Unix, the reality is that Linux is Unix: a particular stream within a much wider community whose traditions and [...]
