Tuesday, May 8, 2001

Ports vs. Wine -- 3:53 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Gamespy interviewed representatives from Transgaming, Loki, Hyperion, and Tribsoft to answer the musical question is it better to port games to Linux or use WINE emulation? Naturally, Transgaming argues that WINE is viable while the others express concern. Emulation is all fine and good as long as we recognize that a) Microsoft will find a way to break it, and b) realize that native apps can make better use of Linux' many strengths. Thanks Slashdot.

Monday, May 7, 2001

Mozilla 0.9 Released! -- 9:35 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Version 0.9 of the open-source Mozilla browser suite has been released! You can get all the details in the release notes. I've been using Mozilla as my full-time web browser since October. It works very nicely in both Win32 and Linux. Check it out!

Battle Royale: MS vs. AOL -- 5:34 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

BetaNews reports on AOL's efforts to counteract Microsoft. Microsoft's Windows XP and .NET are geared towards AOL's market. How will they respond? Who will win? Will the earth open up and swallow them both whole? We can only hope!

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