A new email client unveiled by Mozilla this week contains code from an unusual source—the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook.
Not to sound like a Luddite, but sometimes the old ways are best. When it comes to Web browsers, that's not very often, but knowing your way around a text-mode browser like w3m does come in handy from time to time.
Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft's search engine Bing, instead.
Sugar Labs announced this week a major update of Sugar on a Stick, a Linux-based computing environment for education that runs from a flash storage device. The new version brings an improved user interface and several new applications, including an integrated ebook reader.
Chrome for Linux certainly is different than my ever faithful net-cruising companion, Firefox.  I'll talk about some of the features that I liked and outline things that were an issue for me.
 
 
 
 
 
