The Warden

Following in the footsteps of the GNOME Gnome team, KDE now just stands for KDE. Not the original Kool Desktop Environment. Not even the K Desktop Environment. Just KDE.

I’m not quite sure about renaming the core product, however (and as it turns out, neither is Thom or the Dot community). The desktop environment itself will be renamed “KDE Software Compilation”. It’s only a little wordy. Good luck catching on with that one.

Repositioning the KDE Brand

And if this is the list, some of the issues are already done. Issue 27490 and Issue 20997, for example, may be going back to Milestone 5. And Issue 21951 is a simple URL fix.

Only 8 Bugs Stand In The Way Of Chrome For Mac Beta.

This makes no sense whatsoever. Why in the world would Apple accept Silverlight from their biggest competitor and reject Flash from a company that doesn’t inherently compete with Cupertino except photo organizers and video editors?

Microsoft Demos Silverlight on the iPhone

Come on. I don’t need a browser that has a web server, a BitTorrent client, FTP client, email client, AND chat client. Feature creep much? There’s a reason that Chrome is taking off: it’s a fast light browser with almost no features… except browsing the internet.

Opera 10.10 Final with in-built Opera Unite Released (via)

Glen Moody makes a really interesting point in a column: what if Google threw ads into the Chrome OS and gave away netbooks? Obviously, this isn’t a new idea (Free PC tried, remember?), but this is Google behind it, and with the total cost at about $20 (plus the Teracent acquisition)… anything can happen.

Edit: Linux Journal’s fans on Facebook make a very interesting point: What’s to stop you from wiping Chrome OS?

Would You Accept Google’s Free Netbook?

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This. Looks. Epic.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Launch Trailer it’s epic.

About time. Maybe I’ll actually come back to Mafia Wars now.

Mark Pincus Blog: My take on zynga and cpa offers (via)