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1. 
   Review - GNOME

   2.28.0 RC1 (2.27.92) (Apr 28, 2010)

   That is a extremely usable, light and stable desktop environment, easy to understand, reasonably powerful and rich of features for anyone.
   Even OSX and W7 has still something to learn from Gnome's usability - I'm not talking about KDE 4 because it is no longer a desktop environment, it is just a sad joke.

2. 
   Review - Opera for Windows

   10.51 (Apr 13, 2010)

   I used to like much more the 9.x GUI.
   Still a good browser, but less usable than in its previous incarnation.

3. Comment - The Windows era is over

   10.51 (May 31, 2010 - 3:48 AM)

   The analogy between mainframe-pc and pc-mobile/cloud transitions is a long time market hype.
   
   No one will be able to enjoy a rich web experience on a 5" screen (nor 8 or 10), nor the best touch technology will allow to really do office work on the said screen, let apart creativity or games (anything more evoluted than Mafia Wars or Pet Society...).
   
   At the same time no one will trust to store all the personal data on a remote device, maybe will store a well defined class of lightweight data the remote structure will anyway own (i.e. financial or fiscal data), but not the 2 TB of p*rn and the 500 GB of photo.
   
   In any case the user of the cloud will complain of the cost of the ffes of the service, and will constantly raise concerns about trusting the service (Facebook anyone?), with the cloud model being anytime threatened by lawsuits from professional scammers well knowing how to exploit the dumb*ssness of our lawmakers... that's why rich client model won above the mainframe-terminal model 30 years ago, and there is no way back.
   
   Mobile+cloud is exactly the terminal+mainframe model, and it is unacceptable as well 30 years after, because of market and human factors, not technical ones.
   The users wants to own the data and the device, they does not trust the honesty of third parts in keeping the privacy of the dearest private data, and they does not trust the ability of the market to keep the fees reasonably low, because even a child knows that this type of market naturally tends to monopoly.

4. Comment - Cops raid Gizmodo editor home -- you don't mess with Steve Jobs

   10.51 (Apr 27, 2010 - 8:23 AM)

   Free information and trade secrets.
   Each one is trying to pull the blanket on its side.
   Do we really need/deserve a such small blanket?