mdlbear | Milestones on the free software highway (Reply)

Git 1.0.0 released [thread]

Git, in case you've been sleeping under a rock since last April or so (or simply don't care about software), is the new, blindingly fast, astoundingly simple, distributed version control system developed by Linux Torvalds and a cast of, well, dozens at least. The 1.0.0 release is a significant milestone for something that was thrown together in a week or two in response to the withdrawal of the free version of the proprietary BitKeeper VCS.

X11R6.9/X11R7 Officially Released

I started using X11R6 (the "R" stands for "Release") fourteen or so years ago, a release schedule that makes Debian (with a gap of two years between 3 and 3.1) look positively hasty. Now that X.org is under new management and actively part of the open source movement, things are on the move again.

SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta announced.

SeaMonkey is the old Mozilla browser suite. The Mozilla developers have moved on from a huge and ungainly, but unified, suite to separate applications: Firefox and Thunderbird. But some users still wanted the whole package, so the project lives on, under its old codename. Yet another example of the resilience of free software, especially when contrasted with Microsoft's recent announcement that as of January 1 it will no longer be supporting IE on the Mac.

(Updated to add SeaMonkey and to link to X11R7's official release announcement.)