Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Another point of view on the FC2/WinXP dual-boot problem. In response to my recent article on problems booting a Wndows XP partition after installing Fedora Core 2 a couple of the Fedora developers wrote me. They defended the choice of not treating the bug as a show-stopper and also scolded me a bit for possibly giving others ammunition to use FUD against the Fedora project. Their thoughtful response deserves the same forum as my warning and complaint, so with their permission I've posted excerpts. [O'Reilly Weblogs]
9:16:14 AM    

Cometa falls from the sky. Cometa Networks Inc. plans to announce Wednesday that it will shut down, after its investors and board of directors decided to pull the plug on the fledgling Wi-Fi hotspot service provider, a spokeswoman for the company said Tuesday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
9:11:42 AM    

Office 2004 for Mac Hits Store Shelves. Microsoft makes the next Office release for Mac OS X generally available, though the edition bundled with Virtual PC 7 remains delayed until the fall. [eWEEK Technology News]
8:54:47 AM    

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