Last week I found an Ubuntu package repository for the Chromium browser, the open source project behind Google’s Chrome browser. I didn’t get excited until I saw this post, which shows that the packages do contain a working web browser! Chromium for Linux is pre-alpha software, but farther along in development than I expected. The [...]

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Midori is a lightweight GTK web browser which uses the popular WebKit rendering engine. I installed it on my Eee PC netbook to see if it could replace Firefox for light browsing. Midori seems to be stable. I haven’t had it crash yet, which is a large improvement over last time I tried it out. [...]

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Today Mozilla released the third beta for the next major Firefox update, version 3.1. Firefox 3.1, which will likely be re-numbered to Firefox 3.5, will have one more beta before the final release this summer. The most significant upgrade coming in Firefox 3.1 is the new Javascript engine, TraceMonkey, which is enabled by default in [...]

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I use a one terabyte external hard drive for backing up data. The drive came formatted with a FAT filesystem, which I immediately replaced with the more reliable ext3. After formatting the drive as ext3 I noticed that the storage capacity had dropped considerably. Why did this happen? Linux filesystems such as ext3 reserve a [...]

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This is a guide for running the Windows version of Civilization IV (no expansion packs) on Linux using Wine. I’ve written guides on this twice before, but recently I wanted to play and found that my previous instructions were out of date again. Since I last played with Wine 0.9.44, the graphical glitches have been [...]

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