I use Windows and Linux interchangeably so I like to choose open source toolsets that run on both platforms (I also find that Linux apps are generally also available on Mac OS X so that’s cool). Miro is now my favourite video player (Xine has been deprecated in my A-List).It supports all the video formats I use (Flash Video, AVI, H.264, Windows Media,...

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Fedora 9 was on a countdown and now Fedora 10 is almost ready.The key features for me are:* RPM 4.6 which is a major rewrite* Faster graphical startup – including kernel graphical boot for flashless booting* Rebase to Gnome 2.24* Sbin sanity (at last!)* AMQP Infrastructure – for high speed messagingThe full...