Great news from Dave Winer: At some point in the next few months, there will be an open source release of the Frontier kernel.

There's also more info on Dave's blog.

Details still have to be worked out, but at least it means that no one will be able to acquire Frontier and let it die. Only this is great news! But hopefully, that could also lead to long awaited fixes and improvements.

I'm using Frontier all the time, either directly or indirectly (even this site and its RSS feed are generated by Frontier).

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Mike Piatek-Jimenez finally released X Resource Graph 1.0, an open source system monitor for MacOS X that allows you to monitor CPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature, network activity, disk I/O, current weather, and stock market data. It's light, very flexible and highly customizable.

I've started using (and beta testing) this app about one year and half ago, now, and it immediately became one of my indispensable utilities (the kind I install on every machine I use).

Don't get fooled by the 1.0 version, BTW. It would have largely deserved to be called 2.0 or even 3.0, because of the number of features that have been added since I started using it, but Mike used a slow (3 digits) versioning scheme (the previous release was the 0.5.0), so this is a quite polished 1.0.

So if you ever need to monitor your computer's activity, give XRG a try. It's free, anyway.

Thanks for that great app, Mike!

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TLA Systems Ltd just released DragThing 5.1.1 to fix some bugs and add new features again. I've been using that app for ages, it seems, and it keeps getting better and better.

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