Linux distributions screenshot museum

Chris Haney has put together a simple application that allows one to browse through numerous Linux screenshots.  More than 400 different Linux distributions are presented, with many of them featuring screenshots from different releases.  This is interesting both in terms of how much a distribution has changed over time, and how one distribution compares to another.

I wish these were organized a bit differently, allowing more of a photo gallery experience.  But I’m sure the improvements will come over time.

Via habrahabr.ru.

Google’s Interactive Unit Conversion

Google Search offered a unit conversion tool for a long time now.  One could just search for “10 pounds in kilograms” and get a quick answer right on the results page.  Google Operating System blog reports that Google has upgraded the functionality and now the unit conversion tool is interactive.

jQuery 2.0 will drop support for MSIE 6, 7, and 8

Slashdot reports:

The developers of jQuery recently announced in a blog entry that jQuery 2.0 will drop support for legacy versions of Internet Explorer. The release will come in parallel with version 1.9, however, which will include support for older versions of IE. The versions will offer full API compatibility, but 2.0 will ‘benefit from a faster implementation that doesn’t have to rely on legacy compatibility hacks.

A few comments mentioned that dropping support for MSIE 6 and 7 is fine, but MSIE 8 is still widely used by people with Windows XP.  The solution to the problem seems to be conditional tags.  Since jQuery 2.0 will have fully compatible APIs to jQuery 1.9, something along the lines of:


<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="jquery-1.9.0.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gte IE 9]>
<script src="jquery-2.0.0.js"></script>
<!--<![endif]-->

should solve the problem.