BitTorrent clients are all over the place these days. One of the newcomers, FoxTorrent, is a fully functional cross-platform Firefox BitTorrent client created by Red Swoosh, a company that is now part of Akamai. What FoxTorrent lacks in features it makes up for in simplicity.

Source: FoxTorrent, a Firefox BitTorrent client

Clay Claiborne was an early Linux advocate, and his company, Cosmos Engineering, was one of the first computer builders to offer Linux-based PCs and servers. But Clay has never been as much about business as he’s been about social activism. He cofounded the Linux Users of Los Angeles (LULA) group back in 1999, but lately he’s dropped out of Linux activism and is spending most of his time on social (mostly ant-war) activism. He’ll still happily build you a Linux-based entertainment center PC, but his current passion is making a Vietnam War video retrospective he hopes will help Americans remember how poorly that adventure ended, and how the experience we gained in Vietnam should should be applied to our occupation of Iraq.

Source: Portrait: Long-time Linux advocate Clay Claiborne

Mark Mitchell announced the availability ofGCC 4.2 saying,”GCC 4.2.0 is a major release, containing new functionality not available in GCC 4.1.x or previous GCC releases.” He then linked theGCC 4.2 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes document for more details as to what is new in this release.GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.2.0 from your nearest gcc.gnu.orgmirror.read more

Source: Tools: GCC 4.2.0 Released