One last gift for you OS X unix geeks before the holidays: iTerm.

A cocoa-ized & tabbed Terminal for OS X.

I hereby declare 2002 the year of the tab!

All sincere apologies to the author of Twelve Days of Chrsitmas.

On the first day of Alpha Geekness Linus gave to me.. the Linux Kernel so I can keep Microsoft from taking all the rest of my gifts.

On the second day of Alpha Geekness Apple gave to me.. an ibook with an airport card. But I’m still bogged down in sound and power cables.

On the third day of Alpha Geekness the Trott’s gave to me.. Movable Type so I could ‘blog the next nine days of Alpha Geekness.

On the fourth day of Alpha Geekness Google gave to me.. Google’ing to check my blog’s rank on the mighty Google (I still suck).

On the fifth day of Alpha Geekness WarChalking gave to me.. wireless access from community minded folks not terrorists you damn fools at the FBI!

On the sixth day of Alpha Geekness Apple gave to me.. an ipod so I can drown out The Twelve Days of Christmas.

On the seventh day of Alpha Geekness gave to me.. a free, free, free, Dimitry.

On the eighth day of Alpha Geekness slashdot gave to me.. a slashdotting the took down my database and spanked my server like the little brat that it is.

On the ninth day of Alpha Geekness Jon Johanson gives to me DeCSS, but frankly who’d want to make copies of the crap Hollywood shleps anyway. It’s bad enough it exists in the first place. Free Jon, too!

On the tenth day of Alpha Geekness Bruce Perens gave HP.. the boot.

On the eleventh day of Alpha Geekness Mozilla gave to me.. version 1.0. Finally.

On the twelth day of Alpha Geekness Lindows gave to me… Not that I’d buy one. I mean, the machines are way cool & are going to give winboxes a run for the money in the long run, but no I’d never, I mean, yeah they’re cool and on sale a Walmart and all…

Have I forgotten something?

A jury today found a Russian software company (ElcomSoft) not guilty of criminal copyright charges for producing a program that can crack antipiracy protections on electronic books. Link.

Fink for Jaguar is out now. Yummy.

The previous version of fink didn’t work so well once Apple upgraded OS X to 1.2

There were some bootstrapping techniques out to make the two play nicely, but the Fink packages really needed to be rebuilt. It appears that all is now well.

Interview with Tim Perdue (of SourceForge fame) on his new project GForge, a fork of the now closed source code that runs SF, and what it was like getting SourceForge launched without support and on “repo and rejects” hardware.

Rick Moen calls GForge a “possible Renainsance for Open-Source.”

*Update: This is the interview you’re looking for if you were listening to TheLinuxShow lastnight. mp3 | Ogg.

Here’s a teazer for our interview with Tim Perdue, former co-”head honcho” behind putting together SourceForge.

Tim talks to OSDir.com about his new release of GForge, a fork of the code running SF & gives us the real scoop of how SourceForge got started.

OSDir.com: So now the “valuable open source tool” is back in action in the form of GForge. Tell us what GForge is about. How much is it philosophically and practicality motivated?

Tim:…At the time that I had left VA Linux, I was aware of downloaded/free copies of SouceForge running at the biggest of the big companies, from GE, Sony, IBM, Xerox, and Intel to others I can’t remember anymore. IBM DeveloperWorks even runs part of their main website on old SF code, and so does the Free Software Foundation. So the open source code is having a huge impact. Someone really needed to pick it up, and after a year of trying to get others to take up the slack, I finally did it myself.

OSDir.com: What kind of features do you see being added that may have been hampered previously by other concerns?

Tim: My main interest is turning this into a client that you can detach and take with you.

OSDir.com: How does that work?

Tim: Think of it more like CVS for bugs, tasks, etc. You can copy it to a local machine and check it back in if you made any changes.

OSDir.com: What was it like at the helm of what is one of the biggest open source projects in existence?

Tim: …So it was Uriah and I trying to keep this monster growing totally by ourselves. I guess Quentin had joined to handle support requests at that time. But it got really, really ugly for Uriah, as he tried to admin and keep all the shoddy hardware running 24×7 by himself. That was really shameful. We sent some seriously nasty messages to upper management, which went completely unanswered and ignored.

At the same time, most every manager in the company was trying to take credit and grab control. At company meetings you would hear how the whole thing was the idea of so-and-so and they supported it from the start. The reality of how SF started was very different, and the official vision for SF was also very different than what we wound up with. Probably only the founding team remembers know how SF really started and what the original management vision was.

OSDir.com: What was that original vision?

Tim: The real goal of SourceForge was to build a site aimed at IT managers. Believe it or not, that was the real goal. Nobody working there, except Uriah and Larry Augustin, knows that. Everyone else has been fired or quit…

What questions would you like answered before the interview is published (some might be covered already)?

Super. Now even RedHat is ‘scared‘ of MS’s legal machine.

This is like your mother telling you, “Yes, there are boogey men.”

Non?