Bluefish, a professional-caliber Open Source text editor, has released a 1.0 version. The editor specializes in web authoring and programming. It runs on "POSIX compatible" operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X with the X server (Fink currently has v0.13). Not that I need another text editor, but it's nice to know about it.

On the subject of free text editors for Mac OS X: After about twenty minutes with Bare Bones Software's newly free editor TextWrangler, I am comfortable stating out loud that it rocks very much. I can see why people have been so hot for BBEdit for so long, and there are enough of its features in TextWrangler to satisfy anyone with a need to edit text. I've been waiting for Bare Bones to respond to the latest entries in the cheaper-than-BBEdit Mac text editor market (recently amped up a bit by the nice-try-but-no-cigar TextMate), and TW is a nice gutsy move that takes advantage of their experience in the industry. And it's got BBEdit gateway drug written all over it.