Image Software have written in with news of their latest upgrade to Nutmeg, a cache for Oregano. I'm not big on posting software updates usually (it has to be something big), but it includes some timings which are interesting.

Nutmeg provides a cache for Oregano which can dramatically improve performance of the browser when re-visiting sites or visiting separate pages of a site which share common files such as images. Check out some of these performance figures:

Site	Without Nutmeg	With Nutmeg (from cache)
Yahoo	14 seconds	4.3 seconds
Lycos	15 seconds	6.7 seconds
IMBD	38 seconds	11.4 seconds
Acorn User	29 seconds	6.2 seconds
Cyber Village	12 seconds	3.8 seconds
BBC News	30 seconds	10.9 seconds
Slashdot	27 seconds	9.0 seconds

Speed tests performed on a 200MHZ StrongARM RISC PC, RISC OS Select, 56K modem. 'Without Nutmeg' speeds dependent on network loading (ie. time of day, load on server, etc). 'With Nutmeg' speeds dependent on specification of machine, cache size and settings. In addition, Nutmeg allows you to export sites, site areas and individual files making up a site, from the cache to disc.

Nutmeg costs £20 fully inclusive.
Image Software

And I'll just slip in the news that Peter "Chocky" Naulls has released full details of his porting initiative, with details of where to send the cheques to! As soon as he has a few punters signed up he'll be releasing a few tasty morsels for everyone to download. So long as SSH is one of them Chox (in case you forgot ;)
www.chocky.org/unix