Occasionally I go nuts and decide to see if the people at Microsoft have aped anything good from OS X or Linux, or gotten it right if they did. With all the hubbub about Windows 7, I decided to give it a try, and I was less than amused.

Instead of sampling one of York's many 3 fine clubs tonight, I stayed in and finally got around to installing openSUSE 10.3. "Impressive" sums the experience up.
All in all the installation and setup was a lovely experience (bar nearly deleting the backup partition of a certain brother), but there were a handful of things that have particularly stood out:

Some time after Linux netbook started appearing, it became obvious that there was a problem. Every time a new manufacturer gets in to the business, they try to build a completely custom Linux system that is "easier." It is impressive the number of times this has been attempted and how many times it has horribly and completely failed at the goal of making things "easier."

I was among the first to receive the XO through the Give One Get One program. Here's my initial review of it.

gOS is an interesting Ubuntu GNU/Linux offshoot. We've reviewed it and interviewed gOS founder Daniel Liu. Now, in this video, you can see the distro in action before you decide whether it is something you want to download and play with for yourself.

The next major update of FreeBSD 7, due this December, is in the running to be one of the most impressive FreeBSD releases to date. The ULE scheduler has now reached maturity, leading to significant gains across the board (particularly in server workloads). This new scheduler brings notably impressive performance improvements to both MySQL and PostgreSQL.

The new year is here and you have made a resolution to give Linux a try. A noble resolution and one that will be met, initially, with much confusion. Why? If you go to Distrowatch you will see at least 100 distributions listed in the page hits ranking section. So how does a new-to-Linux user decide?

One Android developer is earning more than $400 a day from his find-your-car application, proving it's not just Apple fans who'll pay for basic apps. Much has been made of the millions awaiting those who decide to develop for Apple's iPhone: the UK government even sponsored a help guide.

There’s a line between closing an application and leaving it open. But aren’t there times when you wish you could force an app not made for the notification area into that “quick recall” space? Well now you can with a handy little tool called AllTray.