We recently acquired an ASUS Eee PC (if you want to know more about it, a lot of reviews are available on internet). The first thing we did when we put our hands at the ASUS Eee PC was to test its security. The ASUS Eee PC comes with a customized version of Xandros operating system installed, and some other bundled software like Mozilla Firefox, Pidgin, Skype and OpenOffice.org.

"AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated
environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with
Emacs [...] AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs..."

Creating a light, attractive desktop environment on a new low-end laptop using Openbox in Ubuntu is simple and offers you most of the features you need for everyday computing without much of the load that comes with GNOME or KDE.

I’ve been planning for a while to buy a new desktop, replacing the laptop I’ve been using as my only client system for the last year and a half. This was mainly due to a few irritants with the laptop: one, it overheated all the time; two, the CD/DVD writer doesn’t work; three, I can’t have two external monitors on it as it only has one VGA port...

"Work continues to progress well but I've hit a few snags," noted Matthew Dillon, referring to the ongoing development of his HAMMER filesystem. He began by highlighting a number of problems with the current design, then adding, "everything else now works, and works well, including and most especially the historical access features."

Jaws is a content management system that utilizes a PHP framework with a MySQL back end. I have been looking for a good CMS for a little while now, but what attracted me to Jaws was its simplicity and appearance. I decided that since I was going to test Jaws out, I may as well document it, so that it might help others who are thinking about using it.

"Found this awesome link for getting ruby syntax highlighting in emacs and seems to work swell in for Ubuntu 7.10 ..."

"We're thinking of having a contest where we have Vista and OS X and Linux ... and see which one goes first," said Dragos Ruiu, the principal organizer of CanSecWest.