The Vista experience is broken. It's long past time to fix it.

Under Linux, you can view a CHM file with the xchm viewer. But sometimes that’s not enough. Suppose you want to edit, republish, or convert the CHM file into another format such as the Plucker eBook format for viewing on your Palm.

By now, you have probably read that the court has ruled in Novell's favor in the SCO case. My sentiments toward Novell aside, this ruling goes beyond merely acknowledging Novell's rights; it pretty much exonerates the GNU/Linux community and Linux kernel developers.

This distribution comes with 5 CD installation media, and there is no DVD iso image available on the download site. All the five CDs are required for installation and changing CDs during installation is a real pain; they also slow down the installation process. The logo used by Asian resembles adobe's logo in blue color.

The next version of Firefox will identify malware on Web sites and make users stop and think about it.

Last year's winner in this category, the Nokia 770, has a younger sibling, and, as oft happens, the kid takes the cake. Nokia's N800, the follow-up to the 770, is smaller, lighter, better-looking, faster and has a larger brain.

Microsoft isn’t changing its tune with SOA; “Microsoft again appears to be crafting its own rules and vision. The company has so far declined to participate in certain key emerging industry standards relevant to SOA. It has a different perspective on what SOA is and a different approach for crystallizing its vision.“

According to its Web site, LyX is "the first WYSIWYM document processor," coupling a familiar word processing front end to the powerful LaTeX typesetting engine.