"...any computer that runs Vista is under Microsoft's total control. Microsoft can alter the software in any way it wishes, or make the machine inoperable. It can do this to any user, at any time, for any reason."

A long time ago, back when i was still a common windows user, i was very serious in online gaming. In particularly a game called Star Wars Jedi Academy. Now I have long since switched to linux, which of course will not run the game natively. But just recently i wanted to get back on and play the game, and i had nothing better to do. I decided to try the first and most obvious thing, wine.

KateOS 3.6 was released a few days ago. Since KateOS has always been one of my favorite distributions and since I haven't looked at it recently, I decided to take it for a test run on my HP Pavillion laptop.

Gentoo, formerly known as Enoch Linux is one of the pioneers among the Linux distributions. It is well-known and loved for its speed (the Gentoo species is the fastest swimming penguin), and hated for its unfriendliness with Linux newbies.

Seam Carving is perhaps the the most interesting image resizing technology out there. It works by changing the height and width ratio of the image without distorting the image itself by croping the image. Now Seam Carving it possible with the Gimp.

Despite its name, iKog is not a KDE application. In fact, it's not even a GUI application. iKog is a text-based todo manager that can help you to keep tabs on your tasks from the command line. Although it lacks all the bells and whistles of a full-blown GUI task manager, it's one of those tools that make a virtue of doing a limited range of tasks well.

The only real exchange between peers in a traditional peer-to-peer network is limited to the files being transferred. Tribler is a new P2P network that's introducing social networking concepts to facilitate better interactions between users. Its users will also be able to cash in on their generous uploads for faster downloads.