SuperTuxKart 0.3.0 is available for download. This Super Mario Kart inspired game is available on all popular OSes - Linux, Linux PPC, Mac OSX, and Windows. There's quite a few new features in this release, including shortcut detection, improved AI, a new track (the island), a new kart (hexley), full screen and high score support.

It seems a little off-base, but this is an insightful parable by Rob Weir about ooxml. Worth a read

If you are suffering a mouth breathing moment like I did today, happen to be using Ubuntu Edgy and found that after an update, that your GUI has suddenly left the building - don’t panic. Just try this.

The Pyro project has launched its "Pyro Desktop," a new Linux application with the lofty goal of "true integration between the Web and modern desktop computing." Pyro offers an interesting new approach to deploying Web-based applications on the Linux desktop, reminiscent of Opera's and Vista's widgets.

Portal and portlet technology development is a hot skill to have, especially when developing Web 2.0-enabled applications. The Apache Pluto project is the reference implementation of the Java™ Portlet Specification, which was originally created through the Java Community Process and Java Specification Request (JSR) 168.

A few months ago I was in Chicago to take the Redhat Certified Engineer exam. By day I attended class and by night I studied the book to prepare for the grueling test. Well, one of the nights I was there (5 day course) my brother calls me in a panic begging me to come fix his computer.

I decided to conduct an informal poll among Linux users -- including notables like Linus Torvalds -- to see how their platform usage compared with mine.

Igel is readying Linux-based thin clients capable of hosting VMware virtual machines. The company will ship Linux-based thin client firmware next week that adds support for VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and optionally includes Leostream's VDI Connection Broker.