As its ship date nears, the price is rising and the specs dropping on Asus's ultra-low-cost, flash-based Linux notebook, according to reports.

As a desktop, GNOME is standard enough that most computer users can feel comfortable within ten minutes of first using it.

"I’ve found a cool Howto about syncing your Icedove/Thunderbird Lightning calendar with Google Calendar, Zimbra, or any other iCal server (see Wikipedia for a list of servers which support it)..."

Years ago when I switched to using Freebsd and KDE full time, I was in need of a file manager. However, I found that Konqueror did not do as good a job as a file manager as I had hoped. I stumbled onto Krusader, a file manager that really does things right. But don't take my word for it. Let's go look at all the great things it offers.

PowerTOP is a Linux tool that finds the software component(s) that make your laptop use more power than necessary while it is idle. As of Linux kernel version 2.6.21, the kernel no longer has a fixed 1000Hz timer tick. This will (in theory) give a huge power savings because the CPU stays in low power mode for longer periods of time during system idle.

Last week, Lenovo competitive analyst Matt Kohut wrote a blog entry about Linux on laptops. The blog entry, which included extensive criticism of Linux's laptop support, explains why Linux "just isn't ready" for the laptop, and provides insight into some of the challenges faced by OEMs that support Linux.

Linux is the way of the future and we need to accept it. Linux runs all of the big atmospheric computer models, it is so much easier and cheaper to run multiple processors on. It runs the bigger programs and databases better and faster, and the best reason for me to learn it is: if I want a better job I need to know how to use it.