Ever heard about the Linux Kongress? It’s a venue for Linux kernel
developers to talk about the things that they research on and work on.
It is an annual event, organized by the German Unix Users Group. This
year it was held in Dresden, Germany from October 27-30. Ted T’so,
Felix von Leitner and Andi Kleen were all in this year’s Linux
Kongress. They highlighted some of the key things in kernel
development. Talks included topics like the GNU Compiler Collection
(GCC) as well as how multi-core systems are powerful.
Not everyone might be able to appreciate these things especially new
Linux users but reading …read more

I've tried posting a note on my personal/crafting blog using Tomboy already. But not yet on this blog. It's interesting because I am used to Drivel, where I have to do the mark-up myself. In Tomboy, it's like I am using a rich text editor or something. Lists will be easier to make, same thing goes for other formatting needs.
Things that will be easy using Tomboy as a blogging client:

Using bullet points.

Putting links.

All basic mark-up related tasks and editing.

Having a better idea of what the post will look like, more or less, at least in …read more

Designing mock-ups of your applications could be tricky sometimes especially if you just want quickly drawn wireframes of the screens. I personally don’t want to use GIMP for that because it seems to complicated to use for such a task. Thankfully there is a tool you could install on Firefox called Pencil. (View more about it on the homepage of Pencil.)
Once you have installed Pencil, you should restart Firefox and then look for it under the Tools menu of Firefox. It will open a new window with a new page waiting to be ‘drawn upon’ with a …read more

I just read this email/blog entry about Asus being a fair-weathered friend.  Asus released their EEE PCs some 2 years ago (roughly) and it was initially released with Linux on it.  Now the letter’s pointing out that Asus has quickly changed its allegiance.
Linux was good enough for you at the launch of your Eee PC models two years ago, and it’s even better now. How quickly you changed your allegiance when the hardware caught up with the requirements of Windows. We now know who our real friends are. Maybe you never really were our friend, maybe you just used us …read more