Following the recent releases of two popular Linux distributions, Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, we are looking at a couple of additional pieces of software you might want to install onto a fresh installation of either.

Perhaps one of the most popular media players for Linux currently is Amarok, a KDE-based music player. While Amarok is certainly good, for GNOME users who prefer something that looks more native, Banshee is a great alternative.

"...StumpWM is the successor to ratpoison. It has the same goals of keyboard driven window management, but with one huge addition : It's written in Lisp [...] Moreover, you can interact with the running lisp process, meaning you can load code right into the running wm. I'm not an Emacs fan either, but I can see why they like that way of doing things..."

Chromium is an open-source browser project that is the basis for Google's Chrome browser. Right now, Chromium doesn't support Linux natively, but Codeweavers has created a Linux port called CrossOver Chromium that can be installed free of charge. This guide shows how to install CrossOver Chromium on Ubuntu 8.04.

With the recent release of Picasa 3 Beta for Linux, Google has contributed more code to the WINE project.

These days there's a lot of buzz about Web 2.0 and making websites more interactive, but what's really going on is a reconnection to the community nature of the internet.

Here’s what I’m thinking. Small embedded device, way smaller than the Mikrotik 532a used for the APNIC Box. The board will need USB [as we're going to use the 5v for charging later]. I’d like to start with a powerful enough board that it can be expanded later with relative ease.