Around the Eee PC boom, the idea of a special quick-boot OS for checking email and surfing the web arose, largely thanks to a company called Device VM (better known as Splashtop). Though it's a cool idea that has just started to take off, it's not clear how long it will last.

I’ve been wanting to get a new, or at least different graphics card for a little while now. My past experience has been with NVIDIA cards and not with ATI so I figured I would be learning a thing or two with this card, especially with how it works with Linux.

Guess what conference is attended by pro-Microsoft folks who have been publicly attacking ODF along with friends at Microsoft?

Better to use closed-source Java than to be a prisoner of Redmond; ongoing dialogues about Mono

Canonical’s Ubuntu & Kubuntu distros are loaded with great software an utilities. There are, however, a bunch of great tools that are not included in their standard installations.

A company called User Centric goes against Google, but Microsoft is its major client

There is hope for Ubuntu users with Intel graphics. As it appears, the current 2D drivers solve most of the recent graphics problems with Intel chips, according to Ubuntu developer Bryce Harrington in a developer mailing list. Jaunty users should profit it from them as well.

FireFox 3.5 is due out by the end of June and includes some pretty interesting new features--and not a moment too soon. I hate plugins. Hate them. They are the bane of my online existence. Why do I need plugins?