The Ubuntu development team has decided to change the plans and not include Plymouth technology for Ubuntu 9.10, which means they will keep the current USplash system....

PCLinuxOS Magazine, Special issue (Issue 29) is available to download. Some highlights include: PCLinuxOS is great, Impressive Quality, and Testimonial.

"...RTVE, Spain’s national public TV network, claimed Gates was referring to a successful pilot project in schools in the region of Extremadura.

"...The Anarchist Library offers clean site design, active curation, and clean, typographically-accurate PDFs. We also intend to continue to support free formats and Free Software. We share code! ..." — via Anarchist news dot org —

Perhaps it's my role as the family computer guy that's leading me in this direction today but it seems to me that there should be Linux distributions that are age-oriented and age appropriate.

We already posted 2 solutions to help you with the Intel graphics driver in Ubuntu Jaunty and those 2 workarounds helped a lot of people. But of course, those didn't work for everybody, so here is yet another way to try and make your Intel graphics card to work under Ubuntu Jaunty, by reverting to the xorg driver of Ubuntu Intrepid:

Rumor has it that Microsoft has arbitrarily limited its definition of "netbook" to machines with screens smaller than 10.2 inches.  This move is presumably intended to force more consumers to pay for the full version of Windows 7, rather than buying the less expensive (and less usable) "Starter" or "Home Basic" editions.  But this strategy could backfire by driving sales of Linux-based netbooks,