The XO laptop I received last week as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project's "Give One Get One" (G1G1) promotion is unlike any other laptop I've ever used, both in appearance and functionality

One of the best ways of growing a strong community now a days is to start a forum. There are a plethora of forums for Unix and Linux and new ones are coming up all the time. Out of all these, a small section of them have risen to the top by virtue of their dedication and some good luck

The creator of Linux sees his operating system project as an exemplar of the merits of the open-source development model.

"So you want to use Org as day planner. I'll show you the bare minimum that you need in order to use Org to manage your tasks day by day. I assume that you've set up Org and Remember according to the basic configuration suggested in "Setup." If you haven't done that yet, please review the section on "Setup", then return here..."

"If you're the kind of person who likes scribbling free-form tasks and notes in your day planner, then Planner might be a good fit for you. In this blog post, I'll show you how to use Planner to organize the things you need to do by the day you need to do them, check the things you need to do, mark tasks complete, and review what you've finished. I assume that you've already got GNU Emacs 22 installed and that you're comfortable with using Emacs as a text editor, although it might not yet be your way of life. (Just you wait! Planner was the thing that pushed me over the edge. ;) ) ..."

"The Debian project is pleased to announce the seventh update of its old stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge'). This is the first time we update the old stable distribution during the lifetime of the stable distribution. This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the oldstable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems..."

Adobe Acrobat is a commercial tool for manipulating PDF files. Earlier I was using CUPs - printing system, to export PDF files. I’ve also tried out gv for the same purpose.

KDE4 has a lot of hype. It is a significant change, reportedly a big jump forward. There is a lot of new technology and names: Plasma, Oxygen, Phonon, Okular, Solid and more . Depending on what you read, and where you read it, it is either the second coming of the DE Christ, or the first coming of the DE Anti-christ.