I've been meaning to do this for ages, and I finally installed Puppy Linux on a bootable USB drive. I went whole hog and used a 128 MB stick. Yep, that's it. I have a huge 20 MB left for storage.

Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, has said in a blog posting – "Thoughts on Dual-Licensing Open Source Software" – that he recently became aware that Sun Microsystem's OEM licence agreement for MySQL would restrict users who had signed up for the commercial licence to the open source database from modifying MySQL or using any forks of MySQL.

A new version of RefTeX has been released —— RefTeX is a package for managing Labels, References, Citations and index entries with GNU Emacs ——

"Rubén Rodríguez Pérez has announced the release of Trisquel GNU/Linux 2.2, a 100% libre, Ubuntu-based distribution for home, office and school deployments ..." —— via DistroWatch ——

802.11n is the hot new wi-fi standard, all faster, better, and less interfering with common wireless devices than 802.11a/b/g. But don't get rid of your old devices---give them new jobs. Eric Geier offers 8 great ways to recycle old wi-fi gear.

Music Player Daemon is an application that organizes and plays your music, that can be controlled through various applications that you can actually see and use.

My good friend and partner in crime, Jason Perlow is working on (as I'm writing this) a new Linux distribution that is Hyper-V ready. It is a modified OpenSUSE 11.1 that includes the Linux Integration Components (ICs) from Microsoft.

More of the incestuous relationship between ISO, Microsoft, and SC34; new Microsoft tricks in the EU