"Users are not the lusers you think they are" disputes the cherished belief that most folks are just too stupid to learn to use a computer competently. The author, Locutus, goes on to say that being supportive and helpful, and showing people tips and shortcuts to get their work done more efficiently is more productive, and he's probably right.

Up to Novell's takeover of the Suse Linux AG, KDE was without doubt the preferred default for the German distribution. Now openSUSE users are increasingly demanding the return of KDE as default desktop.

ThunderBrowse is a Mozilla Thunderbird plug-in that integrates Web surfing directly into Mozilla's e-mail client by adding a simple URL bar to Thunderbird's email preview panel.

Unreal Tournament 3 was released for the PC nearly two years ago, and there was the promise of a Linux client and it was being worked on by Ryan Gordon, but to this day there is still no such client.

Yet when it comes to computers the general consensus is that the average human bean is a (l)user when performing computing tasks.

Did you ever participate in a computer donation project meant to help educate the children in remote villages or less developed countries or areas? Did you ever wonder who might take care of a crashed computer or one infected with viruses once the volunteer workers left the village?

Microsoft has introduced together with Windows 2008 a new Hypervisor called Hyper-V. Initially Microsoft only supported Microsoft products and Novell Suse, but recently they added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With this support it is also possible to install the components on CentOS.

So, while I'm twiddling my thumbs waiting for Slackware 13 to come to pass, I did what any Linux user probably does when temporarily owning a copy of Windows (XP Pro here), and checked how it's doing these days.