I finally managed to get a child in front of the XO PC from the One Laptop Per Child project. I thought I would share my observations from watching her interact with this interesting tool.

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This Fedora 7 review is really late, especially with Fedora 8 just around the corner. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to write since its my latest switch from OpenSUSE 10.2. Yeah, I've been using OpenSUSE before they even launched OpenSUSE. My first taste of SUSE started with 9.1, the public version, then I moved to 10.0 rather quickly after that. SUSE basically had two desktop versions, one for retail and the other minus the retail apps. I never found any major differences between the two, other than the retail version shipped with some proprietary demo apps if I remember correctly. This article doesn't need to turn into a history lesson about OpenSUSE based on my memory, so I will stop recollecting. What lured me into installing Fedora 7 was Eclipse, most notably, the php Eclipse plugin.

The last review of this Distro was Lindows 4.5 Laptop Edition. I was disappointed. The most important part of a laptop OS should be power management, and it failed miserably on my laptop. Its been over a year now and lots of things have changed in the Linux universe. Lindows is now known as Linspire and their legal squabbles are behind them. Linspire has been hard at work and modernized their feature set as stated below.

ByteEnable looks at the new Iwill DH800 Dual Pentium 4 Xeon Workstation motherboard. This motherboard picks up where Asus left off.

Opera is a cross-platform Internet browser. Opera started out as a research project in Norway's telecom company, Telenor, in 1994, and branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA in 1995. Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products.

I couldn't wait to get my hands on this release. The 2.6 kernel gives you at a minimum, a extra 10% performance boost. I got my hands on the Download Edition through alternative channels, USENET. Its much easier than searching for a fast FTP.

I've been playing the UT2004 demo for a couple of months now. I was itching to buy the game for a couple of reasons; one to show my Linux support, and two, I like the game. The demo ran perfectly, I was sold. However, after installing and playing the retail version of the game, I encountered some bugs during game play. No lockups, just crashes back to the desktop (more on this later).

Have you ever tried to configure Samba using the config text files? Did you curse? Well, I have. At work I would have to jot down others Windows share names on paper so that I could later mount. That was painful, one mistake, and you are back in your co-workers office asking for the same details again. Yeah sure, I could ask for an email with the data, but that seemed like begging to me. I stumbled upon this program while installing Mandrake 10 Community for an upcoming review. If you are surrounded by a sea of Windows, Smb4k (KDE application) is your life vest.

ByteEnable installs Mandrake 10 RC1 on his old laptop for grins and takes some pics.

LinuxElectrons reviews GIGABYTE's integrated AGP graphics motherbard based on the ATI 9100IGP using the Linux OS.