This one came in the mailbox, the post_mail_box, of course. Mediagalaxy included this cutie in their latest advertisement paper. We’ve been watching it for a while, now that it’s here it seems unbelievable! Intel Mobile 900MHz, 512MB DDR2, 4GB storage, webcam, Wlan, card reader, built-in speakers and mike. It comes with Linux and – this one made me giggle – is Windows XP compatible! It is sold as being the lightest laptop (in Romania perhaps), only weighing 0,9 kg. Now all we have to do is go and get one …

We told you it’s coming, a few days ago, you could smell it. Here it is, still steaming, the fourth release of sidux, named Ερως after Greek mitholgy! Another snapshot of debian’s unstable branch (AKA sid) spiced up with sidux’s own scripts and the ever so up-to-date slh-kernels, all this as sidux is approaching it’s first birthday. You can download the images, for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈445 MB KDE lite and a ≈680 MB KDE full flavour. You will love it, just as it loves you, …

Still your eyes on the little beauty called EeePc? There’s some cooking happening, Debian style, aiming to run Linux on the cutie. No much content yet, but hey, Asus’ small portable just recently made it into our homes! Hopefully this project will become real and alive ASAP. We will monitor this, as it seems something that makes a real tech-heart pump.
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That’s right, snapshot! ‘Cause sidux is a “rolling release”, always fresh from the latest in the debian/sid repos. It has been from it’s early days one of our fun-and-work environment, we only can recommend it. The second preview of sidux 2007-04 “Ερως” is already out and being reviewed, there are no major reasons for delay, except the state of the pool. “…a turbulent week behind the scenes of Debian sid, with an accidental glibc upload, a broken openssl version (#449200) affecting wpasupplicant and ries.debian.org (ftp-master) breaking down due to filesystem …

If you were with your eyes on this, you may already know that on the compiz community forum the first stable version of Compiz-Fusion, that is 0.6.0 has been released. But if you happen to use debian unstable, aka sid, you may want to add to your repositories that of “shame“, whose packages work well, in my case with the speedy, shiny, always up-to-date rolling-release distro called sidux.
This release includes:
Compiz Plugin sets (plugins are split into three packages according to their
usefulness and stability):
compiz-fusion-plugins-main:
This is the main plugin set, fully supported …

We’ve been waiting for it, tomorrow it will happen: the small beauty from Asustek, Eee PC is to hit the Taiwan market with the initial batch of shipments no larger than 10,000 units, said Asustek. The company will begin offering the product through Best Buy and Newegg in the US by the end of this month, while availability in the China market may arrive by the end of the year, the company added. Asustek, on June 5, unveiled its ultra low-cost notebook, the Eee PC, at Computex Taipei 2007. The …

We announced already the imminent availability of one of the worlds smallest notebooks, which was due at the end of September, beginning of October. Now we learn that changes are made to the time line of the release. According to DigiTimes Asustek Computer is expected to delay shipments of its Eee PCs to the end of October.
Asustek’s Eee PC was originally expected to hit the market in the third week of September, noted the channel distributors. However, as the company expects to gain more power in the market and to …

A French court decided yesterday that Acer had to pay back € 311,85 for unused and unwanted pre-installed operating system + software to a guy who bought an € 599,– notebook.
Additionaly they had to pay € 650,– for the time lost in court plus all court related costs.
Full article here: http://perso.libre-zone.net/article-125 … -ro-4.html (French only at the moment)
thanks slam for the info!
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I already mentioned a very cool way to make your Linux desktop show off using Compiz Fusion, the result of a merge between the well-known Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras, a community set of improvements to the Compiz composite window manager.
Now Compiz Fusion has web presence! There you can find a homepage, wiki, planet (where all the blogs are syndicated to – giving you a mass perspective on everything compiz fusion), forum, gitweb and status.
Status is a user-friendly way of notifying the user whether it is safe to …

It is known by now that Apple has blocked their new iPods from synching with third party applications (anything that isn’t iTunes). The most significantly affected userbase in all this is the Linux community, who’ve been able to upload songs to their older iPods using free software such as gtkpod and Amarok for a while now. The tweak to the new iPod database files doesn’t appear to be incidental either, with a number being added to the front of the database file causing the iPod to be exclusively tied to …