Just in time for Black Friday, the ASUS Eee PC has to be the most exciting technology product of this year. The Eee PC is a tiny 7″ computer that weighs just under a kilogram. The current models are being sold with Linux, but ASUS will be releasing a Windows version later this year.

OLPC Is [...]

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Open source software is appearing in more and more places. It was started by people rebelling against closed source, commercial software, but its being used frequently today by commercial software developers as a marketing tool.

Free As In Free Software
Why would a software company give away its products? If a product couldn’t be sold, giving it [...]

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I’ve been using computers since 1984 and I’ve seen many file types come and go. I couldn’t use the word processor documents and spreadsheets that I made 20 years ago with today’s software. There simply aren’t any import filters which recognizes them. What’s going to happen 20 years from now with the software I’ll be [...]

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Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia recently completed a study on the effects that laser printers may have on respiratory health. The group, led by Professor Lidia Morawska (an environmental physicist professor) found that certain printers had dangerous levels of particle emissions.

62 printers were tested with the following results: 37 were non-emitters, 6 [...]

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The chart below is an timeline for various Linux distributions from 1992 to the present. Its interesting seeing the roots of modern distributions.
Click the image for the full size view.

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