Friday, April 02, 2004

'Sneak Preview' of SUSE 9.1  'Sneak Preview' of SUSE 9.1 Posted by michael on Friday April 02, @01:59PM from the better-than-okra dept. Roblimo writes "SUSE 9.1 won't be out until May, but Joe Barr got access to a 'secret' beta download and tried it out. He liked some of what he saw, and found things he didn't like, too, but is willing to overlook some of the negatives because, he points out, 'This is a beta. Bugs are expected. Work will be done before it goes gold.' The review's at Linux.com." Linux.com and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.  [Slashdot] 3:49:11 PM

CoLinux Coolness. Recent developments on the colinux project suggest a great potential for bootstrapping the cross-platform distribution of other free software projects. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Weblogs] This dovetails nicely with a current discussion on the teknoids list about VMWare.  Nice to know that there is an open source possibility out there, at least in terms of running Linux natively on a Windows box. 2:43:06 PM

SnapStream Beyond TV 3.0 - Software - CNET Reviews - "The good: Provides 10-foot interface via remote control; skips commercials with the press of a button; integrated programming guide; remote scheduling. The bad: Sometimes quirky organization and interface; doesn't play DVD movies, audio files, or photo slide shows." 10:41:08 AM

ZDNet AnchorDesk: How to get an LCD TV for peanuts "I  usually write about the latest and greatest electronics gear, but this week, I'm going retro. It all started when my wife said she wanted to watch TV while working out on her stepper, an at-home version of a health-club StairMaster. My first impulse was to run over to Best Buy and pick up a small LCD TV, one of those thin 15- or 17-inchers that I could set on a desk or mount on the wall. That was the plan--until I remembered I had an old 15-inch LCD computer monitor in storage. It's been gathering dust in a closet ever since its companion Pentium II PC was donated to charity. I thought, hey, why not save a few bucks and turn this relic into a cutting-edge TV? There had to be a way. " 10:39:40 AM

Linbox Backup Server 20040331. The Linbox Backup Server (LBS) is a server that, for client PCs, saves hard-disk images on a network server, restores, deploys one image, and keeps a hardware inventory. All that is needed on the client PC is a PXE or an Etherboot compatible network card for network booting. The LBS can be managed from any PC through a Web-based administration interface. A bootable installation CD or DVD can also be generated from any hard disk image. It supports Ext2/3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, NTFS, and FAT filesystems (including Windows' dynamic disks). [freshmeat.net] 7:39:32 AM