Here’s something quite cool if you haven’t discovered it yet, Google Notebook is a great service which allows you to, well, have a notebook to collect information online and then have it with you on any internet-enabled computer.

There’s also a neat Firefox extension which you can just right-click and make a new note. Be warned however, apparently it doesn’t work on the Mac OS version of Firefox (but I can’t confirm this as I don’t have a Mac).

It’s still a beta project by Google at the moment, but it has a really nice Ajax-driven web interface so you can manipulate notes without ever having to reload the page.

OK, so I’m still in the exam season, so updates won’t be too frequent at the moment, but I’m just chiming in to say that SUSE 10.1 has been released and is really great.

If you can spare the hacking time, you can get Xgl up and running on SUSE 10.1, which is very sweet, but I haven’t really had the time recently and my monitor isn’t perfectly supported with the 3D drivers so I’m still working to resolve that.

And I would advise you to be very careful compiling source code with GCC on SUSE 10.1, as I came very close to losing all my data on my first hard drive again (so obviously it was GCC, not PHP).

Proper written exams are from next week, so don’t be surprised if updates are a bit scarce for now, rest assured I will get back up to normal frequency as soon as possible. Thanks for reading, by the way.

Here’s a great article for home PC users who are a bit interested in taking a look at Linux – Mandriva Linux 2006 for home users.

It’s accessible to non-geeks, and if you do want to have a look at this whole Linux and free software thing, take a look.

Having said that, Mandriva isn’t the only way to go. I’d recommend Ubuntu, SUSE and Fedora for home users (probably in that order).

And, if you find it interesting, please do leave a comment.

I apologise for the lack of updates, but I’m really busy at the moment – the exam season is coming.

Until the exams are over, updates won’t be very frequent, but I’m planning to blog about the release of SUSE Linux 10.1 on Thursday. It’s going to be grrrr-r-eat.

See you soon.

First of all, sorry for the long wait, I’ve been busy with lots of important stuff recently and haven’t had time to post.

Remember that review of Fedora Core 5 Test 3 I promised? Well, I have recorded a little screen demo type thing just to show anyone that hasn’t played with Fedora 5 what the installation process is like. I’ve tried to only cut it where necessary (to keep it in a reasonable timescale). You must also remember that the install’s running a bit slow because it is running inside a VMware virtual machine.

Check out the video below, and comment if you like it. I may well do a future video on how to add the cool stuff to Fedora (like Flash Player, MP3 support, Sun Java and Real Player for example) later on, if this one is interesting.