Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has some interesting comments on the repercussions of Apple's iPad.  What seems ironic to me is that when Palm stopped innovating (shortly after their announcement that they were switching to Linux), the PDA market virtually died - smartphones virtually chewed up the market overnight.  Now, as a spinoff of Apple's entry into the smartphone market, the PDA market looks set to revive.

Novell's SMT (Subscription Management Tool) is a software update tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE.  I've had the dubious honour of working with it over the last few months on a client site.  These notes were compiled as a result of installing SMT on three different servers, and interacting with various people in the Novell forums, especially the novell.support.sles.updates forum.

What's wrong with SMT?

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IT Toolbox has a great little summary of the experiences of Mike Kavis, a guy who's been living Microsoft free in an all Microsoft shop - at work!...

Linux Journal has an interesting article about how to set up Linux for your grannie. There are some great ideas to consider there.

A lot of my work involves network tracing (hence my recent wiki page), and it would be great if i could do this with a really simple, transportable device. Ideally it would have these characteristics:

• Pocket-sized, lightweight
• Two Gigabit Ethernet ports configured as a bridge, so that it can be placed inline on any network connection without affecting traffic flow.
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Michael Reed has a good piece on his experiences in moving his mother from a Windows-based PC to Ubuntu Linux. The result? Amazingly successful, although it did take some tweaking on his part.

Serdar Yegulalp has an interesting article comparing Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista for average desktop users. Teaser: "Is Linux finally ready to take on Windows as a desktop OS? We tried out both Vista and Ubuntu on individual PCs to see which works better. Here's who won."

Jason Brooks at eWeek writes a useful perspective on Red Hat's approach to RHEL licensing and its implications for CentOS....

It's great to see some mainstream press suggesting that Linux (specifically Ubuntu) is a painless option for basic computer users.