An interview with Rasterman on OSnews, founder of Enlightenment, on E17:
http://www.osnews.com/story/19679
When will E17 be released?
… does Rasterman have any timeframe in mind for the release of the final version of E17? His reply was to be expected - “No comment.” Smiley face included. The big blocker right now is a lack of time, Rasterman said.
So [...]

Quickie install instructions:
Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
# repo from Falko Schmidt:
deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main
This will also require you to have Debian’s unstable branch listed in your sources.list .
If your have Enlightenment DR16 installed or any other versions of E17 installed you’ll need to uninstall them:
sudo aptitude remove –purge enlightenment-data enlightenment e17 emodule* libevas* [...]

Update: I’ve decided to use Falko’s packages, see my posting here:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/24/e17-on-debian/
If you want to run E17 on Debian you have 4 choices (as of April 2008):
Wait for E17 packages to make it into Debian’s experimental repository:
http://sicherheitsschwankung.de/post/jan/2008-03-31/going-debconf-08
The Debian E17 team are in the process of loading packages into Debian experimental branch and they should be available [...]

Regularly drinking coffee may help prevent or reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7326839.stm
And binge drinking can affect memory recall (at least in young drinkers):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7328863.stm
Ubuntu Linux to be certifiied on some of Sun’s hardware:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0236534620080402
A lot of Linux enthusiasts have taken to Ubuntu, and all of its versions are freely available. I think that this can only [...]

Specifically for Debian, see here:
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html
I’m not sure what software is in their repo besides Picasa, Google Earth might be there too, but I’ve been using the Debian package, googleearth-package, to install Google Earth.

See http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ for instructions for other supported versions of Linux.

Toshiba has a site dedicated to using Linux on their Laptops:
http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/index.htm
Toshiba supports the Linux community with the TOSHIBA Digital Media Engineering Corporation’s Linux support portal.
This portal offers links to both Toshiba and 3rd-party sources for end-user and developer support for the Linux operating system on Toshiba portable PCs.

I just submitted this to Slashdot, as I think it’s interesting what the end result will be? Will the OLPC get squeezed out? Will US kids like ‘em (I think they will).

bettlebrox writes “Birmingham, Albama, may be the first US city to purchase the OLPC, per the Boston Herald:
‘The City Council has approved [...]

So I wanted to install Eclipse at home, the version that comes with Debian is 3.2.2-5 and I wanted to try 3.3.x and install WTP and some other plugins that aren’t packaged with Debian (anyone know why?).
After downloading and installing Eclipse the welcome screen would appear with an error message saying:
Error creating the view.
org.elipse.core.runtime.Plugin
This is [...]

Boston Linux Installfest XXVIII
When: Saturday, March 1, 2008 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061, 2 Amherst St, Cambridge
What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and yourLinux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions. In general we have expertise with most distros, but if [...]

A friend forwarded the e-mail below to me. It looks like there is a beta or prerelease of the Linux version of Adobe Air available. However, poking around Adobe’s site I can’t any references to this release and Googling hasn’t turned up anything useful (except for doc from last year saying Air for Linux [...]