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 [...]

Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/05/37446.aspx
… be sure the Universe section is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, then run as root:
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
aptitude install firmware-addon-dell
aptitude install $(bootstrap_firmware -a)
update_firmware
Thanks Dell!

Works great! Following the instructions here:
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html
However, if you install the KDE4 kdeartwork package, any remaining kde3 packages, such as k3b & amarok, will uninstalled and aren’t available for KDE4 on Debian yet.
See the screenshot that highlights transparency:

However, this does seems buggier than on my laptop running Ubuntu. For instance, whenever I type in [...]

Follow the instructions at the link below to install KDE 4 for Ubuntu:
http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php
Screenshots follow!
KDE 4’s Show Desktop Grid, use Ctrl-F8:

Pick running app, use Ctrl-F10

If you want some more screenshots let me know.
Update: To install extra goodies do the following:
sudo aptitude install kde4

Wow, major problems with Gnome and trying to change themes. Ended up the issue was some weird conflict with the gtk-qt-engine package. A simple:
apt-get remove –purge gtk-qt-engine
solved the problem. Of course it took a fews days of googling to find the answer, which was on Ubuntu’s bug tracker (don’t have the link handy sorry). [...]

Recent updates on Debian for Novell’s (formerly Ximian’s) Evolution E-mail programme added support for gnome-keyring. When you start Evolution for the 1st time after the recent updates Evolution will ask for the gnome-keyring password, then for your smtp password (password for your e-mail account). This can be a bit of a pain, especially for less [...]