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What's the Best Version of Linux?

Full disclosure: the following represents my personal opinion, based on nearly ten years of hands-on experience with most of the major versions of Linux. I am not now employed by any entity with any financial stake in Linux products or services, nor have any entities of that nature supported this blog post in any way, [...]

First Impressions of openSUSE 11.2

I’ve been testing openSUSE 11.2 for the past couple of months. Now that Release Candidate 1 is available, with the final feature set and look and feel, I’ll share my impressions.

Look and Feel

The thing I like most about openSUSE is that the developers have gone to great lengths to enhance the Linux desktop experience. Whether [...]

SMART@znmeb Status Update

I’ve made a few design decisions in the past week:

There is some confusion over the licensing status of Mono. I’m tracking it, but in the end, a lot is going to depend on how the underlying platform, openSUSE, handles Mono. It doesn’t matter that Ubuntu has approved Mono, since I’m not basing SMART@znmeb on Ubuntu! [...]