Get ready for the Vista/SUSE smackdown!, May 31, 2006

Those who have looked in on the champ have not been impressed. An experienced MS-NBC reviewer, for example, said "Installing Vista Beta 2 was one of the worst operating system experiences that I've ever encountered."

The MEPIS project released Beta 4 of the SimplyMEPIS 6.0 live CD on May 27. Beta 4 runs a reconfigured version of the 2.6.15.7 kernel from Ubuntu and the KDE desktop as a default. The kernel source has been verified to give the best possible compatibility with new Intel hardware, MEPIS creator and chief developer Waren Woodford said.

Looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office? Try OpenOffice, touted as one of the best alternatives to MS Office. OpenOffice competes almost feature-for-feature with Microsoft Office. Primarily, OpenOffice is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite which is open source and, as a result, is available not only for Windows but also for Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, and Linux. And, most important, it's absolutely free!

I still see people arguing about whether GNU/Linux is “ready for the desktop”. The truth is, it really depends...

Novell's OpenSUSE 10.1 operating system wears many hats well, but management tools can use some smoothing.

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