http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10088 Looks like it will let you install LOTS of stuff, but maybe not targeted for multi-boot? The current Billix distribution (0.21 at the time of this writing) includes the following tools: *Damn Small Linux 4.2.5 *Ubuntu 8.04 LTS netinstall *Ubuntu 7.10 netinstall *Ubuntu 6.06 LTS netinstall *Fedora 8 netinstall *CentOS 5.1 netinstall *CentOS 4.6 [...]

Here’s the download link. Oddly, it doesn’t seem to work in FireFox, only Internet Explorer.. http://sites.mobile.yahoo.com/go/tv/download Haven’t installed yet, and I wish it wasn’t windows only. ===== Installed it today, and it doesn’t support my video capture card. So, I uninstalled it. Too bad….

Tired of the tabs in FireFox being at the top? There is a Fire Fox add in called “tree style tabs” which puts the tabs on the side instead. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en ================ Installed this last night on my ubuntu install, and I’m going to add it to my “must have” Firefox add ons… Just to [...]

www.stardock.com/products/fences I installed this on my laptop today, and I have to tell you I am impressed. It seems like a simple concept, and I’ve tried doing it with “real” folders, but never quite got what I want. These “fences” look like open folders (sort of) and it organizes the icons inside the fence. I [...]

More problems with ubuntu (could be nvidia driver). Downloaded centos, says it tries to be binary compatible with redhat – I HOPE so. ==== Installed CENTOS, but not GRUB (it was already installed and working!!). So, then I copied the x windows config file to my ubuntu partition and it worked! ====

I know someone who used to use Kid Pix A LOT and misses it. I just listened to a podcast (http://twit.tv/floss59 and http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/FLOSS_Weekly_59) about http://www.tuxpaint.org and was surpized it runs on windows.

http://www.securezip.com. Free for non commercial use.

I am currently working on setting up my computer as a multiboot system, and for unrelated reasons, I had to reinstall my Windows Vista partition. My Sound Blaster Live isn’t supported under Vista. It used to work, but my guess is that it’s because I did an upgrade install. A clean install gave me a [...]

I just installed Ubuntu on a 2 gig usb drive… 300 meg of updates – not all of which finished, because of space. Boot seen as CDROM? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

I just installed Ubuntu on a 2 gig usb drive… 300 meg of updates – not all of which finished, because of space. Boot seen as CDROM?