- The wife of Nobel Peace prize-winning Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo remains under house arrest as he remains in prison.
- Polls in California show Prop 19, legalizing pot, faces a close battle.
- As US forces leave Baghdad, Iraqi security forces are struggling to keep the peace in an increasingly difficult situation.
- The G-20 is increasingly turning to the IMF to settle a massive international currency dispute resulting from weakness in the US dollar.
- Ubuntu version 10.10, codenamed Maverick Meerkat, is the latest revision to the increasingly popular Linux operating system.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Maverick is awesome. It boots fast, it's sleek and sexy, and the improvements have all made me giggle with geeky pleasure. I truly believe this will loosen Microsoft's grip on us and set us free. Companies that have held out in the past are grudgingly making a Linux version for people like me, and it's long overdue!
ReplyDeleteI keep thinking about getting Linux, but I like XP all said and done.
ReplyDeleteMaybe when I get the money to build a comp, I'll set up XP and Linux.