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I am a proud owner of a Geeko. Those seemed to be out of stock and not produced anymore. But now I spotted a first merchant which promises new Geekos for second half of 2008 - and not only a 35cm version but also a 120cm big one! :-) That's of course still not as huge as the mother of all Geekos in the SUSE office in Nuremberg.

Great news: Robert Kubica (Poland, 23) has won his first F1 Grand Prix (in Canada). Moreover, in the same time another Pole, Lukas Podolski, scored two goals in Euro 2008 match, the first one was assisted by Mirek Klose. Read More

Kubuntu Tutorials Day is back. Join us on IRC for some fascinating chats with Free Software's finest developers. We have five months of development ahead of us for Intrepid, so this is the perfect way to learn how to get involved. Read More

It has been several months since I blogged about exciting openSUSE stuff happening (all about at the same time). The next few weeks enough long in the work things are on the home stretch to make June an openSUSE month: :-) Read More

Microsoft is pushing their evil SilverLight platform very hard. They want to make sure that providers of cross-platform software for delivering rich applications via the web browser are thwarted. This is normal behavior for a monopolistic company and certainly for Microsoft. To accomplish this goal they are throwing around bucketloads of money and FUD to get content providers to use the Microsoft malware Silverlight exclusively. Read More

Please mail me if you see him. Video by motion on a Logitech Sphere.

Isn't it funny if you browse around the web and keep on to run into all those Eee-PC clones out there and note that nearly all of them are running KDE@Linux. Yet other examples I did run into are the Acer Aspire One and the ultra-mini PC. Both are running Linpus (a for small displays optimized GNU/Linux-distribution based on Fedora 8 ) with the "Friendly KDE desktop environment" :) Read More

Just got a (link) to offer of the "Polish Walmart" called Biedronka (Ladybird) - cheap (~€290) laptop with Kubuntu. It has been customized for Polish users, e.g. contains Kadu, instant messenger supporting locally popular proprietary protocol.

Fresh from Planet KDE is the news that Polish supermarket Bledronka has an offer on Kubuntu Laptops. Comes complete with Kadu, "killer app in Poland".

This year I was again at LinuxTag, after I missed the one last year. LinuxTag in Karlsruhe was always very nice, the one two years ago in Wiesbaden somehow didn't feel that good, but this time in Berlin it was really great again. Read More