OSCON is going on in Portland, Oregon this week. I will be at the Powell's Books booth on Thursday, August 4th during the 3:20 break.

See you there. :)

Although I concentrated on both Fedora and Mandrake in the book because those two distros were the usual favorites for new Linux users, now I can admit my bias. I am a very Red Hat/Fedora girl. Fedora just makes more sense to me. I find it easier to work with in almost every way.

Fedora Core 4 is now out, and I can't wait to give it a test drive, especially since there is a PPC version.

Read more on Slashdot.

Here's a humorous review of Windows XP written from the perspective of a Linux user.

Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability

While I'm not usually in favor of any Windows bashing, I do get tired of the "Linux is not ready for the desktop" comments that are inevitable in reviews of Linux distributions written by Windows users. This funny review gives Windows a taste of it's own medicine.

"Windows XP can't be considered consumer-ready until it has driver support for common LCD monitors during its installation and bootup procedure, especially if those monitors are easily and routinely recognized by popular Linux distributions. It's possible that the monitor manufacturers aren't willing to give Microsoft and other proprietary operating system companies the information they need to create appropriate drivers and that the manufacturers, not Microsoft, deserve the blame for this problem."

Hey, we got press, and good press, even. :)

Idaho PC Users Group
Oceania

If you've ever wanted to drive a man, now you can mandriva. That's all I can think that it could be -- Mandrake wants us to use their secret Latin code word to drive men. Where? I'm not sure. Why can't you drive a woman? That I don't know either. Maybe Womandriva didn't have quite the same ring to it.

Mandrake Linux did change it's name today. Read about it here.