This is the ASUS Eee 701 PC. Acting on the suggestion of a colleague, just before Christmas I slipped into a Toys ‘R Us store, handed over £219 (£186.38 ex VAT) and came home with a smartest little machine I’ve seen in ages. It’s a Linux box configured for the school-kid market (hence […]

Apple Mac users might be interested in this:

Mac users waiting for a native version of OpenOffice.org might see it sooner than they might have thought, now that Sun has thrown its support behind the project.Sun’s Philipp Lohmann announced on his blog this morning that Sun will help with the port of OpenOffice–the open-source version of […]

Andrew Brown is a long-term and experienced user of OpenOffice, the Open Source office suite. He’s written a pretty critical article about it in the Guardian. His main gripe is that a lot of irritating bugs remain unfixed. Then, right at the end, he says this: “But, for what it’s worth, I […]