* UPDATE 9/18/2006 6PM: I am downloading a Kernel update in Dapper right now, hopefully it contains the JMicron patch.

Here is a new update on the continuing struggle to get Linux running on an Intel P965 motherboard with the JMicron PATA controller.

There have been two more patches commited to fix the problem. The main patch has been added to Edgy Eft which should allow the user to access their PATA drives connected to the JMicron chip. A similar patch has also been applied to the Dapper Kernel so it should now be possible to create a custom Ubuntu install cd with the new updated Dapper cd and install from there.

Hopefully this also means that Ubuntu will have support out of the box with the next release.

Even though I am trying to make the move from Windows to Linux I am still interested in the happenings at Apple. Even though I disagree with Apple's philosophies on dealing with copy protection, and online music/tv/movie distribution, I still feel that they are pushing the envelope in user interface design with some of thier OS and some of thier applications. With that in mind when I saw that ITunes 7 had been release I went to download it right away.

Seeing as I no longer use the ITunes Store, due to aversion to DRM'd content, this review will be based more on my impressions of the actual applications design and performance.

This is a nice little script that sets up IE to run in Linux using Wine.

Looks like a patch has been commited to the Ubuntu development branch. This is good news because it atleast means that we should be able to install Ubuntu Linux 6.10 when it is released on a P965 based motherboard with the JMicron chip.

Also if this Kernel gets backported to the Dapper branch then we maybe able to create a custom install cd with the new kernel, and any other custom packages you may want. Then get dapper running on the new system.

If you are one of the few people who went to all the trouble of using one of the work arounds to get Ubuntu Dapper running on your P965 motherboard, then you should be able to use a backported kernel to support it.

*UPDATE 9/10/2006: After reading some more "editorials from an analytical perspective" on the Popular Tecnology I now see that they are a Microsoft advocate blog pretending to be a impartial source. I think that sites like OSNews should be a little more careful when picking thier sources.

While browsing OS News I found a link to an article claiming that IE is more secure in 2006 than Firefox. They base this statement on the fact that Firefox had more vulnerabilities found this year. This is an extremely naive way to measure the security of a certain browser to another. There are several reasons why the metric they used to measure security is useless which I will briefly go over now.

* UPDATE 9/18/06: Patches for Edgy and Dapper released
* UPDATE 9/11/06: There is now a patch for Ubuntu Edgy Eft

Ever since the Core 2 Duo was announced I have been planning on building a new system around it and then using Linux as my main system on it. That however is proving to be a bit harder to do that I would have liked.

I was starting to think that Linux was over the hump when it came to basic hardware compatibility. Even it the main distros did not support all your obscure hardware like USB webcams, or TV tuner cards, you could pretty much install Linux on any system you got. However with the new Core 2 Duo systems that has changed.

Found this site when setting up Gnome for the first time. Really love how you just drag the theme from the website and drop it onto the theme manager to install it.