For a while now, Google Desktop has been available for Linux, and it works really well.  Well, now they have FINALLY released some code to allow you to run Google Gadgets on your Linux desktop.

It’s not a click and run install.  There’s no deb you can download and install yet; you must compile it.  Just try and follow the instructions as well as you can.  Hopefully soon Google will make some debs or rpms available for making the installation a snap.

I was able to get it working though.  The screenshot is from my laptop!

Thank you Google!

It looks like all of you ASUS fanboys and girls may soon have even more reason to get excited; not only is there a 901 coming, but according to UMPC Fever, there is possibly a 1000 coming as well. Say Whaaa?

ASUS is looking forward to welcoming you during Computex 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan, for the ASUS’ 08 Computex Trilogy of launch events. We would also like to specially extend an invitation to you to attend the official global launch of the new Eee PCâ„¢ 901 and 1000 series.

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It was a tough choice, but it all came down to the fact that I was able to buy the machine yesterday from Micro Center - which is where I headed as soon as I had the cash.

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Today’s Open Source Podcast of the Week is no longer in production, but for newbie users it will still be a invaluable resource.  I am talking about none other than The Linux Link Tech Show’s guest this week, Chess Griffin and the Linux Reality Podcast.

Image Courtesy Chess Griffin

Chess has officially hung up his microphone on the Linux Reality podcast after 100 episodes, yet all of the episodes are currently available for download on the Linux Reality website.

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Linux Podcaster Pat Davila of The Linux Link Tech Show (a former Gear Diary Linux/Open Source Podcast of the week) has gone off the deep end and converted the whole Tech Show to Mac OS X.  Whatever am I going to do??

Just surfed the ZaReason website and noticed they are now offering 100 dollars off any of their laptops.  Just use coupon code: LAPTOP631

Go on over to ZaReason.com and get a great laptop!

When I came across ZaReason, I was impressed. Selling machines that have Linux installed by default isn’t new, and many companies support only Linux now, but it’s ZaReason’s service and the communication I received all during the review process that impressed me the most. ZaReason cares about their customers and always puts them first, even over sending out review units, which is why it took about two months for ZaReason to finally get me a unit to review; I was not disappointed.

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A lot has been said this week about Walmart pulling the Everex gPC and Cloudbook from their stores. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a interesting article on desktoplinux.com regarding his views.

What it boils down to is the people who typically shop at WalMart are probably not even capable of determining what OS their computer is running. All they know is they bought the computer and then bought Quicken and couldn’t get it to run on the gPC.

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Long about the same time I discovered the Linux Link Tech Show, I found Lugradio, which is this week’s Open Source podcast of the week.

Hailing from the UK, specifically Wolverhampton, Lugradio was started by members of the Wolverhampton Linux User Group many years ago. The original presenters of the show were Jono Bacon, Matthew Revell, Stuart “Aq” Langridge and Stephen Parkes. The current show hosts are Jono Bacon - the only host who has been on every season of Lugradio, Aq, Chris Proctor and Adam Sweet.

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I am working on the UltraLap Review, honestly I am, but one thing I wanted to do with it was show you just how much power even a laptop has these days. I also wanted to show you a alternative to VMware or Parallels.

Yes this is a screenshot of gOS and Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 5 running each in their own VM’s on Ubuntu Gutsy on the UltraLap, however I am not using VMWare. I am using a program called VirtualBox.

VirtualBox is a Open Source virtualization program that is very similar to VMware, but is Free and Open Source. With VirtualBox, you can run different versions of the distro you run, you can run Windows, you can run Linux or any other x86 based OS.

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