DistroWatch Weekly #236

This week in DistroWatch Weekly:

Report: Linux in Vietnam
News: Gentoo discusses Foundation issues, Mandriva launches Manbo Labs, openSUSE unveils new installer, Ubuntu delivers desktop course, Geubuntu becomes OpenGEU
Released last week: FreeBSD 6.3, Scientific Linux 5.1
Upcoming releases: Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Beta 1, Dreamlinux 3.0
New distributions: iloog, VAFEO, XtreemOS
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Video: KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote

On Friday, January 18th, Aaron Seigo, President of the KDE e.V. gave the keynote at the KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California about KDE 4, presenting KDE to the world and the world to KDE. The keynote was recorded, and is now available for streaming through Google Video.

A must watch video if you [...]

Cool Video: Control Compiz Using WiiMote

This video demonstrates how you can use a WiiMote along with Compiz Fusion to do some pretty cool stuff.

Cool: Your Couch in OS X Style

OS X users gonna love this:

… now some Linux user has to come up with an answer, especially the Gnome users :-p

Optimisation: KDE 4 With nVidia Video Cards

KWin, the standard KDE window manager in KDE4.0, ships with the first version of built-in support for compositing, making it also to compositing manager. This allows KWin to provide advanced graphical effects, similar to Compiz, while also providing all the features from previous KDE releases. Unlike Compiz, KWin [...]