Linux.com takes a look at the difference between Vi and Vim.

Vim, or "vi improved," is an open source text editor for multiple platforms. This article gives an overview of vim's latest improvements over vi.

Mad Penguin interviews the creator of the MEPIS distro, Warren Woodford.

I remember when I first heard about MEPIS. It seems as if I blinked, and all of a sudden everyone was talking about it. It's still less than two years old, and even MEPIS founder Warren Woodford says in this interview that he is surprised by the astronomic popularity of MEPIS.

OSDir.com offers a visual tour of Mandriva Linux 2006 Beta 3.

The third beta of Mandriva Linux 2006 has been released for download and testing: Beta 3 is here!

Mad Penguin reviews VectorLinux 5.1.

It seems like only yesterday when I first found VectorLinux on the pages of DistroWatch. Mad Penguin was still in its infancy and we were looking for software to write about. VectorLinux was an attractive package at the time since it was then becoming a reality that desktop Linux distributions were getting fatter and fatter to keep up with consumer demand and enthusiastic development. As we've seen in the Windows world, there is a price to pay for bloat, and it's measured in increments of PC performance. We're still seeing that today, but as many of you recall, it wasn't long ago when you could brag about how this or that distro outperformed Windows requiring far less resources.

DesktopLinux.com previews O'Reillys latest book on Linux.

O'Reilly Media has announced publication of the fifth edition of Linux in a Nutshell, by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Aaron Weber, Robert Love, and Arnold Robbins. The book covers all substantial user, programming, administration, and networking commands for the most common Linux distributions, the publisher said.

Linux Magazine has an interesting interview with Aaron Seigo, who is working on the KDE Plasma project. Hear and see what's coming in KDE 4.

A few weeks ago, Trolltech announced that it would be sponsoring the work of KDE developer Aaron Seigo full-time.

OSDir.com let's us know the second beta of OpenSUSE has been released.

The second beta of SUSE Linux 10.0 has been released: SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS Beta 2 'Boston' is available.

OSDir.com brings word of the latest release from Ubuntu, Colony 3.

The third snapshot of Ubuntu Linux 5.10 "Breezy Badger" has been released.

OSDir.com provides another visual glance of a new release. This time, it's Zenwalk Linux 1.2.

Zenwalk Linux is a new name of what used to be known as "Minislack". The change of name is accompanied by a new release - version 1.2.

The Linux Journal gives a first person perspective of OSCON.

For the past few years, I've meant to attend the Open Source Convention (better known as OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, but never quite made it. Besides the promotional material put forth by O'Reilly Media, the organizers of the convention, I've heard the tales of the convention over the past seven years. The post-convention stories of this convening of open-source fans have been quite interesting. This was clearly the place to be, the techie convention to top all others.

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