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1. 
   Review - Fedora Linux

   5 Test 2 (Jan 17, 2006)

   no problems on install, some ppl have to understand, it's a Devel "TEST" version, stability shouldn't be expected @ 100% w/ this particular release, duh.

2. 
   Review - VShell Server

   2.5 Beta 3 (Nov 9, 2005)

   This is actually something that's quite rare to find on the windows platform, I haven't used it yet, but I intend to try it out and look forward to a working SSHD that has a GUI frontend. I didn't get that it was a SSHD from the description, but others are saying it is, and if it is, then my god please make more like this, 5 stars just for the effort >> ;-p

3. 
   Review - AOL Suite

   Beta 3 (Sep 24, 2005)

   "Latest Changes:"
   
   " * An improved installation experience with informative screens highlighting features of the AOL Suite Beta software"
   
   -- Who cares? this is a "feature"? how does this improve the software?
   
   "* A more seamless "Signed in" experience when launching the various Suite applications"
   
   -- Define "seamless" when all you ever have to do to sign in to anything is enter your username/password and click "sign in". How is this different from 100% of the rest of the world?
   
   "* Browsing with AOL Explorer is accelerated through AOL TopSpeed once you sign in"
   
   -- yea sure. you go from slow to normal? So they implemented a cache-system like every other browser and call it "Topspeed" then consider it an added benefit...1
   
   "* Active Tab feature in Mail displays all the messages you are working with in one location -- both messages flagged for follow up and the drafts you are composing"
   
   -- Whereas Outlook and Thunderbird and others have always given you a view where you can view everything at once anyway...this new AOL thing is more beneficial how? ok maybe you can multitask a little more than Hotmail lets you, but then that's strictly web-based now isnt it..
   
   "* New buttons have been added to the NavBar, including Safety and Help; and Mail and IM QuickViews have been enabled"
   
   -- IM quickview? New buttons huh, if they put new buttons in then by all means we should get this huh. Safety? lol the only safety you need is don't go to websites that cause things to go awry, like the websites everyone loves to go to and will go to anyway...
   
   "* A new Settings Manager for easy access to your most common account and personal settings"
   
   -- So a new look to something that already exists and wow, now you can do, about....nothing more than before...the rounded edges on the windows make all the difference...wait that's XP's theme.
   
   A newer version of the same old crap, so what's new? At one point when AOL did have sway over the majority of online users, all I ever fixed on machines was AOL problems, and the fact that AOL ate all their resources up and was still there and causing problems after the customers had switched to a different ISP.

4. Comment - Wal-Mart Debuts $298 PC

   Beta 3 (Jul 20, 2007 - 12:17 PM)

   I just opened one of those new 2007 formats for both powerpoint and word on my openoffice2 in fedora without any issue.
   
   Even then if it didn't, what's the difference between saving it as Office2003 format so everyone else can open it, vs saving it as Office2003 format so OO can open it?

5. Comment - Wal-Mart Debuts $298 PC

   Beta 3 (Jul 20, 2007 - 12:12 PM)

   battlefield 2142, got it working w/ cedega + a few tweaks, I dont see the issue....except that people who reject linux usually do so for lack of knowledge about working it well.
   
   anyway, Why the hell would you complain about PC_Tool, someone who doesn't blow things out of proportion, someone who doesn't generalize without a logical explanation or claim of experience on his/her own part, and most importantly someone who doesn't G3T 4LL L33T C4PS L0CK when you disagree with'm.
   
   Why would you b1tch about someone who simply poses an opposing opinion to your own? Are most of you incapable of debating when someone disagrees with you? Providing evidence to why you are so correct over his responses would be more helpful than simply ranting that his insistence on the accuracy of your own posts annoys you. It's just common sense.

6. Comment - Wal-Mart Debuts $298 PC

   Beta 3 (Jul 20, 2007 - 12:02 PM)

   I can strip a 2k & XP ISO down to about 380MB while still maintaining most things about the OS that're used regularly, and it will consume MUCH less ram out of the box. Whereas Vista I was only able to drop it down to 1.4GB for an ISO with the same things on it, due to all of the "required to run everything else" components they've added. Not to mention the amount of memory it takes to just run an idle vista machine due to all the services you have to disable to make it even begin to approach comparability to XP or less.
   
   MacOSX is a memory wh*** yes, but the software that comes w/ it is not crapware. That's not the same as software that comes w/ a new mac, I'm talking about when you install a fresh MacOS.
   
   Vista is much more work, although not hard obviously for the average computer-person, to get the way we want it. But Vista still makes me jump through hoops just to quiet the Accept/Deny, and the inability to run apps w/ Admin privs by merely double clicking...screw the right-click "run as". Uncovering that Admin account is ridiculously annoying.

7. Comment - 'Day One' for Safari for Windows Becomes Zero-Day Nightmare

   Beta 3 (Jun 14, 2007 - 2:57 AM)

   lol, I seriously hope you've tried Firefox or Opera on Windows... lol
   just a thought.

8. Comment - 'Day One' for Safari for Windows Becomes Zero-Day Nightmare

   Beta 3 (Jun 14, 2007 - 2:52 AM)

   This is common practice in the open-source community to release what they have, when they have it, in order to work out the kinks on the public forum. It's mentioned quite a bit that safari is based on an open source project, and that's what Apple is trying to show, that they're a part of the community where this practice is normal.
   
   I know myself from experience, that windows users are just simply not used to this. That's because all it is with windows is either closed beta, or the few 3rd party developers that release beta apps that crash all the time and aren't very popular anyway.
   
   version .9 doesn't mean they're jumping the gun on release, it means they're exposing it to the masses to make 1.0 that much better. It's part of a process, not a price-tagged product on a shelf that's finished.
   
   The "announcement" plays no relevance really, it's blatantly "beta", why would anyone expect anything more just because they're Apple? Apple beta is not *significantly* better or worse than any other professional beta, for it to merit any extra criticism.
   
   One thing I don't quite understand is why people complain SO much, when the stability of Safari on the Windows platform hasn't lost them money or destroyed their data from some issues with it. It's a not quite ready for serious implementation production systems, that's been thrown into the gauntlet to work out the weakness. Old news if you ask any developer, meh, google:beta.