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If you haven’t already seen this, and are looking for an SLR, check the Canon 450D.

Here is whats new.

• 12 Mega Pixel.
• Live View (what you see is what you get). Olympus was the first to have this but finally Canon has caught up.
• SD Card Support (Earlier Canon SLRs were CF, this is the first SLR with SD/SDHC support.
• Big 3″ LCD.
• Higher capacity Lithium Ion battery means more shots with a single charge. But note live-view will drain more power.

One advantage the Olympus E510/520 still has over the Canon is it has in-body Image Stabilisation.  Image Stabilisation in the Lens obviously works better but in-body Image Stabilisation means you don’t need to spend more money on every lens to get Image Stabilisation.

Overall a good buy.

For ISVs that are writing Linux applications, the Linux foundation has launhed a killer development tools. Some of the highlights of Linux Application Checker (AppChecker):

• Its open source
• It checks .rpm, .deb, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files.
• Checks the application for LSB compliance.
• And check against all the Linux distribution.

So you can check if your app will work with all Linux distributions without actually installing all the distributions. Now that’s something that should excite all the developers.

Lenovo Which has good Linux compatibility and good reliable product has released the Lenovo X200 with 12.1″ display.

This is similar to the popular Lenovo X61 except that it has the new Intel Centrino 2 processor which improves battery life significantly. (you can get up to 9 hours! of battery life).

It also has the faster DDR 3 memory.

Now the X61 is available for steal! of $1000, if you may.

Foxconn has quickly fixed the famous Linux bug found in their BIOS which was causing Linux to crash.

Here is the update from the Foxconn team.

Thank you foxconn.

“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”

-  Indira Gandhi