Free Software Aids Dutch Coin Design

Discovered this story about Gepostet von Stani coin design using free software on Hiran's blog.

The whole design was done for 100% with free software. The biggest part consists of custom software in Python, of course within the SPE editor. For the visual power I used PIL and pyCairo. From time to time also Gimp, Inkscape and Phatch helped quite a bit. All the developing and processing was done on GNU/Linux machines which were running Ubuntu/Debian. In the end I had to collaborate closely on location together with the technicians of the Royal Dutch Mint (coin factory). So all the last bits were done on my Asus Eee PC. Full Story

Eee PC :: Yet Another Power User Review

Shawn Powers gives us the low-down on owning a Eee PC for past few months. Here is his list of pros and cons of the Eee PC.

Pros:

• Extremely portable. It's like carrying a paperback book.
• Fast boot time, especially with the original OS.
• Apps, especially games, come pre-configured for small screen.
• Plugging into a monitor gets full size goodness without a reboot.
• Everybody thinks you're super cool.

Cons:

• The keys really are a bit too small.
• The screen is annoyingly small when browsing some sites.
• The battery life isn't horrible, but it's not great either.
• There's no way to determine the battery charge level externally.
• Updates are awkward at best, and rare to arrive